Interpreter is now reprinting old content

[Doctor Scratch]

I hope you have a nice Christmas season, too, drumdude! And many congratulations on the upcoming expansion of your family!

I also noticed the Afore’s response to you and it brought me a great deal of holiday merriment, because, of course, in a sense, the holidays are all about ritual and repetition. So I laughed a great deal when I saw that the Proprietor of was (of course!) shocked and amazed that *you* would speak kindly of him, but the real suspense comes from whether or not *he*—this “Warrior for Christ”—is capable of reciprocating during this Holiday Season. Can he say anything nice about *you*?

LOL! If he does, it makes him look weak and like he’s capitulating to critics. And if he doesn’t? It makes him look cold-hearted, and like someone who’s ignoring the teachings of Christ. It’s a case where his inability to concede or back down is burning him yet again.

[drumdude]

I hope you have a nice Christmas season, too, drumdude! And many congratulations on the upcoming expansion of your family!

I also noticed the Afore’s response to you and it brought me a great deal of holiday merriment, because, of course, in a sense, the holidays are all about ritual and repetition. So I laughed a great deal when I saw that the Proprietor of was (of course!) shocked and amazed that *you* would speak kindly of him, but the real suspense comes from whether or not *he*—this “Warrior for Christ”—is capable of reciprocating during this Holiday Season. Can he say anything nice about *you*?

LOL! If he does, it makes him look weak and like he’s capitulating to critics. And if he doesn’t? It makes him look cold-hearted, and like someone who’s ignoring the teachings of Christ. It’s a case where his inability to concede or back down is burning him yet again.

I’m confident he loves me in the Christlike way Mormons love wayward former Mormons- With a lot of needless concern for my eternal salvation and hand wringing about my materialist morality and descent into hedonism.

[Doctor Scratch]

No scholarly article in Interpreter today, which means that the “streak” has been broken yet again. (No knock on Don Bradley, though I question his judgment when it comes to publication venue…You know, I hear that Scripture Central is thriving these days…)

[Tom]

The Proprietor writes:

Almost a dozen years ago now, on a far-away message board, a pseudonymous critic going by the moniker Bond James Bond took it upon himself to prophesy. And this is what he said. This is what Bond James Bond said. He said:

By Jan. 1, 2014 Interpreter will be dead. . . . Either totally dead or down to token “blog” style postings. (Bond James Bond, 25 January 2013)

The Interpreter Foundation was about five and a half months old when Mr. Bond pronounced his oracle. But the Foundation seems to have survived past the beginning of January 2014. (Prediction, as the saying from Yogi Berra goes, is very difficult. Especially when it’s about the future.) Perhaps, though, Mr. Bond misread his crystal ball. Maybe he made a typographical error. It’s possible that he meant that Interpreter would be dead by the beginning of January 2024. Speaking for myself, personally, I’m on absolute pins and needles. Could tomorrow be the end for the Interpreter Foundation? Inquiring minds want to know!

It’s unclear why the Proprietor uses three consecutive sentences to introduce a partial* quotation from Bond James Bond (“And this is what he said,” “This is what Bond James Bond said,” and “He said”). Maybe he’s copying and pasting from old blog posts.

Yes, it’s possible that BJB meant January 1, 2024. It’s not clear, though, why the Proprietor would be on pins and needles to see if January 1, 2025, would be the end of the Interpreter Foundation. Perhaps it’s a slow time of the year for the Proprietor.

In any case, it’s clear that the Interpreter Foundation was republishing old articles as early as 2012.

*Bond James Bond’s full quotation: “By Jan. 1, 2014 Interpreter will be dead just like Mormon Scholars Testify. Either totally dead or down to token 'blog' style postings and re-postings of old/reworked articles (already happening).”

[Doctor Scratch]

The Proprietor writes:

Almost a dozen years ago now, on a far-away message board, a pseudonymous critic going by the moniker Bond James Bond took it upon himself to prophesy. And this is what he said. This is what Bond James Bond said. He said:
The Interpreter Foundation was about five and a half months old when Mr. Bond pronounced his oracle. But the Foundation seems to have survived past the beginning of January 2014. (Prediction, as the saying from Yogi Berra goes, is very difficult. Especially when it’s about the future.) Perhaps, though, Mr. Bond misread his crystal ball. Maybe he made a typographical error. It’s possible that he meant that Interpreter would be dead by the beginning of January 2024. Speaking for myself, personally, I’m on absolute pins and needles. Could tomorrow be the end for the Interpreter Foundation? Inquiring minds want to know!

It’s unclear why the Proprietor uses three consecutive sentences to introduce a partial* quotation from Bond James Bond (“And this is what he said,” “This is what Bond James Bond said,” and “He said”). Maybe he’s copying and pasting from old blog posts.

ROFL!! What did the Proprietor say? Is that what he said? And he said what?

*Bond James Bond’s full quotation: “By Jan. 1, 2014 Interpreter will be dead just like Mormon Scholars Testify. Either totally dead or down to token 'blog' style postings and re-postings of old/reworked articles (already happening).”

A very good point, and it demonstrates just how manipulative and dishonest the Proprietor has been when it comes to this quote.

[Doctor Scratch]

Happy Friday! What a great time to remind everyone that the President of the Interpreter foundation was either lying or grossly exaggerating for well over a decade when he claimed that Interpreter had managed to publish a "journal article" for however many hundreds of consecutive weeks in a row. THE STREAK WAS BROKEN!! LONG LIVE BOND!

[drumdude]

Happy Friday! What a great time to remind everyone that the President of the Interpreter foundation was either lying or grossly exaggerating for well over a decade when he claimed that Interpreter had managed to publish a "journal article" for however many hundreds of consecutive weeks in a row. THE STREAK WAS BROKEN!! LONG LIVE BOND!

Oh come on now Scratch, anything can be a journal article if you squint hard enough!