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I thought Gemli got banned! Did I miss something? An academic who is used to having to read many books before getting a clear picture of a subject ought to know from experience how a thesis that seems plausible to a lay person can be utterly wrong. It beats me how any such expert can nonetheless be ...

consiglieri wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:25 am

It’s what I do.

You should pick your friends better or you are going to end up like jpatterson.

Once the viewer gets past any notion of altruism, and realizes Mormon Stories is a product, then we’d at least like the product not to be produced by clowns. Make it professional, man. Keep it professional, man. If they would drop the whole shtick about building some kind of ideal community predica...

ChatGPT and its' successors are likely going to do a lot of the heavy lifting in showing practically that a materialistic neural network is sufficient to explain the appearance of consciousness. No spooky outside influence like an ethereal soul is required. I think we are as far away from achieving...

I mean look at this statement that is ostensibly coming from an organization that wants to be taken seriously. At the very end of it is attached images that are basically shallow Instagram memes like this: https://i0.wp.com/www.mormonstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/997D3E6E-15A3-4BEF-8148-BB4...

I mean, he has a business relationship with him, there are joint podcasts, Consig speaks at Open Stories Foundation (Thrive) events. And in the case of Maven, she also works with Consig, and i interpret it as him standing up for a colleague. This is why you need to read Consig's John Dehlin posts w...

It seems to me they’re worried about the saving aspect of grace. Will I be saved by grace alone or do I have to do something? Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus had a very spirited written debate on that very question. I think Luther won, despite my dislike of the man and my admiration of Erasmus...

Years ago, when Dehlin held a *press conference* after being excommunicated during one of those stupid church proceedings, I knew right then and there the dude was going to be a total trainwreck. The man has not disappointed and if you just look at his recent personal army requests for fans to colle...

Connected with the absence of revelation, of scriptures, and of a professionally divinely appointed priesthood is the fact that a central category of Greek religion is unknowability, the belief that human knowledge about the divine and about the right way of behaving towards it is limited and circu...

Ancient thinkers contributed to pure mathematics, all right, and also made a few sound observations about the world, such as concluding that it was round. Contributed to mathematics. Ha. I too sometimes forgot that Aristotle basically started the field of embryology and that his naked eye descripti...