Borgesian Archives of Moral Science's Lexicon to Mopologetics

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Borgesian Archives of Moral Science's Lexicon to Mopologetics

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In honor of Runtu.

Bayes Theorem: The logical extension of illogical desires.

Blake Ostler: Someone who collects disease carrying mosquitoes and then releases them as articles.

Bloggernacle: An interlocking system of errors.

Catalyst Theory: The literal misreading of a misunderstood scroll.

FAIR Conference: A Greek comedy set in Utah.

FARMS Review: A dilapidated beacon composed of fog.

Fireside: Where public speaking goes to die.

Hugh Nibley: A man best appreciated if never read.

John Dehlin: The guy we always want to hear from. Until we do.

John Gee: Ian McDiarmid without a mirror.

Kwaku El: Attention spam.

Louis Midgley: A dry drunk passing as a political scientist.

Mormon Apologist: One who tries to intellectualize their faith and fails; sometimes brilliantly.

Mormon Dialogue & Discussion: A doubting Mormon’s last chance of finding people just like them who don’t like people just like them.

Mormon Studies: A branch of history and comparative studies committed to disregarding both.

Paradigm: The erroneous and shallow notion that your religion is neither erroneous nor shallow.

Pragmatism: The love of philosophy for those seduced by their own.

r/exmormon: That cigarette not smoked after not having sex.

Shaken Faith Syndrome: The slow realization that you’ve been dying this entire time.

The Gospel: A stick barely disguised as a carrot.

The Interpreter Foundation: Mistaking somebody's rough draft for scholarship.

Thomas Riskas: A man who bought a roundtrip ticket from delusion to grandeur and then wrote a book about it.

Hope everyone enjoyed their 4th!

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Brilliant work, Dr. Stak! We must have this added to the library collection at Cassius U stat!
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While many of these just go over my head due to unfamiliarity with the background, the definition of the Gospel as a stick barely disguised as a carrot seems pretty deft.

And I don't even know what a "dry drunk" would be, but it seems to fit Midgley uncannily well. As soon as you say it, his frequently disjointed prose and misspellings are so much like drunken lurching and slurring, and his belligerence is just like that of the guy at the angry end of the bar.
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Magnificent. We shall frame these in a gaudy Victorian woodwork, painted bright gold, of course, put this list behind glass, and hang these as a singular stellar unit of light in the main entrance of Cassius University, so all who enter may begin their education!
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Jesus! Bracing myself, I thought for sure I was popping up on that list. Fewf! Feel like i dodged a bullet.
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Some of those were dead on, Stak.
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Brilliant.
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Brilliant.

I need to create ten sock puppets so I can use these as sig lines!

Stak,

Can you add one about MFB?
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Excellent! Some of these really made me think.
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Paradigm: A word that appears in every Kevin Christensen post.

Margaret Barker: A person's name that appears in every Kevin Christensen post.
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