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Hello Sir, Can we not safely assume that our national currency devalues at a real-value rate of about 40% per decade? If that is the case then the 2010 value of a home purchased in 1964 for $50,000 could more or less be valued at $270,000 in today's terms, excluding real estate market factors. Sir,...

How did Packer pay for his house? I'm still waiting for an answer to this question. How did Packer make the payments on that house, now valued at over $1 million, if the church didn't pay him to be a GA? And if they paid him to be a GA, then he's been feeding at the tithing trough for almost 50 yea...

I bet that place was purchased for $150,000-$200,000 in the seventies. a 200k home in the 70s was alot of money.. especially in Utah.. Ultimately, I find it to be a non issue. Shock! Except that people didn't plunk down cash, they make payments. 200K is probably the upper end. Maybe it went for $12...

I wonder what the homes are valued at where Brother P lives. I think the MAD board mentioned neighbor houses as $2.1 million and $900,000. Well, that is the appreciated value over the last 35 years, not what it was worth when BKP bought the place. I bet that place was purchased for $150,000-$200,00...

Hmmm. where were the BYU professors and archealogists to let this body of students know that there were no known steel production capabilities in the Americas circa 600 B.C. to 400 AD? William Hamblin makes this apparent by the apologetic device of re-inventing the meaning of the word "steel&qu...

Today the Stake and other leaders got up and pounded on how "we as members represent Jesus, The Church, our Stake and our Wards and LDS everywhere and some of us are not showing a positive spirit on the Internet". Talked about how we as individuals cannot and do not speak for The Church. ...

Very few, however, impose a compulsory 10% income tax on their members. I was unaware that I am being forced to pay tithing. Good luck getting your temple recommend. Good luck being worthy of a "celestial marriage", "enduring to the end" and having your family with you together ...

The attitude of this board certainly holds more promise for ascertaining the 'actual black and white truth' (whatever that might turn out to be) than the attitude of MAD does. I agree. But also on this board are a lot of tares growing with the wheat. On the other board, one will be more likely to r...

After hang-over 100+ you begin to see that the church's prohibition on alchohol isn't such a bad thing....until the next week-end rolls around. Wine is nice with a good meal, but makes me really drowsy / sleepy and is not a smooth transition from imbibbed to normal. Sake hits fast and wears off fast...

I can just see the elder apologists now, sagely frowning and muttering that if I only knew all of the nuances, the context, and so forth, I would see how this stuff was not only OK, but in fact the best thing Joseph could possibly have done, because God commanded it. Ya but... if you had an angel w...