What to do with an errant James Boswell II

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  • In all honesty, I'm no longer reading this vicious crap (so if you want to give me any serious advice, better do it on the threads)
    --but I did happen to see Bishop Index Finger's last one.

    Yeah, my lack of humor is pretty obvious:
    _______________

    Rublev said:
    If the NT had a Hell thread: What would the Corinthians say? What would Pilate say? And what about Judas?
    --There's a gap in the market. We need some Christian midrash.

    James Boswell II said:
    "What would Pilate say? And what about Judas?"
    --Well, I guess Judas could finally set us straight on whether he hanged himself or fell forward and burst open. :wink:

    Rublev said:
    There are plenty of writers on board the Ship. We could have a competition to write the best NT hell thread / midrash / pseudonymous letter.

    James said:
    I doubt if anyone could come up with a gospel much better than The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which should have been titled The Gospel of Jesus the Divine Spoiled Brat.

    Rublev said:
    The clay birds that came to life are a nice touch though, aren't they?

    James said:
    Yeah, one clap of the brat's hands and the evidence the elders could have used against him for making graven images on the Sabbath just got up and flew away!
    --Also, his stretching of the too short wooden board to make it the same length as a longer one was a nice touch. Joseph liked that.
    --By the way, when the boy kept striking playmates dead and teachers blind, Joseph once grabbed him by the ear lobe in protest. Damned if I would have grabbed him by anything!

    Rublev said:
    Sounds like you have a winner in the Apocryphal Gospel category. Closely followed by The Acts of Paul and Thecla...

    James said:
    I don't know anything about the Acts of Paul and Thecla. I hope they kept it clean.
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    HILARIOUS! HILARIOUS! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!

    Thanks, Mom.

    Jesus wept - you take except to that??? :lol:
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    It's not only Our Blessed Lord who's weeping, I can assure you of that.
    :cry:

    (BTW - I don't think the Professor realises that, in the UK at least, it's usually - though not invariably - the middle finger that is raised in insult, rather than the index finger...)
  • It’s the middle finger in the States, too.
  • O I see - so Professor Mucho Pomposo doesn't even seem able to get his insults right...
    :smile:
  • The H&A are doing their normal wonderful job in trying to keep serious discussion going on the 101 Errant threads. I can't believe they want to do so, which is why I'm so impressed.
  • Me too.
  • BTW, where's the banging-your-head-against-a-brick-wall emoji when you need it?

    The Professor, over on Another Thread, keeps accusing me of dictating to him, when all I'm doing is politely asking him for his opinion, on various (interesting) questions he keeps raising.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the sharing of thoughts, and opinions, on various themes, the purpose of these boards? Or am I missing something?
    :rage:
  • You are doing wonders, remaining calm on that thread.
  • Thank you. The trouble is that, being of rather limited mobility these days, I have too much (interweb) time on my hands!

    My late Mother (RIPARIG) was a mistress of Icy Sarcasm, which talent (?) I have inherited, but, for fear of the H&As, and their Power, I refrain from using, even here in the Hot Place...
    :innocent:
  • Is he allowed to keep posting the same quote and question over and over? Sheesh.
  • Three times, so far. I'm not rising to the bait!

    If enough peeps simply scroll on by, he'll get the message. Eventually.
  • I know that’s the theory, but I’ve yet to see it work in practice.
  • Hmm, yes - I agree that I'm not exactly helping!

    BTW, he's now sulkily refusing to engage with me at all, as I didn't say 'Thank you' for an answer he's posted on two threads. I did reply to one of them, but failed to notice the duplicate, hence the reproach. Ah well.

    He's unravelling fast.
  • ECraigRECraigR Castaway
    edited September 2019
    Well you’re an obscurantist, although I fail to see how that’s related to the questions you ask.

    Do make sure to thank Master for his insights, otherwise He may stop supplying them.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    I will - but I doubt if The Master will take me seriously...

    So far, he's called me a flippant, raging, wolf-in-sheep's-clothing, obscurantist, smart Alec (plus a few more opprobrious epithets I've forgotten), which is not bad going.
    :grin:
  • So far, he's called me a flippant, raging, wolf-in-sheep's-clothing, obscurantist, smart Alec (plus a few more opprobrious epithets I've forgotten), which is not bad going. :grin:
    But you are all of those things. Not saying that's bad.
  • Really, Bishop's Finger, mousethief is right. Accept those things lovingly. I hope the Professor doesn't mean you're raging in a effeminate way?! Unless...of course, you WANT to. :-)
  • OMG he's repeating the same question over and over, then getting his nose in a snit if someone asks him what HIS answer is. Apparently what's good for the goose is NOT good for the drake. Fucking hypocrite.
  • The word "vicious" can apply to things done bluntly and directly. It can also be used for a death by a thousand cuts.

    JB-II would mind put his snicker-snacker away, stop cutting, and post as he's been kindly advised. I do have the feeling that he may feel that he's better and superior than many of us, has a peculiar asociality about him which fails to appreciate how he's perceived, doesn't care, or some combination.
  • The5thMary wrote: »
    Really, Bishop's Finger, mousethief is right. Accept those things lovingly. I hope the Professor doesn't mean you're raging in a effeminate way?! Unless...of course, you WANT to. :-)

    No, I think he meant in a vicious way, as he accuses me of purveying 'vicious crap' on this thread...

    But yes, all the opprobrious epithets are true, as my fellow-classmate mr. @mousethief observes.

    I. Am. So. PROUD.
    :grin:

  • @5th Mary
    So nice of you to provide us with an opinion.

    Holy fuck can he possibly be so stupid as not to see how condescending this is?
  • I can’t tell if he really can’t see how condescending and patronizing he comes off or if he just doesn’t care. But it has become clear to me that however much he says he wants “serious discussion,” all he really wants is for everyone to acknowledge how right he is, and how many brilliant perspectives he has to offer.

    Well, those things and to buy his book.

    Bless his heart.
  • Dang.

    I want me some opprobrious epithets.

    But I don't want to pay the price of participating on those threads.

    Decisions, decisions...
  • He's written a book?
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    He's written a book?
    Late to the party, are you?

    Assuming you’re not being facetious—I know, I shouldn’t assume—his first suspension from the Ship (of 2 in the less than 3 months since he first boarded) was for persisting in plugging his book. His avatar is the cover of his book. More can be learned from his early posts, such as here or here.
  • He's written a book?

    Oh, God, Robert Armin, don't post that! He'll read it as an invitation to fly down and start advertising here (which, frankly, is what I suspect he imagines he's doing in all those other errancies.

    It might even work if only the poor fool could write. And had something worthwhile to say. And some notion of what others might want to read. And a "voice" others could tolerate listening to.

    Anybody want to lay bets that this poor guy has self-published at some vanity press and now has a garage-full of stacks and stacks of books he's invested his retirement fund in and his wife is urging him to get rid of before winter comes and they need to get the family car under cover?

  • Ohher wrote: »
    He's written a book?
    Anybody want to lay bets that this poor guy has self-published at some vanity press and now has a garage-full of stacks and stacks of books he's invested his retirement fund in and his wife is urging him to get rid of before winter comes and they need to get the family car under cover?
    Well, Amazon confirms the self-published part.
  • Dang.

    I want me some opprobrious epithets.

    But I don't want to pay the price of participating on those threads.

    Decisions, decisions...

    :lol: The epithets are Mine. We likes them, Preciouss, yesss...
    Ohher wrote: »
    He's written a book?

    Oh, God, Robert Armin, don't post that! He'll read it as an invitation to fly down and start advertising here (which, frankly, is what I suspect he imagines he's doing in all those other errancies.

    It might even work if only the poor fool could write. And had something worthwhile to say. And some notion of what others might want to read. And a "voice" others could tolerate listening to.

    Anybody want to lay bets that this poor guy has self-published at some vanity press and now has a garage-full of stacks and stacks of books he's invested his retirement fund in and his wife is urging him to get rid of before winter comes and they need to get the family car under cover?

    Another :lol:

    He's currently promising to 'take up [a] challenge' he perceives to be emanating from an obviously No-Fool-N00B, so I await Interesting Developments.
    :wink:
  • He's currently promising to 'take up [a] challenge' he perceives to be emanating from an obviously No-Fool-N00B, so I await Interesting Developments.
    :wink:
    You mean this?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    No, not that one (from which ISTM he's pushing his bloody book again...), though poor Blahblah is the one to whom he is addressing himself.

    I've lost the 'challenge' post now - wading through the errant verbiage is like wading through treacle...
    :scream:
  • I'm still finding my feet around here. But I do see that maybe I made a mistake in posting onto a topic which doesn't really interest me.

    Which is to say that it is interesting on the level of "why on earth is anyone wasting their time asserting that this unprovable assertion must be true" when it seems clear that there are an enormous number of unknown factors and unknown author/actors who could have impacted upon the historical document we have.

    But I don't actually care very much about the substance.

    Again, perhaps in retrospect it was a mistake to post my thoughts on the first when I've no interest in the second.
  • I honestly had no idea he'd written a book. I've only recently had the pleasure of making JB2's acquaintance.
  • No, no - you make some very pertinent remarks, cutting to the chase, as it were. So welcome to The Class of 2019!

    You are clearly Nobody's Fool when it comes to observing that ProfessorEmperor James Boswell II has no clothes...
    :wink:

    (FWIW, there are probably quite a few Shipmates who share your views, so stick around, engage, question, discuss, and enjoy!)
  • No, not that one (from which ISTM he's pushing his bloody book again...), though poor Blahblah is the one to whom he is addressing himself.

    I've lost the 'challenge' post now - wading through the errant verbiage is like wading through treacle...
    :scream:
    Yeah, I saw the one you meant after I posted. Unfortunately, Blahblah has been sent down with the rest of us.
  • So he has, but he's fighting back manfully!
    :grin:
  • Oh well. I probably won't be back for a while, so those accusing me of trolling can rest easy.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    Well, if it's any comfort (!), Rublev recently accused me of trolling, too.

    (Blast! I forgot to add 'troll' to the list of Opprobrious Epithets I've collected...@LambChopped will be jealous...).
  • I've lost the 'challenge' post now - wading through the errant verbiage is like wading through treacle...
    :scream:
    Only far less sweet.
  • DafydDafyd Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    Bishops Finger : may I remind you not to feed the beast? It appears he has found what was a lively thread on Purgatory that was not about him: please not to help him make it about him.
  • No, no - you make some very pertinent remarks, cutting to the chase, as it were. So welcome to The Class of 2019!

    You are clearly Nobody's Fool when it comes to observing that ProfessorEmperor James Boswell II has no clothes...
    :wink:

    (FWIW, there are probably quite a few Shipmates who share your views, so stick around, engage, question, discuss, and enjoy!)

    Not an image I want in my head thank you.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    Dafyd wrote: »
    Bishops Finger : may I remind you not to feed the beast? It appears he has found what was a lively thread on Purgatory that was not about him: please not to help him make it about him.
    Hugal wrote: »
    No, no - you make some very pertinent remarks, cutting to the chase, as it were. So welcome to The Class of 2019!

    You are clearly Nobody's Fool when it comes to observing that ProfessorEmperor James Boswell II has no clothes...
    :wink:

    (FWIW, there are probably quite a few Shipmates who share your views, so stick around, engage, question, discuss, and enjoy!)

    Not an image I want in my head thank you.

    Sorry, peeps. Yes, he seems to have taken over the other thread, alas, so best avoided. I note that various Hostly/Admin admonitions have occurred, making it even more sensible to keep a safe distance...

    Anyway, Blessed James the Errant has once more declared, majestically, that he No Longer Intends To Answer Me, however politely I address him.

    His dialogue with Rublev continues, though, as he only answers her (have I got that right?). The idea of a discussion board has obviously escaped him.

  • It always struck me that there was a strong possibility that the original Boswell was a dead bore so perhaps our later version is well-named :naughty:
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    Hmm. I wonder what pithy comment Dr Johnson would make about what Rublev calls 'JB2's threads' (though they are not his, but the Ship's)?

    (Apart, that is, from noting that 'our' Boswell is a living bore... :innocent: )

  • Maybe he'd opine that he might benefit from the attentions of a twelve bore ?
  • Where is the not worthy emoji when you need it?
  • There seems to be a quite surreal spat occurring at the moment on the Errant Jesus thread, with James Boswell II, and Rublev, ganging-up on Blahblah.

    I expect Hosts are aware.

    Dare I say (even down here) that I'm beginning to wonder if James Boswell II, and Rublev are, in fact, the same person? Along the lines of Dr Jekyll, and Mr Hyde?
    :confused:
  • It is all quite surreal. I thought Reddit was bad, but this is quite mind-blowing.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2019
    Indeed, but it is unusual (well, to this extent, anyway).
    :grimace:

    I see that their interminable dialogue has recommenced. No other contributors welcome, one assumes.
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