Trevor wrote:Do we really have to talk about Daniel Peterson all the time? Really?
I don't. Scratch, though, evidently does.
Trevor wrote:Personally, I am kind of tired of it. The whole thing is so damned uninteresting. Surely there are more pressing topics out there.
I'm tired of it, too.
Trevor wrote:white, male, middle-aged
Now that was nasty.
Mister Scratch wrote: if you ever make up your mind to try and start over, I'm willing to extend my hand in a cyber-handshake to you.
I'll make a counteroffer: If you can go for, say, six months without expressing your implacable personal hatred of me and without attributing all manner of evil, dishonesty, mental defect, and insanity to me, I'll pretend that your previous obsessive career of such expressions and such attributions didn't actually happen.
Daniel Peterson wrote:If I'm wrong, I'm sorry. However, I'm quite confident that I'm not wrong.
This is an absolute gem for a phrase. It should be held in the annals/bowels of internet for posterity.
Hands down, you are, the most entertaining poster DCP, wherever you go.
(I'm quite confident, although I might be wrong...hmm..not likely)
Mister Scratch wrote:On the now very long thread concerning Ray A's (potential) status as the "Gandhi" of Internet Mormonism, Prof. Peterson described dear Ray thusly:
DCP wrote:I have always regarded Ray as fiercely honest, too. Uncompromisingly so. I've not known him to lie. Never. He tells the truth as he sees it even if it is uncomfortable.
Boy, is that ever true! Sadly, this is going to come back to haunt The Good Professor, particularly in lieu of his many denials about engaging in rank gossip:
Ray A wrote:Dan never posted any emails I sent him, and I said I respect him for that. It was of little consequence to me that he offered them privately to anyone who wanted to read them. Even if he had posted them on Z, I would have reacted in the same way I did to Gad. Even Gad admitted that what he did was a "perhaps a little unethical", but as I said, I'm prepared to wear the consequences.
(emphasis added)
Wha...?? He was offering to pass around private messages so that he and his buddies could yuk it up at Ray's expense??? Pretty rotten, if you ask me.
Sure it is pretty rotten in your mind. Anything Peterson does is a great opportunity for you to expploit him and trash him on a public message board. It seems to me pretty clear that what you do really borders on libel in many cases. So maybe one day someone will waste an enormous amount of time on a thread called Evidence of Scratch's (Whover Scratch is) libel. One wonders how you can continue to accuse a person of gossiping in such an exploitive way when this is exactly what you do constantly here about Peterson and others. Do you enjoy personal attacks on people?
Trevor wrote:Do we really have to talk about Daniel Peterson all the time? Really?
I don't. Scratch, though, evidently does.
Trevor wrote:Personally, I am kind of tired of it. The whole thing is so damned uninteresting. Surely there are more pressing topics out there.
I'm tired of it, too.
Trevor wrote:white, male, middle-aged
Now that was nasty.
Mister Scratch wrote: if you ever make up your mind to try and start over, I'm willing to extend my hand in a cyber-handshake to you.
I'll make a counteroffer: If you can go for, say, six months without expressing your implacable personal hatred of me and without attributing all manner of evil, dishonesty, mental defect, and insanity to me, I'll pretend that your previous obsessive career of such expressions and such attributions didn't actually happen.
Here's your counter-counter offer: admit that you were wrong to accuse me of lying and apologize, I will "go the six months." I may even consider deleting some blog material, too, just because I'm such a nice guy.
Mister Scratch wrote:admit that you were wrong to accuse me of lying and apologize
I myself would be a liar if I did so. I don't believe that I was wrong.
I am not a liar.
Mister Scratch wrote:I'm such a nice guy.
There's a theoretical possibility that you didn't, in fact, coldly and calculatedly falsify the text of your personal message to Ray.
That you're a "nice guy"? Transparently false. Nice guys don't do what you've sought to do to me for months and months on end.
Malevolent mendacity. The pattern never varies. The leopard doesn't change its spots.
I think Mister Scratch is a lawyer and you are on the stand. The truth must be somewhere in between both of you. You two need to hug so we can see the truth squeezed out.
Mister Scratch wrote:admit that you were wrong to accuse me of lying and apologize
I myself would be a liar if I did so. I don't believe that I was wrong.
I am not a liar.
Mister Scratch wrote:I'm such a nice guy.
There's a theoretical possibility that you didn't, in fact, coldly and calculatedly falsify the text of your personal message to Ray.
That you're a "nice guy"? Transparently false. Nice guys don't do what you've sought to do to me for months and months on end.
Malevolent mendacity. The pattern never varies. The leopard doesn't change its spots.
I think Mister Scratch is a lawyer and you are on the stand. The truth must be somewhere in between both of you. You two need to hug so we can see the truth squeezed out.
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