William Schryver wrote:I am opening this thread again to expand further on what I wrote above.
I have been researching the "Emma Smith was a champion ****" quote. As is rather well known, I denied writing that for many months prior to the MDB mob producing "evidence" of it in the form of a link to the post where those words appear. Faced with the reality of that post, I apologized for having written it. Since that time I became persuaded that my post was very likely modified by one of the moderators at MDB.
However, try as I might, I cannot assemble sufficient evidence to support my belief that that particular post was tampered with. Therefore I must simply revert to my earlier apology for having said it in the first place (assuming that I did, in fact, say it). I consent that it is possible I wrote it, because I'm not a big fan of Emma Smith, and the discussion in which this post appeared was particularly heated. So, again, I apologize to the long-deceased Emma Smith for calling her a ****. If I did it, I was out of line and it was not warranted.
As for using the dreaded "b" word in reference to harmony and beastie ... well, I'm sorry to disappoint those anxious to condemn me, but I don't feel bad about it. They are, as I said at the time, two extraordinarily deceitful women.
As to the claim made by harmony that I called her the infamous "c" word in a post she claims to have subsequently deleted (she is a moderator at MDB), that is an absolute lie. She knows it. Her suborned witnesses know it. They are shameless liars. I have never used that word in my life, whether in private or in public.
I also did not make the post under the moniker "WilliamSchryver" (no space between the names), although I commend whoever did it for mimicking my writing style quite well. Even if I had written it, it is hardly evidence supporting the allegation of misogyny. I am not a misogynist, any more than are Dan Peterson and Bill Hamblin, both of whom have had that allegation made of them in recent weeks.
However, "MsJack" IS a deceitful propagandist, as has become abundantly apparent to a great many people over the course of the past several months. If nothing else good has come of the events of the past year, at least the real Bridget Jeffries has been unmasked in the eyes of many people who had previously believed her to be an objective observer of Mormonism.
I again reiterate the demonstrable fact that, out of over 10,000 posts in over six years of message board posting, the MDB mob was only able to dig up this mere handful of allegedly offensive things I have ever written. Less than .1% of my total posting history! All things considered, I think that's a pretty damn good record. Would that we all bridled our tongues so well ...
"[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
It appears someone in authority is squeezing Will's one remaining testicle...
“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
I think Will's apology is really pretty remarkable. I mean, think about it: for a while he was trying to float the (quite frankly ridiculous) notion that the moderators here at MDB had actually gone in and forged this quotation in order to discredit him. Well, that was over a week ago, and in the interim, Will has apparently been going back and forth, staring feverishly at his computer screen, running his fingers nervously through his thinning hair and tugging at his goatee, trying to find a way out of this conundrum. The end result is that he finally caved in and apologized.
"[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
I don't really know much about the guy and I really haven't had the patience to follow all the drama but I just feel sorry for him...what a sad, insecure old man (the pony tail is not helping). I wonder who he is still trying to convince that he is not an egotistical a##hole who regularly posts to offend? Is he actually suggesting that being a d$%kbag is ok as long as its not that often? I also find his need to call other active (more christ-like) LDS members on their "allegiance" somewhat pathetic. Although it makes the ex-mo in me smile a little considering people like him completely embarrass my LDS wife and friends.
Its sad that he treats religion like a team sport.
That said, I have never posted over at that site - can authors lock their own threads? Or is he a moderator?
"your reasoning that children should be experimented upon to justify a political agenda..is tantamount to the Nazi justification for experimenting on human beings."-SUBgenius on gay parents "I've stated over and over again on this forum and fully accept that I'm a bigot..." - ldsfaqs
I don't buy it. On the very thread HE started to proclaim his innocence, Schryver-Ludd made a monumental ass of himself when he blew up and called people liars when they tried to explain to him that he was, in fact, out of line. The entire thread HE started provided the very evidence that convinced people who previously would not have believed he was capable of being "coarse" that he was actually capable of much worse. He's too pathologically narcissistic to recognize this, so I think someone with the power to force him to write his so-called apology convinced him to do so in an effort at damage control caused by HIS thread. He would never have done it on his own.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
~~Walt Whitman
