I just caught up to a thread at Mad started by Analytics who offered a word of defense on my behalf. He analyzed what the situation was about, what I claimed and what Dan had said. After outlining all of the relevant citations over the past few years he concluded:
Here are some of my thoughts. I think Kevin accurately described to Ritner what Peterson has said. I believe Kevin’s questions were sincere and in good faith. I don’t believe Kevin was in any way trying to “do real life damage to the targeted Mormon professionally and personally” or otherwise “attempt to shut down those who would speak against the antis” because “antis have few professors who are willing to put themselves out there as anti-Mormons”.
Well, as you could expect, this didn’t go over too well. A moderator immediately shut down the thread with this:
“Why do you think you are entitled to recycle Graham's trash on our board? Thread closed.”
Recycle trash? I have been slandered and lied about by idiots like Kerry Shirts and Julian Reynolds for many months now.
Just take Juliann’s ridiculous comment when someone asked if I use a pseudonym:
He lies so much that it is hard to know. If it isn't his real name he was lying his head off to the Mormons he spent time, even staying at their homes when he was an mopoologist... with which is ickier and tells more about him than the other possibilities. Any wonder why his greatest fear is in identifying himself?
I hereby challenge Juliann to produce one single “lie” uttered by me. I dare her. I double dare her. The only people who keep bringing up the pseudonym factor are peple like Dan Peterson. I have shared the details of this with only two or three people, Shades included. And who are these Mormons I "spent time" who don't know my name? What the hell is she talking about? I showed up to one FAIR conference and shook her hand and spoke with her for all of four seconds. That was it. Ever since then it has been internet communication.
This is her little smear campaign against me because she knows she can get away with it. She said so herself. She said she created that forum for people like her. No wonder they let her do whatever she wants. Elsewhere she has accused me of lying in emails I send out to scholars. OK, like what? When I was posting there I was mopping the floors with her while proving it was Juliann who was lying to Mauss in
her emails.
She never had the guts to say these things when I was posting there and she and Kerry are too scared to deal with me in forums where I post, unlike other people with integrity. They’d rather hide behind their anonymous protectors at MAD while hurling insults left and right across the web.
I may criticize their poor attempts at apologetics and ability to think rationally, but to accuse someone of lying like this is childish; especially when you cannot produce any examples.
Before this thread was shut down Bokovoy threw in his ridiculous statement: “I find Dan’s comments
of no real issue whatsoever especially when compared with what Kevin himself was guilty of spewing in the past:”
What Bokovoy doesn’t tell his audience is that I informed Ritner of my past “spewing” and apologized for it. The only difference between Dan and I is that he
hasn't apologized, nor does he intend to. Bokovoy also neglects to inform them that I uttered a rumor I had heard on the FAIR e-list, and was congratulated for doing so. Now, suddenly those who found my comment praiseworthy pretend they are “sickened” by it. Why? Because they need to take focus off of Dan's repeated comments. Typical, but this is precisely the kind of two-faced nonsense that drove me away from that crowd.
Bokovoy implied I was lying about this so I provided the email in which Ritner said he wasn’t worried about what I said. He was worried about what Dan said. So it is irrelevant if Bokovoy finds Dan’s statements “of no real issue.” What matters is that Ritner
does.
But hey, all of this is just my “trash,” right Chaos?
“All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it...Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality." - Albert Einstein