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I have heard this anecdotal evidence. It seems to pierce some aspect of the ego that is long lasting in people. Unfortunately for this to be of any help we have to fight through that stigma. But that can't be rationalized as being a greater truth. It chemically alters brain patterns that really doe...

DMT is the buzz for the god drug. I have heard that it and other psychedelics produce similar transcendental experiences. A chemical altered brain to discover a new reality is no more than asking what God needs with a starship. I agree. I don't think the "machine elves" have any independent existen...

Isn't that just Dan Dennett's version of compatibilism? No. By compatible I mean that Copenhagen interpretation doesn't contradict my experience. Many World (apparently) does. (Dennet's "compatiblist" view, as far as I understand it, is that even though everything is deterministic, and nobody has f...

Could you expand more on what you mean by compatible? Copenhagen interpretation does not require me to deny a primary fact of my own existence: free will, however small it is with regard to an outcome. I don't theorize about a direct act of will. I do it. I don't theorize about consciousness. I am ...

He claims that the many worlds is the most parsimonious explanation. Occam's Razon is merely a general guide, not any sort of absolute law. At any rate, Many Worlds might be the most parsiminous interpretation of Quantum Mechanics if one denies that consciousness has any sort of free will, an assum...

I do not want you to think that I am very righteous, for I am not. (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 5:401, May 21, 1843.)

Perhaps the most honest thing Joe ever uttered?

Some of this may be true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkm0IZbF5ns

3 Nephi:40 "And whoso shall adeclare more or less than this, and establish it for my doctrine, the same cometh of evil"

Joe: "I have had trouble enough with this thing."

Well, by the time of the Nauvoo period it's understandable.

We get it, Joe. We really do.

Shulem wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 21, 2022 9:18 pm

bigger and better

If there were ever a terse theme for Joe's personality, I would say that was it.

A narcissist who could do no wrong. And "God" approved of his every thought and impulse. Even at crotch level.

But he wasn't infallible as it turns out.

Fascinating postings, Shulem.

As if we needed additional proof that the GOP and their voters are damned assholes, Roe v Wade has now been overturned. I'm not sure what else to say, except it's become clear GOP voters are dickwad authoritarians now. It's unfathomable to me how so many people can be so incredibly damned stupid an...

Irony of ironies that Joe's original manuscript didn't even last 40 years. And Joe's god didn't see fit to warn him. Maybe a real creator exists and decided to poke fun at Joe's imposture. :lol: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/960x540/nauvoo-house-cornerstone.jpg "Joe thought he was m...