Mister Scratch wrote:Daniel Peterson wrote:I was never paid $20K so that I could function as chairman of the FARMS board. My department never received $20K so that I could serve as chairman of the FARMS board.
What??? This totally contradicts what you've been saying! You have told us multiple times that BYU received the $20,000 as a kind of "buyout." Now you're changing your story?
Sigh.
The money was paid to my department so that I could direct the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative and edit the texts published by the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative.
Directing and editing the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative is entirely separate and distinct from serving as chairman of the board of FARMS. I directed and edited the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative before I served as chairman of the FARMS board. I've directed and edited the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative
since serving as chairman of the FARMS board. Directing and editing the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative is entirely separate and distinct from serving as chairman of the board of FARMS.
Mister Scratch wrote:My successor as chairman of the FARMS board was the dean of engineering. No money was ever transferred to his department or college so that he could be released to serve as chairman of the FARMS board. He continued to serve as dean of engineering while he was chairman of the FARMS board.
Again, you seem to be contradicting yourself.
Are you serious, or are you pulling our leg?
Mister Scratch wrote:What was then FARMS and is now the Maxwell Institute made an arrangement with my home department -- as is commonly done, at BYU and elsewhere, and as I have explained at least eight or ten different times -- so that I could edit and direct the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. The Middle Eastern Texts Initiative has absolutely nothing to do with apologetics. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
Well, did you also do Mopologetic administrating work, or did you write, or travel with Ed Snow, or otherwise do *anything* which might even remotely be construed as "apologetic" in nature?
As I've said many times before, I don't regard administrative work and things of that sort as "apologetic." You presumably do, but I don't. I regard speaking on apologetic topics and writing on apologetic topics as "apologetic." The $20K was not for my apologetic speaking. The $20K was not for my apologetic writing. The $20K was for neither my apologetic speaking nor for my apologetic writing.
I did, it's true, do adminstrative work. I did, it's true, travel with Ed Snow.
But the money that was paid to my department to compensate it for my time away from teaching for my department was not related to my administrative work. It was not related to my travel with Ed Snow.
It was also not related to my writing. To the very limited extent that I've ever been paid for my apologetic writing, that payment was never part of my salary. It was not part of the money paid to my department. It was not part of my duty as chairman of the FARMS board. (I wrote such things prior to my service as chairman of the FARMS board. I have written such things subsequent to my service as chairman of the FARMS board. My successor as chairman of the FARMS board never wrote a line for FARMS, apologetic or otherwise.)
The $20K's not for the board.
The $20K's not for my words.
They did not pay me $20K.
They did not pay me as you say.
The money paid to my department was for my work with the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. It was not for apologetics. It was not for administering FARMS. It was not for traveling with Ed Snow. The money paid to my department was for my work with the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative.
Mister Scratch wrote:If you were "Chair" of FARMS, then I'm afraid that's not true, my Dear Professor.
It was and is true, Malevolent Loon.
Mister Scratch wrote:By the way: For how long, and during what years, did you edit and direct METI?
I founded METI in early 1993. I still direct it and edit its publications.
Mister Scratch wrote:After all, as you have suggested elsewhere, if they are wrong, then you, as Chair at that time, might have to answer to the IRS.
When and if you or one of the other Scartcholeptics reports me or the organization to the IRS, I'll worry about that. (Or, rather, I'll let BYU's accountants worry about that.) I'm not interested in ten-year-old tax documents.
Here's their web site:
http://www.irs.gov/ Mister Scratch wrote:I would advise you to read the form for yourself. You seem to have a very poor knowledge of the relevant literature.
I don't need to know any "literature" or read an IRS form in order to know whether or not I was paid $20,000.00 per year, or in any year, for my services as chairman of the FARMS board.
In Scartchworld, from what you say, it's common to donate more to charity than you earn, and to make so much money that you simply forget $20,000.00. But in the world where most of the rest of us live, such things simply aren't the norm.
Mister Scratch wrote:There is nothing wrong with my reasoning. During those other years, as you yourself have stated, you received a small amount of money for editing and writing in the FROB. However, during your years as Chair, a significant chunk of your salary went towards this.
That's flatly false.
To summarize some of the leading points:
The money paid to my department was for my work with the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative.
The money was paid to my department so that I could direct the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative and edit the texts published by the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative.
Directing and editing the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative is entirely separate and distinct from serving as chairman of the board of FARMS.
The $20K's not for the board.
The $20K's not for my words.
They did not pay me $20K.
They did not pay me as you say.