Yahoo Bot wrote: There just aren't truly qualified apologists here any more. All driven off by one tactic or another. I know Dr. Peterson was threatened by a (I mean, "with a") lawsuit and with violence from this board.
Who threatened violence from this board?
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Wow! Can you substantiate that? Bill Hamblin going apostate would be news on a par with classic FARMS getting shut down. Hamblin is/was DCP's best friend... If true, this is astonishing.
"[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
Symmachus wrote:The grandpa story seemed to make sense of some of his readings of my post, but if he does triathalons I'll have to fall back on my previous theory that he has a drinking problem.
I've seen Bot's blog posts about his high-fitness adventures. He is no grandpa in a wheelchair, nor is he drunk.
Instead, Bot is a clever, devious chaos-generator. His primary purpose is to sow linguistic and mental confusion. He does not misinterpret so much as deliberately mischaracterize others' posts.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
Symmachus wrote:The grandpa story seemed to make sense of some of his readings of my post, but if he does triathalons I'll have to fall back on my previous theory that he has a drinking problem.
Yahoo Bot is very fit. He puts most of us to shame, frankly. He tries to be funny, and self-deprecation works if you know who he is.
- Doc
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.
Water Dog wrote:DCP was threatened with a lawsuit?
The only time I'm aware of Dan having been threatened with a lawsuit on this board was by Robert Ritner way back in 2007, and in that case, he very much had it coming:
Wow! Can you substantiate that? Bill Hamblin going apostate would be news on a par with classic FARMS getting shut down. Hamblin is/was DCP's best friend... If true, this is astonishing.
I really don't know which would be more astonishing--people like Hamblin and Schryver leaving the church, or people like them staying? I'll always remember when Schryver went from being the hero of apologetics that once and for all threw all Book of Abraham criticisms into Mount Doom to persona non grata at BYU. It happened overnight. He changed his MDD avatar from the Wizard of Oz scarecrow to a scarecrow being crucified. Totally understandable. He originally thought that Gerald Bradford was a rogue administrator and that the Lord's Anointed would set everything right. Then he slowly figured out Bradford was doing nothing more nor less than loyally following the brethren.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Kishkumen wrote: I've seen Bot's blog posts about his high-fitness adventures. He is no grandpa in a wheelchair, nor is he drunk.
Instead, Bot is a clever, devious chaos-generator. His primary purpose is to sow linguistic and mental confusion. He does not misinterpret so much as deliberately mischaracterize others' posts.
Well, that I explains why i feel like a drink after I read his responses.
"As to any slivers of light or any particles of darkness of the past, we forget about them."
Water Dog wrote:DCP was threatened with a lawsuit?
The only time I'm aware of Dan having been threatened with a lawsuit on this board was by Robert Ritner way back in 2007, and in that case, he very much had it coming:
There could have been another lawsuit threat somewhere, I really didn't keep up with all of Dan's back-and-forth here.
He's been threatened with legal action multiple times--a real credit to his charming personality, I guess--though not all of them were necessarily connected to this board. The most salient example I can recall is this one:
But, of course, he actually *was* taken to court by Kurt Van Gorden in a defamation lawsuit (though it needs to be said that the judge tossed the case out "with prejudice"). He was also briefly threatened with legal action by Blair Hodges in the wake of the "You go to hell!!" confrontation at the 2014 FAIR Conference.
I feel like I'm forgetting other instances.
"[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