The official I'm tired of...

[_SUAS]

I am pondering right now, but do not want to pontificate to you all..

We all could try and be more proactive and less reactive..TRUE
Idealism and Pragmatism can work well together.
WE must reach out to each other and join hands in a song ...we are the world.

Peace can ours for a mere 10% of your brain...We can be free of fear when we fear no more.

[_Ray A]

WE must reach out to each other and join hands in a song ...we are the world.

Just for you, SUAS:

For The God Who Sings

[_Brother of Mahonri]

Hi, new guy here. I have a question.

Who is Dr. Peterson?

And yes I TRIED to read through all the replies to this thread but somewhere along the way I woke up a slight pain and some keyboard shaped red spots on my forehead.

Thanks in advance.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Dr. Peterson is a wonderful fellow with a wide international circle of friends who teaches Arabic and Islamic studies at Brigham Young University, founded and directs the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, edits the FARMS Review, and helps to direct what is now called the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.

[_SUAS]

And he is the mostest smartest man in the whole wide world....he is....cause we all know...there are none smart women in the world or at least at BYU....

[_Brother of Mahonri]

Dr. Peterson is a wonderful fellow with a wide international circle of friends who teaches Arabic and Islamic studies at Brigham Young University, founded and directs the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, edits the FARMS Review, and helps to direct what is now called the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.

Thank you.

Follow up questions.

So you are not a real Dr.?

Why do you call yourself Dr. Perterson?

Is that some board thing that people with Doctorates do here?

If so, you should probably all refer to me as Dr. as well.

But please don't call me Dr. Moriancumr, I'm not a formal guy, and don't call me Jared either, cause I have hated that name ever since that subway dude got famous. How about Dr. Brother? Yes I like it.

Thanks,

Dr. Brother

[_Yoda]

Why do you call yourself Dr. Perterson?

Is that some board thing that people with Doctorates do here?

At universities, if a professor has a doctorate, they are referred to as Dr. _____. That's pretty common protocol.

[_harmony]

So you are not a real Dr.?

He has a PhD. That's a real doctorate.

We have several who could be called Dr. here.

Dr Tarski

Dr Dude

Dr Peterson

Dr Blixa

Dr Sajer

and now we have Dr. Brother and others too, I'm sure.

We've a few that could put Juris Doctorate behind their nicknames too. Skippy, Crock, Addicto...

[_Brother of Mahonri]

Why do you call yourself Dr. Perterson?

Is that some board thing that people with Doctorates do here?

At universities, if a professor has a doctorate, they are referred to as Dr. _____. That's pretty common protocol.

I know that happens. I have been to a few Universities. I have even attended four or five of them. And, in the ones in the US at least, some professors with doctorates were referred to as Dr.s.

But this isn't a University, it's a bulletin board.

That's why it seemed so odd.

[_Brother of Mahonri]

So you are not a real Dr.?

He has a PhD. That's a real doctorate.

We have several who could be called Dr. here.

Dr Tarski

Dr Dude

Dr Peterson

Dr Blixa

Dr Sajer

and now we have Dr. Brother and others too, I'm sure.

We've a few that could put Juris Doctorate behind their nicknames too. Skippy, Crock, Addicto...

I didn't say, as you well know, that a PhD wasn't a real Doctorate.

The rest of your post just serves to illustrate the point I was making. WHy does he, and a bunch of you as well, refer to him as Dr. when you do not do that for anyone on here BUT him.

Well OK Dr. Shades, but I assume that is as much of a joke as my asking to be referred to as Dr. Brother. ;-)


p.s. I do not have a Ph.D. I have a J.D. In the real world, I am only referred to as Dr. [ ] in Germany.