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It is almost solely determined by biological factors (genetic and epigenetic) Are we sure of this? I haven't been following the literature in this area but I see claims of genes/epigenetic causes more and more frequently these days. It has always been plausible, to me, but is there a specific disco...

Just curious why the legislature is considering a law to ban these agreements, specifically in the media, in the first place. Are they widely used in the media? Especially problematic for the media? It was somebody's idea to initiate the ban to which the LDS media Conglomerate is responding.

We need to repeal laws that shield gun manufacturers from liability. They have special protections that no other industry has. I would like to see them whipped with lawsuits until their lobby crumbles and they are more like today's tobacco industry. Both industries create a health hazard to users an...

Nelson looks and sounds creepy. He seems like he's acting -- acting the part of Hannibal Lecter with bone-chilling style. That smile, the brown teeth. "I hope it doesn't sound creepy, but I have a special place for you in my stomach, Peggy. I ate all your relatives. Yum yum little girleee."...

It seems to be written with equanimity. However, why it was accepted as a thesis project in the first place is a little mystifying but I suppose there's lots of insular and odd topics used. Insular and odd, that's the risk you take when you do a project on Mormonism. Also a big risk with a Mormon-r...

Did he say he's been posting for over 10 years? Well, I bet Scott Lloyd might leave for a while, but he will definitely go back eventually, in one form or another. You don't break a 10 year habit so easily.

Thanks Fence Sitter and Shulem for addressing my questions so lucidly and thoroughly. So I understand how confirmation bias could come into play here but this is Anubis and unless one could come up with another vignette from a similar time period showing Anubis drawn this way, without a snout, I th...

Even if you were to say, "Our Authorities right or wrong - our Authorities!" Smac97 and Scott Lloyd would enter the fray and castigate you for using the word wrong. They would insist that what you should have said was, "Our Authorities right and righter!" You would then get a ti...

You have to start somewhere. However, Bishops asking questions is not the major source of anguish. They can still read your mind and judge your worthiness just by being bishops. "Is there anything else you'd like to tell me?" is enough for them to say. If you don't confess you can't repent...

Quasi, that's really interesting that syphilis may have started in the Americas and flowed back to Europe, opposite the spread of smallpox. But how does this work as evidence against the Book of Mormon?