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Dr. Shades here. A huge part of the problem is that, due to continuing software issues, no new users have been able to sign up since mid-April or so. Ergo, there hasn't been any fresh blood since then; it's continued to be just us. Needless to say, I'm praying that our software guy can figure out a...

This means that closeted gays working for the CHURCH can now legally and lawfully come out of the closet and live their lives naturally as happy gay people. There is nothing the Church can do about it. Firing employees for being gay is a violation of the law and subject to the consequences of feder...

After a messy divorce, my brother's bishop told him he wasn't worthy to have a temple sealing dissolution. A very strange and disorienting moment for him.

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Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:25 pm

$54 million in "free" money? Why would they not take it?

Because it would be the moral thing to do. Not that they have shown moral concerns to be a huge factor in financial considerations...

The text never says volcanoes either. So, the apologetic is rather silly multiple angles.

Thanks for pointing this out. Lot's of fascinating stuff like this: Of particular interest in chapter 3 is its discussion of the Church’s noncompliance with tax laws. According to Quinn, by 1978 the Church “adopted a policy of not complying with tax laws until administratively forced to do so by gov...

If I justify my choice to sin by planning to repent right afterward, is God less likely to forgive me (or show me grace)? If this is the case, why would we not justify our sins by planning to repent waaaaaaayyyyy later. We could secretly plan to repent many years later and it wouldn't seeeeem like ...

I'm sure this is the kind of scholarship the Department of Near Eastern and Asian Languages was hoping to see when Dr. Gee moved from Maxwell to their group.

Kishkumen wrote:Well, one aspect of Ether that may indicate Walter’s influence is the alchemical symbolism of the Brother of Jared’s process to create the glass stones.

Care to expand on that, Kish? What is the alchemical symbolism going on? Were alchemists trying to draw on 'the finger of God', so to speak?

the evidence on the other side is too weighty to believe he had anything less than a very hands-on role in the whole process. No doubt he was elbows deep in the whole process. That said, the Jockers study from a few years ago leaves me convinced that it isn't a single Joseph Smith effort. That stud...