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Daniel has an incredibly long new post about this on his blog. After reading, all I can think about is how baffled the Nazarene would have been if someone had explained all of this to him on the shores of Galilee. ... And Jesus spoke to the multitudes, saying: " My beloved brethren, harken to MySQL...

malkie wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:03 am

Did I read this correctly?

Would it not be preferable for "Satan" to be an apostate?

Good at first, now 'fallen'. You can't typecast an exmo any better than that.

Please read this. It's only a discussion Marcus. A matter of coincidence, probably is baloney, doesn't really need to affect you. I saw you've changed your reply. When I said freaky I was refering to every house number I've lived in having either a 5 or a 7 in the number. I understand there is no c...

Please read this.

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl
Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

BY MARIA POPOVA

https://www3.nd.edu/~ghaeffel/Baloney.pdf

And Nathan, too. (I had no idea, myself, that the Poe of Poe's Law wasn't Edgar Allan, but it suddenly struck me that the concept seemed a little past EAP's time, and I googled.) Omg, I didn't either. I also googled. Nathan Poe: Without a winking smiley... it is utterly impossible... Wisdom for the...

Yes, it's a little-known fact that the Root Bear took some time off from his celebrity career to finish his old dissertation and earn a PhD in astrophysics. Oh, wait, that was Brian May. Never mind. Ah. This is the beginning of wisdom: when you consider that the Root Bear, Brian May, and Paul McCar...

Because it's interesting to find out where he got his ideas. Nielson has built his entire theory on the Spalding - Rigdon connection, which has been so thoroughly debunked that I can't personally get past anything else. Please help me understand why we should give any more value to Nielson's explan...

Thank you, dear Gad!!

yellowstone123 wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:23 pm

It's going at warp speed now. Who ever did it thank you.

Ditto!!

False etymology has a long history. Joseph Smith did not invent it, and those who engaged in it were not, ergo, charlatans. ? I think that would depend upon whether those engaging in it knew it was false. Just because one didn't invent a false etymology does not, ergo, prevent one from being deemed...