Rules of Patheos: Midgley appears to violate TOS 10x

[_moksha]

The Lounatic jumps in with this insult directed at Moksha, “The nitwit opines again.“

Mormon priesthood holder. Temple worthy. BYU professor. Peckerhead.

- Doc

At least I can be a substitute for the professor when Gemli is unavailable. I choose to love him even if he is irascible.

[_Lemmie]

The Lounatic jumps in with this insult directed at Moksha, “The nitwit opines again.“

Mormon priesthood holder. Temple worthy. BYU professor. Peckerhead.

- Doc

At least I can be a substitute for the professor when Gemli is unavailable. I choose to love him even if he is irascible.

Lol. Moksha, you are a modern day Saint. I hope you realize that for every Midgley or kiwi crap-post that is out there for everyone to gasp at, there are more than a few readers chuckling behind the scenes at your bon mots.

(Unfortunately, If I offered an alternate in-kind for every Mopologist put-down, I really think Kishkumen would chase me around the recently erected Gadianton’s Statue, determined to rhetorically beat the impulse out of me. Hence, my reticence. Also, my hooker heels are not mud-proofed yet. But I am with you in spirit!)

[_moksha]

Moksha Nancy Roper Hymas • 2 days ago • edited
Are you suggesting that Herod was a collaborator with the Strengthening the Roman Empire Committee (SREC)?

Louis Midgley Moksha • 2 days ago
The nitwit opines again.

Moksha Louis Midgley • 2 days ago
Lou, are you saying that the SREC was perhaps before your time?

Louis Midgley Moksha • 16 hours ago
No! I was saying that MOKSHA is playing he nitwit again.

Moksha Louis Midgley • 12 hours ago
Pretty sure Yoda would phrase that as, "Moksha, nitwit he is".

[_Philo Sofee]

Moksha, you, like Dr. Scratch, are playing chess with them with delightful humor, and they think its Rugby. No wonder they cannot fathom your amazing puns, delightful zingers (even against yourself!) and witty comeback, all with good humor and pazzazz. They are so practiced at being dullards in imitation of their church leaders brethren, humor evades them perpetually.

[_Dr LOD]

Midgley going off the rails from the Peterson narrative. Whoops.
There does seem to be some confabulation in this rambling post.

So yes he does confirm a SCMC, as well as forwarding the committee certain names of people.
I am not sure how turning in names to the SCMC makes him a racist as he says in the opening sentence. He is a racist not because of him being white, but because of his behaviors.

I was recently accused by someone who insists that merely because I happen to be a white male, I am a racist, that my insistence that I have never ever one turned tattled to what is called the Strengthening Church Members Committee (SCMC), was "quite amusing and dishonest" because "just about anyone who is familiar with you, friend and foe, knows the gross inaccuracies in that statement." Really? I happen to have been a very close friend of a Seventy who for three years was assigned, among other committees, to serve on the SCMC.

Once he grilled me about FAIR--a.k.a. Fair Mormon--for several hours. I showed him how to access that truly remarkable Wiki, which provides accurate, detailed responses to a very large number of questions. And I mentioned that this was the work of about three people, who I named. Was that turning them in? I don't think so. I then explained that what my own volunteer effort with FAIR amounted to was responding to questions sent to FAIR. One of these was from John Dehlin's older sister. I have become very good friends with her and her husband.

I answered over five hundred questions sent to FAIR. And in all but a dozen instances ended up making friends with those I had not previously known, including more than a dozen in New Zealand. I showed my friend how is a Seventy perhaps a dozen of these exchanges that were then available on my phone, which he read, and copied to show to other members of the SCMC. At that time five key Seventy, and an Apostle, and Professor Peterson were busy working on a report to what is called the Area Committee about whether or how the Church should support FAIR, Interpreter and Book of Mormon Central. The result was a public endorsement of all three as solid sources of information for Latter-day Saints.

One should keep in mind the name of this committee. I doubt that it is possible for anyone to turn anyone in. I can't imagine how that could be done. Does anyone actually know how to contact the SCMC? I don't. It is, of course, possible that a part of the job of the paid secretary to that committee is to provide the Brethren with what can be found being spouted by dissidents in public so that this public information can be sent to their Stake Presidents.

[Guest]

Midgley going off the rails from the Peterson narrative. Whoops.
There does seem to be some confabulation in this rambling post.

So yes he does confirm a SCMC, as well as forwarding the committee certain names of people.
I am not sure how turning in names to the SCMC makes him a racist as he says in the opening sentence. He is a racist not because of him being white, but because of his behaviors.

I was recently accused by someone who insists that merely because I happen to be a white male, I am a racist, that my insistence that I have never ever one turned tattled to what is called the Strengthening Church Members Committee (SCMC), was "quite amusing and dishonest" because "just about anyone who is familiar with you, friend and foe, knows the gross inaccuracies in that statement." Really? I happen to have been a very close friend of a Seventy who for three years was assigned, among other committees, to serve on the SCMC.

Once he grilled me about FAIR--a.k.a. Fair Mormon--for several hours. I showed him how to access that truly remarkable Wiki, which provides accurate, detailed responses to a very large number of questions. And I mentioned that this was the work of about three people, who I named. Was that turning them in? I don't think so. I then explained that what my own volunteer effort with FAIR amounted to was responding to questions sent to FAIR. One of these was from John Dehlin's older sister. I have become very good friends with her and her husband.

I answered over five hundred questions sent to FAIR. And in all but a dozen instances ended up making friends with those I had not previously known, including more than a dozen in New Zealand. I showed my friend how is a Seventy perhaps a dozen of these exchanges that were then available on my phone, which he read, and copied to show to other members of the SCMC. At that time five key Seventy, and an Apostle, and Professor Peterson were busy working on a report to what is called the Area Committee about whether or how the Church should support FAIR, Interpreter and Book of Mormon Central. The result was a public endorsement of all three as solid sources of information for Latter-day Saints.

One should keep in mind the name of this committee. I doubt that it is possible for anyone to turn anyone in. I can't imagine how that could be done. Does anyone actually know how to contact the SCMC? I don't. It is, of course, possible that a part of the job of the paid secretary to that committee is to provide the Brethren with what can be found being spouted by dissidents in public so that this public information can be sent to their Stake Presidents.

This post by Midgley cracks me up. It’s like a law and order case where he is the witness, the rebuttal to the witness, and the rebuttal to the rebuttal, all rolled into one.

First, he denies:

....my insistence that I have never ever one turned tattled to what is called the Strengthening Church Members Committee (SCMC),

Then he cross-examines himself, as a rebuttal to his own denial:

.... I answered over five hundred questions sent to FAIR.... I showed my friend how is a Seventy perhaps a dozen of these exchanges that were then available on my phone, which he read, and copied to show to other members of the SCMC.

And then, on redirect, he contradicts his own testimony!

I doubt that it is possible for anyone to turn anyone in. I can't imagine how that could be done. Does anyone actually know how to contact the SCMC? I don't.

All in one single post.

Surely he is being facetious here, or has the Mormon method of redefining words to deny behaviors convinced him that no one will notice? This is unbelievable.

Midgley concludes with what I can only assume is a PSA to teach righteous Mormons how to rat on fellow members, or maybe a Senior Missionary job description.

It is, of course, possible that a part of the job of the paid secretary to that committee is to provide the Brethren with what can be found being spouted by dissidents in public so that this public information can be sent to their Stake Presidents.

Unreal.

[_Philo Sofee]

Midgley is a double - triple - quadruple agent of duplicity.... and stupidity. And of course, his followers love it.

[_Dr LOD]

Midgley is a double - triple - quadruple agent of duplicity.... and stupidity. And of course, his followers love it.

Almost time for DCP to consider taking away the keys to the car. Midgley made Peterson look like a fool. Thanks Professor Midgley.

[_Dr LOD]

Midgley is a double - triple - quadruple agent of duplicity.... and stupidity. And of course, his followers love it.

Almost time for DCP to consider taking away the keys to the car. Midgley made Peterson look like a fool. Thanks Professor Midgley.

DCP later posts this to put some damage control spin on Midgleys post.

DanielPeterson
DanielPeterson Louis Midgley 5 hours ago
http://disq.us/p/2ahsw2l

LM: "Once he grilled me about FAIR"

LOL. You need to watch such language. Those of us who know you have no problem understanding it, but the poor folks in the Ex-LDS chapter of QAnon who are in the grip of Midgley Derangement Syndrome will immediately and immovably conjure up an image of thumb screws, hypodermic needles, and the rack.

LM: "I doubt that it is possible for anyone to turn anyone in. I can't imagine how that could be done. Does anyone actually know how to contact the SCMC? I don't."

Nor do I.

Funny, isn't it? Since, between us, we've supposedly turned multiple innocents in over the years, you might imagine that we would have at least some idea of how it's done.

LM: "I showed my friend who is a Seventy perhaps a dozen of these exchanges that were then available on my phone, which he read, and copied to show to other members of the SCMC."

One grimly determined misreader has already interpreted the sentence immediately above as your confession that, in conversation with a friend who happens to be a Seventy, you actually did rat several people out. Apparently, that's how it's done:

First, the member wishing to turn a traitor in locates a General Authority whom he or she has known for years, since long before the GA's call to Salt Lake City.

Then, pretending simply to share with the GA some examples of good work that's being done in order to help members with questions -- work that would presumably interest a decent church leader in a decent church for pastoral reasons -- the vast majority of whom the wannabe-spy claims to consider friends, the intrepid zealot shows the GA some of those exchanges.

This must, of course, all be interpreted in the most hostile and paranoid fashion, presuming hostile and vindictive intent on the part of both GA and viciously hopeful spy. Neither of them can be allowed to have honorable motives, let alone pastoral ones.

LM: "I mentioned that this was the work of about three people, who I named."

And, here, you've admitted that you also ratted those three people out. The horror of it! She probably doesn't understand that lengthy conversations with General Authorities whom one knew before their calling to Church leadership can't be the ordinary modus operandi for reporting people to the SCMC, and that identifying three friends who are doing commendable and excellent work to a fourth friend is scarcely the kind of betrayal to the Gestapo that she's so desperately trying to see.

[_Philo Sofee]

Midgley is a double - triple - quadruple agent of duplicity.... and stupidity. And of course, his followers love it.

Almost time for DCP to consider taking away the keys to the car. Midgley made Peterson look like a fool. Thanks Professor Midgley.

They both bounce off each other rather handily for us I must say.....