DCP closing his blog yesterday

[_why me]

You hit him in his filthy lucre...

H.

What, no concern for Dan's family? I'm shocked.

[_why me]

Slime ball? Not my opinion of him.

It is his usual passive-aggressive tactic. He knows that almost no one has called him a slime ball. But he regularly makes out his opposition to be unfair in order to elicit sympathy and for strategic advantage. He succeeds at getting people to feel badly for him, and that reward keeps him employing the same tactic.

And if you had a spy informing on you...how would you feel? I think that it is rather creepy.

[_TrashcanMan79]

The only thing I can say is "Time/Lightbox."

If I was pressed to say anything further it would be, "Text and Context."

Are the "Time/Lightbox" comments still up? I heard a rumor that the Mopologists were contriving to have them taken down.

The comments do indeed appear to have taken a trip down ye olde memory hole.

http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/05/happy-valley-a-photographer-reflects-on-his-mormon-upbringing/

[_hobo1512]

And if you had a spy informing on you...how would you feel? I think that it is rather creepy.

You would know the definition of creepy now wouldn't you?

Pot, meet kettle.

[_Markk]

I'm still trying to figure out what it was that I did that set him off. As I noted on the other thread, it seems like he was incensed over my speculations about his remuneration for editing the Review. Look: if he didn't make $20,000, then he didn't make $20,000. Perhaps it was closer to $10,000, or $8,000. Who knows? Why on earth would he feel the desire to sue merely because someone is making such speculations?

And you're right, Mark: if he were to simply ask nicely, in a decent and humane sort of way, I would have been glad to drop the discussion.

Hi Scratch,

It wasn't that... that set him off, I believe he seems to have the Tanya Harding syndrom,...he has lost credabilty with many of his peers, the Petersonites sense the crack in his armor. LDS Internet apologentics have pretty much stopped, I believe from a order from the top...so he lost a major platform to feed his ego. He has students kissing his rear all day long for good grades, and at MADB he was a hero with his crew kissing his rear and feeling like big shots because they were brushing shoulders with the kingpin of FARMS and NMI...now that is all gone and he probably has a void to fill.

Right or wrong that is what I see. He is afraid of becoming the Tonya Harding, Gary Coleman or Danny Bonaduce of the LDS apologentic crowd, so he is trying to gain this back and what better way to do this than "attacking his old foe", the mean and evil Dr. Scratch.

LOL...I was laughing at myself as I wrote this, but you know? I honestly believe it.

[_Kishkumen]

And if you had a spy informing on you...how would you feel? I think that it is rather creepy.

You would be the definition of creepy now wouldn't you?

Pot, meet kettle.

Fixed.

[_sock puppet]

Right or wrong that is what I see. [DCP] is afraid of becoming the Tonya Harding, Gary Coleman or Danny Bonaduce of the LDS apologentic crowd, so he is trying to gain this back and what better way to do this than "attacking his old foe", the mean and evil Dr. Scratch.

LOL...I was laughing at myself as I wrote this, but you know? I honestly believe it.

He's already reached and passed Bonaduce and then Coleman status. But he only resembles Tonya Harding when Pahoran does his bidding. After all, Harding had someone else break Nancy Kerrigan's leg. When DCP does his own bidding--like his Saturday indiscretion--it's more a Coleman-like thing.

[_gramps]

Markk wrote:

Hi Scratch,

It wasn't that... that set him off, I believe he seems to have the Tanya Harding syndrom,...he has lost credabilty with many of his peers, the Petersonites sense the crack in his armor. LDS Internet apologentics have pretty much stopped, I believe from a order from the top...so he lost a major platform to feed his ego. He has students kissing his rear all day long for good grades, and at MADB he was a hero with his crew kissing his rear and feeling like big shots because they were brushing shoulders with the kingpin of FARMS and NMI...now that is all gone and he probably has a void to fill.

Right or wrong that is what I see. He is afraid of becoming the Tonya Harding, Gary Coleman or Danny Bonaduce of the LDS apologentic crowd, so he is trying to gain this back and what better way to do this than "attacking his old foe", the mean and evil Dr. Scratch.

LOL...I was laughing at myself as I wrote this, but you know? I honestly believe it.

Laughing hard at the Danny Bonaduce reference! Good one.

What has got to be confusing and upsetting DCP, in my humble estimation, is that all this MI fiasco, and being relegated to the internet only, to get out his spiel, doesn't fit with his calling as he understands it, as laid out in his Patriarchal Blessing. You see, his role in FARMS was prophecy being fulfilled.

He must have been thrown for a loop when the BYU threw him out of a position that he believed he held by prophecy, directly from God, through his Patriarch. If you haven't watched his interview with Dan Wotherspoon, it is kind of telling, in a sad way, as to where he must be. Very confused, at least. It is almost Richard II-like. A real tragedy.

Even his wife, he mentions in the podcast, wished and oft suggested that he should spend more time on real academic pursuits. But, Dan, the ultimate Chapel Mormon that he is, would explain to her: 'But, honey, my Patriarchal Blessing....I have to do this. I have no choice but to follow this path.' And she would, like a good Mormon wife, have nothing to say to such an argument, but: 'I bow my head and support you honey.'

It is tough to be a Chapel Mormon like Dan. God tests you in the severest ways imaginable.

Hang in there, DCP, and always remember the Lord's words to Joseph in Liberty Jail. This is really nothing. It could be a lot worse.

[_the narrator]

The new entry is interesting. It seems that there have been a few complaints about his blog.

I thought this was kind of funny. To whom is here referring here?

A few simply consider me a slime ball. One, who dislikes me personally and despises my views on various topics, has repeatedly told me that it’s his “dream” to get me altogether removed from Patheos.

Dream? LOL.

He's referring to me. Though, I have never called him a slime ball, actually like him personally, and only told him once about my 'dream'. I believe the sentence was: "Though it's my dream to see your entire blog removed from patheos, I think you should at least remove these two unfortunate posts."

Of those "various topics," Dan claimed that I disliked his theology. Since I am a believing, active Mormon--and that Dan clearly knows that--my only conclusion is that Dan's persecution complex is so deep that he believes that any disagreement with his style is at heart a disdain for his Mormonism.

[_Kishkumen]

He's referring to me. Though, I have never called him a slime ball, actually like him personally, and only told him once about my 'dream'. I believe the sentence was: "Though it's my dream to see your entire blog removed from patheos, I think you should at least remove these two unfortunate posts."

Of those "various topics," Dan claimed that I disliked his theology. Since I am a believing, active Mormon--and that Dan clearly knows that--my only conclusion is that Dan's persecution complex is so deep that he believes that any disagreement with his style is at heart a disdain for his Mormonism.

I think it is safe to say, with many years of reading Peterson's rag under our belts, that almost anyone who does not agree with the views of his gathering of friends is attacked as though she or he were an anti-Mormon, even if, like Mike Quinn, said person has the most fervent of testimonies.