On another thread, Mr. Bond was kind enough to post this juicy tidbit from "The Wrong-Headed Wench":
juliann wrote:That is pretty much all they do there... last I looked anyway. A significant number of threads were about us. I don't like the obscenity and hatespeech there. I would never post there, yeck. But don't think of me as a target, think of me as an integral part of their emerging rituals. Perhaps it is their version of an altar call...or a sacrament of sorts where they all take a bite of our cyberflesh. Whatever it is, it is obviously critical to their sense of well being.
(emphasis added)
It turns out that I know for a fact, on account of my various "little birdies," that juliann has posted on this board. She may even have used multiple aliases, but I know for certain that she has shown up over here as "Mrs. Robbins." So, is she going to retract on MAD? Or just wallow in her de rigueur lies? Inquiring minds want to know!
She may even have used multiple aliases, but I know for certain that she has shown up over here as "Mrs. Robbins."
Hmmm...how is it that I missed the part of your post that should have said "But i wrongly accused Jersey Girl for posting over here as "Mrs. Robbins". Oh right, it wasn't there.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Yes, a few threads on MDB are devoted to apologetics, and hence also FAIR/MA&D, but is that obsession? Maybe a little, but let's compare to the "more good" foundation which devotes entire websites to ex-Mormon rivals.
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Gadianton wrote:Yes, a few threads on MDB are devoted to apologetics, and hence also FAIR/MA&D, but is that obsession? Maybe a little, but let's compare to the "more good" foundation which devotes entire websites to ex-Mormon rivals.
Why are the apologists so obsessed with ex-Mormons and so-called anti-Mormons? They devote their whole lives it seems to following what these folks do, talking about them, writing about them. They build up an apologetic orthodoxy that is quite separate from the doctrine of the LDS Church, and then defend it as though it were Church doctrine. In a sense, apologists are a distinct church within the LDS Church, and the ex/anti-Mo is the focus of just about everything they do!
Talk about obsession!
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Trevor wrote:They build up an apologetic orthodoxy that is quite separate from the doctrine of the LDS Church, and then defend it as though it were Church doctrine. In a sense, apologists are a distinct church within the LDS Church
I think that's nearly true, I do think there is some overlap however.
In the end though, I don't think the distinction matters because apologetics are like FPRs. Even if they don't coincide with the strictist interpretation of what constitutes doctrine, and thus can be dismissed as "just opinion" if they get too far afield, ultimately they serve the interest of The Church on some level or "the brethern" would be doing something about them.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
She may even have used multiple aliases, but I know for certain that she has shown up over here as "Mrs. Robbins."
Hmmm...how is it that I missed the part of your post that should have said "But I wrongly accused Jersey Girl for posting over here as "Mrs. Robbins". Oh right, it wasn't there.
Yeah... like you'd ever admit to being wrong yourself.
LOL
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