Doctor Scratch wrote:Do you remember how Infymus said that he got screwed out of job opportunities due to DCP posting his emails over on SHIELDS? And how you thought that was funny and justified? I wonder, Simon, if one of these days, you're going to get angry/upset enough that you wind up crossing a line that can't be uncrossed--that you make some threat or do something that smacks enough of illegality that it turns your world utterly upside down.
It's just a matter of time really. Simon has already done some things that were potentially harmful. He thinks saying he is sorry for not meaning to do anything mean but instead trying to be nice covers it all. The guy is a real disaster.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
On a more topical note: I don't know if others have bothered to check in, but the thread over at TIME has taken a decidedly Grahamian turn, with Kevin showing up to the enormous chagrin of both Dr. Peterson and Will Schryver. DCP and Will have used the occasion to vigorously convince themselves that "objective" observers would wholeheartedly side with their (i.e., the Mopologists') plight. Also, Aaron Shaf turned up, which led to DCP immediately branding him an "evangelical anti-Mormon."
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
Blixa wrote:Please don't forget Nibley's Ghost. Another sockpuppet who wasn't Simon.
Thanks, Blixa. Simon tells so many lies that it gets increasingly difficult to keep track of them all. We know he doesn't. He just keeps adding to the pile without any thought.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
Doctor Scratch wrote:On a more topical note: I don't know if others have bothered to check in, but the thread over at TIME has taken a decidedly Grahamian turn, with Kevin showing up to the enormous chagrin of both Dr. Peterson and Will Schryver. DCP and Will have used the occasion to vigorously convince themselves that "objective" observers would wholeheartedly side with their (i.e., the Mopologists') plight. Also, Aaron Shaf turned up, which led to DCP immediately branding him an "evangelical anti-Mormon."
lol, I love Aaron. Agree with almost nothing that guy has to say, but he's always such a happy and nice guy.
Doctor Scratch wrote:On a more topical note: I don't know if others have bothered to check in, but the thread over at TIME has taken a decidedly Grahamian turn, with Kevin showing up to the enormous chagrin of both Dr. Peterson and Will Schryver. DCP and Will have used the occasion to vigorously convince themselves that "objective" observers would wholeheartedly side with their (i.e., the Mopologists') plight. Also, Aaron Shaf turned up, which led to DCP immediately branding him an "evangelical anti-Mormon."
lol, I love Aaron. Agree with almost nothing that guy has to say, but he's always such a happy and nice guy.
You know, that is so true. You look at the folks like Aaron Shaf and Markk and these are just happy people. Nice, easy-going, etc. The contrast with the Mopologists is always striking, to say the least.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
Doctor Scratch wrote:On a more topical note: I don't know if others have bothered to check in, but the thread over at TIME has taken a decidedly Grahamian turn, with Kevin showing up to the enormous chagrin of both Dr. Peterson and Will Schryver. DCP and Will have used the occasion to vigorously convince themselves that "objective" observers would wholeheartedly side with their (i.e., the Mopologists') plight. Also, Aaron Shaf turned up, which led to DCP immediately branding him an "evangelical anti-Mormon."
DCP is coming across as the kind of person who would turn up at a minor house fire with a tanker of petrol to help put it out. Surely he knows that by using his name that there are going to be comments? JMO, but he seems to have difficulty in separating his public persona from his private one, then again, it could be just part of his game. I'm fairly sure that someone like Romney or Huntsman would, if they felt the need to comment, would use an alias. Dan on the other hand could be using this as an independent platform to portray his "poor me" persona, realising that his actions outside of the world of mopologetics could show him as being unfairly persecuted.
Daniel Peterson wrote:Astonishingly, Mr. Spencer L. Jensen turns out to be a critic of the LDS Church. ("Pay, pray, and obey" is something of a mantra for a certain type of critic. Or, perhaps rather, a shibboleth. It identifies them.) Who woulda thunk it?
I guess my wife's extremely orthodox, faithful, and ceaselessly proselytizing grandmother would be surprised to find that she has been saying, and signing her letters, with the "mantra of a certain type of critic." Surely she'll stop when I tell her on whose authority she has been exposed as an enemy of the faith. LOL!!!
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
MrStakhanovite wrote:Being and Time is one of the most difficult philosophy texts out there, and to even begin to understand it properly requires a solid knowledge of German philosophy starting with Hegel and moving on.
You might own the book, you might have read a summary of the book, you might have even tried to read the book years ago, but you haven’t read the book as it was meant to be read, firmly within the context of German Idealism.
No kidding. Being and Time is by far the most difficult text I have ever read, and we had spent almost two entire semesters leading up to Heidegger by reading everything from Plato to Husserl. But honestly, the only way I could understand it at all was to read a chapter or so and then sit for hours talking it out with a friend of mine (who now teaches at the U). We would puzzle over it, argue about it, and eventually come up with something so that by classtime we didn't look like complete idiots.