Comments on: Big Love

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:05:16 +0000

Only if Bill is being tracked by the Neilsen rating service.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:48:21 +0000

It made you watch it, and that’s one more viewer to beef up stats.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:11:45 +0000

I received the email and decided that I should see what the show was before I start sending letters with my name on it. The show I saw did not mention the Church. You could tell it was in Salt Lake since I have been there numerous times. I doubt the show will last very long unless it gets a lot of people sending emails about it. Maybe someone connect with the show started the email?

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:55:34 +0000

As to first paragraph: I already said it’s not just your viewpoint. The fact that some others share your viewpoint doesn’t mean the writers of these letters should be forced to accept your viewpoint. Those who hold the opposite viewpoint are a pretty impressive bunch, as well.

As to the second paragraph: As a matter of fact, I am pretty cranky today, and I am aware that it’s showing. So I suppose I should apologize.

Sorry.

It’s not about the wrong side of the bed, though. I think it has more to do with a certain cowardly, egotistical, narcissistic, troll I’ve been engaging with on Jeff Lindsay’s Mormanity blog, who formerly identified itself as “Radicalfeministpoet” and is now just operating (quite transparently) as anonymous.

I realize it’s not fair to get pissy with a whole other group of people because of this, so again, let me apologize.

Sorry.

By: Northerner

Northerner — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:51:33 +0000

What makes this so ironic is that we object when others deny us the label “Christian.” And now the tables are turned and some of us seem to want to deny others the label “Mormon.” Sorry, but the fundamentalists as followers of Joseph Smith’s teachings have just as much right to the term as we mainstreamers do!

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:31:00 +0000

It’s not just my viewpoint. It’s also the viewpoint of many historians, educators and even some other churches descended from Joseph Smith.

Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, by the way?

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:07:47 +0000

All you show is that someone else agrees with your broad use. So what? Now we know that some people (including Kim Siever) advocate a broad use of the term “Mormon” and that others (such as the Associated Press and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) advocate a narrow use that prevents confusion. That doesn’t mean the people writing these letters should be forced to adopt your viewpoint rather than that of the AP and the Church.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:50:11 +0000

Exactly. And that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doesn’t have a monopoly on the term.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:20:26 +0000

Why should I see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon? So I can see that some people use a broader definition of Mormon, just like you?

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:42:29 +0000

ltbugaf,

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon