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Physics Guy wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:11 am

Maybe Smith would have done more constructive things, too, if he had had Faraday's kinds of chances.

Indeed he might. But he did not, so he turned to glass-looking, treasure seeking and religious fantasy.

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Well, exactly. You try not to go ad hominem on Smith and dismiss him just for living when and where he did. Great ideas can appear anywhere, at least sometimes. Michael Faraday was a contemporary of Smith who was mostly self-educated but the list of his scientific discoveries is ridiculous. Smith’s...

Physics Guy wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:18 pm

Spirit as tenuous matter, God having a body—that all just sounds like 19th-century hick thought, I'm afraid.

As one might have expected?

The idea of an atheist minister going around death row just seems silly to me, even as an atheist. Really? As an atheist myself, if I imagine the possibility of facing judicially inflicted death in prison, and assuming I had the right to be accompanied by somebody other than a close relation or spo...

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Dr. Shades wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:34 pm

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:19 pm

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. - Albert Einstein

That was Jesus Christ, not Albert Einstein.

Dr C may have been joking?

Shulem wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:15 pm

The text proves that Smith *claimed* to receive commandments. The text also proves that Smith *believed* in a deity. The formation of that text along with other published statements leads me to believe he believed he was commanded of God.

You have a touching faith in Smith's veracity.

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