In the meantime, I have a book manuscript to finish before I leave for Europe on 6 September
Like we really give a rat's ass. Would you like to know what I did this week at work and what will happen next week? Well, I repair commercial air conditioning equipment and refrigeration systems. Can you do that, Daniel? I'll bet I'm better at it than you are! I even have credentials! That makes me a professor! I'm better than you!
Paul O
You absolutely blow me away, Paul O! I think you're a riot!
That you needled Mr. Peterson with the comment about your 32" waist still cracks me up, lol!
Daniel Peterson wrote:In the meantime, I have a book manuscript to finish before I leave for Europe on 6 September
Like we really give a rat's ass. Would you like to know what I did this week at work and what will happen next week? Well, I repair commercial air conditioning equipment and refrigeration systems. Can you do that, Daniel? I'll bet I'm better at it than you are! I even have credentials! That makes me a professor! I'm better than you!
Come on, Paul! Dr. Peterson was only responding to guy sajer's insinuation of a lack of scholarly output! In other words, there was a specific reason he mentioned his book manuscript, and it wasn't to broadcast a holier-than-thou veneer.
Sheesh!
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
asbestosman wrote:For a moment there, I thought I could redeem my Scratch v Dr. Peterson cage match tickets for the one about to go on between Dr. Peterson and guy sajer. Oh well. I confess that watching Dr. Peterson vicariously reason with others by reasoning with himself is quite entertaining too with the added benefit that I won't get any blood on my clothes.
I'll still miss the screams of terror, but I think a few moments in the comfy chair of the Spanish Inquisition could solve that too.
Don't throw away your ticket, perhaps Bond will do a cage match of this exchange on his Blog.
moksha wrote:Don't throw away your ticket, perhaps Bond will do a cage match of this exchange on his Blog.
No Bond won't..... ifBond finishes the trilogy it will continue where part 2 left off, with DCP and Runtu as the sole survivors of the previous fights and Dr. Shades about to have a tizzy trying to announce it all.
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Daniel, is there any way that the leaders would authorise some kind of 'world wide' questionaire to members that would cover some of these issues.
That way they would be able to note differences and similarities in ages, gender, cultures and class/education level.
I guess that a lot of people would say what they thought the leaders wanted to hear, but if it was totally anonymous you might get more honest responses from the lay membership.
I was raised LDS in a military family. We moved lot- went to 5 different high schools. Only lived in 2 countries outside the US, but lived in several different states, cities, wards & branches. Not once has a Church authority told me, asked me, or suggested that I not read anti lit. Never.
I was raised LDS in a military family. We moved lot- went to 5 different high schools. Only lived in 2 countries outside the US, but lived in several different states, cities, wards & branches. Not once has a Church authority told me, asked me, or suggested that I not read anti lit. Never.
Ok, no one told you to not read anti lit. Did you still have the idea that reading anti lit was "risky", frowned upon, despite never being directly told not to read anti lit?
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
Jason Bourne wrote: I am amazed Peterson claims that nobody tell people to avoid anti and critical material. Why there was just a thread here on an article from the New Era that does just that. Numerous times I have had members look at me like I was from outer space when I talked to them about some of the critical material I ha run into. Many say they have been told to never read such information. 6 months ago a member stood up in a testimony meeting and talked about a friend who had left the Church because of getting into critical material. This member said he had never read such information and never would and was proud of it. This tends to be the prevailing view.
As a youth, I can remember being told that anti material was simply "spiritual pornography".