# Mr Quatro's "Things God Told Me" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 2, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067 "2018-02-02T21:21:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/61 "2018-06-09T14:21:32Z")
Wait, this fucktard thinks the SDMB should have a bio on everyone that reveals their religion so regressives like him know to ignore non-Christians? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/62 "2018-06-09T14:53:56Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Wait, this fucktard thinks the SDMB should have a bio on everyone that reveals their religion so regressives like him know to ignore non-Christians? > > :smack: It’s a two way street. Might save the rest of us a lot of time if his profile comes with a warning label: “Regressive religious lunatic”. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/63 "2018-06-09T16:37:12Z")
This thread is a nice pile-on against someone who seems to be silly and harmless, with only just over 1000 posts and 91 threads started since 2013. Now I’m not saying that folks shouldn’t be allowed to vent against posters who drive them crazy. But with all the truly hateful posters out there, it seems like there would be better targets. This whole thing seems to me petty and mean (in the sense of small-minded or ignoble). Yes, I’m aware that he thinks that I’m a damned sinner who will spend eternity burning in hell. Like I said, silly and harmless. I also realize that this could be considered thread-shitting, although I don’t know if that counts in the Pit. My only alternative to this post would be to start a thread pitting this thread, which seemed like pointless multiplication of threads. Or, of course, not to post. I chose the middle ground. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/64 "2018-06-09T18:15:20Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > This thread is a nice pile-on against someone who seems to be silly and harmless, with only just over 1000 posts and 91 threads started since 2013. Did you read [the ATMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20764326) thread that prompted it? ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/65 "2018-06-09T21:25:51Z")
We need someone silly and harmless to point and laugh at as a tonic for the iDJiT point-and-scream threads. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/66 "2018-06-10T03:22:55Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Did you read [the ATMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20764326) thread that prompted it? I read it. Are you afraid that someone is going to take him seriously? If not, I can’t see what there is to get so excited about. Yeah, I guess pointing and laughing is also silly and harmless. Don’t let me stop you from going to town. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/67 "2018-06-10T03:52:07Z")
Ed Zotti is Jesus? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/68 "2018-06-10T17:21:33Z")
I never consider someone who claims that God actually told them things to be ‘silly and harmless’. People claiming such things have caused an unbelievable amount of damage to this world. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/69 "2018-06-10T17:26:16Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > This thread is a nice pile-on against someone who seems to be silly and harmless, with only just over 1000 posts and 91 threads started since 2013. > > Now I’m not saying that folks shouldn’t be allowed to vent against posters who drive them crazy. But with all the truly hateful posters out there, it seems like there would be better targets. This whole thing seems to me petty and mean (in the sense of small-minded or ignoble). > > Yes, I’m aware that he thinks that I’m a damned sinner who will spend eternity burning in hell. Like I said, silly and harmless. > > I also realize that this could be considered thread-shitting, although I don’t know if that counts in the Pit. My only alternative to this post would be to start a thread pitting this thread, which seemed like pointless multiplication of threads. Or, of course, not to post. I chose the middle ground. If people like him numbered in the dozens, or even hundreds, I’d cheerfully write him off as silly and harmless. People like him number in the millions, and they vote. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/70 "2018-06-10T18:19:51Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I never consider someone who claims that God actually told them things to be ‘silly and harmless’. People claiming such things have caused an unbelievable amount of damage to this world. Indeed. One literally cannot put anything past them. We all know the plethora of examples, from Andrea Yates to Jim Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/71 "2018-06-10T18:28:50Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > If people like him numbered in the dozens, or even hundreds, I’d cheerfully write him off as silly and harmless. People like him number in the millions, and they vote. And you think this is going to help. Good luck with that. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/72 "2018-06-10T18:30:23Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I never consider someone who claims that God actually told them things to be ‘silly and harmless’. People claiming such things have caused an unbelievable amount of damage to this world. Some have; many are harmless cranks. Are you pitting him for causing damage to the world? Or are you pitting him because it’s easy to make fun of him? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/73 "2018-06-10T18:30:55Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > And you think this is going to help. Good luck with that. It’s not going to help. But it passes the time as my country circles the drain, thanks in part to religious nutjobs like Mr. Q. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/74 "2018-06-10T18:39:39Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Some have; many are harmless cranks. Are you pitting him for causing damage to the world? Or are you pitting him because it’s easy to make fun of him? I pit him because I’m disgusted with crazy people telling me what God thinks, _because he told them_. Which is coincidentally ALWAYS exactly what the person saying it thinks. And I notice that it is almost always negative, bigoted and judgemental. If you actually hear the voice of God in your head, you are mentally ill. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/75 "2018-06-10T20:51:13Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > It’s not going to help. But it passes the time as my country circles the drain, thanks in part to religious nutjobs like Mr. Q. In my experience of the world, the political damage is almost never done by religious nutjobs who hear voices, it is done by your pious and self-righteous next-door neighbor. But you’d rather spend your energy on this rather than something that actually helps. > [@Chimera](#): > > I pit him because I’m disgusted with crazy people telling me what God thinks, _because he told them_. Which is coincidentally ALWAYS exactly what the person saying it thinks. And I notice that it is almost always negative, bigoted and judgemental. > > If you actually hear the voice of God in your head, you are mentally ill. Thank you for answering my question. “Easy to make fun of” it is. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/76 "2018-06-10T22:13:44Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > In my experience of the world, the political damage is almost never done by religious nutjobs who hear voices, it is done by your pious and self-righteous next-door neighbor. But you’d rather spend your energy on this rather than something that actually helps. What energy? I’ve written 3 posts in a message board thread. And they’re mostly in response to your holier-than-thou attitude, which is much more stupid and hilarious than anything Mr. Quatro has written. But tell us, O brave warrior of the internet, what are you doing that is actually helping? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/77 "2018-06-10T22:56:32Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > This thread is a nice pile-on against someone who seems to be silly and harmless, with only just over 1000 posts and 91 threads started since 2013. > > Now I’m not saying that folks shouldn’t be allowed to vent against posters who drive them crazy. But with all the truly hateful posters out there, it seems like there would be better targets. This whole thing seems to me petty and mean (in the sense of small-minded or ignoble). > > Yes, I’m aware that he thinks that I’m a damned sinner who will spend eternity burning in hell. Like I said, silly and harmless. > > I also realize that this could be considered thread-shitting, although I don’t know if that counts in the Pit. My only alternative to this post would be to start a thread pitting this thread, which seemed like pointless multiplication of threads. Or, of course, not to post. I chose the middle ground. Given the political and religiously motivated nonsense that’s been growing and festering in the US in recent years, I’m not sure that I would be so quick to assume that the sort of lunacy exemplified by the subject of this thread is necessarily “silly and harmless”. But perhaps it is. I don’t know. But looking back at this thread I see that I’ve made a few contributions to it myself, and I feel obliged to defend them. ISTM that if you can excuse someone desperately intent on enlightening us with the messages he’s getting from his direct line to God as being “silly and harmless”, then surely a thread like this that provides a forum for a humorous take on the situation is at least equally silly and harmless, and probably more so if it’s entertaining. It’s not clear what criteria you’re applying to conclude that this is “petty and mean” that wouldn’t also apply to any other pitting of anyone, even if the pitting clearly had merit. Why should **Mr Quatro** ’s rather extreme delusions get special immunity against criticism and parody? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/78 "2018-06-10T23:02:58Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Thank you for answering my question. “Easy to make fun of” it is. Yeah, that’s the conclusion you draw when you’re dismissive and aren’t actually listening. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/79 "2018-06-11T03:51:19Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Given the political and religiously motivated nonsense that’s been growing and festering in the US in recent years, I’m not sure that I would be so quick to assume that the sort of lunacy exemplified by the subject of this thread is necessarily “silly and harmless”. > > But perhaps it is. I don’t know. But looking back at this thread I see that I’ve made a few contributions to it myself, and I feel obliged to defend them. ISTM that if you can excuse someone desperately intent on enlightening us with the messages he’s getting from his direct line to God as being “silly and harmless”, then surely a thread like this that provides a forum for a humorous take on the situation is at least equally silly and harmless, and probably more so if it’s entertaining. It’s not clear what criteria you’re applying to conclude that this is “petty and mean” that wouldn’t also apply to any other pitting of anyone, even if the pitting clearly had merit. Why should **Mr Quatro** ’s rather extreme delusions get special immunity against criticism and parody? I suppose because his contributions to this board have been so feeble and feckless. He’s made no attempt to propose or promote a political agenda, he just believes something that is nuts. I can understand the urge to point and laugh once at such a person. More than that seems out of balance and pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067/80 "2018-06-11T17:50:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Mr Quatro > I see a day when men and women will be auctioned off like they do animals today, for an hour or a day or a night. > Does this sound like a society you could live in? > [@wolfpup](#): > > . . . Auctions, eh? I thought they did all that today, but with price lists. I’m all for a more open free market where prices are more responsive to demand. . . I’m pretty sure there’s an app for that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-quatros-things-god-told-me-thread/808067.md?page=5)