Interpreter is now reprinting old content

[drumdude]

... And that’s after the Church was found guilty of conniving long and hard to deceive the financial reporting regulations that they knew were to be adhered to.

A interesting note, I read that Roger Clarke, also had/s his own private investing company, for years, and during those years he always filled out the 13f forms correctly and honestly.

One thing I was wondering during the talk, why was the church so worried about the public seeing these 13f filings? Is it just that everyone in the organization hides everything by default?

[Markk]

A interesting note, I read that Roger Clarke, also had/s his own private investing company, for years, and during those years he always filled out the 13f forms correctly and honestly.

One thing I was wondering during the talk, why was the church so worried about the public seeing these 13f filings? Is it just that everyone in the organization hides everything by default?

I wrote and pasted this on anther thread, they were afraid of members cutting back on tithing if they know they had so much in the markets.

Roger Clarke, the head of Ensign Peak Advisors, told the Journal that church leaders were concerned that knowledge of the fund would discourage regular donations from its members known as tithes.

"Paying tithing is more of a sense of commitment than it is the church needing the money," Clarke said two years ago. "So they never wanted to be in a position where people felt like, you know, they shouldn't make a contribution." https://www.businessinsider.com/Mormon- ... 023-2?op=1

[drumdude]

Incidentally, it was his[sic] belated discovery of (I think) last week’s installment of our book chapter reprint series — a series that has been going each and every week for at least two or three years now — that led one vigilant observer over on the Peterson Obsession Board to report to his associates there with breathless enthusiasm that the obviously failing Interpreter Foundation, finally (as long prophesied) on its last legs, has now been reduced merely to recycling old materials.

What’s really happening, of course, is that, once our book publications have had a reasonably lengthy chance to find their market and more or less recoup their costs, we make their contents available online, at no charge. We’re not in this for the money, after all. As do those who write for us, we want these books and these articles to reach (and to benefit) as large an audience as they can. So it’s always been our intention to, eventually, put all or almost all of what we do online, for free. Doing so is not, alas, evidence of our approaching demise.

[drumdude]

Several times a year DCP posts something similar to the following:

Today marks the 280th Friday in a row that Interpreter has published at least one article or review. The Interpreter Foundation has existed for 281.5 weeks.

This represents a considerable achievement. It results from the efforts and the generosity of many people, and I’m profoundly grateful to all of them.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... -news.html

The unbroken string of articles and reviews seems to be broken by these reposts. But maybe like horse and tapir, a case can be made that a repost is actually a post.

[drumdude]

A leading member of the Obsession Board’s zany pseudonymous cast — his moniker is (significantly?) close to “dumb-dud” — is now rising to his colleague’s defense, maintaining that Interpreter’s weekly online posting of reprinted book chapters on Thursdays somehow invalidates my oft-repeated observation that Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship has been publishing an unbroken series of new articles every Friday since 2012 — unless, of course, I’m disingenuously claiming reprinted book chapters as new journal articles. (As of yesterday, at least one new article has been published in our journal every single Friday for six hundred and forty consecutive weeks.) His logic is impeccable, of course. In much the same way that someone’s supposedly passionate devotion to Monday night football is disproven by his repeated Thursday golf games, or that a woman’s allegedly faithful attendance at Sunday church services is called into serious question by her volunteering at a soup kitchen on Tuesday mornings. Maybe, though, not quite in the same way that being tall is incompatible with being an engineer. Or that the color green cannot coexist with the quality of being round.

I once toyed (at least a quarter seriously) with compiling a logic handbook on the common “practical fallacies” or “informal fallacies.” My idea was that I would populate it entirely with real-life examples culled from a monthly anti-Mormon “newspaper” that I received for many years. Published by Utah Missions, Inc., a small “ministry” that was based in Marlow, Oklahoma, The Utah Evangel was an absolutely delightful treasure trove of such material. The Peterson Obsession Board isn’t even remotely as funny, but it would still be possible, if I chose, to devote a substantial portion of this blog to responding to its incomprehension, its consistently spin, its unsleeping malice, and, very often, its sheer mendacity. I don’t choose to do so. Sometimes, though, I simply can’t resist the temptation to have a little fun at their expense. For which I offer my apologies.

I get the impression Dan is a little upset that after a lifetime of struggling to defend the church, he is still best known for his laughably stupid tapir hypothesis.

It never fails to elicit an unhinged response.

[Marcus]

It's simple enough to show. There have been 48 Fridays so far in 2024, and under the Interpreter tab, "Journal Articles," there are 45 entries for 2024.

I predict the Afore will explain this discrepancy by arguing that when he said "...my oft-repeated observation that Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship has been publishing an unbroken series of new articles every Friday since 2012...," he was actually using his own alternate meanings for the words "articles," "unbroken," "publishing," "every," and "Friday."

Based on his last rant, I would suggest he also learn the definition of the term "logical fallacy" before he reconsiders compiling a handbook about them. Just a suggestion, but in my opinion he could instead write for quite some time on a new fallacy, which I have tentatively called "Tapiring," or maybe "Riding the Peterson Horse."

[drumdude]

I guess they had the repost on Thursday and an article on Friday. Despite his claims of obsession no one here cares enough about interpreter to scrutinize the dates they publish things that closely. If he says there’s a newly posted something we all just assume it’s his weekly low quality article to keep that meaningless streak going.

[Gadianton]

It's simple enough to show. There have been 48 Fridays so far in 2024, and under the Interpreter tab, "Journal Articles," there are 45 entries for 2024.

Three broken links is significant. Imagine if there were three breaks in his priesthood lineage going back to Adam?

[yellowstone123]

I wish magazines and journals would release their archives for all to read.

I’m sure there are those in important positions that say the old information would/could be used to harm the organization. It’s the person reading the information who will form an opinion and draw a conclusion if the business evolved for the better or worse. This information is valuable for all if all the information is released, not just certain publications presented in a way that makes the organization looks good.

I recently bought a Time magazine for $50.00 off of Ebay. It’s dated January 4, 1943 and has a picture of Stalin on the cover as man of the year. It’s interesting reading writers of that day and how they reported events.

I wish many publications including Time, The Atlantic and Look magazine would release that information on line. I’m sure there are legal copyright issues that need to be worked out.

In that same spirit all Interpreter, the Ensign, Sunstone Magazine and other LDS church publications should be up on the internet for all to read at no cost so a poor individual who spends an hour at a computer at a local library can read up on the past.

This way a poor minority from a marginalized community can read on their own and form their own judgement on an issue and avoid a white male’s interpretation of the past.

[huckelberry]

I wish magazines and journals would release their archives for all to read.

I’m sure there are those in important positions that say the old information would/could be used to harm the organization. It’s the person reading the information who will form an opinion and draw a conclusion if the business evolved for the better or worse. This information is valuable for all if all the information is released, not just certain publications presented in a way that makes the organization looks good.

I recently bought a Time magazine for $50.00 off of Ebay. It’s dated January 4, 1943 and has a picture of Stalin on the cover as man of the year. It’s interesting reading writers of that day and how they reported events.

I wish many publications including Time, The Atlantic and Look magazine would release that information on line. I’m sure there are legal copyright issues that need to be worked out.

Yellowstone, that is an interesting purchase, that Time Magazine. j
Do you have any observations about the magazines treatment which would likely be rose colored treatment . Of course at that moment important factors would cause uncle Joe to be seen in a positive light instead of as a murdering meglomaniac. The Germans had just been turned back at Stalingrad and the spector of Nazi defeat of Russia was fading. It would've been hell to find a way to stop the Nazis if Russia had fallen.