I don't know if it would have fit your premise or if there would be much content to work with, but I would have expected to see something about Kevin's return to MD&D.
I thought that was an unexpected turn of events.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Dr. Shades wrote:I love this time of year. . . because it's the time that I get to read Doctor Scratch's annual "The Top Ten Happenings in Mopologetics" thread.
They're the threads I look forward to all year, literally.
Kudos to you for another great thread, Doctor Scratch! I wholeheartedly enjoyed it, as usual.
It is a real holiday treat.
Yummy like a bowl of shweddy balls! Thanks again Doctor Scratch.
"And yet another little spot is smoothed out of the echo chamber wall..." Bond
Kevin Graham wrote:I really should do this, I get these requests all the time. I'll work on something soon.
Please do.
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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Chap wrote:Besides, his masterfully ironic impersonation of a bright and slightly self-admiring *undergraduate student* has its value too. From the mopologetic perspective, I suppose he could be seen as maklekan's essential Evil Twin - you know, 'opposition in all things'?
Some Schmo wrote:I think a better analogy would be chemotherapy. I read many of his posts and throw up. I suppose I should be grateful that he kills cancerous mopologetics, though, despite the suffering?
Probably the best backhanded compliment I've ever received.
Dr. Shades wrote:I love this time of year. . . because it's the time that I get to read Doctor Scratch's annual "The Top Ten Happenings in Mopologetics" thread.
They're the threads I look forward to all year, literally.
Kudos to you for another great thread, Doctor Scratch! I wholeheartedly enjoyed it, as usual.
Kishkumen wrote:It is a real holiday treat.
The Dude wrote:Yummy like a bowl of shweddy balls! Thanks again Doctor Scratch.
Chap wrote:Besides, his masterfully ironic impersonation of a bright and slightly self-admiring *undergraduate student* has its value too. From the mopologetic perspective, I suppose he could be seen as maklekan's essential Evil Twin - you know, 'opposition in all things'?
I had to make a slight correction.
Well, I thought Chap's error was perhaps a better compliment, Stak.
I join my voice in declaring 2011 the Year of the Stak.
I don't know if it would have fit your premise or if there would be much content to work with, but I would have expected to see something about Kevin's return to MD&D.
I thought that was an unexpected turn of events.
That's definitely worthy of at least an "Honorable Mention," Jersey Girl. There are always more than 10 important happenings each year, so the list is bound to exclude one thing or another.
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"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
Doctor Scratch wrote:3. Gee and Roper Verbally Assault Mike Reed . Over the summer, Mike Reed gave a powerful presentation at the Gold Plates Seminar, which was headed up by Richard Bushman. During his talk, several Maxwell Institute "scholars" showed up with the apparent intention of heckling him. They could be heard whispering and sniggering as he spoke. During the Q & A session, the lobbed a series of increasingly aggressive and mean-spirited questions at him. John Gee, in particular, raised his voice in apparent frustration and anger, while Matt Roper insisted that he had a text that would seriously undermine/challenge/disprove Reed's central argument. When pressed on this, however, Roper went completely silent. Speculation swirled over the motivation behind these MI Senior Mopologists' behavior, with many wondering whether this "attack" had been staged in advanced, behind the drawn curtains of FARMS's inner sanctum.
I made the top three! Yes! Where can I pick up my ribbon?
for what it's worth... Roper wasn't nearly as antagonistic as Gee was (I wouldn't call Roper's behavior "mean spirited"), and I have since received a source that Roper thinks I should have considered. Jack Welch also passed along an associate's feedback in an email I received from him recently. I'll be sure to consider both (the source and feedback) in the paper I will soon submit to a journal. Gotta finish my semester first.