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My point was the huge burden of leading so many people seems not to have caused Lincoln to order mass murders and marry dozens of women. Lincoln could have easily gone further than merely suspending habeas corpus if he had the inclination. Perhaps men are tested by their circumstances but not led b...

I’m not sure I could sit comfortably with using the words “relatively decent” as part of a description for a man who ordered the mass murder and forced enslavement of native Americans. But that’s just me. If you put it that way . . . . The thing about stark moral certainty is that it is so easy to ...

You were liberated only to a certain degree? So, you thought there was a chance you were wrong about his non-prophethood? You really amaze me. We think so differently that it makes communication difficult. Do you recognize a difference between intellectual conclusions and emotional resolution? Do y...

Which of his contemporaries in similar positions of power is he decent in comparison with? How does he stack up against, say, Abraham Lincoln? The stakes were even higher for Lincoln and even though he had to carry that “misfortune” it seems to have illuminated his noble character for the world to ...

Yep. Great point. You'd think there'd be some legit alt-right counter anger out there, but this doesn't have that authentic feel, does it? will be interesting to see how long it lasts. I think that the number of women who truly want to live in Gilead is limited. Unfortunately, a few others might be...

Hugh Nibley was a very funny man. I mean, his sense of humor was extremely dry, so a lot of students just sat in their seats yawning as a torrent of insights, often delivered with subtle wit, were flying right by them. I was quite often chuckling or something restraining full-on laughter in that ear...

You took everything he said seriously before this happened? No need to go running off to the opposite extreme there, Shades. Obviously I felt liberated to a certain degree beforehand, but my sense of freedom was noticeably more pronounced once I saw a stream of things said so bizarre that I simply ...

What is appealing about it? I have an answer of my own but I don't want to put words in someone else's device. My weird answer to this question is geometry. There is something to the geometric balance between different shapes on the female body that is appealing to heterosexual men. It is, for the ...

President Nelson had a nighttime revelation that the word Mormon is of Satanic origin. Interestingly, Joseph Smith declared that it meant More Good in the Adamic language, but as we all know a recent Church president trumps a past Church president. Lest we think this might have been caused by a spo...

Excellent find, Doctor Scratch. The good ole US of A is full of small organizations that seek to forward a political/religious agenda. In my mind, it is probably overkill, but here we sit as a kind of community enjoying our discussion of all of this stuff, so at least we have good fodder for a popco...