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- Fri May 17, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Russell McGregor: Online Mopologist Extraordinaire
- Replies: 27
- Views: 881
Re: Russell McGregor: Online Mopologist Extraordinaire
A more efficient approach -- I'm watching it in real time over at the Peterson Obsession Board -- is to simply dismiss all the accounts, sight unseen, accompanied by snorts of derision and, among the higher organisms there, airy but factually-ungrounded theoretical explanations of why the accounts ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Many-Transfigurations theory
- Replies: 20
- Views: 557
Re: The Many-Transfigurations theory
Years, and years of no one mentioning any type of miracle, and then *boom*, everyone started sharing their recollection. Can't wait for the next generation of apologists to relate future stories of how unicorns and rainbows magically surrounded Dr. Peterson when he was chastising critics and other ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:10 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 199
- Views: 4525
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
It's worth noting that Laplace was before our understanding of quantum randomness - that the universe is not a completely deterministic set of small billiard balls bumping into each other. There is uncertainty and randomness baked in, such that even a perfected human like the Mormon God would not b...
- Thu May 16, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
- Replies: 199
- Views: 4525
Re: Seeing Things Differently -DanP the apologist excuse.
Within a system their is an element of free will in that frame of reference if you will. But to an observer outside of that system, the free will isn't there because you can see the outside elements that come into play.. This is interesting. Some won’t like this but I plugged your statement into Pi...
- Thu May 16, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Many-Transfigurations theory
- Replies: 20
- Views: 557
Re: The Many-Transfigurations theory
Arguments from incredulity seem to me extremely common, if not indeed almost omnipresent, when a proffered explanation is rejected. And I don't see them as inherently bad or false. They're certainly omnipresent in Daniel's work. "How could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon? It must have ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 3:54 am
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Feel a bit crap.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 289
Re: Feel a bit crap.
Hope you feel better soon, pirate!
- Thu May 16, 2024 3:10 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Many-Transfigurations theory
- Replies: 20
- Views: 557
Re: The Many-Transfigurations theory
A couple of folks over at the Peterson Obsession Board finally noticed the Meridian article -- Dumb-Dud and the former Kerry Shirts, at least -- and have begun to chant their disagreement with it and their disdain for it. As of yet, they've shown no awareness of the actual argument, let alone any s...
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:31 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Many-Transfigurations theory
- Replies: 20
- Views: 557
Re: The Many-Transfigurations theory
Is this something taught as a miracle in the CES curriculum? The link no longer works, but is archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200926001822/https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/manual/church-history-in-the-fulness-of-times/chapter-twenty-three?lang=eng “Chapter Twenty-Three: The Twelve t...
- Wed May 15, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Many-Transfigurations theory
- Replies: 20
- Views: 557
Re: The Many-Transfigurations theory
Apologists are always more secure with quantity than quality. They would rather have 90 pennies than a $100.00 bill, because, well more pennies! They make a nice neat looking pile of copper! Obviously they would be more impressive to the eye than a mere flat piece of single paper. Indeed. And no on...
- Wed May 15, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: The Many-Transfigurations theory
- Replies: 20
- Views: 557
The Many-Transfigurations theory
In my judgment, the available evidence is persuasive that the story of Brigham’s transfiguration was being told quite early, and it’s difficult to imagine that so many testimonies over so long a period and from such far-flung areas emerged from a conspiracy to deceive or from a mysterious “contagio...