Blixa wrote:Did you not undertand that they are lost tribes? As a Jr. High Biology teacher (in class) once said, "the scriptures said "they went up!" What else could that mean???" If I were you I'd sign up for that hollow earth voyage right now.
D'oh! I stand corrected. It's that old City of Enoch thing, which is also related to Atlantis, which is also related to the Lost Tribes, which is also...
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
EAllusion wrote:I don't really think DCP's interest in Schroeder, Intelligent Design, or NDE's is distinct from his Mormon apologia. So I don't know if it is going to work for this thread. In any case, I'd list Paul Vitz first, since his is probably the most obviously laughably moronic.
Arguably it all springs from the same penchant for magical thinking.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Bond...James Bond wrote:It might be easier to construct a list of apologists who aren't crackpots...
Making apologetics part of the definition of crackpot may be justifiable, but it is too easy.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
I think for crank theories, especially among Chapel Mormons, "the gospel" is the litmus test in the mind of the TBM. They'll reject it very quickly if it seems incompatible with "the gospel".
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Gadianton wrote:I think for crank theories, especially among Chapel Mormons, "the gospel" is the litmus test in the mind of the TBM. They'll reject it very quickly if it seems incompatible with "the gospel".
True, but it always struck me that "the gospel" could be stretched to include a whole lot of fringe beliefs---in fact I've seen plenty proof of this right here on this board. You don't even have to travel over to MAAD...
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
Gadianton wrote:I think for crank theories, especially among Chapel Mormons, "the gospel" is the litmus test in the mind of the TBM. They'll reject it very quickly if it seems incompatible with "the gospel".
True, but it always struck me that "the gospel" could be stretched to include a whole lot of fringe beliefs---in fact I've seen plenty proof of this right here on this board. You don't even have to travel over to MAAD...
It better not step on allegiance to right wing politics though.
Hollow earth--OK
Global Warming--sheer fantasy.
LOL
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