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Besides being more impressive and serious and scholarly than recent anti-Mormon riff-raff, as interlocutors for apologists these heavyweights of the past have a more decisive advantage. They’re dead. So there’s no chance any of them will hear the faint buzz of a Mormon apologist, raise wondering eye...

Of course. All Q's are the same. Q is an uncommon letter, after all. What are the chances that it would really appear independently in so many places just by chance? About as low as the chances that Joseph Smith would guess that the Mayans made roads, that's how low. If people don't realize that the...

Just to be sure, which kind of Q material we be talkin’ ’bout here? :confused:

I have also enjoyed the introduction to Gadamer, but I'm kind of scratching my head still about exactly what Peterson said that was so wrong. Peterson's statement about how science mainly cares about universal laws, to the extent that individual cases are rarely of interest except as examples of the...

I haven't been bored so much, so far. As I get older I'm getting concerned about not having enough time to accomplish all that I want. And if I hear of somebody who dies at an advanced age having remained enthusiastically engaged in many activities until the last moment, I think that that person rea...

I can see Billy Shears’s points as good things about not believing in the Mormon God but most of them baffle me as good things about atheism. It’s like hearing a teetotaler insist how great it is not to have to drink that awful juniper liquor. Dude, you don’t have to drink gin. Try some brandy. Wine...

Early Modern English were good enough for God.

The real thing to contemplate is being the tour guide. Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets. Now, the most...

I think the low to high tension spectrum for religions makes a fair amount of sense, as long as one doesn’t think too carelessly about what “tension” means. Someone like Dietrich Bonhoeffer could be pretty relaxed about how seriously you should take medieval metaphysics but kind of strict about oppo...

What Gadamer offers is a radical critique, but in typical German fashion this critique doesn’t just present itself to the reader. Rather the critique builds slowly and only after several lengthy detours does it begin to take shape. By carefully following Gadamer’s train of thought over the course o...