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Found to be... Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was found to be an apostrophe. That is all. Didn't they understand you were raised by a dependent clause and a run-on sentence?
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Hamblin's missive stikes me as written by a man in a room with the walls slowly collapsing in on him. Sad.
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DCP has spent years with one foot on the dock (I'm a serious intellectual) and one foot in the boat (all anti-Mormons are poopy faces ). The church is facing ever-increasing scrutiny and needs to expand its appearance as being a serious intellectual community and less of being a community that sees all anti-Mormons as poopy faces. The boat leaves the dock, and DCP painfully crashes into
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You know, there's really a lot I like about the message here. I'll set aside for a moment the skepticism I share with the rest of you -- it was likely a synthesis of several stories or written completely as fiction -- but at the root of it, I really like the message to save the marriage. Certainly the writer's motives are steeped in her loyalty to the church, but that's to be expected. The bo
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I'm so sorry to hear about your troubles. I'm wondering if going back now will just be delaying the inevitable -- sort of like putting off needed surgery. You know you've got to do it eventually, but really don't want the pain associated with it. I also found great new friendships and extended family in a new church. And I could ask questions and express doubt as often as I wanted without
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Duplicate post -- nevermind!
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Shop at Target. Target gives about 5% of their pre-tax profit to charity -- amounting to about $3 million dollars a week. More actual cash ends up in the hands of charitable causes by using your tithing money for shopping at Target than by donating it to TSCC. Just don't shop on Sunday, okay?
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anagrammy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He just emailed me back saying he sincerely > appreciated my support. Called me both Anagrammy > and Sister Waters....interesting. > > Ana I wouldn't be surprised if among the volume of supportive mail he will receive about this, yours will be one of those he finds most comforting. Well sai
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anagrammy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I guess the members have decided they can do a > better job than FAIR, so they are jumping in. This piece was penned by one of Daniel Peterson's "scholars." Here's her online profile: http://mormonscholarstestify.org/3015/melissa-wei-tsing-inouye You may enjoy reading some of the more stellar exp
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Perhaps we should remind our Mormon friends that Paul once warned the church, "A little leaven spoils the whole lump."
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davesnothere Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Based on my favorite Cheech and Chong routine from > the 1971 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oUfqJx-v0w OY! The memories. I wonder if we have a Sister Mary Elephant in our midst.
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My hair started falling out in my late teens. I continued to grow and ended up being quite a bit taller than my hair.
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This one is a real favorite of mine. And the follow up is wonderful. In September of 1971, the Apollo 15 astronauts, Scott, Worden, and Irwin paid a special visit to the church office building. They came bearing gifts. Specifically, they delivered a plaque with a small Utah state flag that had traveled with them to the moon. There's a write up about it on page 6 of the Ogden Standard Exa
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flyboy21 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Joseph Smith and the church are not like a string > of Christmas lights. A string of Christmas lights > cost $15 at Walmart. They're largely > insignificant to our lives. Joseph Smith and the > church are more like Bernie Madoff or some other > financial snake oil salesman getting you to make &g
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Outcast Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > One of my college professors was a mormon with a > PhD...but he was sooo dyed-in-the-wool I don't > think he cared if it was true or not. It was in > his DNA. Irony of ironies, my logic and argumentation prof was a Mormon. I was young and foolish, so when we were assigned a paper to cite examples of
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quinlansolo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is it any different than believing in Jesus > story? > Mormons have a legit shot at their faith as much > as Xtians. > To me Joseph's shortcomings are totally > irrelevant. > I think Joseph had a better Character than Jesus. > Edit; > My point is, believing is all about faith and no
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I would travel, too. I'd love to build a beach house exactly in the spot where Mrs. Tall Man declares, "this is the place." I'd also buy great camera gear and make indie films about quirky people that interest me. Like some of you.
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anagrammy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would have Charlie Sheen play Joseph > Smith, Jr. Would he shout, "Winning!" after each new wife succumbed to his line about the angel with the flaming sword?
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She's one of DCP's "scholars." Here's her profile: http://mormonscholarstestify.org/3015/melissa-wei-tsing-inouye I read this a few months back, and was left awed at the disconnect demonstrated by some of her quotes there: " There are a lot of stories in the world, but Mormonism is the story that I want to be true. To the extent that it is not, I will make it true.
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This study is cited every few months here on the board. The titles given for the articles citing the study are misleading. From the study: "In addition, they found significantly greater hippocampal atrophy among born-again Protestants, Catholics, and those with no religious affiliation, compared with Protestants not identifying as born-again." So, to be most accurate, the h
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Yes, Anagrammy is wonderfully balanced and mature. I too will scan posts pausing consistently on hers. She brings much to our table without even lifting a jello mold.
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It's actually just a temporary shortage due to worker unrest at a Foxconn factory in Beijing. Regular shipments of time are expected to resume long before rationing is required. Perhaps more distressing, however, it appears the new iMac will not ship until some time in 2013.
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Do you get the feeling we'll soon have DCP giving us his version of Nixon's "Checkers" speech? "You won't have Dan Peterson to kick around anymore . . ." While I doubt DCP's apocalyptic reaction to this will actually play out, I do hope it serves to discredit him among some Mormons. His style of "all is well" apologetics with tapirs and such is just pure anti-
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Mormons are so quick to deny they ever taught anything racist. Well, they still do. For some reason, they keep this webpage up with teaching from the Book of Mormon so the little folks can look at a drawing of a couple of dark-skinned Lamanites with the caption, "Laman and Lemuel’s followers called themselves Lamanites. They became a dark-skinned people. God cursed them because of their
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It's really fascinating. Sexual reproduction is a chancy development even to this day (ahem). The difficulty is finding a good explanation for the ubiquitous emergence of gender. There are lots of papers written that detail some of the advantages, but in its initial development it's dangerous and prone to decimating the population. It's really a mystery in evolutionary thought how it came to
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nonamekid Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >There's no real understanding how independent > genders came into existence in a single instance, > let alone across most species. You must have > simultaneous emergence of both genders or the > entire mutation dies out. > > It is not necessary to have the simultaneous > emergence of b
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spaghetti oh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > or any sort of > resort/lodge/hotel in the mountains that offers > accommodation for staff? These were my thoughts as well. There are jobs that provide housing like being a nanny, a house-sitter, in-home care giver for the elderly. Manager at a motel or storage facility would work as well. Try searc
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Don Bagley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Actually, there's a good reason for sexual > reproduction to outrun asexual reproduction. > > Sexual reproduction invovles the combination of > two different DNA strands, thus widening the gene > pool with every new generation. More genetic > variety means more chances for building > adv
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Just a couple of thoughts from one of the theist minority . . . If God is truly a complete and perfect being, that does not mean he must have no desires. A common thread in the Judeo-Christian story is that God desires relationships. In a very macro sense, the story of the Bible is the story of the rocky road that traverses the relationship between a perfect being and his imperfect creat
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