Who is Jeremy Orbe Smith...

[_stemelbow]

Why do you always have to be so negative?

Just joining the masses 'round these parts. Why do you?

[_Doctor Scratch]

Does it bother you that Joanna Brooks is featured on MST?

Yes, it does a bit, because I don't think she was properly vetted before placing her "testimony" on that website. I've mentioned this before. Brooks is certainly a Mormon, and certainly a degreed academic (the fundamental focus of that website), but her vague, featureless, rambling testimony of impressionistic feelings and perceptions of LDS culture, tradition, and fundamental, yet curiously nebulous central LDS doctrines do not strike me as an LDS testimony in any salient or clear way.

A good working knowledge of her personal philosophical and political views, however, available at her own website and at Religion Dispatches, will provide anyone curious about this with a good deal of insight into just why her "testimony" appears and has the form that it does.

Well, Droopy, maybe you can request that Greg Smith write a smear piece about her instead of John Dehlin.

[_Buffalo]

Why do you always have to be so negative?

Just joining the masses 'round these parts. Why do you?

More negativity. Most of us are pretty positive. It's pretty depressing when you come in with the debby downer routine. :-(

[_Buffalo]

Where's my CFR Bluff?

Wrong thread. Your CFR was asked for and given here:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23272&p=583988#p583988

[_stemelbow]

More negativity. Most of us are pretty positive. It's pretty depressing when you come in with the debby downer routine. :-(

lol. You're funny.

[_Buffalo]

More negativity. Most of us are pretty positive. It's pretty depressing when you come in with the debby downer routine. :-(

lol. You're funny.

I'm glad I have brightened your day. Hopefully this will help you to stop being so negative all the time!

[_MrStakhanovite]

Jeremy Orbe Smith,

I apologize, I suspected the worst and acted on my gut feeling, but it turned out to be wrong. I didn't intend to to put you on the buisness end of my cantankerous side, but intentions be damned. I take back what I said about you trying to get things removed from here.

[_MrStakhanovite]

So how about an answer to my question?

I don't act for the greater good, or any individual good. I don't want to work out Utilitarian calculus to do ethics.

[_static]

Jeremy Orbe Smith,

I apologize, I suspected the worst and acted on my gut feeling, but it turned out to be wrong. I didn't intend to to put you on the buisness end of my cantankerous side, but intentions be damned. I take back what I said about you trying to get things removed from here.

I commend you for this.

I don't act for the greater good, or any individual good. I don't want to work out Utilitarian calculus to do ethics.

I think you should reconsider.

[_Bond James Bond]

Bond's parody is close, but nowhere near as vain and clueless.

I should have called him a "failure of the leftist academic milieu" and "lacking in conservative cultural capital and chutzpah".