After reading your OP I thought I understood how to address you, but since you have switched to a dual personality we are no longer sure.
We are thinking about starting a fan club for you. In your honor we would like to call ourselves "Danites".
Your Unworthy Interlocutors who are not worthy to read your announcements.
/sillyoff
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. 7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8 For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” 9 And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12 and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” 13 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the pigs, and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and were drowned in the sea.
Huckelberry said: I see the order and harmony to be the very image of God which smiles upon us each morning as we awake.
Daniel Peterson wrote:For those here who may be unaware of the stiffly formal way in which we insist on being identified and addressed, and in the light of certain discussions down in the "Terrestrial Forum," here are some guidelines
There's more than one of you?
Criminintly! No one ever tells me the important stuff!
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
Polygamy-Porter wrote:ferchristssakes, why is this posted here?
As I have stated before, since your Ph.D has nothing to do with Mormon history or mo'pologetics, I see no reason to address you other than Dan, Daniel, DCP, Dano, or Danny.
If I ever end up on Islamic discussion boards, I will address you as Dr. Peterson.
I'd prefer distinguished member of the gang that couldn't shoot straight or round peg square hole bunch.
or simply brother Peterson, when he's representing the church's apologetic arm. You know, all of that discussion that makes no reference to Jesus Christ or his influence.
Having grown up in a house full of sarcasm, I concluded long ago that it's a veiled way of saying what we really think about ourselves and others.
Daniel Peterson wrote:Not just dual. We are Legion.
We do like the tone of your note. It strikes just the appropriate note of groveling obsequiousness upon which, we are told, we insist.
And we also like the notion of "Danites."
It will be necessary to explain what "groveling obsequiousness" means to the Danites. For some reason the recruits, so far, seem to have a limited vocabulary. You will be pleased to know there does seem to be a strong correlation between their inability to understand and the strength of their devotion to you.
Yours in abject abasement and adulation.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
I don't typically ask that people refer to me as "Dr. Peterson." Certainly not on message boards. I have done so on a small handful of occasions, but only, as I recall, when they have been going out of their way to try to indicate contempt for me by using demeaning or disrespectful titles or by pretending that I'm not a legitimate academic and that I don't, in fact, have the academic degree (from the same very respected university where Tarski earned his) that, in fact, I do have.
There are quite a number of people on this board who refer to me, both on the board and in personal messages, as "Dan," and I don't believe that I have ever corrected them. I'm perfectly fine with it. (They can, if they're so inclined, vouch for me on this point.)
For that matter, more than a few of my students refer to me as "Dan." We're not big on formality in the BYU Arabic program, where the professors are very often known to their students as "Dan," "Dil," "Kirk," "Jim," "Arnie," "Donna Lee," "Bill," and the like.
The notion that I pompously insist that everyone always address me as "Dr. Peterson" simply isn't true.