Comments on: I’m cranky. http://joyunconfined.net/joyblog/2006/12/27/im-cranky-2/ "On with the dance! Let Joy be unconfined." Lord Byron Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:40:38 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joy http://joyunconfined.net/joyblog/2006/12/27/im-cranky-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1016 Joy Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:58:00 +0000 http://joyunconfined.net/joyblog/2006/12/27/im-cranky-2/#comment-1016 Whoa.<br /><br />Who the fuck are you? Get out of my blog. I don't know you. This isn't for people I don't know and haven't met. I don't like strangers. You may leave now. Or be polite and introduce yourself cordially. It's rude to leap into the personal emotional ramblings of a cranky person with a headache that you don't even know. Cultivate some manners.<br /><br />You don't even have a real blog. Did you create a profile just to get pissy with me? You have absolutely no information about me, who am I, or how I think. You are not qualified to comment on my personal thoughts and ramblings.<br /><br />And nowhere did I say Elizabeth Smart isn't an intelligent person. She was clearly very smart, and recognized her opportunity to end the nightmare when it presented itself. That means she's intelligent AND brave. Nowhere did I play down the nature of the asshole that kidnapped her. You will note I said I am NOT blaming her family. Or her. No question that blame for the crime lays squarely in THAT guy's fevered, fucked up brain. It is my personal conviction he should be killed.<br /><br />But have you ever been to Salt Lake City? Do you live there maybe? Do you know that to many people it's like some weird Stepford land where children walk down the street on the way home and are told by neighbors they're going to hell because they aren't Mormon? This actually happens. Do you know that sweet little Mormon girls there are taught all about chastity and being a virgin when they're married... so many of them, being naive or just not taught to think for themselves (or logically), engage in anal sex instead, because they honestly BELIEVE it's ok, because they're following the exact letter of what they're taught. They have no understanding of the true spirit and meaning of the standards they're supposed to uphold. They just do it because they're told. And they get surprised when the evil world slaps them in the face, AND they have no frame of reference to help them deal with people who aren't part of their happy little Utopia.<br /><br />It's a weird place. I'm not saying every Mormon is a weirdo. I have known many intelligent, normal, extremely successful, personable people who are Mormon. My speculation has dealt more with the fact that many Mormons are the way they are simply because somebody told them that's the way they should be, and they've never TRULY thought it through. And they pay lip service to beliefs they're told they should have, then blatantly defy them, and smile all the while, with their firm handshakes and their jaunty, cheery, upbeat attitudes, knowing they are SO much better than everyone else. <br /><br />My disdain isn't isn't reserved just for hypocrite Mormons. You see them in every religion.<br /><br />Additionally, there is not a person on this earth who has the right to tell ME anything about children being molested, or how at risk children are every hour of the day no matter who they're with. You've got some balls, pulling that stunt. Whoa.

Who the fuck are you? Get out of my blog. I don’t know you. This isn’t for people I don’t know and haven’t met. I don’t like strangers. You may leave now. Or be polite and introduce yourself cordially. It’s rude to leap into the personal emotional ramblings of a cranky person with a headache that you don’t even know. Cultivate some manners.

You don’t even have a real blog. Did you create a profile just to get pissy with me? You have absolutely no information about me, who am I, or how I think. You are not qualified to comment on my personal thoughts and ramblings.

And nowhere did I say Elizabeth Smart isn’t an intelligent person. She was clearly very smart, and recognized her opportunity to end the nightmare when it presented itself. That means she’s intelligent AND brave. Nowhere did I play down the nature of the asshole that kidnapped her. You will note I said I am NOT blaming her family. Or her. No question that blame for the crime lays squarely in THAT guy’s fevered, fucked up brain. It is my personal conviction he should be killed.

But have you ever been to Salt Lake City? Do you live there maybe? Do you know that to many people it’s like some weird Stepford land where children walk down the street on the way home and are told by neighbors they’re going to hell because they aren’t Mormon? This actually happens. Do you know that sweet little Mormon girls there are taught all about chastity and being a virgin when they’re married… so many of them, being naive or just not taught to think for themselves (or logically), engage in anal sex instead, because they honestly BELIEVE it’s ok, because they’re following the exact letter of what they’re taught. They have no understanding of the true spirit and meaning of the standards they’re supposed to uphold. They just do it because they’re told. And they get surprised when the evil world slaps them in the face, AND they have no frame of reference to help them deal with people who aren’t part of their happy little Utopia.

It’s a weird place. I’m not saying every Mormon is a weirdo. I have known many intelligent, normal, extremely successful, personable people who are Mormon. My speculation has dealt more with the fact that many Mormons are the way they are simply because somebody told them that’s the way they should be, and they’ve never TRULY thought it through. And they pay lip service to beliefs they’re told they should have, then blatantly defy them, and smile all the while, with their firm handshakes and their jaunty, cheery, upbeat attitudes, knowing they are SO much better than everyone else.

My disdain isn’t isn’t reserved just for hypocrite Mormons. You see them in every religion.

Additionally, there is not a person on this earth who has the right to tell ME anything about children being molested, or how at risk children are every hour of the day no matter who they’re with. You’ve got some balls, pulling that stunt.

]]> By: Lacee http://joyunconfined.net/joyblog/2006/12/27/im-cranky-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1015 Lacee Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:39:00 +0000 http://joyunconfined.net/joyblog/2006/12/27/im-cranky-2/#comment-1015 Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped with a knife at her throat. Mitchell threatened to kill her and her family-he told her he had followers watching her family's every move, and there are cults in Utah. She was old enough to know about them. How could she not have believed that he could kill her family when he'd kidnapped her, repeatedly raped her, repeatedly threatened to kill her and her family, abused her sexually, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and possibly physically, as well as neglected her and had her shackled to a tree with a wire cable for 2 months? She was terrified. Not all fourteen-year-olds are mature for their age. But you are insulting her intelligence if you think she believed that he was "God's Chosen" anything. No fourteen-year-old is THAT stupid. And while I agree that her parents were stupid about bringing strangers to their home, no one forced Mitchell to break into it and kidnap her. He had molested children before, back in the 1980's, and he had decided in 2000 that he wanted seven child brides. If he had not met the Smarts, sooner or later he would have kidnapped someone else's daughter. Then whose fault would it be? People should never put their kids at risk, but according to national statistics, most kids who are abducted are abducted by people they know, not strangers. Mitchell was a stranger who'd worked at the Smart's home for 3 hours ONE day. What do you do when you think you know your neighbors and best friends and then you find out they're child molesters? That's most often the case when children are molested. Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped with a knife at her throat. Mitchell threatened to kill her and her family-he told her he had followers watching her family’s every move, and there are cults in Utah. She was old enough to know about them. How could she not have believed that he could kill her family when he’d kidnapped her, repeatedly raped her, repeatedly threatened to kill her and her family, abused her sexually, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and possibly physically, as well as neglected her and had her shackled to a tree with a wire cable for 2 months? She was terrified. Not all fourteen-year-olds are mature for their age. But you are insulting her intelligence if you think she believed that he was “God’s Chosen” anything. No fourteen-year-old is THAT stupid. And while I agree that her parents were stupid about bringing strangers to their home, no one forced Mitchell to break into it and kidnap her. He had molested children before, back in the 1980′s, and he had decided in 2000 that he wanted seven child brides. If he had not met the Smarts, sooner or later he would have kidnapped someone else’s daughter. Then whose fault would it be? People should never put their kids at risk, but according to national statistics, most kids who are abducted are abducted by people they know, not strangers. Mitchell was a stranger who’d worked at the Smart’s home for 3 hours ONE day. What do you do when you think you know your neighbors and best friends and then you find out they’re child molesters? That’s most often the case when children are molested.

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