Scratch wrote:by the way: I saw your "announcement", and I have to say---I'm not impressed. It didn't seem like too much to ask you to state it in plain English, but, apparently, it was. A simple, "The Church partially helps to fund apologetics" would have done. Why the need to offer up the lengthy preamble?
Because he's burying the truth in obfuscation, Sis. What? You didn't know that?
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Scratch wrote:by the way: I saw your "announcement", and I have to say---I'm not impressed. It didn't seem like too much to ask you to state it in plain English, but, apparently, it was. A simple, "The Church partially helps to fund apologetics" would have done. Why the need to offer up the lengthy preamble?
Because he's burying the truth in obfuscation, Sis. What? You didn't know that?
By way of adding historical perspective, let me bring forward a couple of pertinent facts.
Hugh Nibley was an employee for the LDS magazine, The Improvement Era, when he wrote his review of Brodie's No Man Knows My History, but as a volunteer project. He used the Church Administration Building's "comprehensive library of anti-Mormon books" to do so. See Peterson, A Consecrated Life, p. 225.
Bookcraft published his 1961 rebuttal of anti-Mormon arguments, The Myth Makers (ibid., 297). The leaders of the Church were so impressed that the First Presidency asked Nibley to write a response to Irving Wallace's The Twenty-Seventh Wife. The First Presidency even requested that BYU lighten Nibley's teaching load so he could devote more time to the project (ibid., 298-99). The resulting book was published under the title, Sounding Brass.
One could go on, but I think you get the point. In the nascent days of scholarly apologetics, there was a healthy mix of Church direction and volunteerism. I would be surprised if things were so terribly different today.
On a final note, Hugh Nibley gave the most delightful quip about the Pearl of Great Price, "I have always steered clear of the Pearl of Great Price which, as you can well imagine, has been a Happy Hunting-Ground for crack-pots" (ibid., 313).
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“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Daniel Peterson wrote:But a prize porker if I've ever seen one. (Didja notice those beady, shifty little eyes?)
I was thinking more along the lines of Happy Buddha.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
dartagnan wrote:I don't think you're character is in any danger.
Uh, oh...
You're = You are.
"I don't think you are character is in any danger."
One moment in annihilation's waste, one moment, of the well of life to taste- The stars are setting and the caravan starts for the dawn of nothing; Oh, make haste! -Omar Khayaam
And here I had my heart set on impressing my Malevolent Stalker.
(Incidentally, I've added your prescribed confession to the thread. Can I get a pat on the head or something?)
Hmmm...I thought I had given you a pat on the head. Okay, let's give that a more formal replay...slinging it mode, officially turned on:
Dear Dr. Peterson,
I am writing to tell you that I praise you greatly for your apology to the entire universe for your very existence. On behalf of all humankind who must suffer your presence, I salute you! We who have been made miserable by your life from birth to this day in human history and in the days to come, observe you to be forthcoming, humble and repentant for your birth. Why your momma didn't snuff you out is a mystery that can never be fully solved. You are the apologist extraordinare who ruleth the waking thoughts of Scratch from day in to day out and for all eternity. Where would he be without you? Writing for some daytime drama in LA, I suppose.
Once again, we have received and acknowledge your act of true humility and shameless groveling. Well done, sir!
As ever,
Jersey Girl
[/slinging it mode]
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Daniel Peterson wrote:Gosh. Sniff. I think I'm gonna cry.
Thanks, Jersey Girl. That means more to me than you can ever know.
Hey, I can sling it as good as the next guy! Now get on Trevor for that despicable image of Buddha. It looks like it has a retainer in it's mouth! Not very nice! Not very nice at all!
;-)
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
