Packer states that science/morality represent "weasel words" - one word sucking the meaning from the other. I'm pretty sure he is referring to people like Sam Harris and Jonathan Haidt bringing scientific understanding to bear on our sense of morality. Packer says,"Science and morality. They might go together but science has got to learn a lot more about spirituality first."
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There has been a sometimes subtle and sometimes not so subtle effort to reactivate my widowed friend who lives in a mormon-saturated area. He received a call that the missionaries and an "area" person were coming to visit and that there would likely be two more visits after that. (He avers that there will NOT be two more meetings.) My friend is a fine person, does a great deal of
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Question for historians. Most colonists returned to the US after 1912. For those who went back to the colonies, did they continue polygamy?
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I bought it new in '69. Midnight blue with a white top. Fast. (I sold it in '75 and bought a '75 Monte Carlo that was so damn gutless I was afraid I'd get rear ended.) That same year my boyfriend of 5 years got married. Two weeks later, he called to say he'd made a mistake. I wanted to watch the moon landing but instead went to meet him on a country road. Wish I knew then what I know now.
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I have all I need. If I inherited, I'd try to share/spend it on those who needed it. I'd like to share equally among the nieces and nephews but the thought that the one Mormon in the bunch will pay tithing on his share burns me up.
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Very little was made of the LDS connection.
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He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool...shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is willing...teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep...awaken him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise...follow him.
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Please answer imagining you were still TBM. Do you suppose he is busy building his own world? Is he welcoming and processing deceased Mormons? Is he surrounded by his many wives? Children?
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