DiscussMormonism.com

Imwashingmypirate wrote: ↑

Sun May 12, 2024 10:26 pm

... The forums is breaking again. There are 360 odd "guests". Is there a way to boot them?

Why would we boot guests?

Everybody Wang Chung wrote: ↑

Mon May 13, 2024 12:46 am

Some faithful Mormons even made it into Hitler's inner circle.

I'm going to have to ask for a reference for that claim. Simply being a member of the SS was a far, FAR cry from being in Hitler's inner circle.

In my experience, Hales is a frustrating interlocutor. I am sure he means well, and he is not a bad guy, but his tactics are pretty slippery. He straw mans his opponents, and his own arguments are recycled. His Joseph couldn’t have done this ergo God arguments are his usual go-to approach. My probl...

bill4long wrote: ↑

Mon May 13, 2024 1:44 am

Anyone else?

Me, too.

I imagine you read one or more books in 2023. Think of your favorite one of those. Now, think of a book you read 22 years earlier, back in 2001. When you read the more recent one, did it contaminate your memory of the one from 2001, to the point that you thought the former's principal characters ha...

Consistency and coherence are irrelevant to you? Weird that you didn't quote me. Almost like you're scared! :D Scared?? Umm, no. My response was directly after yours, so that plus the context made it clear to whom I was responding. That the primary events of the Book of Mormon took place in the Ame...

I think the connection is pretty obvious. Their knowledge of the Book of Mormon, which contains that information, was fresher and connected to a more sensational set of claims than their knowledge of Spalding’s work, which was tedious and connected to nothing remarkable at all, at least aside from ...

Consistency and coherence are irrelevant to you?

Valo wrote: ↑

Tue May 07, 2024 7:28 am

Are these your commandments to me?

No, they're instructions on how to be both consistent and coherent.

You ought to read the Book of Mormon sometime. It'll make it abundantly clear that the Jaredite barges were sea ships, not space ships. . . not to mention the fact that rocket technology wasn't available c. 2,000 years before Christ. No, that's not it. Yes, that is it. You ever considered it's You ...