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Kevin Christiansen from MD&D put it well: Having read the Book of Mormon, and Nibley's essay on Freeman and Kingman in the Book of Mormon, I missed the parts of the story where Captain Moroni paid off mistresses, separated children from refugee parents as deterrent, hired corrupt and ignorant peopl...

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Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:00 pm

I think the President is short a letter.

Indeed! And oddly enough it’s the letter he loves the most: I.

Seeks not the praise of the world? Seriously?

Trump pretty much only cares about the praise of the world. He’s just sore that the only people who like him or his presidential performance are idiots, fools, venal, or psycho.

Bear in mind we have two Joseph's -- the one before the Church was founded and the one after. The first was much more esoteric in nature with all kinds of superstitious elements to include treasure seeking, spirits, etc. I don't doubt for a second that Smith and perhaps members of his clan entertai...

Dear Everybody Wang Chung, FAIR appears to play a shell game with factual statements to anticipate and slip past your accusation, don't they? I mean, in actuality, nothing in the FAIR entry is falsifiable at all. Let me explain. Their presentation has 3 independent parts: (1) Joseph WOULD have know...

Probably something Trump and Jeffery Epstein cooked up while doing some blow on the island. "What the heck, let's get the guys involved. See what they say." Robert Mercer, a supporter of Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, has been called the single most important financial supporter of Trump and th...

Okay, I understand what you're saying. I wondered how you were going to develop the argument you'd set up. Thank you. edit: I see this as a problem with no obvious solution. (Adding primaries hasn't solved it.) Where am I wrong? Maybe we need public financing of elections? I think publicly financed...

Where did Brigham Young get his multiple mortal probations idea from? Good question, moksha. Multiple mortal probations becomes a pretty persistent idea in underground esoteric Mormon doctrine up to the present in the Prepper Movement. I know I will be looking into all of this thanks to Ramus' intr...

I see how all that is feasible and worthy of contemplation albeit those things never crossed my mind while studying Smith's teachings and peeling through his writings. From what I gathered about Smith's visitations or angelic persons visiting earth is that they were the originals from the times the...

Well then, I think we can rely on Smith's theological teachings of the resurrection as told by Alma (chapter 40) in the Book of Mormon when addressing the space between the time of death and the time of resurrection. Alma makes it clear that the spirits of all men, whether they be good or evil, are...