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by Marcus
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:39 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 243
Views: 6765

Re: Gemli explains...

He's posting on a Mormon blog!! ...Have any of the frequent SeN commenters ever posted anything to the effect that they think their beliefs are justified by their own sincerity in holding them? Every single time a Mormon says 'i know because the spirit told me' or some variation, they are testifying...
by Marcus
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 243
Views: 6765

Re: Gemli explains...

No, I've never been to one of those. I've read quite a few arguments by most if not all of the kinds of believers gemli mentioned, though, and none of them has ever mentioned their own sincerity as a justification for their belief. That's just not at all a common reason for believing things, even a...
by Marcus
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:58 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 243
Views: 6765

Re: Gemli explains...

Whatever is wrong with the thinking of theists and flat-earthers and all, very few of them think that their beliefs are justified by their own sincerity. I mean, who does ever think that? The reason to mention sincerity is to rebut the charge of deliberate fraud, not to justify one's belief. Delude...
by Marcus
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:40 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 243
Views: 6765

Re: Gemli explains...

gemli: "Folks who think that the sincerity of their beliefs is adequate justification for them" DanielPeterson: Nobody here meets that description. Except you, perhaps. Is Dr. Peterson dissembling on this point? A bit? :lol: DCP gemli: "The particle vs. wave nature of light was mysterious, and yet ...
by Marcus
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:45 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 243
Views: 6765

Re: Gemli explains...

Gemli explains further: Philip Leaning Gemli... just parrots the same old responses... − gemli > Philip Leaning My "same old responses" are statements of objective facts that don't change based on one's theological beliefs. That would be impossible anyway, since there are about 4,000 distinct religi...
by Marcus
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:27 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Lds church is wrongly attacked for giving too little to charity....
Replies: 8
Views: 465

Lds church is wrongly attacked for giving too little to charity....

And why is that wrong? A certain blog proprietor explains. The [lds] Church is a charity. :roll: He then segues into a non sequitur of whether disaster aid, poverty relief, and food for the poor encompasses all of 'charity' (which is not the question). ...Engaging in those activities is not a requir...
by Marcus
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:03 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: I Can't Eye-Roll Hard Enough Over DCP's Latest
Replies: 48
Views: 1628

Re: I Can't Eye-Roll Hard Enough Over DCP's Latest

Apropos of the pretense that the lds religion observed Holy Week, here is an article in the Des News: "How the Church of Jesus Christ’s history with Holy Week has changed in recent years" The terms “Easter,” “Palm Sunday” and “Holy Week” were not commonly used among early Latter-day Saints. Palm Sun...
by Marcus
Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:33 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 243
Views: 6765

Re: Gemli explains...

The "jumped-up monkeys thinking with lumps of meat" line is one I use in teaching quantum mechanics. ( Etwas entwickelte Affen, die mit Fleisch denken müssen ... .) I want to get students to get over just feeling overwhelmed and stupid, which is what we all are, and start struggling with understand...
by Marcus
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:08 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 243
Views: 6765

Re: Gemli explains...

...Everything is surprisingly complicated, to jumped-up monkeys like us who have to think with lumps of meat... :lol: ...I still don't understand the persistence of Gemli's hectoring... I don't know if this helps, but it's my understanding, based on a number of explanations Gemli has given, that he...
by Marcus
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mothers in Zion - why they're leaving
Replies: 103
Views: 16928

Re: Mothers in Zion - why they're leaving

DesNews has posted an article described as this, The Deseret News has now published a new article about how women are too totally empowered and heard and valued in Mormonism. Blatantly transparent move to dismiss the views and feelings women have expressed no matter how much the author claims that i...