You seem like you're wrong about most things, so this shouldn't come as a big surprise.
LOL!
And, Wade is wrong about this as well.
Wade, your reading comprehension is way off. Please take the time to read Ms. Jack's OP on page 1 of her thread regarding Will.
This was no smear campaign. Will chose to say what he said. It is there for any and all who wish to read.
It was not anyone's goal here to stifle Will's work. As a matter of fact, most here, critic and faith-supporter alike, have acknowledged that they would like to see Will's work published.
But if Will wants to be an apologist and represent The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, then he has a responsibility to conduct himself in a manner that is appropriate for that role. And, after reading the material written by Will's own hand, apparently the folks at MI did not feel that Will lived up to that responsibility. Frankly, their action was much more harsh than I expected it to be. My hope was that they would simply take Will aside and ask that he make a public apology, and commit to conduct himself in a more professional manner from this point forward. I think that is what everyone here expected to take place. Do I agree with MI's decision to pull the plug on Will's publication? NO....as a matter of fact, I don't.
I do, however, RESPECT that decision. And so should you.
Great analysis and summary.
I would say that about wraps it up, folks.
David Hume: "---Mistakes in philosophy are merely ridiculous, those in religion are dangerous."
DrW: "Mistakes in science are learning opportunities and are eventually corrected."
wenglund wrote:I didn't want to return to this cesspool, but personal integrity demands it of me. I recently learned that Will's NAMI (or whatever the journal's name is) articles have been given the boot.
This means that not only was I terribly wrong about the influence of this "backwater" board on LDS apologetic decision-making, but Scratch's network of informants is evidently not entirely incorrect in what they expose.
Clearly, the threats and smear campaign from many here at MD worked in silencing Will Schryver even among his own. I didn't think that was possible, but I obviously seriously under estimated the power of this mob--which is ironic given how the mob prides itself on free speech and has complained long and hard about censorship in certain quarters. At least this is one way to avoid having to confront Will's arguments.
Now that Will is out of the way, it will be interesting to see who next gets targeted for lynching.
Thanks, -Wade Englund-
Regardless of whether people at NAMI were influenced by what they read here, do you think that they were wrong to give Will's article "the boot"?
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Maksutov: "... if you give someone else the means to always push your buttons, you're lost."
Well. We ensure we use a Springfield .40 Laser Site when forcing someone to call women bitches & whores, and to evoke Circle Jerking on a regular basis.
Mr. Schryver is definitely a victim.
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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
wenglund wrote:I didn't want to return to this cesspool, but personal integrity demands it of me. Now that Will is out of the way, it will be interesting to see who next gets targeted for lynching.
Wade, we all know the real reason you continue, and continue, to return to this board:
Wade ~ I'm sorry to hear that your opinion of the Maxwell Institute is so low as to think that they would be swayed by "threats" and "smear campaigns" originating on a "cesspool" of a discussion forum. I happen to think much more highly of them.
I'm also sorry to see that you never had it in you to do what was right and take a stand against misogynist behavior among your peers. I'm not sure what that says about you.
In any case, you'll be relieved to know that I was wrong about something: it took you three days to return, not the one I predicted.
Aw, well. I suppose I can't be right about everything all the time.
Good to have you back.
"It seems to me that these women were the head (κεφάλαιον) of the church which was at Philippi." ~ John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians 13
