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mdijon
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After your plagiarized post and sermon hell call, with your total failure to accept any wrongdoing and pathetic bluster all the way through it, and your appalling treatment of the Iranian pastor's trial and imprisonment, I thought I could not possibly hold you in any lower esteem, and resolved to scroll past all future posts.
Unfortunately you seem to hit newly provocative heights of pomposity and arrogance. I think it is your complete failure to engage, lack of insight, and self-belief coupled with your appalling manners that seems quite olympic in virtuosity.
Climb the podium, proud chest puffed out, let the band strike up leostan's national anthem "Leo save our God" and receive your gold.
I don't think there were many other contenders by the way.
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Niteowl
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The true definition of arseholerism. Leo is truly an expert in it. The posts referred to are over the top in arrogance and truly insulting.
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RuthW
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Thanks, mdijon.
It's not that I think my opinion on Romans 13 is the last word on the matter, but that leo so often writes as if he has something to teach everyone and we should all draw up to be instructed and inspired.
I know, I know, I too should just scroll past his posts. And mostly I do. "Mostly" is of course not good enough, and outside of this thread I have every intention of mending my ways.
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Hell Host happily pulls up chair, grabs the popcorn and a cold brew and awaits...
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Leaves me happily wondering what Leo would do with Romans 1, 18-32. That could be another beer and popcorn moment.
PD
[ 10. August 2012, 00:20: Message edited by: PD ]
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Leo thinks he can lecture Ruth on how to read the Bible? Wow, it's the Dunning Kruger effect in action again! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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For all of you who skip over leo's posts, I have one question for you: why do you pass up on such entertaining examples of ignorance, bluster, and self-rightious stupidity? I mean, sure, it's annoying as fuck if you happen to be in a serious discussion (which, really, why would you do that on a discussion board?), but if he's the last poster on a thread, I'll sometimes click on it in the hopes it's something truly and mind-blowingly pompous and delusional.
I can't say I'm often disappointed. I mean, leo getting called to Hell is getting a bit predictable (seriously, can we just set up a permanent "leo's a gobshite" thread already and just bump it every time someone calls him down here? It'll never fall to page three), but it's always richly deserved.
Pass the chile-dusted popcorn and Mousethief coolers. It's been a long day, and we've got our favorite chew toy back in Hell.
[ 10. August 2012, 01:48: Message edited by: AristonAstuanax ]
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Originally posted by Louise:
Leo thinks he can lecture Ruth on how to read the Bible? Wow, it's the Dunning Kruger effect in action again!
Thank you, Louise. I will remember that!
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Oh dear. It's the Pot & Kettle Show again. ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Sir Pellinore (ret'd):
Oh dear. It's the Pot & Kettle Show again.
Which one are you?
[ 10. August 2012, 05:45: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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Originally posted by Firenze:
quote:
Originally posted by Sir Pellinore (ret'd):
Oh dear. It's the Pot & Kettle Show again.
Which one are you?
I think Sir P. is the stove.
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Evensong
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Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
Pass the chile-dusted popcorn and Mousethief coolers. It's been a long day, and we've got our favorite chew toy back in Hell.
Oh I dunno.
The ship seems to be turning in on itself. Johnny S, Shamwari, Giant Cheesburger, Moo, EE are on hell calls - none of whom are particularly hellworthy denizens IMO.
This is the trouble with little fresh meat around (except (S)pike Couchant perhaps?). The natives get restless.
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mdijon
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Pellinore (ret'd):
Oh dear. It's the Pot & Kettle Show again.
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Which one are you?
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
I think Sir P. is the stove.
Or the stuffed turkey.
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Leo was right about the original issue. And I'm not really sure that he was being any more arrogant than the subsequent replies.
Still, there we are.
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Sir Pellinore
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quote:
Originally posted by mdijon:
...Or the stuffed turkey.
But you've been stuffed for years, old sausage.
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Niteowl
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quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
Oh I dunno.
The ship seems to be turning in on itself. Johnny S, Shamwari, Giant Cheesburger, Moo, EE are on hell calls - none of whom are particularly hellworthy denizens IMO.
This is the trouble with little fresh meat around (except (S)pike Couchant perhaps?). The natives get restless.
You forget that one of the other purposes of hell is to be able to say things to other shipmates that commandments prohibit you from saying on the other boards. Not worth it if it's a single post you're responding to, but if the shipmate is an arsehole multiple times in a thread or across multiple threads quite acceptable. Of course, you also open yourself up to other shipmates making you the target instead of your intended target.
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It's the attitude to the Pastor Nadarkhani that really stinks IMO.
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Sir Pellinore
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Originally posted by Firenze:
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Originally posted by Sir Pellinore (ret'd):
Oh dear. It's the Pot & Kettle Show again.
Which one are you?
How absolutely twee of you.
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Originally posted by Niteowl2:
You forget that one of the other purposes of hell is to be able to say things to other shipmates that commandments prohibit you from saying on the other boards.
Bingo. Got it in one. Hell calls mean nothing more than that - they're not some kind of special opprobrium reserved for only the most leotarded fuckwits on the Ship.
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
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Originally posted by RuthW:
Thanks, mdijon.
It's not that I think my opinion on Romans 13 is the last word on the matter, but that leo so often writes as if he has something to teach everyone and we should all draw up to be instructed and inspired.
I know, I know, I too should just scroll past his posts. And mostly I do. "Mostly" is of course not good enough, and outside of this thread I have every intention of mending my ways.
I scroll past his posts – and only really notice them when a piece of particularly hideous coding draws my attention. But, as any fule know, coding is beneath Leo. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
He seems incapable of understanding that he’s not teaching O and A Level students now and that some of the people he’s talking to know far more about the subject under discussion than he does.
OTH, how could that be?! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) Leo knows everything about anything and we should be grateful the opportunity to bask in his wisdom. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Originally posted by Divine Outlaw Dwarf:
Leo was right about the original issue. And I'm not really sure that he was being any more arrogant than the subsequent replies.
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Ruth said she thought Romans 13 was "one of the biggest pieces of bullshit in there". leo suggested she read it in the context of ch12. Ruth replied that she had in the context of the whole book and stood by her post. leo pressed the issue, still suggesting that she hadn't read it properly, that she should read it again and that, if she didn't, she'd be scared of changing her mind.
How were leo's actions not arrogant? Why does he have the right to say Ruth wasn't reading it properly, just because he disagreed with her opinion of the chapter in question? What right did he have to suggest that she was scared of changing her mind, when she'd already made clear she'd read and was familiar with the passage?
And why is it more arrogant for Ruth to say she still held her opinion of Romans 13, than for leo to imply she hadn't read it properly and she had to change - just because she disagreed with him?
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Divine Outlaw
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Look, that Romans 12-3 constitutes a literary unit, and that once this is taken on board the import of Romans 13:1 looks very different is hardly a Leonine invention. Look, say, at Borg and Crossan's recent book on Paul for an accessible case to this end by NT scholars. I happen to agree with Leo (and Borg and Crossan). I also don't think he came across as much worse than anyone else on that thread. That's all.
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Evensong
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Originally posted by Niteowl2:
You forget that one of the other purposes of hell is to be able to say things to other shipmates that commandments prohibit you from saying on the other boards.
No I didn't forget.
People just get more annoyed with people they are familiar with when they have no new drama to distract them or take out their frustrations on.
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Stejjie
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quote:
Originally posted by Divine Outlaw Dwarf:
Look, that Romans 12-3 constitutes a literary unit, and that once this is taken on board the import of Romans 13:1 looks very different is hardly a Leonine invention. Look, say, at Borg and Crossan's recent book on Paul for an accessible case to this end by NT scholars. I happen to agree with Leo (and Borg and Crossan). I also don't think he came across as much worse than anyone else on that thread. That's all.
I didn't question any of that and I don't think Ruth did, either. Which is why (to me, at any rate) leo's posts came across as arrogant as they suggested that Ruth's reading was "wrong" because she didn't share the same opinion of the passage as him and that if she'd only read them the right way, she'd change her mind.
The implication seemed to be that if she didn't agree with leo, she was reading it wrong - it couldn't possibly be that her opinion of the passage was different...
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mdijon
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Exactly. It was at "read it again" that particularly took the biscuit for me.
If you want to show someone that they're reading Romans 13 wrong, then you need to explain as you would to an adult on equal terms, not order them to have another go.
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Niteowl
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quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
quote:
Originally posted by Niteowl2:
You forget that one of the other purposes of hell is to be able to say things to other shipmates that commandments prohibit you from saying on the other boards.
No I didn't forget.
People just get more annoyed with people they are familiar with when they have no new drama to distract them or take out their frustrations on.
Nah, they just occasionally need to say things to people who annoy them. They'd need to say those things even if there were another circus of a thread going on. This is the place to do that. There are times when there are multiple hell calls and times when there are none. It's also not surprising there are people on the ship who just plain don't like each other and some who seem to be universally annoying. Doesn't mean the ship is turning on itself, just means we're a normal group of people.
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Evensong
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Originally posted by Niteowl2:
Nah, they just occasionally need to say things to people who annoy them.
True
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Originally posted by Niteowl2:
They'd need to say those things even if there were another circus of a thread going on.
Need to yes. Would they tho? No. Less likely to.
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Niteowl
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Originally posted by Evensong:
quote:
Originally posted by Niteowl2:
They'd need to say those things evehttp://forum.ship-of-fools.com/cgi-bin2/index.cgin if there were another circus of a thread going on.
Need to yes. Would they tho? No. Less likely to.
Really? I think they would, though I admit the circus threads would get far more posts/participation. When this is the only place you get to say what you want to people who piss you off or really annoy you, those posts will be made, whether there is a great amount of participation or not. With as many hell calls as there are now they've all been pretty much active threads, not just one or two really active ones. Leo's threads are always "popular" due to his posting style, but even the thread for the popular and respected Moo got pages of action, albeit a few people contributed most of the posts.
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mdijon
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Originally posted by mdijon:
...Or the stuffed turkey.
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Originally posted by Sir Pellinore (ret'd):
But you've been stuffed for years, old sausage.
That's your come back? What a cheeky chipolata, a formidable feisty Frankfurter you are with your sharp salami-slicing and eviscerating voivodes of a response.
I don't know why I bother.
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
OTH, how could that be?! Leo knows everything about anything and we should be grateful the opportunity to bask in his wisdom.
Tubbs
Don't forget all the books he has read. Three at a time, no doubt.
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Niteowl
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quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
quote:
Originally posted by Tubbs:
OTH, how could that be?! Leo knows everything about anything and we should be grateful the opportunity to bask in his wisdom.
Tubbs
Don't forget all the books he has read. Three at a time, no doubt.
While simultaneously writing the reviews for those books.
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mdijon
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Chorister, you can't possibly be sarcastic like that on a hell thread. Think of your reputation.
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Originally posted by Evensong:
He is well read.
And writes almost as well as he reads. In fact, almost identically as well as he reads.
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
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Originally posted by mdijon:
Chorister, you can't possibly be sarcastic like that on a hell thread. Think of your reputation.
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Originally posted by Evensong:
He is well read.
And writes almost as well as he reads. In fact, almost identically as well as he reads.
Snorts
Assuming he does open the book rather than look at the dust cover and then pop them on the book shelves so others can see them and think he’s smart. For someone who’s widely read, his book recommendations on the Ship aren’t exactly informative. I can blather on about my favourite books for hours … And have done. Much to everyone else’s delight I’m sure. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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It's okay Tubbs, we love you anyway...
...even if you do pull rank in restaurants!
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Originally posted by Niteowl2:
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Don't forget all the books he has read. Three at a time, no doubt.
While simultaneously writing the reviews for those books.
I guess that would explain why he never seems to have time to write a book review that actually tells us anything about the book...
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Tubbs
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
It's okay Tubbs, we love you anyway...
...even if you do pull rank in restaurants!
Doesn't count when the rank pulling is part of an attempt to buy someone beer or similar. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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You can pull that kind of rank on me any time!
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I've met leo IRL and he certainly isn't a bit like people on this thread are portraying him. I think his posting style can often be insensitive to context and he can miss the subtleties in others' tone. He also tends to respond without always checking his facts, and he can be dogmatic about all sorts of things from NT criticism to the colours of vestments. But on the Ship's jerkometer he comes well down the scale IMHO.
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RuthW
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Originally posted by Angloid:
I've met leo IRL and he certainly isn't a bit like people on this thread are portraying him.
As I'm sitting here in southern California and will never meet leo or you in real life, my opinion of his character rests solely on how he comports himself on these boards. So I think he's an assclown.
quote:
Originally posted by Divine Outlaw Dwarf:
Leo was right about the original issue. And I'm not really sure that he was being any more arrogant than the subsequent replies.
Yes, I replied in kind. Because even if I hadn't learned in childhood to read things in context, I wouldn't take instruction from leo, whose demonstration of reading comprehension on these boards isn't very much higher than a tree frog's.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I find myself agreeing with RuthW above.
Plus no-one can read as many books as he claims. Dust jackets are another matter. Reviews that read as if they were lifted completely from a dust jacket are another.
The same goes for his sermons. He is incapable of original thought and is incapable of attributing the thoughts of others.
Although I do go to UK sometimes, he is definitely not on my must-see list.
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sebby
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
Thanks, mdijon.
It's not that I think my opinion on Romans 13 is the last word on the matter, but that leo so often writes as if he has something to teach everyone and we should all draw up to be instructed and inspired.
I know, I know, I too should just scroll past his posts. And mostly I do. "Mostly" is of course not good enough, and outside of this thread I have every intention of mending my ways.
I scroll past his posts – and only really notice them when a piece of particularly hideous coding draws my attention. But, as any fule know, coding is beneath Leo.
He seems incapable of understanding that he’s not teaching O and A Level students now and that some of the people he’s talking to know far more about the subject under discussion than he does.
OTH, how could that be?! Leo knows everything about anything and we should be grateful the opportunity to bask in his wisdom.
Tubbs
In defence of Leo I would never scroll past his posts. Whether one agress with him or not. I think he might be just a little bit bright.
Romans 13 however is well worth scrolling past - Professor Raymond Brown, the New Testament scholar used to remark that St Paul might have been rather more guarded had he thought even for a moment that what he wrote would have been read 2000 years later.
And in his denunciations about women - scroll past - it is a pity we dont have their replies in the NT as well.
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Originally posted by Evensong:
He is well read.
Just acts like a grumpy old man sometimes in his impatience with others.
Have you read any of the books he's purported to read? I have read enough to know I don't recognise the book I've read from what he's saying.
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It's possible that somewhere there is a thread where leo is contributing posts with more than three sentences. It hasn't come up on my screen lately, but I don't read every single thread the way the hosts do.
What I've noticed lately is that he will post one or two sentences on a thread with a very involved subject and seem to expect that to end discussion--everyone should just go "OH! Thanks, leo, we didn't know that--now we understand everything perfectly". Threads don't work that way--if you're going to contribute to a serious thread (beyond asking for clarification) you need to spend some time with your post.
I'm not against one-liners (I've indulged in them myself a few times, and I usually enjoy mousethief's witty ripostes). They should be germane to something in the thread, however, and they really ought to be amusing if they are going to avoid the ire of the hosts. I'm not certain leo has ever tried to be amusing--I'm quite certain he's not succeeding now.
You can add me to the list of those who don't really care if he's a lovely person in the flesh, because it is most unlikely I will ever have the opportunity to interact with him in that manner. When you are on an internet bulletin board, your behaviour on the internet is all that matters.
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Spike
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
But, as any fule know, coding is beneath Leo.
As is posting in Hell, which is why we won't see him here any time soon.
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Sine Nomine
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('Sometimes there's God so quickly' as Tennessee Williams had Blanche DuBois say in a somewhat different context.)
[ 10. August 2012, 17:22: Message edited by: Sine Nomine ]
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That was a bit more climactic though.
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