Tal Bachman wrote:Allow me to coin a word, if it hasn't already been coined: "sunstoned".
Dictionary: Sunstoned
Adj. To be captive to an overwhelming tendency to doublethink with regards to Mormonism; or to be psychologically unable, either by nature or through force of emotional attachment, to finally acknowledge that Mormonism is a fraud. Alternatively, to know it is a fraud but remain unwilling, perhaps because of emotional dependency, to leave it or admit that it is a fraud.
Example:
"John Dehlin (Van Hale, Lavina Fielding Anderson, etc.) just wrote a paper on how to believe that the Book of Mormon is 'an authentic record of ancient Americans', while also believing that Joseph Smith wrote it himself. The guy's completely sunstoned."
If "sunstoned" is already a word, give me a reference. Otherwise, everytime you use it, just say: "OH YEAH, BY THE WAY - MY FRIEND TAL BACHMAN INVENTED THAT WORD". (In return, I'll waive my royalty requirement :P).
Thank you for helping me leave a lasting linguistic legacy,
T.
Tal,
I don't kow what are you trying to understand about "Sunstoned" which has not being explained either by John Dehlin or Van Hale & Others.
John leads the Sunstone Pack now and if you listened his podcasts, he could not make the elements partaining Mormonism any clearer.
Direct result of this is the polarization is people who dug even deeper their trenches.
I don't think there are many "Sunstones" left unturned.
The Brass & Faithful still say; "If you are not standing with us, you are against us".