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Yeah, I guess in context it's not so crazy that Mormon is explaining how he wrote his text. In particular he seems to be apologizing because, in order to save space on small plates, he has written in a compact notation that is somehow prone to error, because the compact notation was inherently limi...

JohnW: We can all list a number of completely coherent and logical reasons to NOT believe in Santa Claus. If I nevertheless rejected those reasons and trusted what my parents and classmates had originally told me about him--you know, had faith in Santa Claus--would you praise me or pity me? Why? Sa...

Naming the language in which you are writing, when the only people who could understand you would necessarily already know that, is not like mentioning other unusual cultural practices. But Mormon knew, being a prophet and seeing the future, that the plates would not only perhaps be read by someone...

Rupert Murdoch firing Tucker Carlson is the fault of leftists, and an attack on the First Amendment. Math checks out. He was cancelled by Rupert Murdoch. He no longer has a voice on Fox News. Call it firing if you want. Same thing in this instance. Regards, MG Don't you think that it is Murdoch's p...

I doubt, MG, that you'd like anything more than that your faith approach (hope for something devoid of supporting evidence) be considered alongside propositions for which there is empirical evidence and results from logic applied to such evidence. However, they are not comparable. Faith is unreliab...

Shulem wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:16 pm

What do you think of those apples, Brian Hales? You see, this board is into accuracy and we know how to spot deception and apologetic tricks!

I like that you use the word accuracy rather than the amorphous, slippery and subjective term: "truth."

drumdude wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 27, 2023 3:16 am

Once you stop trying to find the objective truth, you just start worshiping anything they agrees with your confirmation bias.

Well, even alternative facts enjoy a pretty big audience these days.

If you had brought anything of value to the topic, I'd agree with this. But from the start you posted links to articles that relied on studies which were not supporting the points in the articles nor the points you raised. You followed that up to more studies and opinions that again did not support...

Psychotropic drugs alter the mind. Hallucinogens give the user visions of what is not seen with the eye, heard with the ear, etc. While the mind is so altered, observation and logic take a back seat in the consciousness of the one experiencing it. Religious talk and texts also alter the thinking, in...

This is a problem apologists never seem to answer. If words in the Book of Mormon mean something different than how 19th century people used them or how we use them today, why the confusion? Why would a supposed supreme being like the Mormon god allow this confusion? Is he a bad communicator? When ...