When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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Re: When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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Daniel Peterson wrote:I suspect that you don't know enough to have that opinion, B23.

Hours on the internet do not a scholar make.

What have you actually read?


What is your opinion of Comoros/Cumorah/Moroni, Daniel?

A bullseye? A near miss? A miss entirely?
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Re: When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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Chap wrote:[...]

Reckoning a working week at 40 hours, that give us about 8 working weeks out of the last year and a half spent [by DCP] on this board alone.

Of course all this is really quite Old Testament.


Daniel Peterson wrote:When I begin pontificating on subjects of which I know little or nothing, based merely on participation on a message board, you'll have a point.


Like I said, my observation was quite Old Testament. I am sorry to have tempted DCP into another post, and thereby damaged even further the development of Arabic Studies in Utah.

Daniel Peterson wrote:Incidentally, Chap, if you say you'd like me to leave, I'll happily leave.


As if I would do anything to interfere with a good LDS in the exercise of his free agency. DCP is the only one qualified to judge how his time can best be spent.
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Re: When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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Runtu wrote:..Generally when this happens, high-fives are exchanged, "bullseyes" pronounced, and skeptics are lambasted for not finding the bullseyes particularly compelling.

..And several posters come right out and say she is an idiot.

..But the bullseye here is a hell of a lot more solid than almost any of the bullseyes I can think of that have been touted on that board.


I see what you mean, Runtu. If these clowns don't agree with someone, they attempt to T-bone their qualifications to make them appear as one that can't draw a legitimate conclusion or generate a thoughful opinion -for example:

Daniel Peterson wrote:
I suspect that you don't know enough to have that opinion, B23.

Hours on the internet do not a scholar make.

What have you actually read?


As you know, this is simply a diversion tactic of these prophets, seers and revelators of apologetics.

B-23 brought commentary to the thread and Peterson wasn't confident enough to challenge his remarks head-on, so he does what the big fat bully did in the schoolyard when we were kids. Generally they'll cut others down to build themselves up. It's a lot of posturing till someone finally stands up to them.

The hypocracy that has already been pointed out is quite revealing as well. What kind of life does this guy have outside the internet with the amount of hours he spends berating others here and other places?
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Re: When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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Daniel Peterson wrote:
When I begin pontificating on subjects of which I know little or nothing, based merely on participation on a message board, you'll have a point.

Incidentally, Chap, if you say you'd like me to leave, I'll happily leave.


Dan isn't going anywhere - happily or otherwise. He prequalifies himself as a pontificant. Don't pontificators need a board full of the little people to feed their allusion?
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Re: When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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Where the coordinating names on Vern Holly's maps simply a coincidence from which no warranted conclusions can be drawn?
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Re: When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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moksha wrote:Where the coordinating names on Vern Holly's maps simply a coincidence from which no warranted conclusions can be drawn?


You mean this map:

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and this one?

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No doubt these feeble attempts were exploded long ago ... where, by the way?
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Re: When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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Inconceivable wrote:Dan isn't going anywhere - happily or otherwise. He prequalifies himself as a pontificant. Don't pontificators need a board full of the little people to feed their allusion?

So my participation here counts against my character or psychological health?

Does participation here count against the others who post on this board, or merely against me?
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Re: When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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Chap wrote:No doubt these feeble attempts were exploded long ago ... where, by the way?

Here's a brief early evaluation:

http://farms.BYU.edu/publications/revie ... um=1&id=10

Here's another look:

http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Mormon ... th_America
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Re: When is a bullseye not a bullseye?

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Daniel Peterson wrote:
Inconceivable wrote:Dan isn't going anywhere - happily or otherwise. He prequalifies himself as a pontificant. Don't pontificators need a board full of the little people to feed their allusion?

So my participation here counts against my character or psychological health?

Does participation here count against the others who post on this board, or merely against me?


Dan, your participation countenances your character and psychological health just as it does everyone else.

You're not asking me a question, you're looking for a loophole.
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