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Gadianton marks me as as being solipsistic. No, I marked you as a 6-day creation fundamentalist who operates in a black and white world, believing that you have the absolute 100% truth, playing the solipsism card only when specific topics come up that you don't have good answers for. You are not a ...

Thomas Wayment: In this link you provided we see that one of the researchers left the church (although not primarily due to her collaboration on the JST origins) and the other, a professor, didn’t. This clarifies the point I’m attempting to make in that we all enter the room and come out having int...

One thing that is an interesting feature of constructionism is that we don’t individually create our reality — we do it socially through interacting with others. Even a brief exchange such as this contributes to that construction. Take care. Yes we do. That seems to be self evident. That’s one of t...

Repeating a quote I posted earlier: Quoting something drumdude posted as a quote on another thread: As I’ve gone through the years it becomes more self evident that the “how we” component as to how we approach things makes a huge difference in life paths and outcomes. We literally construct our rea...

Welcome back MG. I hope you and yours are well. I’ll keep things rather limited so that I don’t get things too riled up! In the past I’ve spread myself a bit thin by trying to put myself into too many conversations at once. And also feeling as though I needed to ‘be there’ to the end. No more. Here...

You really need to ponder what I highlighted above and then ponder it again and then try and look objectively at Joseph Smith and what he did and the scholarship that has come out as to his sources, like http://jur.byu.edu/?p=21296 Thomas Wayment: I tend to agree that the command to “translate” the...

Repeating a quote I posted earlier: There are two layers of reality. There is the objective reality of what happens, and there is the subjective reality of how what happened is seen, interpreted, made meaningful. That second subjective layer can sometimes be the more important layer. As the Yale psy...

The quote is predictable and it is not news to anybody. I felt that the quote was quite profound. Still do. And that it has application to what we all perceive as reality. We’re each unique in our interpretive lenses. “People don’t see the world with their eyes; they see it with their entire life.”...

By the way, I don’t know if you all have either seen, read, or discussed Hardy’s “Annotated Book of Mormon”. It’s worth spending time with. Hey, MG. I hope you're well. I believe that there are more than a few here who will have read the book. Maybe you should start a thread and lead a discussion o...

It may be true, sadly, that being open to the possibility that there is something profound in a book may cause one to be more likely to find profundity, but it is certainly not a logical way to think. Suppose you are testing for A versus not-A. Simply acknowledging the possibility of A as a result ...