The Church didn't feel obligated to fill in that box

[Marcus]

I guess the 13th AF must be even more confusing.

Right. Also I do have a new understanding of 'we believe all things'. I didn't realize in my younger years that that would end up including every bit of ridiculous, insanely irrational, and easily disproven myth.

[Doctor Scratch]

Dr. Peterson is saying that folks have misidentified his source:

In my blog entry here on Saturday, 1 July, I shared something that was recently said by an extremely successful and very wealthy tech entrepreneur in a small meeting that I attended. I didn’t identify that person because I didn’t feel that I had the right to do so, and because I have a strong aversion to unnecessarily drawing the fire of my most obsessively unhinged critics toward innocent people.

However, the wealthy tech entrepreneur in question has now been confidently identified over on the Peterson Obsession Board as someone whom I will call JH. (They provide his whole name.) JH is said to be a reckless extremist of the DezNat persuasion, a brainwashed cultist, and the Latter-day Saint analogue of a neo-Nazi, and I’m being denounced for valuing (and transmitting) the opinion of such a person.

Now, I have literally no idea whether JH is really all the bad things they’re saying about him. I don’t follow him — I have no sympathy whatsoever for what I understand to be DezNat ideology — and, in fact, to the best of my recollection, have never so much as heard of him. He isn’t the person that I was citing.

This is pretty much par for the course over at the Peterson Obsession Board. They begin with a misreading or a falsehood and then, building on that foundation, gasp at my depravity, mock my buffoonery, and/or lament my villainy. And then the original falsehood is baked into the ever-growing Bizarro-world alternative biography that they’ve been building for me over the past decade and a half. It is, in its weird way, rather fun to watch. Which is why I look in on their antics pretty much every day.

[Tom]

Dr. Peterson is saying that folks have misidentified his source:

In my blog entry here on Saturday, 1 July, I shared something that was recently said by an extremely successful and very wealthy tech entrepreneur in a small meeting that I attended. I didn’t identify that person because I didn’t feel that I had the right to do so, and because I have a strong aversion to unnecessarily drawing the fire of my most obsessively unhinged critics toward innocent people.

However, the wealthy tech entrepreneur in question has now been confidently identified over on the Peterson Obsession Board as someone whom I will call JH. (They provide his whole name.) JH is said to be a reckless extremist of the DezNat persuasion, a brainwashed cultist, and the Latter-day Saint analogue of a neo-Nazi, and I’m being denounced for valuing (and transmitting) the opinion of such a person.

Now, I have literally no idea whether JH is really all the bad things they’re saying about him. I don’t follow him — I have no sympathy whatsoever for what I understand to be DezNat ideology — and, in fact, to the best of my recollection, have never so much as heard of him. He isn’t the person that I was citing.

This is pretty much par for the course over at the Peterson Obsession Board. They begin with a misreading or a falsehood and then, building on that foundation, gasp at my depravity, mock my buffoonery, and/or lament my villainy. And then the original falsehood is baked into the ever-growing Bizarro-world alternative biography that they’ve been building for me over the past decade and a half. It is, in its weird way, rather fun to watch. Which is why I look in on their antics pretty much every day.

I've done some checking. I believe I know the identity of the tech entrepreneur, but I won't share it because I presume he would be embarrassed if his views about tithing (he would tithe anyway even if the Church simply burned his donations in the temple) became public.

Posted from Hatch, Utah

[drumdude]

Dr. Peterson is saying that folks have misidentified his source:

In my blog entry here on Saturday, 1 July, I shared something that was recently said by an extremely successful and very wealthy tech entrepreneur in a small meeting that I attended. I didn’t identify that person because I didn’t feel that I had the right to do so, and because I have a strong aversion to unnecessarily drawing the fire of my most obsessively unhinged critics toward innocent people.

However, the wealthy tech entrepreneur in question has now been confidently identified over on the Peterson Obsession Board as someone whom I will call JH. (They provide his whole name.) JH is said to be a reckless extremist of the DezNat persuasion, a brainwashed cultist, and the Latter-day Saint analogue of a neo-Nazi, and I’m being denounced for valuing (and transmitting) the opinion of such a person.

Now, I have literally no idea whether JH is really all the bad things they’re saying about him. I don’t follow him — I have no sympathy whatsoever for what I understand to be DezNat ideology — and, in fact, to the best of my recollection, have never so much as heard of him. He isn’t the person that I was citing.

This is pretty much par for the course over at the Peterson Obsession Board. They begin with a misreading or a falsehood and then, building on that foundation, gasp at my depravity, mock my buffoonery, and/or lament my villainy. And then the original falsehood is baked into the ever-growing Bizarro-world alternative biography that they’ve been building for me over the past decade and a half. It is, in its weird way, rather fun to watch. Which is why I look in on their antics pretty much every day.

I think DCP is overstating the importance of the identity to this board. Just a tiny little bit.

[malkie]

Dr. Peterson is saying that folks have misidentified his source:

I think DCP is overstating the importance of the identity to this board. Just a tiny little bit.

Par for the course at the DM Obsession blog?

If I had the energy, and really cared about it, I would collect some stats about how much DCP refers to DM, and compare that with how much DM refers to DCP. My suspicion is that it would not be an unreasonable comparison - probably less than a factor of 10^17 anyway

[drumdude]

I think DCP is overstating the importance of the identity to this board. Just a tiny little bit.

Par for the course at the DM Obsession blog?

If I had the energy, and really cared about it, I would collect some stats about how much DCP refers to DM, and compare that with how much DM refers to DCP. My suspicion is that it would not be an unreasonable comparison - probably less than a factor of 10^17 anyway

SeN has its own conspiratorial culture, such as the belief that every new critical poster that shows up in the comment section must be a sock puppet.

Midge usually shows up to guess the identity after 3-4 posts.