Runtu wrote:Whoever did it was wrong and should both remove the disgusting posts and apologize. But it's stupid and unhelpful for Nemesis/Dan_G/Juliann to use the off-board actions of a few (suspected) MDB posters to settle some scores against the board as a whole.
I find it unbelievable that the moderator of another board would do this. Any such moderator has no business criticizing Dr. Shades. Nemesis should be replaced by someone with a level head.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
This is disgraceful behavior. We need to cut all links to that meme site, or at least drown it out with harmless caption replacements. I really can't believe that any self-respecting person would pull that crap.
Indeed. I've said some unkind things about Juliann over the years, but nothing like that. I don't know what motivates people to behave like that. I think removing the links and putting harmless captions in represent a start.
There is a very small part of me that actually feels sorry for those people. Just how stupid do you have to be to blame an entire board and its owner for what appears on another web site?
With logic like that, I guess I can kind of imagine how apologetics work in their "minds."
As for the captions, I'm mostly offended by the lack of funny.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
A couple of thoughts. Not sure what a meme is but I guess it is bad? Anyways, nemesis and others are doing what one may call due dillegence in compiling evidence for a legal battle. Being that this is the case then they likely have a FAIR idea of who their legal representation is and may have received some kind of legal council. What are the motives of taking legal actions?!?:
1. In the most positive sense they really just want the meme stuff to stop.
2. They want to shut down Dr. Shades board. This is probably the most important goal to them because: (a) it gets rid of what they call anti-Mormons, and (b). it removes their competition since their board is on the verge of death.
3. Revenge, whether it is for Bill Shrivybervdfer or actually for the common poster that is for one to judge.
4. MAD wants to out posters here, and subsequently identify each anonymous poster in order to continue a more pointed attack.
My advice, prepare for a legal battle or get shutdown. I am sure they have an attorney or two that will work for free and likely tirelessly.
lostindc wrote:Anyways, nemesis and others are doing what one may call due dillegence in compiling evidence for a legal battle. Being that this is the case then they likely have a FAIR idea of who their legal representation is and may have received some kind of legal council.
You know this for a fact, or you are just surmising?
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
I swear right here and now that if the Shades board is shut down through violence on the part of the Mormons, I will start a near identical board based right here in Scandinavia outside the reach of such lawsuits.
Kishkumen wrote:Geez, people! This has gotten completely out of control. The Juliann meme generator really saddens me.
Me, too. I'm no fan of Juliann, but the meme stuff is way over the line, in my opinion, and extremely juvenile.
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
lostindc wrote:Not sure what a meme is but I guess it is bad?
No. It is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." (Wiki)
It's a cultural reproductive element, or something that spreads and becomes popular to say/do (like people saying, "Sweet!" People never said that when I was growing up, but they say it all the time now).
The term was coined by Richard Dawkins in his first book, I believe.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.