2012--The Year DCP Wished Wasn't

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Bob Loblaw wrote:
Drifting wrote:Dan has bigger problems in 2012 than worrying who Scratch was/is/might be...


Maybe it was Scratch behind the entire MI fiasco. It's possible that Gerald Bradford is Scratch (or maybe even Marlin Jensen). :surprised:


Whe you think about, the person culpable for all Dans 2012 mishaps is Dan himself. Maybe Dan is Scratch and unfriended himself...
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Drifting wrote:Whe you think about, the person culpable for all Dans 2012 mishaps is Dan himself. Maybe Dan is Scratch and unfriended himself...


Could be. There seems to be an organized effort to make the church and its apologists look bad. It goes by many names, such as FAIR, The Interpreter, and subgenius.
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Pahoran wrote:That's right. If Dan knows something today, he must have known it forever. Nobody ever finds out anything they didn't know before.

I wonder what it is that makes someone reflexively assume that someone has lied when there is a far more parsimonious explanation to hand?

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Well, it must have been a very recent discovery, then.

It would have been wrong to assume that he was lying.

But the truth is I don't believe that he knows who Scratch is, so I wasn't assuming that.
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Bob Loblaw wrote:
Drifting wrote:Whe you think about, the person culpable for all Dans 2012 mishaps is Dan himself. Maybe Dan is Scratch and unfriended himself...


Could be. There seems to be an organized effort to make the church and its apologists look bad. It goes by many names, such as FAIR, The Interpreter, and subgenius.


I thought 'subgenius' was an apologetic parody of some sort...
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Kishkumen wrote:Well, it must have been a very recent discovery, then.

It would have been wrong to assume that he was lying.

But the truth is I don't believe that he knows who Scratch is, so I wasn't assuming that.


I don't either and I know who they are pointing the finger at. It's not him but whatever makes them happy.
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Kishkumen wrote: Some former apostates have returned to the fold...



Who would that be?
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Bob Loblaw wrote:
Kishkumen wrote:Well, it must have been a very recent discovery, then.

It would have been wrong to assume that he was lying.

But the truth is I don't believe that he knows who Scratch is, so I wasn't assuming that.


I don't either and I know who they are pointing the finger at. It's not him but whatever makes them happy.


Well, I think he rejected my Facebook friend request once, If I recall correctly. If Daniel, like some other unhinged folks, believes that I am Scratch, then that is truly amusing and amazing. You would think that by now they would have gotten wise.
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son of Ishmael wrote:Who would that be?


Maxine Hanks and Don Bradley come to mind.
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Kishkumen wrote:Well, I think he rejected my Facebook friend request once, If I recall correctly. If Daniel, like some other unhinged folks, believes that I am Scratch, then that is truly amusing and amazing. You would think that by now they would have gotten wise.

I didn't say that Dan rejected Scratch's friend request; he had already accepted it. When certain information was brought to his attention, he removed that person from his friends list.

You are overstating your case when you suggest that there was anything "unhinged" about entertaining the possibility that Scratch might have been your sockpuppet. There's nothing remotely "unhinged" about considering various hypotheses in the absence of unambiguous evidence.

Someone above suggested that Scratch's apparently exposed identity must be "one hell of a good liar." Well, we already knew that about Scratch, so it stands to reason that the same applies to his in real life self as well, doesn't it?

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Pahoran wrote:I didn't say that Dan rejected Scratch's friend request; he had already accepted it. When certain information was brought to his attention, he removed that person from his friends list.

You are overstating your case when you suggest that there was anything "unhinged" about entertaining the possibility that Scratch might have been your sockpuppet. There's nothing remotely "unhinged" about considering various hypotheses in the absence of unambiguous evidence.

Someone above suggested that Scratch's apparently exposed identity must be "one hell of a good liar." Well, we already knew that about Scratch, so it stands to reason that the same applies to his in real life self as well, doesn't it?

Regards,
Pahoran


Care to explain how this alleged knowledge came to Dr. Peterson, or are you just blowing smoke?
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