a five+ year crusade of character assassination

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Re: a five+ year crusade of character assassination

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Simon Belmont wrote:And with the entrance of Darth J, another thread quickly devolves.

Devolves into what? A discussion of facts, reason and object lessons? That would just be awful wouldn't it?
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Contact me when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints becomes a person, and can therefore take something personally, Darth J.

Think, man!
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Darth J wrote:
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a stiflingly paternalistic bureaucracy whose chief product is the shotgun wedding of 19th-century magical tall-tales and a fantasy Ozzie and Harriet worldview. Its paid gerontocracy does not exist to serve, but to be served, while the members of that gerontocracy earn their widow's mite by churning out a never-ending stream of vapid Chicken Soup for the Soul type of pabulum mixed in with their personal neuroses and arbitrary value judgments that become Mormon cultural taboos. The Church asks for everything but gives nothing back.

'Give us 10% of your money, and numerous other ecclesiastical levies besides that. Give us vast swaths of your personal time, too, and rearrange your life around your fealty to the organization. In return, we will give you, alternatively, guilt trips based on superstition and platitudes based on largely fictitious and boring anecdotes.'

Obedience for its own sake is the Church's central message. The deep thoughts from the Church's purported living prophet are like a maudlin Hallmark card. There is nothing particularly profound, interesting, insightful, or rewarding about faithful membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

The statement above cannot be taken as a negative or critical statement. No matter how you spin it, I am commenting on a false identity and a fake pseudonym (excuse the redundancy "fake pseudonym"). There is no such entity as "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." It is a pseudonym. There IS an entity that actually exists that is called "Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." But I did not say anything about that entity in my above statement. I only mentioned the "false identity and fake pseudonym" of "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." So as long as the name isn't real, the criticism isn't real, either.

This post is epic.
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Re: a five+ year crusade of character assassination

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Simon Belmont wrote:Contact me when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints becomes a person, and can therefore take something personally, Darth J.

Think, man!


Simon, what is a corporation?

By the way, your "fake pseudonym" speech was about the object of your criticism, not the emotional reaction to that criticism.

ETA:

This is what you said:

"It still isn't personal. What if I attacked "free2rhyme," an online pseudonym I've never met and have no idea who the person is behind the pseudonym. Would that be personal?

Is the following statement personal:

Freetorhyme is stupid."
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Simon Belmont wrote:Contact me when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints becomes a person, and can therefore take something personally, Darth J.

Think, man!

The underlined part is precisely Darth J's point, Simon. By your thinking, it does not exist because that is not its real name, but just an assumed one. Its real name is Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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sock puppet wrote:The underlined part is precisely Darth J's point, Simon. By your thinking, it does not exist because that is not its real name, but just an assumed one. Its real name is Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


No. I didn't say there wasn't a real person behind the Scratch's façade. I said he hides behind a hyper-protected pseydonym, safely carrying out his personal vendetta against someone else's real name and real identity.
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Darth J wrote:This is what you said:


I know what I said. When The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints becomes a person, you might have a valid argument.
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Re: a five+ year crusade of character assassination

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Simon Belmont wrote:
sock puppet wrote:The underlined part is precisely Darth J's point, Simon. By your thinking, it does not exist because that is not its real name, but just an assumed one. Its real name is Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


No. I didn't say there wasn't a real person behind the Scratch's façade. I said he hides behind a hyper-protected pseydonym, safely carrying out his personal vendetta against someone else's real name and real identity.

My observation (alleviating harmony of the need to point out what I say is my opinion) is that whether Dan knows Scratch's in real life name/identity, his posts about and responses to posts from Dr Scratch are more personal, directed at the messenger than the message, than Dr Scratch's which a far greater percentage of the time are about mopologetic/NAMIRS methods than about Dan.
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I'm not a DCP fanboi. I think that Scratch has taken his anti-DCP stuff way too far. I don't even really care what examples people might trot out of DCP saying things back, or about others. If he's doing it, then he's taking it too far too.

The LDS Church isn't true. Its members are still people, however. They aren't my enemies, even if the idea of Joseph Smith is repugnant to me. I don't think we should be lashing out at people personally in our disagreements about whether the LDS Church is really the Creator of the Univers's liaison organization to planet Earth.
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
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Re: a five+ year crusade of character assassination

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Sethbag wrote:I'm not a DCP fanboi. I think that Scratch has taken his anti-DCP stuff way too far. I don't even really care what examples people might trot out of DCP saying things back, or about others. If he's doing it, then he's taking it too far too.

The LDS Church isn't true. Its members are still people, however. They aren't my enemies, even if the idea of Joseph Smith is repugnant to me. I don't think we should be lashing out at people personally in our disagreements about whether the LDS Church is really the Creator of the Univers's liaison organization to planet Earth.



+1

I would share with exactly 100% of this post!

Extremely well said (in my opinion)

Peace,
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