Has someone been mean to Peterson?

[_I have a question]

just came across a false accusation a few minutes ago — apparently it’s yet another of his — that’s apparently been percolating on the nasty little message board where he holds court since at least sometime in early- to mid-August.

The accusation says that I was apparently so angry about somebody’s criticisms of me that I contacted the college or university with which he’s affiliated — I don’t know which one it might be, though I think I recall that it’s in Illinois, and I don’t know whether he’s a student or a member of the faculty, though I think he’s in philosophy — and tried to create difficulties with him there. (Perhaps I was attempting to have him fired. Who knows? I surely don’t.)

“A lie,” goes the famous maxim, “can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.”

That’s all too true, I’m afraid — whoever may originally have said it. (The saying has been attributed to Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, and several others.)

Still, for what it’s worth, I want to publicly deny the accusation.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterso ... ecord.html

Anyone know to what he is referring?

[_honorentheos]

It looks like he's referring to Dr. Scratch posting in this thread:
http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=38831&start=57

[_DrW]

Anyone know to what he is referring?

It looks like he's referring to Dr. Scratch posting in this thread:
http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=38831&start=57

Anyone still doubt the oft made claim that DCP continues to lurk here?

Stak is a highly credible individual, so it would be interesting to hear what he has to say, if anything, regarding the matter.

Given of Dr. Scratch's track record of high accuracy, compared to DCP's generally poor credibility, it will be interesting to see how this one turns out.

[_Jersey Girl]

You know what, I generally stay out of this back and forth crap but honestly, Daniel...

Believe me, I ignore 99% of the stuff on this particular message board

That's because only 1% is devoted to you.

-- and pay no attention to others where, I have reason to believe, similar things are sometimes said. (A couple of days ago, Steve Benson posted an account of an encounter that he had with me two or three years ago in which,

Do you realize what you wrote there? You pay no attention to others....but a couple of days ago you were scouring RFM.

of course, I come across as a complete doofus and a pathetic mercenary, while he's the heroic representative of Truth and Reason. I'm not going to respond. It's what Mr. Benson does, and the handful of hyper-hostile apostates before whom he performs gobble his spin down like dolphins swallowing mackerel at Sea World, but some battles simply aren't worth the effort.)

I don't care for Benson either.

But when utterly bogus fictional misbehavior of mine is trotted out as "fact," and gullible critics use that pseudo-fact as the basis for condemnation of my character and personality over the course of a month (!), I feel that I need to go on record at least once to deny the factuality of the supposed "fact."

You do realize that you're increasing the readership of MDB, right?

[_Jersey Girl]

One more and I'm done.

It’s made them very, very gullible — indeed, overeager, insatiably craving more and more evidence of my unspeakable depravity.

You mean like when someone floated a name to one of your warrior defender buddies, and Team Peterson took the ball and ran with it and bam: Chino Blanco

Did it ever occur to you that you were too overeager and gullible to stop for a second and think you might have been set up?

Note: The above is neither a defense of Scratch nor a condemnation of Peterson, but please don't put a full plate of BS in front of me and expect me to eat it for lunch without choking on it.

[_sock puppet]

DCP is dying the reputation/ego death from thousands of cuts inflicted by the internet. There were those cuts directed at and made to his, Midgley's and Nibley's defenses of LDS truth claims that prior to the 'net went, for the most part, unchecked by their readers. That was in large part due to the pre-internet effort it took their readers to check up on them. With each click of the mouse by their readers to pull up sources on the internet, another cut was inflicted. E.g., the touted "second Watson letter" turned out to be an unsigned fax from a staffer, regurgitating what FARMS had fed them by way of quotes from an entry in Ludlow's Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Not quite the provenance needed to neutralize the first, and genuine, Watson letter. When the unsigned fax was found as NAMIRS moved, it was discovered, shared with one other and then spread on the internet--not kept quietly tucked away with but one other knowing.

They had to become more and more circumspect in what they wrote, and fill in the new gaps with more boasting and high-five'ing of the great work the newer, Swiss cheese pieces were. But the cuts were many, and grew deeper.

Also are the cuts that comments online, such as in blogs and message boards like MDB, have inflicted on the methodological shortcomings of their "scholarly" work in defending the LDS truth claims. DCP has become the internet pinata for whacking away at Mopologists and their overly zealous and extreme, unabashed biases.

And to have his base taken from beneath him--the Review at NAMIRS--some three years plus ago. He has seemed not to care anymore that he's bleeding out all over the place, with no shape or direction. He's looked. The Interpreter. The World Table. Not even shadows of the petard on which he once roosted at NAMIRS.

And then, there are the cuts to DCP because he can't just look away and contently live his golden years. Having played the politics of personal destruction against LDS critics, he's come to perversely need such sorties with his detractors to keep his self-importance fed.

DCP is one of those train wrecks you just can't take your gaze off. As long as he keeps baiting with ever bloodier meat, he'll keep ex-mos' attention.

[_Jersey Girl]

So is that "kiwi" whatever...Pahoran?

[_Runtu]

So is that "kiwi" whatever...Pahoran?

Yup.

[_Jersey Girl]

So is that "kiwi" whatever...Pahoran?

Yup.

So let me get this straight. On a blog post where DCP is denying that he tried "create difficulties" for an MDB poster at said poster's university...think with me here...wait for it...Pahoran is lobbing s***balls at an MDB poster and outright naming the person's university.

But that' doesn't make either DCP or Pahoran look suspicious at all.

Okay...now.

[_Runtu]

So let me get this straight. On a blog post where DCP is denying that he tried "create difficulties" for an MDB poster at said poster's university...think with me here...wait for it...Pahoran is lobbing s***balls at an MDB poster and outright naming the person's university.

But that' doesn't make either DCP or Pahoran look suspicious at all.

Okay...now.

No more suspicious than when Pahoran threatened to reveal embarrassing information about DarthJ.