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Smith was a total douchebag all ought to revile... an immoral predator, iniquitous opportunist looking to scam poeple and a professional con-man and charlatan worthy of our disgust and shame! I met with some old chums from high school recently, the Friday night before Christmas. All 6 of us were TB...

Life is becoming more cold and more brutish even as good quality food and medical care make it not so short anymore. But you earlier wrote: People meet others with like interests on the internet. Out my window on Thursday evenings in the summer I can observe cosplay of knights with their wooden bro...

So, all I see is arguing about a letter or fax... But my question is, is the hill cumorah in new York or not? According to the last perhaps only statement by the First Presidency, the Book of Mormon Hill Cumorah is one and the same hill in New York that Joseph so referred to it. Due to lack of arch...

A handful of decades ago, social clubs like the Elks, Eagles, the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, etc. were thriving. Business-networking clubs like Rotary, Kiwanis and Civitan were hard to join in many areas because they were "full." Organized religions flourished as a way to socialize with neighbors and...

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Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:30 pm

Someone should do a Bayesian analysis comparing the likelihood that the Book of Mormon is real history vs. the likelihood that DCP will serve an actual senior mission. Which, I wonder, is the bigger longshot?

Ha ha ha.

This entire episode involving the only Watson letter re location of the Book of Mormon Hill Cumorah places it in western New York. As Watson recently clarified, it was issued with the approval of the First Presidency, not just himself (though his role was a capital "S" Secretary, called and set apar...

The weird thing here is that the impossible details are just chrome. The miraculous break from reality isn't something like, "And the blind beggar saw!" Making it through gunfire unscathed should be the actual good part, but it's merely lucky, not impossible. The crazy parts are the helmet getting ...

Two LDS scholars (Royal Skousen & Terryl Givens) have accepted the view that the interpretations of Smith of the facsimiles are wrong. Skousen suggests they could be dropped and the written content of the Book of Abraham be accepted as given by revelation. So this paper is I believe a must read for...

Daniel Peterson recently posted a link to an article at Public Square Magazine called THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS THE WASHINGTON POST FORGOT that makes an astounding claim: The best estimates put the Church’s annual spending at about 4-5% of its savings. That level of spending of a fund’s principal may s...

Certainly it must be due to the one and only true factor: those who dechurch do so in order to sin. Ref. DCP and his mopologetic co-horts.