Has William Schryver Left the Church?

[_Lemmie]

That fits in squarely with the impression I get from a number of WD's comments, for example: "...here is a division of interpretation that falls very squarely along male/female gender lines."

I was paraphrasing rosebud... who also was not making a "masculine" argument...?

No you weren't, and nor was she, as I pointed out then:

Rosebud explains it in previous comments. She referenced how many have Bishop-like reactions where the main concern is penetration. Some of the discussion seems to be repeated attempts to draw out the graphic details and pick sides on whether it was an affair or not.

Oh, I see; I agree everyone has got their own definitions. I was actually asking, in your bolded sentence, what you meant by the interpretation falling "very squarely along male/female gender lines." Am I missing something here? I'm not seeing the opinions being separable by gender....
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Subsequently, you did not return to provide any justification for your gender comment.

[_consiglieri]

I did not return because it was tacit and reacting to your gender sensitivity had grown boring. Rosebud was making a classic anti priesthood kind of argument. Not interested in walking through that thread again.

Hi, Water Dog.

Instead of talking about you as if you were not present, I will just talk to you.

I have never thought that you were Will Schryver. Will has a distinctive method of representing himself that is hard to describe, but not that hard to identify; like Justice Stewart Potter's definition of "pornography."

On the other hand, your posting style has, from my perspective, experienced a sea-change in the past year or so. You seemed initially very pro-Mormon, but have gone through a change to being much more open to criticisms of the LDS Church, and even initiating some of those criticisms yourself.

You seem to have gone from being softer in your tone to being a bit harsher, or perhaps more "straight forward" is the better term. Again, hard to describe.

I have to repeat that I have never caught a whiff of Will in either your first presentation or your subsequent presentation.

Will has done sock puppets before over here, one of them was named "Nomad" if I recall correctly. It was Will Schryver through and through, and yet when confronted with it, he refused to admit he was in fact Will Schryver.

(Of course, all this leads to the bottom line that I don't really know if it was Will, but it sure sounded like him and others seemed to agree. This by way of saying that all your denials will avail you nothing against somebody who is convinced you are Will.)

So now Will has gone off the radar for a number of years, at least as far as I know, and somebody on the board suggested the idea that you were Will Schryver.

I didn't agree with that, and still don't. It was just funny that you added that one line about Will sounding like a "cool guy" that made me make the remark that I had not discerned anything about you Schryver-ish until that one comment.

And to be fair, Will's sock puppet "Nomad" was famous for saying all sorts of negative things about Will Schryver, while simultaneously letting seep through a grudging admiration for the bloke.

I think that the idea that you are Will Schryver, together with your apparent sea-change with things related to Mormonism, may have led some to think that you are not only Will Schryver, but that Will Schryver has left the church. Hence the name for this thread.

For my part, I can only say I do not subscribe to the belief that you are Will Schryver, but whether you are Will or somebody else, I sincerely wish you only the best in life.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

[_Lemmie]

Subsequently, you did not return to provide any justification for your gender comment.

I did not return because it was tacit and reacting to your gender sensitivity had grown boring. Rosebud was making a classic anti priesthood kind of argument. Not interested in walking through that thread again.

So still no explanation for what arguing along "male/female gender lines" means, except to note that it is "classic anti-priesthood," and you're bored of having to explain your gender-driven stereotypes. OK, Will.

[_candygal]

Waterdog, are you one and the same as wtrdog on MD@D once in a while?

[_Gadianton]

The best argument for Will as Water Dog is Drakes Equation: If not Water Dog, then who?

[_Kishkumen]

The best argument for Will as Water Dog is Drakes Equation: If not Water Dog, then who?

Well, my response to that is this: someone else. And, given the fact that it is not all that difficult to navigate to this board and register, he could be any number of people out there. It is tempting, in view of the fact that we have a core group that has been together for a very long time, to suppose that some person who comes along and resonates in any way with another poster whom we have dealt with a long time, is indeed that same person.

It is an interesting game to try to figure out who a poster is. Why, I have spent many a quiet moment wondering about the identities of my most esteemed colleagues at Cassius University. The interesting thing is that I probably know more about the facts of the life of Will Schryver than I do the lives of the inimitable Doctor Scratch and our dearest Dean Robbers.

[_Symmachus]

It is an interesting game to try to figure out who a poster is. Why, I have spent many a quiet moment wondering about the identities of my most esteemed colleagues at Cassius University. The interesting thing is that I probably know more about the facts of the life of Will Schryver than I do the lives of the inimitable Doctor Scratch and our dearest Dean Robbers.

Me, too. Schryver hasn't been around here since I've been posting, but he still seems present on this board.

[_RockSlider]

Where is Liz? and come on Jersey Girl. It seems to me there was some information about Will on Liz's cafeteria board when Will dropped out of sight. Dan was there and I seem to remember hushed conversations of him having some health crisis or such such. Spill the beans Jersey Girl!

[_Jersey Girl]

Where is Liz? and come on Jersey Girl. It seems to me there was some information about Will on Liz's cafeteria board when Will dropped out of sight. Dan was there and I seem to remember hushed conversations of him having some health crisis or such such. Spill the beans Jersey Girl!

Good grief. I was just reading through the thread to see if anyone answered my question about the death threat--no, because we're more worried about law suits than actual death threat allegations--and here is this post.

I don't recall information about WS's personal life posted on the private boards (Cafeteria or Geeks) and if I did, I wouldn't repeat it here.

ETA: Woops, it wasn't a death threat. It was a threat of violence.

[_Jersey Girl]

There just aren't truly qualified apologists here any more. All driven off by one tactic or another. I know Dr. Peterson was threatened by a (I mean, "with a") lawsuit and with violence from this board.

Who threatened violence from this board?

Anyone want to answer this?