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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:45 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2915
Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
I shouldn’t be too hard on Nielsen. But, man, this book is not serious scholarship. Would love to hear more. I was tempted to buy it, but wanted to see how candid opinions came in first. My suspicion was that a lone ranger project with such a grandiose title was very likely to be insufficiently ann...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:35 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2915
Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
I know that the general (and reasonable) standard is to look for definitive ties, but for me just the existence of certain ideas within the time and area -- even amongst seemingly unrelated individuals -- is interesting to me because of my own (young) experiences with just how organically informati...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2915
Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
Anyone read this yet? https://www.amazon.com/How-Book-Mormon-Came-Pass/dp/B0CYQDQ67K It centers on the works of a 17th century religious charlatan named Athanasius Kircher, revealing numerous parallels with Book of Mormon motifs and names. I haven't read it, but found the podcast with Mormonish to b...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Rosebud MEGATHREAD
- Replies: 834
- Views: 44463
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:48 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: DCP conflates humanitarian aid with church welfare
- Replies: 5
- Views: 367
Re: DCP conflates humanitarian aid with church welfare
Fear.I Have Questions wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:21 pmThe only thing that makes sense of hoarding all that money is…nope, I got nothing.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1096
Re: Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
I didn't know about RTM's talk, "Never take counsel from those who do not believe," lol, that's hilarious. Aren't the fifteen advised by an army of lawyers and consultants, many or most of which aren't Mormon? From what I hear, no. Attorneys, consultants, outside audit and internal audit personnel ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1096
Re: Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
The tidbit about The More Good Foundation was especially interesting: I have always viewed it as a fundamentally Mopologetic organization—basically, a secretive funding arm that would help finance and enable things like FAIR, or Allen Wyatt’s infamous cyber-squatting. More recently, Louis Midgley c...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1096
Re: Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
The SCMC is pretty useless at this point, unless they have several thousand employees that can scour the internet everyday. I predict the Church's Instagram page will stop allowing comments. The alternative is to heavily moderate the comments, further alienating Mormon women who already feel they h...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1096
Re: Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
Utterly fascinating! Thanks for sharing this! I'm a gonna spread this further with a video if that's all right with you, full credit given to you. I don't do plagiarism. It's all out there for you to examine, Brother Backyard Professor. No permission needed from me, because I know you'll do the wor...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1096
Bandwagon effects & Mormonism's online comeuppance
It has been a dozen years since Facebook acquired Instagram, and more than two dozen years since Microsoft acquired Hotmail. Hotmail pioneered a marketing model known as "viral marketing." Instagram brought us "influencers" and the social "bandwagon effect," which seeks to create FOMO by demonstrati...