MILLIONS spent by LDS Inc on new MMM book

[_Daniel Peterson]

Shades, please delete this entire thread.

It is long past due.

No NO NO!

We have a chance of making it to thirty pages before beastie ever sees the actual book.

[_beastie]

I certainly don't want the thread deleted. I think it contains insight into the games defenders of the faith play.

But I agree that there's little left worth saying.

[_GoodK]

I certainly don't want the thread deleted. I think it contains insight into the games defenders of the faith play.

But I agree that there's little left worth saying.

Even if it does -- there is no way I'm going through the 27 pages to find it.

I don't know anyone else diligent/patient enough to either.

[_beastie]

Even if it does -- there is no way I'm going through the 27 pages to find it.

Well, if you skip all of DCP's "countdown" posts, and other posts in which he essentially says nothing, that would probably cut it in half. But if you haven't followed it all along, no, it's not worth reading to get to. No doubt you've seen the tap dancing before.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Crude and simplistic thinkers imagine that nuances are tap dancing, that failure to state the blindingly obvious is deception, and that precision is evasion.

[_beastie]

I'll let you have the last word, DCP, since it's bound to be as insipid as the vast majority of all your words on this thread, and somehow that seems to bring it full circle.

So go right on and rant some more about how crude and simplistic I am, while neglecting to mention pesky little details like exactly where you disagree with my points.

[_Trevor]

I suddenly regret having posted my actual reactions to the book, as one of its readers, on this thread. Evidently it was a waste of time. Too bad, because I thought the book was worth reading, and I thought I had made some reasonable observations about it.

[_harmony]

I suddenly regret having posted my actual reactions to the book, as one of its readers, on this thread. Evidently it was a waste of time. Too bad, because I thought the book was worth reading, and I thought I had made some reasonable observations about it.

Some of us have taken the trouble to read every single post in this thread. Some of us know exactly what Daniel was/is doing and why. Some of us know how to wade through the rabbit holes and find the gems. So please... for those of us who actually still read this thread, do not regret your posts.

[_beastie]

I suddenly regret having posted my actual reactions to the book, as one of its readers, on this thread. Evidently it was a waste of time. Too bad, because I thought the book was worth reading, and I thought I had made some reasonable observations about it.

I appreciated your comments as well, and would like to discuss it more after I read the book myself.

[_Trevor]

Some of us have taken the trouble to read every single post in this thread. Some of us know exactly what Daniel was/is doing and why. Some of us know how to wade through the rabbit holes and find the gems. So please... for those of us who actually still read this thread, do not regret your posts.

Well, I am glad my efforts were not entirely wasted.

Now, as to what Daniel is doing... You don't imagine that it might be frustrating that the first discussion of the MMM book here would be about why we shouldn't expect anything valuable out of it? I mean, say what you will of the FARMS Review (Heaven knows I have), but at least they do read the books they write about.