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We need to expand beyond Facebook, honestly, and reach out to more people with these interests. My hope is to get all folks who are interested in esotericism and Mormonism and want to talk constructively and intelligently about it together—believer and non-believer. Keep me in the loop about your pr...

Hey, Philo! I consider you one of the pioneers in this area. You and Joe Steve Swick III, whose recent health problems are so distressing. It was my great honor to present a paper in the same session with Joe at Sunstone years ago. I apologize for not looping you in. It was a social silo of problem....

Last Saturday the first of what I hope will be a series of workshops on Mormonism and Western Esotericism took place online. There were seven presenters in all, speaking on topics including magic, Freemasonry, the endowment and more. It was a very spirited gathering that brought together active LDS ...

To correct your statement about what you think I am, no, I am not "one of those people." I am "one of those people" who finds the lds temple process to be a fake ceremony, mostly cribbed in a meaningless copying of freemasonry, further made up by a church that is really a cult and that was started ...

That is an interesting take, but for me, having someone I "know and trust" suddenly inform me that I would now be required to allow myself to be touched in ways I knew inherently were inappropriate, in full view of other people, would NOT have been the solution. If anything, it would have been wors...

Shulem, yes, that is much better. Gaga as she chooses to be seen is far superior to Gaga as some juvenile twit chooses to distort her image. I am assuming you are NOT the person who distorted her image.

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Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:54 am

Ha! I have relatives galore from Raymond. Your grandfather likely went to church with some of them.

His last name was Bates. I know he left Canada well before WWII.

If the FAIR Board actually thinks the videos provide solid refutation of the CES letter, then being Mormon has dumbed them down further than I had ever supposed. These guys KNOW better. THEY KNOW BETTER. I was on the FAIR Board for the first couple years and I got to know these guys and they are NO...

The LDS Foundation, in my experience, conducts fundraising activities for entities owned by the Church, such as BYU. But not for other entities. I am hit up every year to support various apologetic efforts, but I am not aware that Church funds are used to fund apologetic efforts other than that whi...

Sort of on the other hand, I've had many face to face conversations with faithful LDS folks that went just fine. I had a cousin who was becoming estranged from her daughter, who had left the church. The daughter was pregnant, and things had gotten so bad between the two of them that she was afraid ...