Tvedtnes: Author of "more than 300" articles?

[_Trevor]

Knock it off you shameless braggart!

I have 6,000+ posts on MDB.

Yer nuthin' buddy.

Please don't deny me tenure based on my shameless CV padding! You senior colleagues have it so nice, what with your 6000+ posts and all. And here I am, only an assistant professor. I'm not worthy!

edit: notice that I have just published another "article"--this time on the state of online higher education and its effects on the tenure process. I'll secure that tenure yet!

[_Jersey Girl]

Knock it off you shameless braggart!

I have 6,000+ posts on MDB.

Yer nuthin' buddy.

Please don't deny me tenure based on my shameless CV padding! You senior colleagues have it so nice, what with your 6000+ posts and all. And here I am, only an assistant professor. I'm not worthy!

edit: notice that I have just published another "article"--this time on the state of online higher education and its effects on the tenure process. I'll secure that tenure yet!

Begging doesn't impress us much. I have sent you a PM to soothe your bruised ego.

[_Mister Scratch]

Pity. Another point for me.

Keep adding up your "points," Scartch.

I don't care, and I doubt that many others do, either.

This is silly nonsense, and you're a loon.

It is a point, Dan, and you know it is. You can continue to try and sidestep the basic issue, but I feel confident that you know, on some level, that this is a terrible blow to Tvedtnes's credibility, and by extension, the credibility of FARMS and Mopologetics. I noticed that you failed to reply to my questions. Well, here they are again:

Well, then, what's going on here? Tvedtnes used to be some important researcher at FARMS, right? And you were Chair of FARMS---or a high-ranking administrator--during that time, right? Which means, presumably, that you would have seen Tvedtnes's resume/CV at some point in time, right? (Or did you give him a "free pass," ala FARMS Review?) So: did he include his SHIELDS pieces and his scripture quizzes on his resume at that time? Or is he only counting them now, as a means of telling the Saints that he has published "over 300 articles"?

Did you fail to read the CV of one of your "underlings"? Y/N?

Also, Trevor and Jersey Girl (whether they realize it or not) have also begun to ridicule Tvedtnes's braggadocio. Really: are his SHIELDS postings any different from all of our postings here on MDB? No, not so much.

[_Jersey Girl]

Scratch

Also, Trevor and Jersey Girl (whether they realize it or not) have also begun to ridicule Tvedtnes's braggadocio

I think I'll have to be content with you "realizing" it for me, Scratch.

[_Trevor]

I have to own up to it. I was spoofing Tvedtnes' interesting use of the word "article." Not a damnable offense by any means, but something I was willing to have a little fun with.

[_Trevor]

Begging doesn't impress us much. I have sent you a PM to soothe your bruised ego.

I love backroom deals that get me into the "tenure club." That's more than soothing of my tender, wounded little ego.

[_harmony]

harmony

Wait a minute. he's a senior resident scholar and he's only Master's level? What the heck? He's not even a PhD?

Well, the next time an apologist pulls the 'my degree is higher than your degree', I'm going to point out that my degree is equal their senior resident scholar's degree.

Good grief.

He has 2 Masters degrees, and the equivilant of Ph.D knowledge, many times over.

He has no PhD. Daniel said so. And without it, his knowledge doesn't let him put the letters behind his name.

That's at least 3 more degrees than you have harmony.

You don't know me; you've been here what... a week? You don't know what degrees I have.

Playing the degree game is irrelevant to intelligence.

Then you and your fellow apologists won't be playing the degree game when anyone quotes Brent Metcalfe or Trixie or any of the other intelligent undegreed critics. Are you sure you want to give away that hammer?

John's intelligence has been displayed in his myriads of articles and at least 6 books he has authored and co-authored. You're fishing in empty waters here.

So? He's master's level. So am I.

[Guest]

It is a point, Dan, and you know it is.

It's silly nonsense, and you're a loon.

You can continue to try and sidestep the basic issue, but I feel confident that you know, on some level, that this is a terrible blow to Tvedtnes's credibility, and by extension, the credibility of FARMS and Mopologetics.

Taken at its absolute worst, it would be a bit of embarrassing exaggeration about his CV on the part of John Tvedtnes that reflects not at all on the credibility of FARMS and "Mopologetics" nor even, really, on the validity of any scholarly argument ever advanced by John Tvedtnes himself.

It's irrelevant.

Trevor and Jersey Girl (whether they realize it or not) have also begun to ridicule Tvedtnes's braggadocio.

They can do what they want. It's no concern of mine. It has absolutely nothing to do with the validity or lack of validity of any argument ever published by FARMS.

Really: are his SHIELDS postings any different from all of our postings here on MDB? No, not so much.

I don't really see much resemblance between most of the items listed in his bibliography and the typical MDB post:

http://www.shields-research.org/Authors ... iblio.html

One big difference, of course, is that John Tvedtnes isn't a malevolently obsessive loon.

[_Trevor]

One big difference, of course, is that John Tvedtnes isn't a malevolently obsessive loon.

Have you been talking to my therapist? My astrologist? My spirit guide? My swami? My guru? My financial planner?

[_Daniel Peterson]

Have you been talking to my therapist? My astrologist? My spirit guide? My swami? My guru? My financial planner?

One of the clandestine informants who report to me via my secret network of covert intelligence gatherers has sent me all of the files amassed on you by your therapist, your astrologer, your spirit guide (these were dripping with rather icky ectoplasm), your swami, your guru, and your financial planner.

Why don't you just admit right now that you laid Tokyo waste and nearly killed poor Raymond Burr. It'll be easier for you if you simply acknowledge your guilt immediately, without making an embarrassing scene. All of you assistant professors are giant mutated, radioactive, mass-murdering lizards. I haven't seen the evidence yet, but there's no question that it will reveal you for what you are.