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- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD
- Replies: 1292
- Views: 57460
Re: doubtingthomas’s topics MEGATHREAD
Still, I wouldn't give anyone a high five for dating a 17 year old when they are 26, even as a fantasy. Most people would think that was creepy and inappropriate. Do you have any statistical evidence of that? I suspect it's just your inner circle, I think most people would be fine with that. I've h...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1608
Re: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
Analytics DCP seems to take the fact that some people believe in irrational things as a license to believe in those things, too. He then goes down the rabbit hole of searching out books that justify what he wants to believe rather than figure out the truth. Very interesting. That is definitely the ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1608
Re: Logic and Dan Peterson arguments.
Where are the philosophers of logic here? Another: If it rains the grass will be wet. The grass is wet. Therefore, it has rained. I think this is a trick question. Following strict deductive logic, the grass being wet doesn’t mean anything. In contrast, if your second assumption was the grass is no...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: If not Biden, who?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4449
Re: If not Biden, who?
I imagine Gavin Newsome would have a great chance to beat Trump. I think Republicans have so thoroughly and effectively given California the "Hillary Clinton" treatment, to where anything or anyone associated with California would have a hard time overcoming the negative connotation propaganda tain...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:32 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Daniel dodges a dilemma by substituting his own
- Replies: 73
- Views: 5322507
Re: Daniel dodges a dilemma by substituting his own
I have always wondered about those who manufactured the relics, the pious frauds, as some call them. How did they justify their actions? What makes a sacred relic sacred if it can’t be its authenticity as the item in question? Is Joseph Smith more in touch with that world than we might ordinarily s...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 12:20 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Anderson's Venezuela bakery story...as a lever to get you to pay tithing
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3523
Re: Anderson's Venezuela bakery story...as a lever to get you to pay tithing
As a personal anecdote, when I get my hair cut short, a noticeable scar on the top-back of my head becomes very visible and the barber always comments on it. Getting that scar is one of my earliest memories. I was at my cousins’ house, which at the time was a single-wide trailer, and at the time the...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:34 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Rosebud MEGATHREAD
- Replies: 837
- Views: 52558
Re: To John: I'd Like Financial Compensation for Harms Done
If John Dehlin sexually harassed someone it’s not their fault for being susceptible. That’s just victim blaming. Responsible businesses put caution tape on steps like that all the time. In my opinion Dehlin’s affair should be similarly public as a warning to any women around him who aren’t already ...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Rosebud MEGATHREAD
- Replies: 837
- Views: 52558
Re: To John: I'd Like Financial Compensation for Harms Done
So, your point is that if the victim can be defined as being "freakishly susceptible" to sexual harassment, that should mitigate the charge of sexual harassment? Not in the least. What I am suggesting is that if you have a fling at work and lose your job over it, the financial harm you suffer is la...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:51 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Rosebud MEGATHREAD
- Replies: 837
- Views: 52558
Re: To John: I'd Like Financial Compensation for Harms Done
This reminds of a lawsuit I saw once. A woman was walking out of a small retail store in a strip mall. The sidewalk was about an inch lower than the floor in her store, which causes a minor tripping hazard. One day, a woman was walking out of the store and she tripped. She fell, broke several bones,...
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 3:17 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: DCP doubts the church has even 50 billion dollars
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9143
Re: DCP doubts the church has even 50 billion dollars
$50 billion is not “unconfirmed.” That much in liquid (publicly traded) investments is disclosed in the SEC 13F, which is a regulatory disclosure for large holders of certain publicly traded securities (stocks, options, ETFs, convertible stock and warrants). I just checked the latest 13F and it’s $...