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Did he follow this advice from his dad? My father liked to lecture me: “When you are listening to somebody trying to teach you, imagine yourself trying to teach them something. What will you say? Will you know what you’re talking about? Will you have any real conviction? Will you tell dumb stories ...

Dan looking up Frenchy to see that he had died a non-member feels a lot like Christopher Hitchen's answer to "what gets you up in the morning?" Well, I can only answer for myself. What cheers me up? I suppose mainly gloating over the misfortunes of other people. Yes, I guess that has to be it. Mainl...

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Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:20 am

Daniel C. Peterson seen here watching watching 12 Years a Slave on Netflix:

When you live in a smelly room for long enough, you eventually become accustomed to the aroma to the point where it no longer smells at all. They call it “nose blindness.” If you grew up in such a room, you may even develop a nostalgia and fondness for the smell when it’s absent. I view Christianity...

The church released this guidance in 2012: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/church-asks-members-to-understand-policies?lang=eng The clear message is “don’t get us into hot water by baptizing Holocaust victims or celebrities.” The request to work on your own line only, is basically ju...

The church released this guidance in 2012: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/church-asks-members-to-understand-policies?lang=eng The clear message is “don’t get us into hot water by baptizing Holocaust victims or celebrities.” The request to work on your own line only, is basically jus...

Not surprising that he doesn’t want to discuss criticism in public.

And yeah the “no idea how they disappeared” is just a cop-out. Anyone who has used YouTube for more than a couple days knows how the system works.

Having never known nor even met any other member of Frenchy Morrell’s family, and having met Frenchy himself only once, briefly and years ago, and being neither his undivorced spouse nor his adult child nor his father or mother or brother or sister, I had no right under the rules of the Church to s...

I’m a bit surprised that Peterson has missed an entirely obvious and logical reason for the phrase, ‘until death do us part’. That being, typically when a married person passes away, their spouse is rarely passing away at the same moment. Hence, ‘till death do us part’. One member of the union will...

A gem from the Hitchen's file adds more to the list of self generated sanctions. Hitchens claimed that believing in God was equivalent to life in an eternal totalitarian state: ‘It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime...