Rules of Patheos: Midgley appears to violate TOS 10x

[_Lemmie]

Louis Midgley Louis Midgley 2 hours ago

In 1950 I very much enjoyed the version of an old the old song called "September Song." One line in the film called "September," if I remember correctly, reads "I don't have time for the waiting game." Back then I resonated with the older suitor who was seeking a mate. Now, I apply that line to Dr. VelhoBurrinho. His time is running out on sic et non.

Why, one might ask, don't I just turn the other cheek? I have already done that at least seven times. So it is now time for Dr. VelhoBurrinho to either fess up or get the boot. Fessing up is more than merely mildly recommended in our scriptures, is it not?

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... 4780797949

I’m bumping this up from anxiety to panicked obsessive compulsion.

[_Dr. Shades]

I’m bumping this up from anxiety to panicked obsessive compulsion.

Ha! :-)

Poor Louis Midgley has become little more than a parody of himself.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

[_moksha]

Does Dr. Peterson feel bound by Dr. Midgley's angry threats or does he usually let them pass knowing that Midgley will either enter a cool down or forgetful state?

[_Dr LOD]

Does Dr. Peterson feel bound by Dr. Midgley's angry threats or does he usually let them pass knowing that Midgley will either enter a cool down or forgetful state?

I don’t know, Professor Midgley is pretty easy to read, he projects all the time. So for him it would be a huge blow not to have SeN as his playpen for interaction especially the confrontational type he likes. He is also scared that I contact that Maori Law Professor. Which I may someday, the guy sounds interesting from the papers of his that I have read.

Tonight we had dinner at my kids Piano teachers home, lovely lady, the TBM 70 year old type. She sat at the piano and asked which primary songs they wanted to sing, they sang one I never learned. Then she started playing “Book of Mormon stories” she even said she looked that it sounded like drums. My wife was over washing dishes but I could see her cringe and almost bust up laughing. Later the Lamanite thing was brought up. We were polite didn’t say much.

Why didn’t we correct her? First she was kind, second she didn’t try to tear down our heritage by saying anything disrespectful. So we left her alone with her cherished beliefs.

[_Physics Guy]

Midgley mentions a film as well as a song because the 1938 piece “September Song” became a hit in 1950 from the soundtrack of the 1950 hit film September Affair.

In 1950 Louis Midgley was 19. In 2056 will I be posting quotes from Ferris Bueller? Maybe I will. If so will anyone recognize them? Probably not.

[_moksha]

September Song as sung by Frank Sinatra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wte1uk4A5eU

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

When the rabid dog turns on its owner:

Louis Midgley > Proletarius • 6 days ago

Bishops are cowards about this business of a mother saying what the child says in F&T meeting. And those who mock those who actually testify by setting out both the reasons and contents of the faith are simply sick people.

Anyway. He's been on a tear the last few days. The sheer volume of nastiness coming from the BYU professor and Mormon priesthood holder is astounding.

- Doc

[_Lemmie]

Is this how mopologetics works? Midgley recently posted this:

Louis Midgley Kiwi57 4 hours ago

I found all the remarks above more than a little amusing, especially since I have recently had a very minor brush with one of the malevolent stalker's very, very minor disciples, who on 20 October 2019 announced on Dan's blog that I "must surely have disdained the brown skinned Maori among whom I served and must have held them in arrogant contempt."

The part in quotes really didn’t sound like anything DrVelhoBurrinho wrote, so I checked. The part put into quotes by Midgley was NOT written by DrVelhoBurrinho, but rather by Peterson, himself, in a blog entry dated October 2, 2019:

Tonight, I saw a claim asserted in the same region of the Internet, quite out of the blue, that my friend and colleague Louis Midgley, who served a youthful mission in New Zealand and then returned there decades later with his wife to direct the LDS Institute of Religion in Auckland, must surely have disdained the brown skinned Maori among whom he served and must have held them in arrogant contempt.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... maori.html

For comparison, here is a comment posted by DrVelhoBurrinho, to the blog entry quoted above, on October 2, 2019:

Dr. VelhoBurrinho Dr. Moore • 4 months ago

I would have to repeat what Dr. Moore has said about Dr. Midgley, on how he relates to the Maori. During a brief pause in my clinical duties I read many of the articles that Dan had posted.

As educated Native American man I could find nothing that I would consider to be overtly or maliciously racist in any of his writings. In actuality for someone of his generation he seems to be very respectful and progressive of this other culture that he had the opportunity to live in and serve in. In his writings he goes to great lengths to show how the cultural parallels and beliefs of the Maori mesh and relate to his Mormon beliefs.

That being said I personally I don't agree with some of what I read, and in many cases LDS church when it enters other cultures it very much does act like a colonial church, sometimes mistaking Utah Mormon cultural idiosyncrasies for Gospel truth. Thankfully in his writings Dr. Midgley seemed to stay away from that.

http://disq.us/p/24pwn6y

As much as Midgley over-reacts and obsesses, Peterson seems determined to keep that going. Not a great friend.

[_Dr LOD]

Around that time I did say that by his actions and what he writes about the Maori does amount to cultural appropriation. So in a very gentle way I was saying he was showing some racism, but nothing that is out of line with his peers. Although his recent outbursts towards my criticism of his review, and his MLK diatribe pretty much shows what type of man he is.

Thankfully those attitudes and beliefs are found more and more shut up in a home waiting for meals on wheels to come by. Or are in a nursing home dying out.