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Honestly, Dean Robbers, if you think about it for a while, it's more sad than anything. Because they take their authority so seriously, Mormonism's leaders condemned psychiatric and psychological mental healthcare for decades, while at the same time embracing the assistance of electroshock therapy t...

Reminds me of the "Day of Defense" booklet, sold to new missionaries in the MTC bookstore. I had a copy, studied it rigorously in my first area along with my companion and the zone leaders who shared an apartment with us. I fully believed that, not only did this booklet "prove" the Church was more t...

Good for him. More leaders need to defy Mormon authorities who ask them to do immoral things.

I would believe 40 hours as follows: 10-15 hours combined, a few minutes at a time, reading messages on this site and talking about them over email with his fellow “defenders” and plotting responses 5 hours searching old blog posts and notes for material to copy into “new” blog posts 1-2 hours readi...

This response to Billy Spears by Bruce Dale is just cringe-inducing: ...The Bayesian method my son Brian and I applied in our Interpreter paper may indeed be the best choice among set of bad options. It may be the cleanest dirty shirt in the laundry. But before it was published, that paper went thr...

Agree, Marcus.

Merry Smithmas to all and to all a good sleight!!

Something else quite telling in these Interpreter 990 forms is this: its mission statement uses the word "enemies." TO RESEARCH AND DESCRIBE THE RESTORATION OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST AS REVEALED TO JOSEPH SMITH AND WITH QUALITY, FAITH PROMOTING SCHOLARSHIP BY PUBLISHING ON-LINE A JOURNAL FREE OF...

Luckily, I received a pair of links recently from an "informant" which help to shed some light on the situation: namely, Interpreter's 2021 and 2022 tax documents. These documents show, very curiously, that rather than burning a hole in Interpreter's budget, Witnesses managed to somehow turn a prof...

How would paying for distribution rights to independently-produced content be viewed as a bailout?