- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
He is going to struggle to achieve this in his next written piece...
T H E B O A R D T H A T C A N N O T B E N A M E D I S B U T T H E A D
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
EAllusion wrote:You know, all the talk of this board being a "trailerpark" and "the board that cannot be named" and other epithets is meant to be sorta cheeky, but also ugly and dehumanizing. If you point to how it needlessly breeds hostility, it will be defended by saying you lack a sense of humor. But really, it functions how making fun of the French does on, say, right wing radio. For some people it's a joke. For others in the audience it is not. But for even those that it is, it works on their attitudes inch by inch and before you know it, the vitriol is more real than it is sarcasm.
The church has a very long history of demonizing its critics. While they may be joking with their choice of pejorative epithets, they're not joking about viewing this board as evil.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
I think it's demeaning towards both poor people who live in trailer parks and the people of this message board to refer to this place as "the trailer park" in a pejorative sense. I would have expected a tenured BYU history professor to show a little more class than that, but it seems my expectations for the faculty of my alma mater were a bit high.
"It seems to me that these women were the head (κεφάλαιον) of the church which was at Philippi." ~ John Chrysostom, Homilies on Philippians 13
bcspace wrote:This board and that board represent two sides of the same coin. The two were always meant to be together and this artificial war and separation is the cause of much evil in the world.
It is quite weird how much this board talks about the other board and vice versa. It's like a family where when someone has a problem with another family member, they don't go talk to the family member directly but instead only go talk about it behind their back with other sympathetic family members.
Maybe if Juliann and Shades could somehow bury the hatchet over that whole transcript fiasco . . . yeah I don't see that happening.
MsJack wrote:I think it's demeaning towards both poor people who live in trailer parks and the people of this message board to refer to this place as "the trailer park" in a pejorative sense. I would have expected a tenured BYU history professor to show a little more class than that, but it seems my expectations for the faculty of my alma mater were a bit high.
Shady Acres is actually a nickname WE came up with, which is what makes the whole thing rather ironic. Polygamy Porter came up with it years ago.
liz3564 wrote:Hey, where did you steal that picture of Polygamy Porter and Merc?
Hey, where did you steal the right to show a picture?
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
bcspace wrote:This board and that board represent two sides of the same coin. The two were always meant to be together and this artificial war and separation is the cause of much evil in the world. Let this be your last battlefield:
Hat's off to you Bc. This was the most insightful comment. One the twin behind the big wall will never read.
