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ROTFLMFAO!! Kevin, you're KILLIN' me over here!!

Wait... you're above the rules?

Simon, my friend, there are NO rules in this place when it comes to me. Literally anything is permitted, and by anyone.

And, quite frankly, I prefer it that way.

??? Please quote me the rule that forbids people from finding things to be funny.

That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another.

Chill, Simon. Shades broke no rule.

You quoted KG's personal attacks against Will, then you encouraged him.

I just want to know what the standing it: harmony says "clean it up" but in this case, you seemed to encourage it.

Edit: I have no idea what thews just said, but there is also a reason I have him on ignore...

Because I love him so much.

Hey poser… latching onto the [Telestial comment deleted] that is Simon “the liar” Belmont isn’t going to help your cause. Your only purpose here is to attempt to build your absurd reverse engineered theories that somehow makes sense to brainwashed minds. If you could win a debate you’d enter it… epic fail on your part. You have nothing but false hope that people like Wade latch onto as it gives false hope that Mormonism is actually true when you know for a fact it’s false. How much did you get for your soul William? How much does God owe you for turning into an epic liar? …it all comes back around… karma… good luck with that poser.

William Schryver you are dead wrong! You don't know what you are talking about. You don't know all the rules of this board.

Isn't that right, Dr. Shades? Can I talk freely to William or am I constrained by rules that others don't have to abide? Do please set William boy straight. Otherwise, I'd love to say a few words -- it would give me utter pleasure.

Paul O

I am beginning to see how right you are. I had higher hopes for this place, but there is serious protectionism in place for critics only.

With all the bad behavior of you and Will and no suspensions, I think your statement carries no validity. Critics only have an advantage of numbers. Why don't you try some of those attacks you like to do around here on believers at Madb and see how long you last.

Wow, how low you have stooped! Should I start calling you Baby Simon instead of Young Simon? This board is so far superior to MA&D in its fair application of well-defined rules that you have absolutely no grounds for your bellyaching. We actually hold public discussions of the rules here. Will people find a way around rules? You bet, but things have improved because of the few rules we have and the very fair way they are enforced. It can't be helped that so few LDS people are able to tolerate a free discussion of their religion.

It is not that I necessarily blame them. They do, after all, hold their faith sacred and dear, but the apologists at least should have more guts. Why call yourself an apologist if you can't take the heat? No, the apologists generally can't take it. They go huddle around the hearth at MA&D, where the moderators make sure the fire never gets too hot, but is always just right for the baby apologists. I'll give the few apologists who come here one thing: you guys should be commended for your fortitude. It is only when you start whining like this that I question your virtus.

You're part of the problem. Enabling the critic protectionism.



Show me one public flogging of a critic here. I have received a few.



I can tolerate it. I cannot tolerate unfair rules.



In medio stat virtus, Kishkumen. Perhaps CAF would better serve my needs.

I ennable nothing. I am not a moderator. I am part of the community, and I daresay I have done a lot more to improve things here than Snotball Simon Belmont. Indeed, it was I who helped agitate for Universal Rule #7 in response to things that occurred in a disagreement I had with Doctor Scratch. It did not make me a popular guy, but I toughed it out. I just love how know-nothings like you cruise in full of a sense of their own righteousness and disdain for others, ready to tell others what to do and acting as they know the first thing about whom it is they address. You need some serious schooling, Baby Simon.



As have I, ignoramus. I have taken crap from apologists and critics. Really, what you are all about is an agenda to end criticism of Mormonism, which you view as entirely inappropriate. You want the world to be like the inside of the COB, where the GAs are treated like perfect gods and everyone rushes around to wipe their fannies for them without so much as a peep when a GA acts like a tool.

Sorry, Baby Simon. Outside of the corridors of LDS power, people do not cower and refuse to criticize. And it is all for the better. In fact, the Church owes its critics a hell of a lot. The critics do not allow Mormons to remain complacent, which they surely would do, if they were not challenged a little and prompted to reflect on what they do now and then. The critics are one of God's gifts to Mormonism. You are just too blinded by your Mopologetic agenda to realize that.



Sure you can. March right on over to MA&D and see how well you tolerate them. You'll be free of any of the rudeness you encounter here. Oh sure, rules will be selectively applied--applied in accordance with the whims of individual moderators and the celebrity of the participant--but you won't have to look at dirty words, naughty avatars, or unflattering depictions of your religion. My guess is that you'll do swimmingly, and I will lose what little respect I have for you.



Well, Baby Simon, virtus is not turning your tail and running when you see that the enemy is holding a gladius and not a wooden practice sword. You want to fight with wooden swords in a playpen where the LDS moderators swoop in to make sure that Spartacus doesn't bruise your pretty little face. Go ahead and run little boy, and we will lose all respect for you. Stay here and take your beating like a man, instead of whining about it, and we just may think you have something.

One man's witty criticism is another man's personal attack.

Universal Rule #8 says:

8. Moderators and administrators will follow the spirit of the law, not the letter of the law. Try to see things from their point of view.

Rule for the Terrestrial Forum #2 says:

2. No blatant or otherwise obvious personal attacks allowed.

Note that, unlike the equivalent rule for the Celestial Forum, it doesn't say "no personal attacks whatsoever." The operative words are "blatant" and "obvious."

Kevin's "attacks" were delivered with a great deal of flair and panache. They were also well within "PG" to "PG-13" caliber. So there's no reason they can't stay.