The artificial intelligence MEGATHREAD

[sock puppet]

Name calling? You literally just said on another thread you didn’t behave like that. So who’s the hypocrite?

I'm not sure what you're actually talking about. I do know what I'm talking about. I do believe there are a number of hypocrites that ought to look in the mirror before making blanket and/or false accusations.

Regards,
MG

I have no doubt about the highlighted sentence. A bit of introspection (if you are capable of it) would do you a great deal of good.

[MG 2.0]

I'm not sure what you're actually talking about. I do know what I'm talking about. I do believe there are a number of hypocrites that ought to look in the mirror before making blanket and/or false accusations.

Regards,
MG

I have no doubt about the highlighted sentence. A bit of introspection (if you are capable of it) would do you a great deal of good.

I do it all the time! And I think you're a hypocrite.

Regards,
MG

[Everybody Wang Chung]

I have no doubt about the highlighted sentence. A bit of introspection (if you are capable of it) would do you a great deal of good.

I do it all the time! And I think you're a hypocrite.

Regards,
MG

MG, you're not going to be an effective missionary by calling people hypocrites. Did you already forget the prophet's command on how members should interact online? You should apologize to sock puppet and take some time for some soul searching and introspection. You can do better. You can be better.

[I Have Questions]

I do it all the time! And I think you're a hypocrite.

Regards,
MG

MG, you're not going to be an effective missionary by calling people hypocrites. Did you already forget the prophet's command on how members should interact online? You should apologize to sock puppet and take some time for some soul searching and introspection. You can do better. You can be better.

CFR

[MG 2.0]

I do it all the time! And I think you're a hypocrite.

Regards,
MG

MG, you're not going to be an effective missionary by calling people hypocrites. Did you already forget the prophet's command on how members should interact online? You should apologize to sock puppet and take some time for some soul searching and introspection. You can do better. You can be better.

I think I will stick with what I've said. Thanks for you concern. I know you have the interests of others at heart.

Regards,
MG

[Marcus]

I do it all the time! And I think you're a hypocrite.

Regards,
MG

MG, you're not going to be an effective missionary by calling people hypocrites. Did you already forget the prophet's command on how members should interact online? You should apologize to sock puppet and take some time for some soul searching and introspection. You can do better. You can be better.

You are too kind, Everybody Wang Chung.

[MG 2.0]

MG, you're not going to be an effective missionary by calling people hypocrites. Did you already forget the prophet's command on how members should interact online? You should apologize to sock puppet and take some time for some soul searching and introspection. You can do better. You can be better.

You are too kind, Everybody Wang Chung.

He is not to be trusted.

Regards,
MG

[sock puppet]

You are too kind, Everybody Wang Chung.

He is not to be trusted.

Regards,
MG

If by He you mean Mormon Jesus, bingo.

[MG 2.0]

Here one finds the criminal post creating all consternation.

Well it is not an answer to the question. It suggest somebody thought something. That is not much. In truth this is a lame post, a flop.

MG should be sentenced to thirty lashes with six wet strings of spaghetti.

You're lucky you haven't started a thread sufficiently 'anti-Mormon' enough to gain mg's attention and have him decide to disrupt it, thereby up-ending any attempt at a good discussion. Nor have you experienced him posting sexist comments about you, I would assume, as I have many times. Have you had him speculate on whether you are 'christian' or not? (He says it's important to know that about those he disagrees with, for....reasons.) And he's cleaned up his language quite a bit, but it's still fresh in many people's minds that he said, among many other awful examples, that he assumes Mormons are honest and non-Mormons are more likely to lie, and that people who have left the Mormon church are "purveyors of sin and sodomy."

He also speculated once that he wouldn't want to have lunch with me because he didn't think he could stop himself from throwing food at me, but that's his sexism showing once again, so you probably haven't experienced that either.

Seriously, though, in the research I've done on trolling, the main piece of advice given is to look at patterns of engagement, not just individual posts. MG has a pattern of engagement that is disruptive and he routinely causes derailing of topics. There's not much we can do, but clearly recognizing his behavior for what it is helps a little.

Let me suggest some word descriptors that may help flesh out some of the possible underlying issues that are manifest in this response:

Hypervigilance/Paranoia.

Sensitivity to perceived injustice.

Persistent grievance focused thinking and ruminative tendencies.

Dichotomous thinking.

Perceived victimization.

Excessive moralizing.

Tendency to overgeneralize.

I think that these modes/patterns of repetitive reinforcement in a person's mind can result in behavior that becomes rather fixated and potentially harmful to the psyche of a person who becomes consumed in this sort of hypervigilant behavior. My suggestion would be to chill out a bit and not take yourself or others too seriously.

Sheesh, this is a message board. Lighten up.

You've gone down this road a number of times now. Cool your jets!

Regards,
MG

[MG 2.0]

He is not to be trusted.

Regards,
MG

If by He you mean Mormon Jesus, bingo.

No. Mr. Wang.

Regards,
MG