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The stakes near the proposed McKinney Temple in Texas were instructed to mention how the height of the temple steeple was essential to the LDS faith at the city planning and zoning meeting. I suspect the Church was trying to push this lie so the steeple height would be less of a stumbling block. Th...

As far as teaching goes, technically I can teach whatever I want. I'm required to offer what amounts to one course each semester, but I have Lehrfreiheit —the freedom to decide for myself exactly what it is that I'll teach. What a blessing that is! I've created a couple of courses for my university...

[...] Jorgensen offers up a number of reasons why "none of the accounts that record the miracle [were] written on the day of the manifestation or shortly thereafter." Readers will need to decide whether any of them are convincing. [...] As always, Tom, you remind me why I rush to read any time I've...

The Phoenix Suns is an NBA team, the current home of a pair of players whose careers I have followed for years: Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. There is a forum dedicated to this team, and to no one's surprise, trolling happens there also. This comment explains: I've been posting on Suns' forums sinc...

...factually-ungrounded theoretical explanations of... Help me out here. What would a factually-grounded theoretical explanation of an imaginary event that violates all laws of physics look like? All I have the patience for is... "Nope. Didn't happen." (eyes roll vigorously.) Maybe with a corollary...

Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. Additionally, it modifies certain words on the basis of...

Lisa Martens says: "This is basically a link I will be using in the future to reply to trolling comments. Feel free to do the same!" Hi! Welcome to Troll Chatbot. You’re talking to a robot, but don’t worry. I can help. Just because I’m a robot doesn’t mean I do not care. You’re receiving this messag...

You aren't the only person that shares responses from A.I. to assist in conversation. But this is the first time I've personally seen someone get upset about it. Meh. No one is upset. When others have used A.I. here, it's been to laugh at and call attention to the goofiness of the whole thing. But ...

Dear god. Given that list, and including all the other issues you've mentioned I can't imagine any organization having a problem with you cutting back on your volunteer work. And giving an outdoor party for children where you have to BBQ when you have a dislocated hip sounds like an utter nightmare...

:!: GP aware. Appointment already made. :!: Just a vent really. Still not right since being ill. Not sure how long it will take to get back to my normal level of feeling crap. Heart rate is all over the place. Thankfully O2 isn't changing much but the dizziness and tiredness is difficult. I have ED...