The Smackdown in Utah, or as The Ironic Priesthood has
titled it, A couple of weeks of civil bloggernacle discourse.
Here are some snippets, but for true theological scholars, nothing but the original text will suffice, of course. Pity it’s not written in Moroni‘s language.
John W. Redelfs wrote: How dare you malign Midgley? Don’t you understand that he is seeking to restore faith in the Lord’s one true church? What are you, apostate or, even worse, a Sunstone subscriber? I’m telling!
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Louis Midgley wrote: You are right, Roasted. I messed up with some of the Pry stuff. Also, I think that you display an unfortunate credulity when addressing Palmer’s Pry explanation. More importantly, you are obviously an apostate.
SerenityValley wrote: Hey, I know apostates, I’ve worked with apostates, and my husband, sir, is no apostate.
Daniel Peterson wrote: Hi, I’m the Zodiac Killer. Why won’t people ever listen to my arguments, instead always focusing on the blood on my hands? WWWWHHHHHYYYY?
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Clark Goble wrote: I think maybe we’re painting with too broad a brush. Ad Hominem isn’t always inappropriate. Humor and Satire can also be appropriate. That said, both can be abused. What do you think we could do to make sure our discourse is uplifting?
DKL wrote: You suck!
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John Fowles wrote: Are you all mad? Don’t you know that Nibley entered this life fully formed, emerging from a blooming lotus blossom on a still pool? Don’t you know John Gee descended to earth directly from heaven? Don’t you know that Richard Anderson didn’t die, but rather rode a chariot of fire into the sky? that Jack Welch is my father-in-law? that Daniel Peterson is Bel-Shamharoth, the Soul Eater? (Seriously, don’t cross that guy) They would never, ever, ever, ever, eva, sink to the level of anti-Mormons in terms of writing hateful prose and snarky asides, nuh uh. Matt Elggren, apologetics isn’t what you say it is.
Word!


Wait. the guy who played Oscar Goldman in “The Six Million Dollar Man” rode a chariot of fire into the sky?
Who’da thunk it?
You didn’t know that? Boy, have you got a lot of catching up to do.
Yeah. and to think I didn’t know Lindsay Wagner had gotten the sleepnumber gig either . . . wonder if she’s got the golden tablets too?
She’s always had strange powers…I wouldn’t put it past her.
I thought he was the guy from McGyver–now on Stargate, no?
But I always suspected there was something funny about Oscar Goldman. Perhaps it’s the exploding briefcase?
Good point, especially with that indocrintation camp she was passing off as a day care center in Ojai, Ca.
I’ll never forgive Oscar for what he did to Max.
Oscar was a self-serving government prick
Word. And didn’t he turn out to be an android, or was that only in the Sasquatch episodes?
Actually, Metro, that was Richard Dean Anderson who protrayed a much more free-thinking and adaptive sort of government prick that did Richard Anderson.
RDA also demonstrated that the $10 toilet seat was still as effective as the $500 goverment version.
Side note: Richard Anderson may have played a radioactive werewolf on “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” but I’d need to confirm that. Good scholarship is as important on the web as it is in academic life.
Yeah, right . . . .
FE–put down the bottle and back away from the terminal slowly. What a terrible thing to say!
Actually, I know my Richards. I watched The Six Million Dollar Man back in the day when six million could get you an arm and two legs.
Speaking of dicks, let’s not be too hard on government pricks, eh? Without them we’d be precious short on bloggable material. Not to mention Broccoli films.
My god! Kingsly Amis wrote a Bond novel!
They’re all so misogynistic, how could you tell?
Amok or Amuck?
Amok. That’s from the Malay word, which is the original. Apparently Malaysians do this from time to time, so they came up with a word for it.