[Vision2020] Doug Farris: Sad News

Andreas Schou ophite at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 09:27:35 PST 2007 

Wayne --

You've written a piece of vaguely threatening, juvenile nonsense and
expect anybody to respond to it as though you've written a scholarly
article? You crossed a line. A fairly serious one. Gloating about
someone's fictionalized death is, frankly, pretty bizarre behavior,
not that, frankly, you haven't been prone to that since you started
posting repetitive, multi-coloured screeds about the KKKASH KKKULT.

Seriously. Calm down.

-- ACS

On 1/4/07, Art Deco <deco at moscow.com> wrote:
> 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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