Bridgett Meyers: The Un-anti-Mormon

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Re: Bridgett Meyers: The Un-anti-Mormon

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Droopy wrote:
Droopy is my favorite cartoon character of all time. Droopy is all, and all is Droopy. Droopy is the summum bonum of all WWII era cartoon characters.



I admit, this was really, really bad. So vile, so filthy, so mean and nasty is this wretched stream of blasphemous personal invective, that I will forthwith submit to public self criticism under the hands of commissar Scratch himself.

I will admit my counterrevolutionary tendencies...


It's not bad. It's not "vile," "filthy," "mean," "nasty," or "wretched." But it's not "intellectually and philosophically serious," either. I do have to admit that it's awfully funny, Droopy, that when challenged to supply an example of your "intellectual seriousness," you latched onto this bit about a cartoon character.
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And that is what's so incredible. I do speak far, far too much, which means my enemies have plenty arguments for them to try refuting.

But they don't.


There are a couple of possibilities here, both of which imply deep psychopathology. But, moving right along...

Ever.


You losing arguments long ago became the gold standard of your participation. Go back to those long threads at the MADboard on the KEP in the old pundits forum. Just take a look at all of the times, both there and here, you had to be told, over and over and over again, in only slightly different phraseology, that "You don't know what you're talking about."

How many reiterations, I wonder, are necessary?

Because they're not really interested in truth.


I think this is the kind of thing that gets Pahoran and folks like me, with a bit less tolerance for unbelievably narcissistic displays of bad faith of this kind, in the mood for some personal jousting. Contra Kevin's delusional and self serving protestations, this kind of thing represents, in one form or another, the vast majority of what Kevin has ever posted. Not that the vast majority of his actual text is this kind of character attack, but that the vast majority of the text is peppered liberally throughout with exactly this kind of thing. Its pervasive and it dominates all discussions with him. It frequently gets a rise out of people.

I wonder why that might be?

Every once in a while Dan will get excited when he thinks I made a big mistake, and he'll start to pound on it to discredit me. (This, despite his regular insistence that he refuses to discuss anything with me)



I wonder why that might be?
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Droopy could only hope to be that important. I know the idea got him excited.



Does this mean that you believe yourself to be "important," in some way to the LDS intellectual community? You're an extremely divisive figure, and a lightning rod, but "important?"

I also have no illusions that you writing a blog post about me would somehow make me important based upon the fact that you took notice of me. Does the unrelieved narcissism ever end?

To ask that question is, perhaps, to answer it.
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Doctor Scratch wrote:
Droopy #9 wrote:You have just crossed the line of no return. You have just thrown to the winds any credibility, of whatever human kind, you ever had.

Droopy is my favorite cartoon character of all time. Droopy is all, and all is Droopy. Droopy is the summum bonum of all WWII era cartoon characters.

There is an unpardonable sin, and you have just committed it.

Repentance will be hard for this one...



Dr. Scratch,

Shouldn't Droopy be the '"maximis" or "optimum" of all WWII era cartoon characters'? "Summum bonum" if I'm not mistaken means "the supreme good" (in the neuter form when the masculine is possibly more appropriate) when simply "Droopy is the greatest [or best] of all WWII era cartoon characters" would be more concise.

Appealing to your editorial opinion,
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Kevin Graham wrote:Jack, for what it's worth, I never said or implied I was planning to write an blog post about Droopy.

What the hell kind of blog post could that be anyway? LOL!

You remember Gary Novak's "Worst of the Anti-Mormon Web"?

It could be like that, only "Worst of the Mopologetics Web." For Mormon apologists with terrible arguments or terrible behavior or both.

But, yeah. I'd rather you write about something that people might actually care about.

Kevin Graham wrote:Droopy could only hope to be that important. I know the idea got him excited.

Kind of sad, really.
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It's not bad. It's not "vile," "filthy," "mean," "nasty," or "wretched." But it's not "intellectually and philosophically serious," either. I do have to admit that it's awfully funny, Droopy, that when challenged to supply an example of your "intellectual seriousness," you latched onto this bit about a cartoon character.


Do you know how many thousands of posts I've made here in as many years? I will give you this, you have a very well developed talent - the talent of the political hatchet man and spinmeister - for creating controversy and problems in the character of others out of absolutely nothing at all.

Its a debased and dark talent, but a well developed talent nonetheless.
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Bond James Bond wrote:
Droopy #9 wrote:You have just crossed the line of no return. You have just thrown to the winds any credibility, of whatever human kind, you ever had.

Droopy is my favorite cartoon character of all time. Droopy is all, and all is Droopy. Droopy is the summum bonum of all WWII era cartoon characters.

There is an unpardonable sin, and you have just committed it.

Repentance will be hard for this one...


Dr. Scratch,

Shouldn't Droopy be the '"optimum" or "maximis" of all WWII era cartoon characters'? "Summum bonum" if I'm not mistaken means "the supreme good" (in the neuter form when the masculine is possibly more appropriate) when simply "Droopy is the best [or greatest] of all WWII era cartoon characters" would be more concise.

Appealing to your editorial opinion,
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Hello, Mr. Bond! I'm afraid I'm going to have to defer to my colleague, The Hon. Rev. Kishkumen on this one. Based on your assessment, however, I'm going to have to tentatively agree with you. What we may be seeing here is an instance of Droopy trying to use Latin to sound smart, and screwing it up royally.
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Shouldn't Droopy be the '"maximis" or "optimum" of all WWII era cartoon characters'? "Summum bonum" if I'm not mistaken means "the supreme good" (in the neuter form when the masculine is possibly more appropriate) when simply "Droopy is the greatest [or best] of all WWII era cartoon characters" would be more concise.



Well, he was always the good guy. He never played the heavy (His brother, Drippy, was, I will admit, a bit of a roughneck).
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Droopy wrote:
It's not bad. It's not "vile," "filthy," "mean," "nasty," or "wretched." But it's not "intellectually and philosophically serious," either. I do have to admit that it's awfully funny, Droopy, that when challenged to supply an example of your "intellectual seriousness," you latched onto this bit about a cartoon character.


Do you know how many thousands of posts I've made here in as many years? I will give you this, you have a very well developed talent - the talent of the political hatchet man and spinmeister - for creating controversy and problems in the character of others out of absolutely nothing at all.

Its a debased and dark talent, but a well developed talent nonetheless.


Droopy: you said that you've launched "hundreds" of threads devoted to "substantive" and "philosophically and intellectually serious" discussion. Well, if that's true, it surely can't take you more than a couple of minutes to cough up a half dozen links or so. Either do it, or concede that peoples' characterization of your posting is correct.
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My point, Droopy, is that these "hundreds of serious, intellectual substantive threads" don't exist. That's not what you do. If there are so many of them, how about you point us to 5 or 6 of them?


It would run to the many hundreds, no doubt, if my posting here, at ZLMB, and MAD were all taken into consideration, over the years. The only reason you don't know about them, Scratch, is that you never participated in the vast majority of them because serious, philosophical discussion is outside your circle of interest.
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