Runtu wrote:I do wonder why Midgley is hostile to niceness and tact; I suppose atheists should be more genuine about their evil intentions. In some ways I understand Midgley’s fear of the nice and tactful; I’ve been told I’m one of the worst types of anti-Mormons because I try to be kind and fair. Apparently, my behavior is a ruse to ensnare the unwitting in the devil’s clutches. Perhaps Midgley disdains her efforts at promoting civility precisely because he has no need for it himself.
Runtu wrote:The sad part of all this is that she has offered the hand of friendship to people like Midgley, and he has slapped it away angrily. I applaud C.L. Hanson for attempting to build bridges, but I suspect she will have to look beyond people like Midgley, who are too busy planting dynamite around the footings to be bothered with kindness.
for what it's worth, I know that Grant Palmer reached out to Midgley as well and he refused to talk to him. I guess he doesn't wish to allow common human decency to influence him by getting to know a person and hearing their point of view before authoring a hit piece on them. Heaven forbid!
Yahoo Bot wrote:Lou Midgley is a character. I think he's the greatest guy. He's just who he is; doesn't threaten anybody really.
I love the fact that he was fired from BYU for being a suspected communist sympathizer. He rocks in my view.
That's awesome: character assassination and misrepresenting another person's position are just signs of being a character. That you think such behavior "rocks" doesn't speak highly of you, particularly since you went after Everybody Wang Chung for some ill-considered statements about someone's family.
I have no need for people like Midgley or people who justify his behavior.
"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
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
Yahoo Bot wrote:Lou Midgley is a character. I think he's the greatest guy. He's just who he is; doesn't threaten anybody really.
I love the fact that he was fired from BYU for being a suspected communist sympathizer. He rocks in my view.
That's awesome: character assassination and misrepresenting another person's position are just signs of being a character. That you think such behavior "rocks" doesn't speak highly of you, particularly since you went after Everybody Wang Chung for some ill-considered statements about someone's family.
I have no need for people like Midgley or people who justify his behavior.
I assure you that I am not assassinating Bro. Midgley's character, nor do I sign on to everything he does. I like Santa Claus, but don't agree with everything he does. Lou is a character in a constellation of church characters. I see no need to defame him.
Yahoo Bot wrote: ... Lou is a character in a constellation of church characters. I see no need to defame him.
Damn. So Runtu can't post the stuff I just made up about and sent to him about Midgely eating babies?
Oh well, if he can't defame Midgely, I suppose Runtu will just have to stick to making observations of a critical kind about his published work. Yahoo Bot is fine with that, I'm sure.
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.
Bob Loblaw wrote:That's awesome: character assassination and misrepresenting another person's position are just signs of being a character.
Bob is a idiot lawyer who is an aggressive bully for massive cultic organizations like NXIVM who run open Ponzi schemes. Midge is right up his spineless alley.
Yahoo Bot wrote:I assure you that I am not assassinating Bro. Midgley's character, nor do I sign on to everything he does.
I'm assuming your misreading was intentional.
I like Santa Claus, but don't agree with everything he does.
Does Santa go after someone for merely daring to suggest ways for people to reconcile?
Lou is a character in a constellation of church characters.
After reading his attack on C.L. Hanson, I would say a rather nasty character.
I see no need to defame him.
Who is defaming him?
"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
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
Maybe to Bot the definition of defame includes "express public disapproval of what a person has actually done." So, to call Jeffrey Dahmer a serial killer would have been defamation. To call Hitler a genocidal madman would have been defamation.
You get the idea.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
