I hope you are ready for 2023, and have a nice celebration all lined up for this evening. In predictable fashion, the Mopologists are marking the occasion by nursing old grudges and asking gullible Mormons to fork over their hard-earned money. Check it out:
"totally dead"? Wow: that's not a very kind thing to say. And if "Interpreter" really is something to be proud of, then why not highlight its accomplishments? Dr. Peterson does wind up doing so in the next paragraph, but it's a lot shorter than the space he devotes to attacking Bond:Sic et Non wrote:Roughly nine years ago, a sublimely self-confident pseudonymous critic on a small, extraordinarily nasty, and mostly atheist ex-Mormon message board took it upon himself to prophesy:
“By Jan. 1, 2014 Interpreter will be dead. . . . Either totally dead or down to token ‘blog’ style postings.” (Bond James Bond, 25 January 2013)
The Interpreter Foundation was about 5.5 months old when he pronounced his oracle.
I hope that “Mr. Bond” kept his day job. (Actually, I didn’t see anything at all from him for several years. Perhaps, I thought, he was totally dead. At the best, he no longer seemed to be up to making even token “blog style” posts. Lately, though, I think he may have resurfaced under a slightly altered pseudonym.)
As for "token blog style posts": I see they're still running the self-serving and really pretty stupid "Interpreting Interpreter" series by Kyler Rasmussen. Are they really that hard-up for content? They need summaries of their articles? Maybe Dr. Peterson can clarify what they're trying to accomplish here. In any event, DCP continues with his usual plea for money:DCP wrote:The Interpreter Foundation was launched almost precisely 546 weeks ago. Today marked the 545th consecutive week that it has published at least one article — which is not to mention its books, its blog, its scripture roundtables, its weekly radio programs, its film efforts, its conferences, and so forth.
It's also an operation where people on the Board steal material from other authors so that they can hasten their own competing books to press. And a slip-shod operation that has struggled repeatedly with editing problems, and which was once "called on the carpet" by the the Brethren for bad-mouthing the JSPP.That poor “Mr. Bond’s” prediction was proved wrong about eight years ago is entirely due to generous donations of time and labor and, yes, money from a great many people, to all of whom I’m deeply grateful. Our operation is almost entirely volunteer. We have no salaried employees. Although our bylaws allow the Foundation’s top leadership to draw up to $500 annually for their services, none has ever taken any such compensation. Nor are our authors paid. This is a labor of love, passion, and commitment.
But it has, admittedly, provided a fair amount of entertainment. So, here's to you, Mr. Bond: we'll sing a rousing rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" as we commemorate you for being such an exceptional thorn in Dr. Peterson's side for 9 long years. Perhaps in 2023 he'll make a resolution to stop carrying so many grudges?
