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Spiritualism did make inroads in the Mormon community out west. I believe the schismatic Godbeite movement, which was partly a protest against the tyranny of Brigham Young, included spiritualist and mystical elements. The Godbeites were at the core of Utah's dissident culture in many ways. It's a fa...

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Sat Oct 17, 2020 7:16 pm

I am not an academic of any sort.

I am sure the faculty at Cassius are open to changing that based on meritorious contributions here.

I can confirm that I was not Tom Kimball. I also did not know, nor did I have any type of relationship with, him. I knew nothing about his personal history. As a secondary subject of this thread, I will note that an active member of this board asked me 12 years ago via PM here if I was Tom Kimball,...

To move the conversation in another direction, this is proving to be a time of soul-searching, reflection, and renewed commitment in the Mormon Studies Community. The question of why so many people did not know there was a problem when clearly some people did know is now being raised. People are als...

Of course, we know it won't stop completely. No one believes it will. No one actually thinks predatory pedophilia ends if the Church closes the valve on things that give predatory pedophiles access to children. But how much harder it would be for them to get access. Far fewer acts would be perpetrat...

What astonishes me is that at this time in history, knowing what we know of all of the predatory pedophiles who have abused children in the context of their LDS membership, anyone would not say that there is a problem in the way the Church has responded to the situation. They have done precious litt...

I noted, a couple of days ago, the suicide of Tom Kimball, who was a rather significant figure in some ex-Mormon circles. Tom could apparently be quite warm to some. To me, he was not. He was angry and contemptuous and unfair. I didn’t know him at all well, but our interactions were, to the best of...

If it is federal land, then the federal government needs to maintain it and pay to do so.

I really appreciate your points about excessive trust, which I think is unfortunately a feature in LDS culture. It goes along with the feature of certainty. Close to the heart of these two things is in my opinion an existential dilemma that humans have not roundly solved, namely, that evildoing is ...

Who knows? Maybe not hunt her down but one can envision a desperate predator, encircled, irrational and doing harm to someone who is about to be a witness against him or about to act as news reporter exposing those hidden secrets. If given the opportunity, this predator, I can imagine, could take o...