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- Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:33 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
- Replies: 17
- Views: 930
Re: Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
Wow I have those kind of return to mission dreams also. I am always back in St. Louis in the slums and bad places. In one I told my companion as we were studying that I wasn't going tracting, I was going to study, he went back to bed. I actually had a companion like that! Many of my happiest missio...
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:31 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
- Replies: 17
- Views: 930
Re: Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
Does focusing on the good in your mission help to relieve any of the PTSD? I've certainly been blessed by encountering you online, Analytics. Had you not gone on mission and I had not encountered you on the website which ultimately led to my registering and participating on ZLMB, I don't know where...
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:25 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
- Replies: 17
- Views: 930
Re: Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
The topic has come up before and I was surprised I wasn't the only one. Was this reliving the mission as a new missionary or forced to return at the time in your life you're at now? I had these occasionally for a while but can't remember the last one. Maybe over 10 years after returning. Mine were ...
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:19 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
- Replies: 17
- Views: 930
Re: Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
I wish I had done this when the temple speaker voice told me I could leave the cult like ceremony. But my wedding was on the line, family was all around, and I was a captive victim. If I could go back in time I would have stood up for myself and my beliefs. I wonder if anybody has had to guts to ta...
- Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:38 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
- Replies: 17
- Views: 930
Dreams of Being Called on a Mission
Ever since I returned from my mission 30 years ago, I've had dreams about being called back on a mission. Even before I left the Church, these dreams were hellish nightmares. They continued like that for 20 years, maybe. But then, the dreams gradually became better--I was still a missionary in these...
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:00 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
- Replies: 341
- Views: 28692
Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Does the anti-Russian language policy justify invasion? Of course not, but it should make one skeptical of the simplistic Russian vs. Ukrainian framing on which Western propaganda relies.... Thank you for sharing your thoughts on all of this, Symmachus. You provide more questions than answers, and ...
- Thu Aug 25, 2022 8:38 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Mopologetics and Converting “Great Men”
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2380
Re: Mopologetics and Converting “Great Men”
Yet one wonders what the other essays that scored lower were like if this was the winner, because if young Peterson's sub-erudite pessimism is justified, then it suggests a paradox resulting from one of the core ideas in classical economics: the free market functions on the assumption that individu...
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 3:40 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: #ChurchToo 2.0
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1080
Re: #ChurchToo 2.0
That $4 billion in hush settlements sounds less a stretch.... $4 billion is a lot of money. For example, 8,000 payoffs that averaged $500,000 each. If that had really been paid out over the years, I would expect: 1- There would be a lot of rumors going around of people getting chunks of it. 2- If i...
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:05 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Historical Methodology: A Few Thoughts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1875
Re: Historical Methodology: A Few Thoughts
What I have seen is that Bayesian analysis can’t fix a deficit of knowledge and poor reading skills. I don’t consider that a win on the question of methodology. Exhibit B: Kyler Rasmussen. Bayesian analysis isn't a magic wand that nullifies a deficit of knowledge. Nobody claimed it was. Bayesian an...
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 10:54 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Historical Methodology: A Few Thoughts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1875
Re: Historical Methodology: A Few Thoughts
I don't see how him anticipating he will get criticism is the same thing as the criticism playing into his hand. He was arguing for mythicism. If the end results do not support mythicism so much as help forward the cause of historicism, then that would be ironic. Carrier sees someone's claim of def...