MILLIONS spent by LDS Inc on new MMM book

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Smith may have gone down to southern Utah in order to rendezvous with the Mother Ship at the cinder cones just outside of Veyo, in hopes of getting a copy of the Romulan cheesecake diet plan that he'd heard about when he was living on the Planet Zarkon.


You look ridiculous when you do this, you know.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:Smith may have gone down to southern Utah in order to rendezvous with the Mother Ship at the cinder cones just outside of Veyo, in hopes of getting a copy of the Romulan cheesecake diet plan that he'd heard about when he was living on the Planet Zarkon.

Speculation is great fun.


The same could be said of your belief in god.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:
TAK wrote:Smith may have gone down to So. Utah to have the Indians attack any emigrants coming through the area.

Smith may have gone down to southern Utah in order to rendezvous with the Mother Ship at the cinder cones just outside of Veyo, in hopes of getting a copy of the Romulan cheesecake diet plan that he'd heard about when he was living on the Planet Zarkon.

Speculation is great fun.



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silentkid wrote:The same could be said of your belief in god.

I don't believe in god.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:
silentkid wrote:The same could be said of your belief in god.

I don't believe in god.


No yours is a big G God that has thousands of wives and lives on Kolob.
God has the right to create and to destroy, to make like and to kill. He can delegate this authority if he wishes to. I know that can be scary. Deal with it.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:
silentkid wrote:The same could be said of your belief in god.

I don't believe in god.


Sorry if that came across wrong. What I was getting at is that the argumentation you used in your previous post is often used by atheists to demonstrate the absurdity of a god belief (i.e. Flying Spaghetti Monster or Celestial Teapot). I found it kind of ironical.
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silentkid wrote:What I was getting at is that the argumentation you used in your previous post is often used by atheists to demonstrate the absurdity of a god belief (i.e. Flying Spaghetti Monster or Celestial Teapot). I found it kind of ironical.

I'm aware of that.

I think they're silly.

It's a cute little joke, but the arguments for and against theism are, shall we say, considerably more serious than the FSM stunt has managed to capture.
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TAK wrote:

And yes I have read the book.

Then you hardly grasp it. It's about mob mentality. It's about a confluence of circumstances, timing and war-time hysteria creating a tinderbox in which otherwise decent people will do horrendous things. Think My Lai Massacre.
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beastie wrote:
Smith may have gone down to southern Utah in order to rendezvous with the Mother Ship at the cinder cones just outside of Veyo, in hopes of getting a copy of the Romulan cheesecake diet plan that he'd heard about when he was living on the Planet Zarkon.


You look ridiculous when you do this, you know.

I think its quite effective.

It's showing that TAK's unsubstantiated conjecture is hardly more credible than the Planet Zarkon fantasy.

But you knew that already, didn't you?
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ScottLloyd wrote: It's about mob mentality. It's about a confluence of circumstances, timing and war-time hysteria creating a tinderbox in which otherwise decent people will do horrendous things. Think My Lai Massacre.


Yes, but the US government in 1857 were hardly in the category of the Viet Cong, were they?
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