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Coggins,

If God created you to burn in hell for ever and ever as one of his non-elect, would you life have more meaning, or less meaning, then it would in Dawkins world? And which kind of meaning then, is more, er, "meaningful"?

Any philosophical materialist who posits the nonexistence of anything outside the physical, observable universe, is trapped in logical self contradiction at any point at which he posits meaning to anything in the universe, not the least of which is meaning to a human life. Coggins, do you have any ...

metaphysical materialists........

Forgive my unserious reasoning, but isn't Joseph Smith's statement, "There is no such thing as immaterial matter" metaphysical materialism?

I am mostly in agreement with Shades. I do believe any super ad campaign will result in growth, but I don't think it will be worth the money spent. In other words, future increases in tithing revenues won't make up to it when compared with the opportunity cost of moderate growth investments. Hinckle...

When you're down a few pieces to a formidable opponent in Chess, when you know you've as good as lost, there's one option left: Try for a stalemate.

No one ever goes for a stalemate unless they firmly believe they've already lost.

my prediction: Mauss and whoever, if they agree, won't be clear about who is right or wrong in this case because they don't have anything to gain one way or another. They'll try to be diplomatic and see it from both perspectives. If the dispute were from two published social theorists then making sp...

In this case I wasn't talking about any arguments in particular you've ever made. I'm just introducing the possibility that at some point, it is reasonable you could be put into a situation where you're dealt such a bad hand on a (legal, not Mormon) case, that despite your brilliance, experience, an...

Reading through the thread on the other board, it appears DCP and BH just still don't get it, while Noel's understanding is perfect. DCP admits that FARMS works backwards, assume the church is true and then come up with whatever they can to make it fit into the real world. We could pick any number o...

If you're still trying to convince yourself to be Mormon, go the "publish on one thing, authority on everything" route that the apologists take. Do some research on Isaac Newton and see if you can find some of his attacks on the notion of the Trinity and then reason, since he invented diff...

Some might be interested to know that there is now a thread by DCP praising Hamblin for his new book on temples. The question is coming up yet again as to how Hamblin could be so competent in the instance of writing on Israel, and then fail completely when taking up Mormonism. Of course, there's a l...