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- Wed May 08, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: An extraordinary claim by Alan “still no PHD” Wyatt…
- Replies: 1
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An extraordinary claim by Alan “still no PHD” Wyatt…
In a comment on a video about the benefits of religion, Alan makes this sweeping generalisation about parents… Good video. I seriously agree with Haidt on the matters he is discussing. I don't hold out much hope for what he is proposing, however, for two reasons. (1) change takes work, and most adul...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
- Replies: 75
- Views: 9795
Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
This Deseret News article by Samuel Wilkinson caught my attention: “Want to be happy? Try helping other people: The author of ‘Purpose’ explains the benefits of helping others, with no thought of reward.” https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2024/05/observations-on-two-simple-passages.html The...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: FAIR: New “Me, My Shelf, and I” pod series
- Replies: 7
- Views: 309
Re: FAIR: New “Me, My Shelf, and I” pod series
Does this mean FAIR thinks the official Church essays haven’t done a good enough job?
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:20 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
- Replies: 75
- Views: 9795
Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
What's so funny is that he's been claiming over and over that he was hamstrung by the Church's own rules. But of course, he's only doing this after the fact. None of his old blog entries show him lifting so much as a pinkie finger to check up on Frenchy's records, or anything like that. Heck, he di...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Can we corroborate Bednar’s Conference anecdote?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1133
Can we corroborate Bednar’s Conference anecdote?
During a recent open house and media day for a new house of the Lord, I led a group of journalists on a tour through the sacred structure. I described the purposes of temples in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and responded to their many excellent questions. Before entering the cele...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
- Replies: 75
- Views: 9795
Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
Sometimes trying to support lds theology over all else really ties the arguments up in knots. Here's a certain mopologist explaining the nature of relationships after death: ...here are some examples of Christian (and other) marriage vows that I’ve easily located online. They demonstrate that the d...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
- Replies: 75
- Views: 9795
Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
In the discussion on Frenchy's situation, a poster offered this: The brethren ask us to vote is enough for me to believe that it is the right thing to do. Beyond that, families could not exist if every person took time to calculate if a particular action yielded more benefits than costs. No ward or...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
- Replies: 75
- Views: 9795
Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
My mother died on 11 April 2005. I think it was on our first visit to the cemetery after my mother’s passing that my wife and I, driving up the rather steep hill toward my parents’ graves, noticed an elderly man who was toiling painfully up the road. We pulled over and asked him whether he could us...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:21 am
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
- Replies: 75
- Views: 9795
Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
Heres DCP's reason for not doing Frenchy's temple work: ...Having never known nor even met any other member of Frenchy Morrell’s family, and having met Frenchy himself only once, briefly and years ago, and being neither his undivorced spouse nor his adult child nor his father or mother or brother o...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
- Replies: 75
- Views: 9795
Re: Pissing on "Frenchy"'s Grave?; Or, a Case Study in Mopologetic Selfishness
So did Tangeta violate this? That’s a very good point, Rivendale. Back when tangata was kissing Dr. Peterson’s butt about this, DCP declared that this apparent violation of Church policy was “Wonderful!” You see: the rules don’t matter when DCP is angling for clicks on his blog; when that’s the goa...