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I just saw this genius post from several months ago from kishkumen. I especially love the following. Bravo! Plagiarism is what a person with no ideas does. Art is skillful theft sanctified by genius. Individual parts of Joseph Smith’s career may look like plagiarism, but step back and examine the wh...

Thanks, HG. This makes me happy!

Don

From what I saw when I looked at the link, these payments are being made to universities with the requirement that the school would use at least half of the money to provide emergency financial aid grants--as the document says--to students, and therefore implicitly with the option that the school co...

Oh, that makes me sad!

I liked him! We talked over lunch once several years ago, and he was very enthusiastic about my work on the lost 116 pages.

Don

As will hopefully be obvious now, I am LLHWEAPS/MsNobody's unnamed friend. We are old friends. We've known each other since ZLMB, along with other old timers like Shades, Jersey Girl, and others. We talked there on the board, and also on the chat room, and also via email and phone. We've been friend...

Awww, agape to you as well, "MsNobody," my friend. I don't frequent the board so much these days, so I'm lucky I caught your thread! I guess ironically I owe it to the fact that people have extended the thread so longI taking you to task for it that I got to see it! Thank you so much for your concer...

Or one could just keep interpreting everything according to the same biased lens. After all, it worked so well with this one! Don The OP phrased his last sentence as a question, meaning he was unsure. The questions regarding Vogel and Quinn are valid given the topic and one should note that the pos...

Physics Guy, I don't understand what "a cheap form of sincerity" would mean. This seems like a value judgment on something other than the sincerity itself. Help me understand? Also, by the way, I'm not saying the thoughts I've offered here comprise the totality of Joseph Smith's revelatory...

The conference is put on by Huntington Library - one of the most prestigious academic libraries in the world. Among the participants are noted Evangelical scholar Richard Mouw, Ann Taves - a noted naturalistic scholar on religion who has argued that Joseph Smith created and then sacralized his own p...

Dr Moore, Fascinating! I like the organization of data here, but unless I'm missing something - which I may be! - you are doing heavy specific analysis based on airy, non-specific assumed numbers. When you say, "I calculate a more likely time to accomplish a day's translation work at 5.9 hours&...