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General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: UtopiaGreen01 on August 22, 2008, 10:27:24 PM
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Is it just me, or is generally all Mormons mean spirited, angry people who criticize others? LOL (don't ban me).
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Goodness! Hmm. Pardon me, Utopia, but you sound like the critical one here. All in all, most of us seem to get along very well on these boards, Mormon or not. If you've read the facts (as you may have, given your plea of "don't ban me"), you'll see that we all try to show mutual respect for one another's beliefs and that many of the folks on these boards are Mormon. Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, all of the admins are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So we naturally encourage folks not to throw around negative generalizations about forum members for whatever reason.
Now, that said, if we Mormon TWGers truly were mean spirited, we might feel inclined to point out (quite gleefully) that your question bears some grammatical difficulties. For instance, "is" should be "are" and "generally" would work better after the words "all Mormons." Also, you need to hyphenate "mean spirited" because you're using it as an adjective for "people."
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Darn straight dude. All Mormons are jerks. It's like a requirement for when they get baptized. "Are you a jerk? Yes? Well, here you go...(splash)."
The other thing is that Mormons are required, as part of their newfangled 'religion,' to go to internet forums and mock people. Mercilessly.
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I don't know about all mormons being jerks, but are all jerks mormons? I think according to my college logic class the first part cannot be true and the second part could be true, and if it is true then there sure are a lot of mormons in the world. I am a jerk, sometimes, does that make me part mormon even if my mother was not? Please don't ban him, he is funny (well admin responses are) ;D
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This type of unfortunate generalization serves no purpose. You can find jerks anywhere, and just because you may have found one who is a Mormon doesn't prove anything about the majority of them.
If you have problems with anyone, take care of that on an individual basis, or as an old saying goes: Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I happen to have a problem with one Mormon genealogist who can't admit he made an unbelievably stupid mistake, but that shouldn't reflect on the good work being done by so many others.
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Obviously, Utopia must be a Mormon because only a mean spirited, angry person who critizes others would ask such a question. Although, it is possible that Utopia is simply a mean spirited, angry person who critizes others who is not a Mormon. In fact, he could be a rare species who is an angry person who critizes Mormons. Okay maybe that's not so rare or original :(. At least Utopia is not bitter.
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Yea, and I feel weird being part of this discussion, not being mormon nor really a fan of any organized religion for that matter. Although I do have to revise my previous post. All jerks cannot be Mormon because all generalizations are false, and Utopia proves that point. But I still vote to keep him, just so i can get a laugh even if it is shooting fish in a barrel. Of course, this is just what the flamebaiter is trying to do. Perhaps we should just lock them
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From my experience here on the boards maybe a better generalization to make is, are all Mormons Time wasters ;)?
And Utopia Green, does the LOL mean you are joking? I've never gotten the point of that particular acronym, and it sort of annoys me. It's kind of thing people just type when they don't know what else to say.
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I imagine any group of people would come off as mean-spirited to a person who runs around making these kind of stupid generalizations. In fact, if I were to use your logic, I could say that no Mormons are mean-spirited, angry or critical, as my only exposure to people of this faith hase been on this forum, and nobody on this forum has even shown a glimpse of that behavior. In simple terms, you fail.
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And Utopia Green, does the LOL mean you are joking? <snip> It's kind of thing people just type when they don't know what else to say.
no, silly, that's: Supercalifragilisticespialidocious
That's the thing to say when you don't know what to say :D
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I imagine any group of people would come off as mean-spirited to a person who runs around making these kind of stupid generalizations. In fact, if I were to use your logic, I could say that no Mormons are mean-spirited, angry or critical, as my only exposure to people of this faith hase been on this forum, and nobody on this forum has even shown a glimpse of that behavior. In simple terms, you fail.
you only say that because you haven't seen me and skar go at it.
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Indeed. But we've managed to avoid 'going at it' by mutual consent for quite some time now, so Comatose cannot be blamed. Pat yourself on the back old chap and I shall do the same.
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heh. Speaking as one who has seen Skar and SE have a go at each other on the boards, I have to admit they've both been quite well behaved for some time now. Besides, you two are a "special" case, in my opinion--an exception to the status quo, if you will. ;)
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Wow! I know in America we believe in free speech(pesky ammendments and all that) but I think you should have to pass some type of test to be granted that freedom. Utopia, the only info I have on you are the dozen or so posts on these boards but I'm pretty sure that you would have an epic fail in your future if there was such a test.
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Is it just me, or is generally all Mormons mean spirited, angry people who criticize others? LOL (don't ban me).
I need help choosing a response. Below are the first things I thought of, please vote on which I should go with.
A) Must be just you that is mean spirited angry people who criticize others.
B) Mormons, on the other hand, do have a low tolerance level for morons, which could explain your experience with them.
C) Look, not a single bit of anger. I must be losing my Mormonismness.
D) All of the above.
E) Other __________________________________________________
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I have been ticked off by a Mormon before. Its not a common occurrance, but I'm not easiliy ticked off either. I've been ticked off by far more non-Mormons than Mormons, though that could be a question of numbers. :D
Though, as a Mormon myself (and a human being), I'm sure I've ticked people off too
So, basically, Mormons are human and humans are quite capable of ticking off other humans from time to time. It happens, don't dwell on it. ;)
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Well, I'm not a Mormon (am Agnostic), but I haven't had any hostile encounters on this board with anyone yet (and I don't think I will :))
To be honest, I didn't know much about the Mormon religion until I served with a member of the LDS church when I was in the military. Him and I definitely had some awesome religious debates and he was more than kind enough to fill me in on my lack of knowledge about Mormonism. He even bought our division the Mormon for Dummies book, although I much rather preferred talking to him straight about it.
All in all, I think Mormonism is like all other religions in the sense that there's always some bad apples, but generally filled with nice people.
Just my two cents. :)
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I dunno have you ever met any Roman Catholics? I've lived with them and been one my whole life and I have to say when it comes to religion we tend to feel bad, its kinda based on the fact that we all sin all the time and we are always trying to ask forgiveness for it. I dunno, I've know a few Mormons in my time and they tend to be generally normal people with the same radical religion we all have. I say the same because they are all radically insane sometimes.
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Whereas this thread is already extremely politically incorrect I may as well put my two cents in on something else.
Mormon Missionaries = tolerable.
They will talk to you about other stuff if you ask them to not talk about religion, they chill out and talk about whatever else and can become something to look forward to every week.
Jahova's Witness Missionaries = uhm, yeah.
They DON'T let up and come back EVEN if you tell them you aren't interested. They basically REFUSE to talk anything other than religion.
So, whereas I'm not Mormon, you should all think about other things before you criticize just one. If you are going to criticize one, criticize them all.
Yes I understand this was semi-hypocritical, BUT I didn't want to make some complaint about EVERY religion in my little rant, just making the point that it should be "Does religion/or lack there of piss you off?" and not just specified to Mormons. I personally don't agree with the religion, but many of my friends are Mormon.