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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.

Nicely put, I think, and wonderfully calculated to cause Trump to waste lots of energy and time in impotent rage: ‘He’s nothing’: E Jean Carroll says ‘we don’t need to be afraid’ of Donald Trump Former Elle writer says $83.3m defamation ruling shows Trump – who she compared to a walrus snorting – ‘c...

Cleverly put. In some sense, his acting as if he was above the law stemmed from his claims to authority as the prophet of a new dispensation. Of course we have no way of knowing whether he actually believed those claims himself, as opposed to finding them a really great way to live without working,...

Smith believed he was above the law. He was murdered for both his beliefs and his actions. Cleverly put. In some sense, his acting as if he was above the law stemmed from his claims to authority as the prophet of a new dispensation. Of course we have no way of knowing whether he actually believed t...

The numbers of arrivals so far exceed the government’s capacity to turn them away that it has resorted to releasing a few of them as a last resort, Why do we have to fly central American illegal immigrants anywhere? If they made their way to Mexico, than Mexico needs to figure out a way to deport t...

There are a lot of people like that in the UK. I have been in the UK for quite large parts of my life. Currently I frequently travel between a significant city and London. A long time ago I may have experienced one instance of somebody in the street smelling bad, but I think that was quite a few ye...

The first time I read that I thought David sounded just like a mob boss, asking his son to take revenge on old enemies. It's stuck in my mind ever since as an example of the kind of thing that people don't remember from the Bible. You are not alone. It is clear that in his day not everybody was del...

Golly! What an amazing riposte.

Meanwhile, back at the topic ...

... The main point I sought to make is that none of us are any more moral than Trump. If we think we are, we deceive ourselves. So we can't say that some people act more ethically than others? How odd, then, that in the Gospel jesus says that at the end of time he will come to judge the world, and ...