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canpakes wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:35 am

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This is a pretty fair article that gives more details on the leasing situation, and exposes why simplistic claims such as, “Biden did it!!” do not represent a balanced analysis.

Thank you, I am going to give this a thorough read.

canpakes wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 28, 2022 3:21 am

Meanwhile, 47% of leased lands in the West still sit unused.

I am not well versed in this topic but that seems highly unproductive to me. What purpose would it serve to just sit on these leases?

I feel reasonably sure that I learned of the happiness letter and its connection to polygamy back in seminary. I thought every Mormon understood the importance of polygamy. I am also pretty sure I was unaware of the extent of use of scurrilous accusations and character assassination to protect the ...

All ethics are situational ethics. The right decision depends upon the situation. Normally it is wrong to kill somebody. We are all aware of exceptions to that rule. Some of those exceptions can be painfully problematic. My years is college were spent under the cloud of an expected draft into parti...

You mean like this? At this point Joseph Smith could now conduct meetings and polygamous proposals in secret, away from his legal wife Emma. Just a few months later, Joseph Smith instructs Nancy Hyde to request that Nancy Rigdon stops by the printing office to speak to Joseph Smith following a fune...

If happiness is indeed the object and design of our existence it seems to run counter to the epidemic appearance of suffering. Suffering seems to more of the design when you look around the world both past and present. Most Mormon leaders quote this without probably a clue as to its origin and shak...

Oh come on...I recall in Deacon's quorum our teacher told us this crap. Joseph said all this nice sounding stuff about being happy to a young girl he hoped to boink. Usually people who don't know these details just didn't pay attention when the quorum advisor was talking. The Church can't be respon...

Another related trend line here is how gun sales and mass shooting deaths spiked in the spring of 2020 and have stayed high just as folks have been "picking up" on a negative vibe. It seems access to firearms is making it worse not better. I would agree with you here. But if our goal is truly to do...

I am blow away right now. I grew up hearing the following quote often mentioned in GC or church. It was a quote I often turned to when in times of need as a member. (more specifically the bolded seciton) " Happiness is the object and design of our existence , and will be the end thereof, if we pursu...