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Is it any coincidence that a church which encourages its members to believe a conspiracy theory (the Book of Mormon is historical) has members which are more likely to believe other conspiracy theories? They’re more likely to believe vaccines are a government plot, the capitol riot was a government...

Bummer. The idea of closed vessels lit by their 100 watt rocks going down the St. Lawrence with a bunch of angry bees was a fun image.

Albany?

Not that I have any real justification for it, but I am going to put $5 on Montreal.

I have to think we'd all be better off supporting Dr. Peterson's endeavor of taking on the absurdness of Trumpism and its damage to democracy rather than putting him on the defensive of his own absurdities when he does that. It is going to take conservative voices for conservatives to really fathom ...

Wonderful! I look forward to to seeing it. The honeybee/red crown/dsrt stuff was absolutely mind blowing.

From Two Cumorah thread: Also, I had another thread about the Jaredites leaving the old world and coming to America but I stopped because of lack of interest. The final voyage leaving the Mediterranean to America was not covered because of lack of interest. But, I know, or should I say I BELEIVE whe...

Has anyone of you statistics experts read the paper Reassessing authorship of the Book of Mormon using delta and nearest shrunken centroid classification Matthew L. Jockers, Daniela M. Witten, Craig S. Criddle Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 465–491, http...

Has anyone of you statistics experts read the paper Reassessing authorship of the Book of Mormon using delta and nearest shrunken centroid classification Matthew L. Jockers, Daniela M. Witten, Craig S. Criddle Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2008, Pages 465–491, http...

Great thread, Shulem! Your captions are hilarious. Elder Bednar speaks in Mexico Inviting the elder to stand and come to the front of the chapel, Elder Bednar looked him in the eyes and said: “I am talking to you. I am not talking to your companion. I am not talking to the people on the stand.” http...

In reality, I think the book was mainly written to console the author and other Mormon apologists. It is really hard to see any other way. I don't get the sense that even Jeff Lindsay really want to talk specifics about the Book of Abraham. Instead, having this book means he has something to point ...