Bob Loblaw wrote:I know who Wyatt is, but who is Smoot? From the comments it looks like he just got home from a mission so he must be pretty young. What's his story?
Probably struggling to figure out and justify why he just blew two years of his life doing an LDS mission.
I couldn't remember his moniker over at MAD. It was/is "Rommelator". It looks like all his old stuff was lost with the last board switchover, but you can search this board and find some discussion of his past postings.
Actually, if you just search for "Rommelator", you can find a lot of it. Here is one of his last go-rounds with Chris Smith and several other Mormon Discussions all-stars on the Book of Abraham before he left on his mission:
Bob Loblaw wrote:Wow he's just a kid. Too bad he's gotten into the wrong sort of crowd.
Bob,
I agree. Maybe it's not him, it’s those kids he hangs out with. This just might be a growing phase for him.
Just in case, maybe we should all stage an intervention?
Yes--it's worth pointing out that LifeOnaPlate was very feisty too, once upon a time, but he's since evolved into a very even-handed and decent-minded Mormon Studies guy. Then again, I don't recall LoaP ever being quite as bad as Smoot has been as of late. Further, If I recall correctly, both LoaP and "Donkey Lips" published in the same issue of the Review. Whereas LoaP has put some distance in between himself and the Mopologists, Smoot seems to be even more deeply embedded.
"[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
Man, oh, man: MsJack has added an absolutely devastating response to Smoot on Runtu's blog:
MsJack wrote:Nice to hear that “academic publishing” has decided to address such cutting-edge and scholarly issues as the sexual dynamics of the handicapped bathrooms in the BYU library. I can scarcely think of a more salient contribution that needed to be made to Mormon studies.
While we’re on the subject of holding people responsible for the nasty comments that are said on message boards that they may or may not participate on, recently it was said of me on the ill-named Mormon Dialogue & Discussion Board that I am a “feminazi,” “anti-Mormon,” “female supremacist,” “extreme feminist,” and possible “outright man-hater.” Furthermore, these comments were made not by unknown nobodies, but by would-be MI author William Schryver and established MI author [Pahoran---I'll be kind and omit his real name]. Would Stephen Smoot care to point out where he objected to these sheer, unmitigated, glaring ad hominem attacks? Or do vicious and mean-spirited ad hominem attacks have to be vulgar before he becomes outraged over them?
I hope that Brother Smoot is able to summon up enough gumption to reply.
"[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
Doctor Scratch wrote:Man, oh, man: MsJack has added an absolutely devastating response to Smoot on Runtu's blog:
I hope that Brother Smoot is able to summon up enough gumption to reply.
Ouch. I'd bet money they won't show their faces there again for a while.
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