TBM's: Killer blow to the Book of Mormon?

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Re: No Killer Blow for Charity & Jersey Girl

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charity wrote:
JAK wrote:What would constitute a killer blow to the Book of Mormon for you? Can you think of any particular way that might come about?


I think she has answered your question, Jersey Girl. There is nothing. She thinks (if not states), I believe, I believe, I believe?



Wrong. I know, I know, I know.

JAK wrote: Blind faith or belief is blind. No rational considerations are relevant. No evidence is persuasive. An Islamic fundamentalist ready to die in a suicide attack on others cannot be persuaded that his suicide and the killing of innocent people is wrong, in vain, or without justification.


Your attempt to make LDS comparable to Islamic fundamentalists is sick and shows that you can't argue on a civil basis.
JAK wrote:While I would be skeptical that charity would participate in anything like that, charity appears to be equally irrational and no evidence, no rational consideration, nothing could be a “killer blow” as you state.

JAK


And when you can't win an argument in civil debate, try to destroy your opponent personally. You stepped in it.[/quote]
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Charity, you can bully the language, however, to know and knowledge carries consensus of objective observation with every tool of observing which can be garnered.

You don’t know as you state. You believe what you have been well indoctrinated to believe. Religious mythology has, historically, used doctrine over documentation to perpetuate its views and positions.

Religion, is by nature, irrational. Fact is irrelevant to those who hold with a religious doctrine or dogma. In that, religions have a common denominator.

You appear utterly to fail to appreciate that fact. Having watched your posts here, you consistently set forward religious dogma and doctrine as if you were stating fact. You are not stating fact. And your beliefs do not constitute knowledge as the term knowledge is used in the general language.

Charity stated:
“Your attempt to make LDS comparable to Islamic fundamentalists is sick and shows that you can't argue on a civil basis.”

Your attempt to shift the topic is no refutation. There was nothing uncivil in the analysis I presented. Your comments only establish the validity of my observations.

There was no argument in my comment to Jersey Girl. It was an assessment of your mentality with regard to Jersey Girl’s question.

Thus far, you demonstrate the accuracy of my analysis.

Religious indoctrination is an interesting academic study. Had you been raised from cradle up as a Buddhist, the very high probability is that you would be Buddhist. But, you were not raised in a Buddhist family. Hence, you are not Buddhist.

Of course, it is correct to recognize that people do change their views and perspectives as they age, as time passes in their lives, and as they face a variety of life-altering situations.

That is, people can and sometimes do revise their thinking. In your case, it appears that you merely parrot how you have been successfully indoctrinated.

That’s not thinking. Your failure to directly respond Jersey Girl is demonstrative of that. (Perhaps you have and I have not see that particular post.)

Perhaps some are bent upon personal destruction. That was not my intent nor the focus of my comment. Rather, I addressed directly what appears to be your position with regard to Jersey Girl’s question.

You confirmed my analysis by repetition of “Wrong. I know, I know, I know.

The point which I made with regard to Islamic fundamentalists was also not refuted by any analysis of yours. That point was that commitment to religious dogma produces irrational (unreasoned) conclusions. People act or conduct themselves as if their belief system were without question, correct.

Hence, we get from you the above quote in which your only defense of religious myth is that you “know” as opposed to you believe.

Must as Muslims would say of their religious myths that the “know,” you say of your religious myth that you know.

That you are unable to appreciate the parallel is evidence of the effectiveness of indoctrination on you.

I’m not sure if you recognize that there are a wide variety of Mormon views.

For example, see the article here.
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It says in part:
There are two organizations of which I know to which this question might refer.

First, is the organization that used to be called “The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” or RLDS. After Joseph Smith was murdered, the church split into a number of different factions. The biggest faction was ultimately led by Brigham Young, was driven out of what, at the time, constituted the United States, and eventually settled into what is now Salt Lake City. Another organization consisted of those who believed that the leadership of the church was meant to be hereditary — to pass from father to son. Joseph Smith's oldest son was about three years old at the time, so this group laid low, and waited until Joseph Smith III was old enough to lead them. This group was the RLDS. They recently changed their name to “The Community of Christ” and have generally abandoned most of the teachings and practices that distinguished any of the LDS sects from generic Protestantism.
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And so, charity, you might keep in mind that even others even within the Mormon community, disagree with one another.

And certainly in the wide expanse of the well-fractured Christianity with its more than 1,000 groups, the claims for religious mythological truth are most abundant.

Your own point of view is one of many. Virtually all religious mythologies make some claim to know that for which there is contradictory evidence. Thus, they don’t “know” as they claim, but rather they believe some particular religious myth.

Now there is nothing here that is uncivil, charity. It’s all analysis. Your attempt to shift the issue is irrelevant to the analysis.

I don’t really expect you to address any of this. But, I would be quite open to quotation in context for any comment which I made. (A problem on this forum is finding a response someone made without extensive search.)

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Re: Charity Fails to Understand Burden of Proof

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The Nehor wrote:
JAK wrote:
charity wrote:
guy sajer wrote:I repeat, Charity, you are delusional. I would feel comfortable offering this line of argument as corroborating proof.

Go on waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting . . . ..


People who don't know shouldn't use term they don't understand. A delusion is a "false belief." You have to be able to PROVE that my belief is false. You can't provide that proof. All you can offer up is your belief.


Entirely incorrect, charity.

If you, you claim something, it is YOU who has the burden of proof for the claim. No one else has any responsibility in the face of a claim unsupported by objective, verifiable evidence.

You make claims then attempt to shift the burden of proof to someone who challenges you for evidence for your claims.

If not “delusional,” you are irrational.

No one has any responsibility to prove your beliefs are false. It is YOU who have the responsibility to prove that they are sound.

You appear to present nothing other than your claims.

It's a deeply flawed position.

JAK


Jak!!! How you been? You are assuming Charity needs a consensus of popular opinion in order to have reached a conclusion. The conclusions of JAK should be treated with the greatest skepticism as when knowledge increases we can conclude that there is no evidence proving that JAK in fact exists and is not a head of cabbage.

"JAK, if God particularly cared about the whole world having definitive proof he existed he could do it. He doesn't. This means that those people who rely on scientific consensus and other's searching will never find him. It would do not good if they could. It's a path all must walk on their own and God seems to like it that way. So no, you won't find God that way. You have to find him like everyone else did. Or not. Your choice."


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Nehor,

Individuals or organizations can claim what the like. It need not be factual or rational.

Nehor states:
“You are assuming Charity needs a consensus of popular opinion in order to have reached a conclusion.”

One can conclude anything one likes. The issue which I raise is one of reliability for conclusion. Religious doctrines lack reliability. Why? In their wide variety, religious doctrines disagree with one another. They make claims as if they were fact. And they make those claims based on ancient, contradictory scripts. Such scripts were written, edited, and assembled by various individuals often under the auspices of emperors and kings in power at a given time.

And so, you, charity, and others can belive any particular myth you like or more likely myth with which you have been well indoctrinated.

Reaching “conclusion” based on irrational (unreasoned) claims is done often. However, such conclusions remain unreliable inconsistent, and at odds with other conclusions which are promoted by others.

Nehor states:
"JAK, if God particularly cared about the whole world having definitive proof he existed he could do it. He doesn't."

JAK:
No evidence has been established for your claim in this statement for God. You pontificate as you presume to know what God can or cannot, will or will not do (as in an actor as in personification).

Absent any credible evidence for God, the remainder of your claim here is irrelevant. And religious myths regarding the gods and later inventions of God are not supported. They remain assertions.

Thus, your continued addition of more assertion built on the previous unestablished claims is irrelevant.

To wit:

Nehor states:
“This means that those people who rely on scientific consensus and other's searching will never find him.”

JAK:
It’s an irrelevant comment. You continue to assume that for which even you have presented no objective, tested study. It’s your emotional whim, belief, indoctrination.

What does the word “search” mean? Since you persist in ancient myth that your God is MALE, the burden to establish that lies with you.

It’s absurd to suggest that people search for a mercurial entity for which thousands of claims are made by those who inject no information.

Your attempt to diminish science as a tool of search is flawed and false. You communicate HERE because of applied science. God is irrelevant. The entity remains a claim of religious dogma rooted in ancient ignorance which emerged from superstition.

I’m confident that you and charity fail entirely to understand this fact as a matter of historical evolution of superstition and religion.

Nehor states:
“It's a path all must walk on their own and God seems to like it that way. So no, you won't find God that way. You have to find him like everyone else did. Or not. Your choice.”

JAK:
It’s a “path” of ignorance predicated on evolving superstitious, religious myth, Nehor. Again, I’m sure you fail to appreciate that. You continue to assume that which you do not establish.

You want others merely to take your word for the undetailed claims of something out there for which you evade all calls for specifics.

You can find the tooth fairy. You just have to look under your pillow. Trust but do not attempt to verify. That’s the mantra.

What you do is merely perpetuate a myth. You keep it sufficiently vague to avoid any responsibility for your claims. In doing so, you find nothing. You merely claim to find. You pretend. You have a tooth fairy. And, you have an emotional dependency.

You have not responded to analysis that I have seen in your many posts on this forum. It’s an evasion. Pontificating is not communicating on a forum such as this.

I’m skeptical that those who are well indoctrinated have much choice actually to think. Rational thinking and evidence are irrelevant to myth-makers. And yet, you are inescapably surrounded by applied science (as your participation in this bb demonstrates). Here, you know the reliability of applied science. You depend upon it. So you maintain your small God box insulating and protecting it from honest intellectual inquiry.

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How is "historical truth" relavant, in your view?

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charity wrote:
BishopRic wrote:
There is nothing more "flimsy" than that offered by Mormons that a feeling proves historical truth.


I don't know of any Mormon that offers a "feeling" to prove a historical truth.


Charity,

It certainly appears that you wish to be linked to “historical truth.”

You project feelings as if you were projecting historical truth. If not, just how would you characterize your feelings as contrary to historical truth?

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Requirements for Proof?

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Jersey Girl wrote:charity
Only if it is false, fanciful or derived from deception. You have yet to prove that. And you guys have been tyring for about 187 years. You think you would be able to come up with something in all that time. Something other than conjecture, denial, rumors, misinterpretatins.


Yes, you'd think that after 187 years someone in all that time would be able to prove that the Book of Mormon is false, fanciful or derived from deception. Perhaps there wasn't a way in all that time. Who knows?


I am curious about your comment here Jersey Girl. Perhaps I missed a critical post.

It is incumbent upon those claiming reliability for Mormon doctrine to establish that. It’s not obligatory for any skeptic to prove something here.

A mere claim for validity or reliability means nothing. There is certainly plenty of evidence regarding the historical evolution of Mormonism, much of which has been published and can be found on the Internet.

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Re: How is "historical truth" relavant, in your vi

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JAK wrote:
charity wrote:
BishopRic wrote:
There is nothing more "flimsy" than that offered by Mormons that a feeling proves historical truth.


I don't know of any Mormon that offers a "feeling" to prove a historical truth.


Charity,

It certainly appears that you wish to be linked to “historical truth.”

You project feelings as if you were projecting historical truth. If not, just how would you characterize your feelings as contrary to historical truth?

JAK


I believe that in time there will be definite proof of the historicity of the Book of Mormon. Although there are some pretty convincing evidences right now, there isn't anything which I would call DEFINITE proof. That doesn't really matter in my day to day life. I study the Book of Mormon for what it teaches me of God's will and doctrine, not for geography and historty.

While the above sentence is true, it doesn't mean that I don't find the subject of historicity and geography interesting. It just isn't important.

Just how do you think I am projecting "feelings" as "historical truth?"
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Re: How is "historical truth" relavant, in your vi

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charity wrote:
JAK wrote:
charity wrote:
BishopRic wrote:There is nothing more "flimsy" than that offered by Mormons that a feeling proves historical truth.
I don't know of any Mormon that offers a "feeling" to prove a historical truth.
Charity,

It certainly appears that you wish to be linked to “historical truth.”

You project feelings as if you were projecting historical truth. If not, just how would you characterize your feelings as contrary to historical truth?

JAK
I believe that in time there will be definite proof of the historicity of the Book of Mormon. Although there are some pretty convincing evidences right now, there isn't anything which I would call DEFINITE proof. That doesn't really matter in my day to day life. I study the Book of Mormon for what it teaches me of God's will and doctrine, not for geography and historty.
The issue is there are many who can write a book, Mohammed did just that, that claim to be from "god". A way to note if it is from god or from a man is how accurate the book is. The Book of Mormon fails in every test. Ergo, it is of men, not any god.
charity wrote:While the above sentence is true, it doesn't mean that I don't find the subject of historicity and geography interesting. It just isn't important.

Just how do you think I am projecting "feelings" as "historical truth?"
Because if you "know" something is true without evidence you are using your feelings not logic. You don't "know" it to be true but rather "believe" it to be true. One does not know anything using feelings or beliefs. One only knows soemthing is factual when the phyiscal evidence backs it up.
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Re: TBM's: Killer blow to the Book of Mormon?

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charity wrote:
BishopRic wrote:
There is nothing more "flimsy" than that offered by Mormons that a feeling proves historical truth.


I don't know of any Mormon that offers a "feeling" to prove a historical truth.


I am a bit curious about this answer Charity. Isn't the core challenge in Mormonism to read the Book of Mormon, pray about it, then the way you receive your answer to prove that it is true is the burning of the bosom? How would you call that anything other than a feeling?

I know Nehor says he talks to God...so maybe that's a bit different than what you are saying? Or is there a different sense that you are accessing...and maybe that's why us exmos are confused -- maybe we are genetically impaired in the "6th sense" department, and only have five?

Inquiring minds want to know....
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JAK, you missed the main point of my responses thus far. Specifically the one about your mental state and the one about you actually being a head of cabbage. In reasoned debate on the Intranets it is customary to quote the WHOLE post and respond to it individually.
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Re: How is "historical truth" relavant, in your vi

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LCD2YOU wrote:
The issue is there are many who can write a book, Mohammed did just that, that claim to be from "god". A way to note if it is from god or from a man is how accurate the book is. The Book of Mormon fails in every test. Ergo, it is of men, not any god.
charity wrote:While the above sentence is true, it doesn't mean that I don't find the subject of historicity and geography interesting. It just isn't important.


The Book of Mormon doesn't "fail every test." It passes many textual tests. YOu say it "fails" when you mean there has been no overwhelming archeological or anthropological proof. The textual proofs are quite impressive if you would look at them.

LCD2YOU wrote:
Just how do you think I am projecting "feelings" as "historical truth?"
Because if you "know" something is true without evidence you are using your feelings not logic. One does not know anything using feelings. One only knows soemthing is factual when the phyiscal evidence backs it up.


Here again, you are focusing on only one small area of "facts." There are many textual proofs, as I said. But the main standard of truth for me is the witness of the Holy Spirit. And that isn't a "feeling."
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Re: TBM's: Killer blow to the Book of Mormon?

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BishopRic wrote:
charity wrote:
BishopRic wrote:
There is nothing more "flimsy" than that offered by Mormons that a feeling proves historical truth.


I don't know of any Mormon that offers a "feeling" to prove a historical truth.


I am a bit curious about this answer Charity. Isn't the core challenge in Mormonism to read the Book of Mormon, pray about it, then the way you receive your answer to prove that it is true is the burning of the bosom? How would you call that anything other than a feeling?


A testimony or spiritual witness is not a "feeling." It is a witness. They are two separate phenomena. People who don't know may try to say thatit is only a "feeling." Those who experience it, don't make that mistake. In human emotions there is no "burning in the bosom." I studied the psychology of emotions. You won't find such a listing.

And the Book of Mormon does not mention a burning in the bosom.

Moroni 10:4 ". . . .he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost." There is not mention of how that manifestation occurs.

BishopRic wrote:
I know Nehor says he talks to God...so maybe that's a bit different than what you are saying? Or is there a different sense that you are accessing...and maybe that's why us exmos are confused -- maybe we are genetically impaired in the "6th sense" department, and only have five?

Inquiring minds want to know....


Those of us who pray all talk to God.

Yes it is a different "event." I don't know what it would be classified as. The senses are all different modalities of sensation. The idea that it could be a "6th sense" is new to me. I will have to think about it for a while. If it is , then it would be something we all (humans) would have. Everyone has the light of Christ and is given inspiration as to basic right and wrong. If this is all part of a specific sensing modality then as it is developed, the person could receive stronger and stronger "sensations." Speaking technically, of course.
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