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_son of Ishmael
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Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. - The Dude

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_lulu
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt

http://www.amazon.com/Swerve-How-World- ... rds=swerve

The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, Anthony Gottlieb

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Reason-Hist ... +of+reason

Thanks for reccommending this, you know who you are

Father Rule, Gregory Robinson

Available only on certain urban street corners were street lit is sold. I'm trying to think up the Mormon angle for a book about youth gang shoot ups in housing projects.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
_Lucifer
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Anything by William Schryver.

Sweet dreams!

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_David A. Bednar
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Not to toot my own horn or anything:

http://deseretbook.com/Increase-Learning-David-Bednar/i/5072000

I think all of you, but particularly Darth J, would find this book very useful in finding the way to learn all the answers that the Lord's gospel provides us. But, remember, all learning must be preceded by sincere prayer, and fasting, and tithe paying, etc. This is what Droopy has been trying to teach you all, but your hearts have been hardened by Darth J's reasoning and rhetoric.

Woe unto that man who gets a little learning, but hearkens not to the word of God.

Your brother, as always, in the gospel harness.

David
Ladies, it's time for us to stop accommodating an environment of immodesty and jump out of the water before we get boiled alive by the seductive and evil influences that are a result of continued immodest dress.

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_Droopy
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I think all of you, but particularly Darth J, would find this book very useful in finding the way to learn all the answers that the Lord's gospel provides us. But, remember, all learning must be preceded by sincere prayer, and fasting, and tithe paying, etc. This is what Droopy has been trying to teach you all, but your hearts have been hardened by Darth J's...rhetoric.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us

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_karl61
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Relics of Eden by Daniel Fairbanks
I want to fly!
_Darth J
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Droopy wrote:
I think all of you, but particularly Darth J, would find this book very useful in finding the way to learn all the answers that the Lord's gospel provides us. But, remember, all learning must be preceded by sincere prayer, and fasting, and tithe paying, etc. This is what Droopy has been trying to teach you all, but your hearts have been hardened by Darth J's...rhetoric.


Say, Droopy, didn't you say you were about to publish something? Let me guess: is it a recipe for chocolate chip cookies?

"When making cookies qua cookies, it is expedient, necessary, important, useful, required, mandatory, desirable, and compulsory that the chips be chocolate qua chocolate, otherwise you're chocolate cookies will not be what your intended goal of attaining chocolate chip cookies will entail. Morlocks of the left always follow the secular idea that originated in the 1960's that carob should be used instead of chocolate, including the Keynesian ideology that the government should spend money on carob farms, which would supposedly create jobs where national socialism could play out its multicultural leftist mandate of secular orgies of Kinsey inspired agendas, but their chickens have come home to roost in the sinking ship of their just desserts.

The next ingredient is flour, which cultural marxists decry from their secular ivory towers. With the Supreme Court ruling that the Commerce Clause permits Congress to do whatever it wants, it is only a matter of time before the secular left gets what it wants. Unelected men in black robes have paved the way so that the multiculturalist secular leftist socialists can literally force us to buy truckloads of flour qua flour........"
_sansfoy
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Are you considering fiction?

Amazon Polygamy Stuff.
Hey listen don't you let 'em get your mind...
_Cicero
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sansfoy wrote:Are you considering fiction?

Amazon Polygamy Stuff.


I didn't know that the genre even existed. I guess there really are books for all tastes these days.
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_Darth J
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sansfoy wrote:Are you considering fiction?

Amazon Polygamy Stuff.


See? I knew Rule 34 applied to Mormonism!
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