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Thank you for posting this, Mark. Thanks for reading it! Also, your quote about how he claimed he evaded the fire in WWII, I remember I heard that in my mission. I didn't understand it too much as my English wasn't well enough then, but it seemed everyone there was moved . Awkward. And it's so inte...

I think generation and personality types factor into the effect of Internet communities. No hard data here, just a few thoughts. Sure, for Gen Z-r's who have lived their lives online, many may end up isolated but then who's to say that people can't evolve into a species where more isolation is norm...

The people in Joseph Smith's day judged him by the standards of Joseph Smith's day AND KILLED HIM. This seems like an important point. Insisting that only contemporary standards can apply can't be a good position for Mormons. If we can condemn Smith's contemporaries for lynching him then we must be...

Smith was a total douchebag all ought to revile... an immoral predator, iniquitous opportunist looking to scam poeple and a professional con-man and charlatan worthy of our disgust and shame! I met with some old chums from high school recently, the Friday night before Christmas. All 6 of us were TB...

Life is becoming more cold and more brutish even as good quality food and medical care make it not so short anymore. But you earlier wrote: People meet others with like interests on the internet. Out my window on Thursday evenings in the summer I can observe cosplay of knights with their wooden bro...

So, all I see is arguing about a letter or fax... But my question is, is the hill cumorah in new York or not? According to the last perhaps only statement by the First Presidency, the Book of Mormon Hill Cumorah is one and the same hill in New York that Joseph so referred to it. Due to lack of arch...

A handful of decades ago, social clubs like the Elks, Eagles, the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, etc. were thriving. Business-networking clubs like Rotary, Kiwanis and Civitan were hard to join in many areas because they were "full." Organized religions flourished as a way to socialize with neighbors and...

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Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:30 pm

Someone should do a Bayesian analysis comparing the likelihood that the Book of Mormon is real history vs. the likelihood that DCP will serve an actual senior mission. Which, I wonder, is the bigger longshot?

Ha ha ha.

This entire episode involving the only Watson letter re location of the Book of Mormon Hill Cumorah places it in western New York. As Watson recently clarified, it was issued with the approval of the First Presidency, not just himself (though his role was a capital "S" Secretary, called and set apar...

The weird thing here is that the impossible details are just chrome. The miraculous break from reality isn't something like, "And the blind beggar saw!" Making it through gunfire unscathed should be the actual good part, but it's merely lucky, not impossible. The crazy parts are the helmet getting ...