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I recall her pronouncing several dates for when earthquakes and destruction would descend on SLC, and well, they totally didn’t. That’s enough for me to say “nah.” I didn’t listen to the interview and probably won’t. But wasn’t her prophetess thing begun via a NDE? NDEs are always going to seem supe...

Joe said that Zelph was known from the East to the Rockies He must have had a plane to fly all the way down to Belize 'Cause now we know from those apologists who say It happened there in Mesoamerica back in the day Zelph, he was a man who traveled wide With the prophet Onendagus by his side On tapi...

Oh ha, I just got to the part in the second podcast where you talk about An Honest Liar. So yeah, I figured you’d have seen that. :)

Ah yes, brilliantly surmised and described, RFM. I assume you’ve seen An Honest Liar about the great, er, the amazing James Randi? I saw that right near the end of my believing four years ago, and I remember thinking how he would have easily exposed Joseph Smith back in the day, as he did with Uri G...

The Book of Abraham (a.k.a. Not Like Real Egyptian)

https://weirdalma.wordpress.com/2020/03 ... -egyptian/

Just announced: GC is broadcast only

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Yes, great analysis of that aspect of the text, Physics. On the one hand, I must acknowledge that Joseph was a major player of his type of con game, perhaps the best ever. The sheer audacity of the Book of Mormon, in any form, is impressive. But the artifice of his game is also very transparent in t...

The first full article is up from a blog series I’ve started: “Weird Alma’s Top 116 Reasons for Leaving Mormonism.” Some fun alt-history 116 pages stuff in this one, such as... Why didn’t he just re-translate the re-translation to show it was genuine? Why wouldn’t Moroni’s Promise have covered the r...

Oy. Of course, there are some actual conspiracies. 9/11 was a conspiracy... of a couple dozen men in al-Qaeda. But sadly, the pull of believing in something conspiratorial (because it’s usually more entertaining than the mundanity of actual life) is often accompanied by a severe lack of reason and f...