EAllusion wrote:If I was enterprising, I'd just compile a 2000-3000 of Pahoran's vicious insults in quotes and post them. Instead, I'll probably just occasionally link an example of him being out of line. Still, the one that got me the most was accusing John Corrill of projecting pedophile fantasies.
dartagnan wrote:LOL... Ritnergate...
Almost forgot about that one. Dan had a dramatic meltdown and told everyone at FAIR I was endangering the inheritance of his children. The issue of his ongoing libel against Ritner was not up for discussion. Not at FAIR anyway. Instead I was the bad guy. Bokovoy got in on the action too and started attacking me as a diversion.
Yes, there are plenty of incidents that might explain Dan's distate for me, but unfortunately, the reasons he gives don't seem to be the most likely explanations. As long as he rubs elbows with people like Russel "your wife is a whore" McGregor, John "Metcalfe swindled a bereaved widow" Tvetdnes, and Bill "you're Butthead" Hamblin, he is really in no position to be complaining about my "unpleasant attitude."
What, in the end, do you think his actual reason is? That he feels "outmatched"?
Mister Scratch wrote:What, in the end, do you think his actual reason is? That he feels "outmatched"?
Daniel Peterson wrote:It's not very believable to claim that I refuse to interact with apostate Mormons when . . . umm, I'm kind of, ya know, interacting with perhaps a score of them on this very board?
Something at least superficially plausible might be a bit more convincing.
Mister Scratch wrote:What, in the end, do you think his actual reason is? That he feels "outmatched"?
Yeah. That's it. That's gotta be it.
Robert Spencer?
Child's play compared with Kevin Graham.
Yeah. That's it.
It's not very believable to claim that I refuse to interact with apostate Mormons when . . . umm, I'm kind of, ya know, interacting with perhaps a score of them on this very board?
dartagnan wrote:All I know is that you will have to come up with something better if you really want to convince anyone you won't talk with me because of my "attitude."
dartagnan wrote:Whenever a debate is called for, you inform everyone that you haven't the time for that because you're an important scholar who is always heading off to Egypt or whatever.
dartagnan wrote: But I do know I have raised issues that you have not been able to adequately address, and I think you're just not willing to take the time needed to respond to them.
Daniel Peterson wrote:I expect that at least a few here will be able to recognize that intellectual and purely intellectual are not synonyms.
dartagnan wrote:It's not very believable to claim that I refuse to interact with apostate Mormons when . . . umm, I'm kind of, ya know, interacting with perhaps a score of them on this very board?
Come on Dan, don't kid yourself. You're here because your name is regularly being spat upon and you feel the need to defend yourself. That's it. And I don't blame you. But don't pretend you're here because you actually like the company. You didn't wake up one morning and say, "Hey, I think I'll start interacting with apostates." We've had to damn near beg you to stay around here but you always make it clear you find the place disgusting,- because of the company- even though we have already shown this to be a paradise compared to the dirt thrown about at MADB.
All I know is that you will have to come up with something better if you really want to convince anyone you won't talk with me because of my "attitude." That is your reason isn't it? Our documented history simply won't support this, no matter what supporting witnesses you call from the MADB moderator staff. I know you're not "afraid" of me in any real sense. But I do know I have raised issues that you have not been able to adequately address, and I think you're just not willing to take the time needed to respond to them.
But that has been your method for many years with just about everyone. You don't debate much of anything. You stick to pithy, back handed remarks and witty commentary. That's your MO. Whenever a debate is called for, you inform everyone that you haven't the time for that because you're an important scholar who is always heading off to Egypt or whatever.