[Vision2020] Doug Farris: Sad News

Thu Jan 4 08:46:28 PST 2007

Thank you Gary for providing cogent evidence that outrageous parody is still 
an effective device for directing and continuing attention.  As to the main 
message of the parody found at the end, time will tell which of our 
predictive outlooks is closer to reality.

However, I noticed two interesting omissions from your post:

1.    You fail to criticize your ideologue-mate Farris for his scatological 
references which have occurred at least twice, but have remarked upon mine 
in the past no matter how direct, indirect, or oblique.

2.    You have yet to respond with an opinion about Greg Dickison's chilling 
presentation of Christ Church dicta referred to in the parody.  When it was 
first presented to you V 2020, you indicated that you might express an 
opinion after you made some inquires.  Have you made those inquires?  Are 
you going to give us the benefit of your opinion thereupon?  Or is a direct 
threat to most of the world's population a matter too trivial for your 
attention?

You are to be complimented, however, that you, unlike apparently some 
others, recognized the post you beleaguer as parody.  Parody is sometimes 
sharp, scandalous, profane, and skewering and when so certainly so not to 
everyone's taste.  [For a legal opinion and an interesting discussion of 
parody See Hustler Magazine, Inc. et al. v. Jerry Falwell  485 U.S. 46 
(1988) http://laws.findlaw.com/us/485/46.html, an United States Supreme 
Court case.]

Since the parody at issue is part of a long running exchange on Vision 2020, 
an exchange which includes much vitriol on all sides, anyone who would take 
the parody or its title, given the author, as being the literal truth 
perhaps needs to reassess their overall interpretive abilities.  Those 
offended are certainly entitled to their taste preferences, a matter over 
which I have no control nor any desire to compel.

Just so that you don't misunderstand the words above:  I read your's and 
other's disapprobation.  However, if you or they await an apology, you best 
expend that time, likely to be of long duration, at your plying your 
occupational craft, one at least at which you are quite competent.

Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "g. crabtree" <jampot at adelphia.net>
To: "Art Deco" <deco at moscow.com>; "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Doug Farris: Sad News

> If by "get it" you mean come around to your obsessive and increasingly 
> shrill point of view, you're probably right. (barring the unfortunate 
> ravages of  presenile dementia) As to understanding the last sentence of 
> your macabre post, I'm fairly sure that it was the part which most folks 
> understood the best and objected to the most. Crackpot Cassandra and 
> caustically creepy go hand in glove, sir.
>
> g
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Art Deco" <deco at moscow.com>
> To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 4:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Doug Farris: Sad News
>
>
>> For those that pay closer attention when reading and are familiar with 
>> the
>> literary device of indirect reference:
>>
>> There is a warning in the post, unpopular with some, below.  It is a 
>> warning
>> about a real threat that exists, but that threat does not come from or 
>> refer
>> to me in any way.
>>
>>
>> If you still do not understand the last sentence of the post at issue, 
>> here
>> are two hints:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
>>
>> If you still don't get it, as I suspect Gary Crabtree and Kerry Becker 
>> never
>> will, I can repost Greg Dickison's chilling Christ Church dicta published 
>> in
>> Credenda Agenda under the urgings of which almost all the world's 
>> population
>> would be put to death.
>>
>> W.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Andreas Schou" <ophite at gmail.com>
>> To: "Art Deco" <deco at moscow.com>
>> Cc: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 1:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Doug Farris: Sad News
>>
>>
>>> Wayne --
>>>
>>> Seriously, dude. You've got a Ph.D. I thought you were maybe a little
>>> more mature than this. Not to mention the fact that it's vaguely
>>> threatening.
>>>
>>> -- ACS
>>>
>>> On 1/3/07, Art Deco <deco at moscow.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some very sad news to report about Doug Farris:
>>>>
>>>> His brain surgery, unfortunately, was not a success.  In fact, it left
>>>> poor
>>>> Farris even more incapacitated.  While witlessly wandering on Moscow
>>>> Mountain one evening, Doug met a tragic fate symbolized by:
>>>>
>>>> http://users.moscow.com/waf/images/V%202000/Doug%20Farris%20Ingested%20%20R.I.P.jpg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One positive note, however, is that through the normal processes of
>>>> nature,
>>>> parts of Farris were egested and distributed by his ingestor.  Thus,
>>>> parts
>>>> of Farris became part of:
>>>>
>>>> http://users.moscow.com/waf/images/V%202000/Parts%20of%20Doug%20Farris%20Recycled.jpg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Those few scant remains that were recovered by a search party were
>>>> shipped
>>>> and processed (becoming diesel fuel) at:
>>>>
>>>> http://users.moscow.com/waf/images/V%202000/Rendering%20Plant.jpg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A lesson to be learned from this dreadful incident, especially for
>>>> members
>>>> of the cult which he lovingly but mindlessly belonged:  The ovine 
>>>> ought,
>>>> at
>>>> all times, be extremely wary of self-absorbed, proficient, stealthy
>>>> predators without conscience, else they suffer a fate symbolically not
>>>> unlike the naive, puerile Farris (R.I.P).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
>>>> deco at moscow.com
>>>>
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