"The offended ones."
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This little "beaut" appeared today under Peggy Fletcher Stack's byline. BTW, Will Bagley's nickname for her is particularly unflattering (think "stretch and fact" :-). https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2021/04/17/tribune-covers-mormonism/ >>The Tribune has been connected to Mormonism since its beginning. That one's "pure curelom dung," and honestly, I r
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I remember the late Richard Alpert aka "Baba Ram Dass" telling an anecdote about the Dali Lama being asked if he was "angry at the Chinese" and the reply being "That wouldn't be functional, would it?" Ram Dass gave a profound analysis, on the order of "that's pretty self aware" or something similar. It appears you've reached a similar understanding. Ram
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One "f" in Hofmann... I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and guess you're being sarcastic...
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One of the earliest concepts I had to "internalize" was the realization that essentially "decent" people (and I regard Ashworth in this vein) have tremendous difficulty grasping and understanding the motives of character-disordered sorts such as Hofmann who can be seen as "authentically evil." That's my take on Ashworth. His explanation "makes sense" to
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Lots of people have noticed the resemblance between Mia's son, Ronan, and "old blue eyes," Frank Sinatra...
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I replied once, but somebody decided to "answer for me," and some posts were removed. Right now I'm retired, but I'm bored a lot, and that may be subject to change.
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I found Simon's piece under "Prehistory," and the topic was "The Colonization of the Americas." Goodness, that means this thread is "on-topic."
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/neanderthal Sorry, Dave; you've been kneecapped.
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"Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourette's Syndrome."
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And other hominids is a daunting task, and even though "I'm just the reporter" on this subject, I did help Simon Southerton edit his contribution to the online "Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration." To summarize, perhaps incompletely, archaic Homo sapiens appear to have left Africa ~200,000 years ago, but all modern populations can likely be traced to a single dispersal (th
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We live in the United States, honest.
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Turkeys are native to the New World and weren't found in the Eastern hemisphere until after 1492... Your use of "atavistic" is laughable. Webster's gives a definition of "relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral."
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I "wince" over the pronunciation as "nee-an-der-thal" rather than "nee-an-der-tall," but that's a matter of personal preference. Ah, I see there are others who use the latter as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p8tFcIQ8K4 Population said to be 2-3,000 over the whole of Europe... Date of their "extinction" is given as ~42,000 years ago. Short
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I heard it from Will Bagley, but he's in a care center, and I haven't been able to communicate with him. From memory, Will said he was certain BY used the story of Pratt's death as a lesson for others.
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Contempt prior to investigation.
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PPP used to "listen" to his "little head," rather than his big head. Seriously, that's what got him killed even though Mormons insist he was a martyr. Well, except for Brigham Young. His scribe recorded, "Parley's gone a whoring."
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AA "welcomes" anybody at open meetings. To borrow a "BYU Cliché" I read here once, your knowledge of the Fellowship and its suggested program of recovery amounts to a "peeled zero." There are longtime members who are grateful for that "nudge from the judge." This crapola started when Cold Dodger derailed his own thread about Steven Hassan with that atta
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The choice is not enforced by 12-Step Programs, but rather by the courts.
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Because you say so? From a grad class I had from a PhD anthropologist: "The difference between a cult and a religion is a religion survives the death of its founder." And I see both of you are ignoring Stephen Hassan's analysis. Given that he's possibly this country's foremost authority on cults, I'd say your credibility is nonexistent.
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Seriously... Sheesh, looking at the sheer number of his threads, you'd think nobody else was using this forum. #Headed to Costco for more you-know-whats...
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At an an ex-Mormon Conference several years ago. He does not consider Alcoholics Anonymous a cult, but rather a benevolent fellowship that admittedly employs some of the dynamics that toxic cults use as part of their brainwashing tactics. The Tradition of "attraction rather than promotion" is particularly powerful. You are a member when you say you're a member, and leaving operates on a
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https://www.amazon.com/House-Mourning-Biocultural-Mountain-Massacre/dp/1607811693/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=novak+house+of+mourning&qid=1614000455&s=books&sr=1-1
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Here's the link to Wise's work (I haven't read it) as well as to another I just remembered. https://www.amazon.com/Massacre-Mountain-Meadows-American-Monumental/dp/0595092586/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=william+wise+massacre+at+mountain+meadows&qid=1614000208&s=books&sr=1-1 Sally Denton's book on the subject is also worthwhile. https://www.amazon.com/American-Massacre-Tr
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To "Blood of the Prophets." He co-authored it with David Bigler (whose last book, "Confessions of a Revisionist Historian," Will edited). The title is "Innocent Blood." https://www.amazon.com/Innocent-Blood-Essential-Narratives-Mountain/dp/0870623621 The only reason I bothered to read the Turley, Walker, Leonard work is because somebody graciously sent me a cop
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Whether you're trying to derail this thread or defend Limbaugh's obvious racism. Given that you just appeared today (and out of nowhere), I'm suitably underwhelmed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh%E2%80%93Sandra_Fluke_controversy Limbaugh called her a slut and made other comments I wont' repeat. In 2007 he used the phrase, "Barack the Magic Negro." Nuff said... The world is a better place with his passing.
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That leaves an opening in the right wing pundits association. Double-digit I.Q. a prerequisite, I assume?
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He says he's happy to be retiring. We'll be celebrating our 50th high school reunion this summer, and I expect he'll put in an appearance. My favorite Kirby one-liner was an answer to a question about whether he was worried about the LDS Church FP hassling him. He answered, "Nope. They're old. I can beat them up."
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President Hinckley is still dead... When an attempt was made to contact him about the Hinckley interview, it was revealed that Larry King is also dead.
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