Hellmut wrote:Yes, but that is also true of many Naclers and some of them are John's friends. I would have expected though that he would have had less trouble with that group.
I like your explanation regarding the history. John came out of nowhere, was quite successful because of his mastery of delivering content, and doubtless people were jealous and thinking, "I could have done X better than that!"
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
Bob Loblaw wrote:Mormons think he's trying to destroy the church. Ex-Mormons think he's too supportive of the church.
If both sides hate you, maybe you're doing something right.
That's it, in a nutshell.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
How come I never know what Droopy is talking about?
Because you probably never really know what you're talking about, and in that case, extending your own perceptual deficiencies to others is a futile exercise.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
If both sides hate you, maybe you're doing something right.
No. If both sides dislike you, then, as K'ung Fu-tzu said, perhaps no one should trust you at all. You're trying to play both sides of the fence to your own benefit, taking all sides but hiding your own self serving bias within the apparent equanimity of views.
Dehlin, shaken, not stirred.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Droopy wrote:Because you probably never really know what you're talking about, and in that case, extending your own perceptual deficiencies to others is a futile exercise.
I knew I was pitching you a high hanging curve when I wrote that, Droopy.
Good thing you whiffed it.
Face it, though, you are either freaking inscrutible or dumb as a post.
You prove yourself of the devil and anti-mormon every word you utter, because only the devil perverts facts to make their case.--ldsfaqs (6-24-13)
Droopy wrote:Because you probably never really know what you're talking about, and in that case, extending your own perceptual deficiencies to others is a futile exercise.
I knew I was pitching you a high hanging curve when I wrote that, Droopy.
Good thing you whiffed it.
Face it, though, you are either freaking inscrutible or dumb as a post.
I've watched you, consig, over the last several years, deteriorate from a moderately smug, patronizing, self satisfied intellectual snob who believes gospel doctrine class is a platform for the public preening of your intellectual ego, to a fully blossomed and classically uncivil apostate critic.
I predicted and anticipated exactly that, and here we are.
Funny how things work out sometimes.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
consiglieri wrote:I knew I was pitching you a high hanging curve when I wrote that, Droopy.
Good thing you whiffed it.
Face it, though, you are either freaking inscrutible or dumb as a post.
I've watched you, consig, over the last several years, deteriorate from a moderately smug, patronizing, self satisfied intellectual snob who believes gospel doctrine class is a platform for the public preening of your intellectual ego, to a fully blossomed and classically uncivil apostate critic.
I predicted and anticipated exactly that, and here we are.
Funny how things work out sometimes.
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"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
If both sides hate you, maybe you're doing something right.
No. If both sides dislike you, then, as K'ung Fu-tzu said, perhaps no one should trust you at all. ...
I wonder where Droopy found that? Not in Analects 13:24, I think. Perhaps it was revealed to him through an encounter with a fortune cooky that acted as a catalyst for the 'translation' of an as yet unknown text?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Droopy wrote: I've watched you, consig, over the last several years, deteriorate from a moderately smug, patronizing, self satisfied intellectual snob who believes gospel doctrine class is a platform for the public preening of your intellectual ego, to a fully blossomed and classically uncivil apostate critic.
While you just remain a roaring asshole.
You prove yourself of the devil and anti-mormon every word you utter, because only the devil perverts facts to make their case.--ldsfaqs (6-24-13)
consiglieri wrote:While you just remain a roaring asshole.
That's a little over the top, consiglieri. Braying, sniveling, ridiculous, foolish, yes. Roaring gives him too much credit.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
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