Bill Hamblin's idiotic Book of Mormon ''challenges''

[_ludwigm]

Perhaps he realized that some women have a real weakness for a man in a uniform.

My Ladies, I am a lieutenant-colonel.

(Only a pensioner one, but nobody can be perfect.)

[_Chap]

The Scratch Board: Center of the Universe.

If this board was at the centre of the universe, it would be a decidedly inappropriate place for any discussion of LDS apologetics, a subject whose marginality in intellectual terms and almost total irrelevance to normal academic discourse (at least outside Provo) is one of the reasons why some of us find discussion of its intricacies so intriguing, and indeed diverting.

Missing the chance to dialogue with Hamblin on LDS apologetic topics is as much a lost opportunity for those of us who feel that way as a missed opportunity to observe the mating habits of the curelom and cumom would be for a mammalian zoologist.

[_John Larsen]

The Scratch Board: Center of the Universe.

If this board was at the centre of the universe, it would be a decidedly inappropriate place for any discussion of LDS apologetics, a subject whose marginality in intellectual terms and almost total irrelevance to normal academic discourse (at least outside Provo) is one of the reasons why some of us find discussion of its intricacies so intriguing, and indeed diverting.

Missing the chance to dialogue with Hamblin on LDS apologetic topics is as much a lost opportunity for those of us who feel that way as a missed opportunity to observe the mating habits of the curelom and cumom would be for a mammalian zoologist.

lol

[_solomarineris]

Wow, what a weenie. by the way: I have just posted a new thread which may help some to better understand Hamblin's reluctance to participate here. It seems that he, far more than DCP, stands to benefit from the draconian protective policies at the aptly named MADboard. Hamblin's history of polemical violence is quite embarrassing, imho. No wonder he wants to hide.

You know something Scratch?
You already know the answers before posing them (I'm looking like a Robert Milet clone here).
You know that Mr. Hamblin has no gain whatsoever to engage in dialog with you or Dr.Shades.
Knowing this, you still pursue it. I think you guys trying to embarrass him, trying to beat him in his own game. you doing it regularly to DCP, it amazes me how DCP withstands onslaught of these ridicules.
♠

[_The Nehor]

The Scratch Board: Center of the Universe.

If this board was at the centre of the universe, it would be a decidedly inappropriate place for any discussion of LDS apologetics, a subject whose marginality in intellectual terms and almost total irrelevance to normal academic discourse (at least outside Provo) is one of the reasons why some of us find discussion of its intricacies so intriguing, and indeed diverting.

Missing the chance to dialogue with Hamblin on LDS apologetic topics is as much a lost opportunity for those of us who feel that way as a missed opportunity to observe the mating habits of the curelom and cumom would be for a mammalian zoologist.

So this is a marginal board even within a marginal field? Wow, that makes everyone here a non-entity.

[_TAK]

So this is a marginal board even within a marginal field? Wow, that makes everyone here a non-entity.

Nonsense..
Just makes us all guilty discussing a topic that has no relevance in the real world.

[_The Nehor]

So this is a marginal board even within a marginal field? Wow, that makes everyone here a non-entity.

Nonsense..
Just makes us all guilty discussing a topic that has no relevance in the real world.

I think you mean a topic of limited interest. To some people it seems to be relevant (people on both sides).

[_Chap]

If this board was at the centre of the universe, it would be a decidedly inappropriate place for any discussion of LDS apologetics, a subject whose marginality in intellectual terms and almost total irrelevance to normal academic discourse (at least outside Provo) is one of the reasons why some of us find discussion of its intricacies so intriguing, and indeed diverting.

Missing the chance to dialogue with Hamblin on LDS apologetic topics is as much a lost opportunity for those of us who feel that way as a missed opportunity to observe the mating habits of the curelom and cumom would be for a mammalian zoologist.

So this is a marginal board even within a marginal field? Wow, that makes everyone here a non-entity.

Good try. But that won't quite work.

For certain people (very rare ones on a world scale, but perhaps the majority on this board) this board is about a central part of their life experience, past and present. That doesn't make them nonentities, even if it makes them very unusual, and in this respect marginal, in an overwhelmingly non-LDS world, indeed a world overwhelmingly unaware that LDS even exist.

For an even smaller number, this board fulfils the same kind of need that is satisfied by taking part in the discussion list of (say) the West Connecticut Friends of Balinese Shadow Puppetry. It is a very unusual hobby whose peculiarly piquant flavour is hard to explain to anyone who does not share it. Having such a hobby implies nothing at all about what such people do with the rest of their time. It is for example, quite possible to be a reasonably well-reputed Arabist in real life and spend quite a lot of time here.

[_TAK]

I think you mean a topic of limited interest. To some people it seems to be relevant (people on both sides).

Well as we have seen its the entire universe to some..
Regardless your religion has little to no relevance in the real world..

[_The Nehor]

I think you mean a topic of limited interest. To some people it seems to be relevant (people on both sides).

Well as we have seen its the entire universe to some..
Regardless your religion has little to no relevance in the real world..

Ummmmm.......what is this real world? The religion is a large part of the world to me as I live it in the world.