Lemmie wrote:Fully. And I'm not even going to ask how you know he liked to run around hiking trails in his garment tops, and how you know what his private living situation looked like.
In case you have not read through the thread...Hugh Nibley was my uncle.
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
Lemmie wrote:Fully. And I'm not even going to ask how you know he liked to run around hiking trails in his garment tops, and how you know what his private living situation looked like.
In case you have not read through the thread...Hugh Nibley was my uncle.
Wow I thought I had been following along with the thread but clearly I missed that! Ok, makes much more sense.
Markk wrote:Don't forget eccentric, crackpot, fraud, and one who liked to run around hiking trails in his garment tops, and lived and worked in a filthy unorganized mess.
No need to keep piling it on, Markk. We are fully convinced that you are unhinged about Nibley.
Markk wrote:Actually I was being lighthearted and quoting mostly what others said...of all I pasted, "eccentric" is what I said...But
you wrote about Skousen...so I guess it is okay for you to call folks names, but not me?
Racist conspiracy-theorist and all around kook.
Markk, Nibley just cloaked his LDS craziness in more highfalutin verbosity than Skousen did. Skousen was more easily WYSIWYG than Nibley. Otherwise, they were two peas in pod, even if their politics did differ.
Maksutov wrote: Send Markk the check for the primal scream therapy.
The clones are off the porch...
Hey, better that you should scream than all this godawful whining and boobing about your uncle. Sounds like you had--have--some unresolved family problems. Why don't you take care of your personal problems yourself instead of expecting this whole board to go through your self indulgent orgy of self pity and attacks? Oh, I get it--you want the attention. You probably hated Uncle Hugh getting all the attention and respect and your resentment still smolders. Maybe you'e got a little of the Martha-ish truth-through-drama gene?
Consider this, Mark. If you are indeed a carpenter, you have likely built things more lasting than Hugh Nibley's highly checkered reputation. You can find satisfaction in that.
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sock puppet wrote:Markk, Nibley just cloaked his LDS craziness in more highfalutin verbosity than Skousen did. Skousen was more easily WYSIWYG than Nibley. Otherwise, they were two peas in pod, even if their politics did differ.
I am sure you are right. I really don't have a opinion of RKs work.
two peas in pod
Would two hacks in a sack work?
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
Maksutov wrote: Hey, better that you should scream than all this godawful whining and boobing about your uncle. Sounds like you had--have--some unresolved family problems. Why don't you take care of your personal problems yourself instead of expecting this whole board to go through your self indulgent orgy of self pity and attacks? Oh, I get it--you want the attention. You probably hated Uncle Hugh getting all the attention and respect and your resentment still smolders. Maybe you'e got a little of the Martha-ish truth-through-drama gene?
I do, when we would go to thanksgiving at his house...all the kids would be ready to eat but we first had to each read a page from Abraham in Egypt...and he would serve canned turkey baked like meat loaf and Wonder bread as rolls.
Then after we ate, Martha would have to tap dance for everyone to Come Come Ye saints...then we would all gather around Uncle and he would give us some wisdom, he once explained to us how it is biologically impossible for pop corn to pop on a apricot tree...Martha was really upset at that and we believe that is when she started doubting.
And yes I was bothered by all the attention Uncle Hugh got, I wanted so much to be him. I was once caught in my early teens putting the garment symbols on my tee shirt with a sharpie, and pretended I was Uncle Hugh walking around town.
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
Kishkumen wrote: Let me help you understand the difference:
I said it and I moved on.
That coming from someone that has 16,000 posts on a (ex) Mormon discussion board...you have certainly moved on Kish.
And I am sure if someone would have challenged you calling this scholar a "kook," you would have just said..." I have no more to say, I have moved on."
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
Nibley himself seems to have been rather weird even at a conservative estimate.
But this thread is becoming. well, passing strange.
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.
