When engaging in discussions on this board, particularly in the Terrestrial forum, I am aware that many participants view themselves as intellectuals and "professors," often adopting the title "Dr" to enhance their online presence. Through my observations, I've discovered that many individuals here are professors like Marcus, and it seems that most professors have never experienced a complete day of work in their lives. Professors are often perceived as privileged, self-indulgent, and unmotivated individuals, which is why Marcus, Kishkumen, and Gadianton, among others, consider mowing the lawn to be a hazardous task! They hire illegals to cut their grass and feel and like White saviors for paying a brown person for their services!
Any aspect of life can be seen as risky if you choose to perceive it in that manner. Exiting the bathtub poses risks and hazards. Using the toilet can pose risks and dangers if you let it. Viewing the act of traversing steps as dangerous can lead to a heightened sense of risk. To progressives, particularly those in academia who have never worked with their hands, the act of cutting grass seems to them as perilous as going into battle!
It is as straightforward as you have indicated. He had likely mowed that same lawn many times before, but perhaps he made an error or suffered a heart attack, leading to a loss of control over the mower, which then veered off course and rolled over. Regardless, he passed away in the service of the Lord in his thoughts, and that’s a commendable way to depart.
Unless you are a disillusioned and resentful progressive professor who perceives life through a predominantly negative lens, which most tend to do.
You are either incredibly stupid or a lazy troll. I can tell you missed my posts on this thread. Or your algorithm simply mashed up some garbage and barfed it up.
Perhaps troll?
Hound is intelligent enough to create readable paragraphs and be a bit colorful. It is a puzzle how he locks onto such ignorant assumptions about people. I have wondered if he was a Russian bot programed to repeat a certain set of prescribed assumptions. Russian propaganda might have an interest in Americans mentally chasing phantoms. That would explain the dumb stuff which we have all heard countless times. It is more likely he is a regular guy who has worked hard to squeeze his mind into the small box in which it now dwells without deviation or doubt.
MG wrote:I would have to agree with Hound that there does seem to be a certain degree of 'privilege' among the so-called professors on the board. An overall, "We know things that others don't" mentality. My gosh, listening to "Dr. Scratch" as the resident authority on all things DCP? And others referring to each other as "Doctor"? What??!!
Huh. Did you miss it when back on ZLMB, Dan Peterson and Bill Hamblin went out of their way to (joking but not joking) refer to each other as "doctor" on the board and dismiss critics like Dan Vogel or Brent Metcalfe formally in writing and also on the board for their lack of Phds, congratulate each other profusely for their Phds, and then criticize basically any and every critic who posted there as unqualified to have a conversation with them due to their lack of a graduate degree? I mean, if what you see on this board bothers you, then I assume you are really bothered by the entire enterprise of Mopologetics up until the early 2000s when it began to fall apart.
Sheesh.
That's right, in reference to Dan and his elitist gang.
Simply because of where they live in and at their Ivory Tower address. Can they recognize that? I doubt it. It has become a part of their self worth and reason for being. To sit just a wee little bit above the common people in their rarified air of superiority. Would they admit it? Of course not. Pride enters in.
You're still talking about Dan Peterson and his core friends more than you are talking about anything else.
And then you have some folks who come across and act as if they are professors. That's where it gets even sillier.
Interesting. Dan must drive you up the wall.
Passing the buck. Whatever you might see as having been prevalent, from your perspective, in the past doesn't excuse the Dean and Doctor or Reverend stuff that goes on here. Elitist, to say the very least.
I’m getting sick of MG dragging threads off topic. I’ve been reporting his off topic posts because I don’t believe he can regulate himself. I hope Shades deals with this problem, because it’s happening on every thread.
Elder Brent Blackburn, 68, died on Saturday, Aug. 23, near Gallatin, Missouri. He was operating a lawn mower on the grounds of the church’s Adam-ondi-Ahman historic site, riding the mower on a side hill when it overturned, according to the church.
Elder Blackburn has been serving with his wife, Sister Carolyn Blackburn, at the site since April 2025. They are from the Helper Utah Stake.
Had the Church employed professional groundskeepers that would not have happened. Instead they got a 68 year old man to used his own retirement time and money to do a job a professional should be doing, and now he is tragically dead.
Premise 1. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Premise 2. The best evidence for the Book of Mormon is eyewitness testimony.
Conclusion. Therefore, the best evidence for the Book of Mormon is notoriously unreliable.
Passing the buck. Whatever you might see as been prevalent, from your perspective, in the past doesn't excuse the Dean and Doctor or Reverend stuff that goes on here. Elitist, to say the very least.
Fibber,
Can you give us a few examples the Dean, Doctor or the Reverend's elitist behavior? Or, are you just fibbing yet once again?
"I'm on paid sabbatical from BYU in exchange for my promise to use this time to finish two books."
Elder Brent Blackburn, 68, died on Saturday, Aug. 23, near Gallatin, Missouri. He was operating a lawn mower on the grounds of the church’s Adam-ondi-Ahman historic site, riding the mower on a side hill when it overturned, according to the church.
Elder Blackburn has been serving with his wife, Sister Carolyn Blackburn, at the site since April 2025. They are from the Helper Utah Stake.
Had the Church employed professional groundskeepers that would not have happened. Instead they got a 68 year old man to used his own retirement time and money to do a job a professional should be doing, and now he is tragically dead.
Premise 1. Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
Premise 2. The best evidence for the Book of Mormon is eyewitness testimony.
Conclusion. Therefore, the best evidence for the Book of Mormon is notoriously unreliable.
I’m getting sick of MG dragging threads off topic. I’ve been reporting his off topic posts because I don’t believe he can regulate himself. I hope Shades deals with this problem, because it’s happening on every thread.
I think Hound did on the last page. I suppose I could just ignore some of the crap that is thrown my way. You would like that.
The report…Had the Church employed professional groundskeepers that would not have happened. Instead they got a 68 year old man to used his own retirement time and money to do a job a professional should be doing, and now he is tragically dead.
The report…Had the Church employed professional groundskeepers that would not have happened. Instead they got a 68 year old man to used his own retirement time and money to do a job a professional should be doing, and now he is tragically dead.
Life is cheap in the Mormon church, and labor is even cheaper. To frame it as an accident is an attempt to dodge accountability. I doubt this man had any training provided to him on how to operate such heavy machinery.
What happened wasn't a sad accident, but a failure that was entirely foreseeable and, therefore, entirely the responsibility of those in charge.
"I'm on paid sabbatical from BYU in exchange for my promise to use this time to finish two books."
Life is cheap in the Mormon church, and labor is even cheaper. To frame it as an accident is an attempt to dodge accountability. I doubt this man had any training provided to him on how to operate such heavy machinery.
What happened wasn't a sad accident, but a failure that was entirely foreseeable and, therefore, entirely the responsibility of those in charge.
Pointing fingers does not help. You have no idea what the background is in regard to this accident.
