Is Mr. Scratch bitter for DCP's remuneration for apoligia?

[_LifeOnaPlate]

Looks like we found out who scratch's little informant is.

[_GoodK]

Hi Mudcat. Are you talking about CARM? Or LDS.Net?

I suppose I just don't have a big issue with LDS apologists getting paid for their work.

Well, they must have thought it was a big issue because they insisted they didn't get paid for their work for a long time.

The problem isn't getting paid for your work, it's pretending like you don't get paid when you do - and then when it's discovered that you do get paid, you pretend like you get paid so little it's funny - and then when it's discovered that your account said you were paid $20,000 one year, you pretend like that is ridiculous and then start libeling the accountant - and on and on and on.

That is the issue.

they believe what they believe and try to get others to believe what they believe also.

They should just believe what they believe and leave others alone, but that is how I feel about all religions.

Its their resources, time, etc... Does it really matter how they spend it?

Well, considering the fact that virtually every active latter day saint believes that their church leaders don't get paid (while the president of the church lives in a multimillion dollar SLC penthouse) and they refuse to disclose their finances to the public, and they command their members to give 10% of their income to them -- I say yes, emphatically, it does matter how they spend it.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

I know where the prophet lives. I'm glad he lives there. Only folks like you would even think of it as a problem.

[_GoodK]

That's downright moving.
I wonder if Scratch yearns for my early death, as GoodK does. If so, he hasn't publicly expressed it.

No, I hope you live long enough to destroy many more careers and family's. I doubt you've had your fill.

[_GoodK]

I know where the prophet lives. I'm glad he lives there. Only folks like you would even think of it as a problem.

Folks like me.

Who told you where the prophet lives? Folks like you, or folks like me? Methinks you didn't learn that the prophet lived in a multimillion dollar penthouse from the church.

But I'm glad your glad. It's not my money.

[Guest]

Well, they must have thought it was a big issue because they insisted they didn't get paid for their work for a long time.

This claim won't begin to be true even if it's repeated daily for decades to come.

I, for one, have never, ever, denied receiving the occasional $50 royalty or, on one or two occasions, a $15 check to cover gas for a fireside. Such windfall profits come my way every year or two. And, in two or three different years over the past quarter century or so, when the stars have aligned in just the right manner, my take has soared into the $100-150 range.

The problem isn't getting paid for your work, it's pretending like you don't get paid when you do - and then when it's discovered that you do get paid, you pretend like you get paid so little it's funny - and then when it's discovered that your account said you were paid $20,000 one year, you pretend like that is ridiculous and then start libeling the accountant - and on and on and on.

That is the issue.

And it's entirely baseless.

If he's the one I'm thinking of, the accountant was indeed fired, and I was never paid $20K (nor anything like thereunto) for apologetics and never received $20K (nor anything like thereunto) as a supplement to my normal BYU salary for anything involved with FARMS or the Maxwell Institute. Jason Bourne has tried, very patiently, to explain to Mister Scratch and his devotees how to read an IRS form, but it has been in vain. The personal hostility, it seems, is simply too strong.

I hate to come right out and say this, and at the risk of sounding unreasonable -- Daniel C. Peterson is about three hundred pounds of flotsam in a ten pound bag.

I am personally quite glad he has limited his posts here to simply pimping his crappy book review whenever another "steaming" pile is ready to be peddled to the sheep.

This "professor" has done more to dismantle a quiet Californian Mormon family (most of whom he's never met) than any of the "vices" the Mormon church cautions its membership against, all without the slightest hint of remorse.

Besides his obsession with me (despite his claims that he is in fact the object of Scratch's obsession), he is generally a pompous charlatan and I sincerely hope his greasy and fatty diet catches up to him before he damages any more family relationships in the name of that tinpot review of authors.

[_LifeOnaPlate]

I know where the prophet lives. I'm glad he lives there. Only folks like you would even think of it as a problem.

Folks like me.

Who told you where the prophet lives? Folks like you, or folks like me? Methinks you didn't learn that the prophet lived in a multimillion dollar penthouse from the church.

But I'm glad your glad. It's not my money.

Folks like you.

"The Church"? I learned from an active, faithful, tithe-paying member of the Church.

[_GoodK]

LOAP - Send me a PM if you want to get a Beef 'N Cheddar. I'll be in Utah.

DCP - As much as I would love to chat about this, I have a deadline to meet for a writing assignment and I have to be up early in the morning - but I will say this. You can cry as much and for as long as you want about how I much I loathe you. You can use it to defend the church. I don't care. You earned it. Truth is I had no vendetta against you. I actually liked you and had respect for you because of my dad. But yes, make no mistake, I intensely dislike Daniel C. Peterson for pissing on my privacy and all the other resulting things he did that we all know about in the name of a religion that is frankly one of the most ridiculous creeds circulating civilization today. Have a great night.

[_Daniel Peterson]

I'm not crying at all, though I do find you sad.

I wish you all the best, and always have.

[_The Nehor]

Grosskreutz: I don't know what you can do with this sort of information, or if you have any advice, but feel free as always to post it to the board.

MS: Okay, thanks. There is not really anything I can post at this point, since it is all too speculative...

Okay, that is revealing and kinda odd.

You mean there is stuff so speculative even Scratch won't post it?

Wow........I'm curious as to what this is? Mormons raising a zombie army? Danite hits on Central American governments? A secret vault that contains signed confessions denouncing the Church from every Prophet? A Priesthood class where they don't just read from the manual?

Please enlighten us.