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To pile on, kindly consider this clip from potholer54

Dr. Southerton's points are dead on.

Gadianton wrote:His main take-away was that communism and misery is a function of underlying atheism.

Wait, what?
The Dostoevsky novel written in the late 19th century? The novel written some four decades before the communist revolution? That novel?

Tom wrote:In his book titled Black Holes and Time Warps, Thorne notes: "In the late 1980s, at my mother's suggestion, the entire family requested excommunication from the Mormon Church in response to the Church's suppression of the rights of women"

Good for them!!

What did he do with the subscription to Penthouse magazine he won from Stephen Hawking?

The problem areas must be in Utah or Idaho. I can't imagine Snufferism moving beyond the Wasatch front, at least not yet. My next door neighbor confided to me about a year ago that he and his wife are both Snufferites, and they meet weekly with a group of other Snufferites. This is in the Mesa/Gilb...

Seems to me she was addressing a very real phenomenon. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jul/29/six-reasons-to-stop-panicking-post-graduation-prospects http://www.empowher.com/mental-health/content/dealing-post-college-graduation-stress-and-anxiety But sure, we can go with your "oppos...

So... My son graduated from BYU-I earlier this year, and we went up for the commencement. Now keep in mind that I've been out now nearly ten years, and haven't attended church more than 5 times since then, and not at all in the last ~6 years. As part of the 'opening exercises' thing they did, after ...

I remember finding out that those rescued were required to sign receipts for the blankets and food they were brought, and some owed those debts for a long time afterward.
It wasn't quite as inspiring a story after that.

This so reminds me of the creepy 'only we can help' video Tom Cruise did for Scientology.
'Cult' is right.

Good to know. I've heard dudes, humans and geeks used to refer to a group of people that includes women, I will now include gents. I would love to hear that phrases like ladies and girls are also used similarly in a non-gender specific way. As a male recruit who went through USMC recruit training (...