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by Physics Guy
Tue May 07, 2024 2:22 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
Replies: 87
Views: 4257

Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"

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by Physics Guy
Tue May 07, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
Replies: 87
Views: 4257

Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"

Those recollections claiming to remember the names Nephi and Lehi do make me think that Smith might well have done some cribbing from Spalding. On the other hand I gather that lots of people had notions about ancient Jews populating the Americas. I think that for a long time European Christians coul...
by Physics Guy
Fri May 03, 2024 4:43 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Numbers...
Replies: 77
Views: 1688

Re: Numbers...

There are so many ways for numbers to seem special. In fact it's probably rare for a number to have nothing special about it. Once, in the taxi from London, Hardy noticed its number, 1729. He must have thought about it a little because he entered the room where Ramanujan lay in bed and, with scarcel...
by Physics Guy
Fri May 03, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
Replies: 87
Views: 4257

Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"

I just mean that the reasonable non-Mormon doesn't have any particular story about how the Book of Mormon got made. Smith wrote it, or maybe he had help; maybe he used stuff he had read in books, or maybe he heard it or just made it up; maybe he had some fake plates made of lead shingles or maybe ju...
by Physics Guy
Fri May 03, 2024 8:13 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"
Replies: 87
Views: 4257

Re: Lars Nielsen's "How the Book of Mormon Came to Pass"

Imagine you’ve grown up with The Lord of the Rings , and then someone tells you it was all made up. Sure, there was Sauron, they say; and yeah, he was defeated and all the orcs disappeared. There were no hobbits, though, and no rangers or riders or Nazgûl. There was no Gandalf and there was no Ring....
by Physics Guy
Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: My new Mini-Documentary Series Video is Up - Enigma Jesus
Replies: 18
Views: 1262

Re: My new Mini-Documentary Series Video is Up - Enigma Jesus

If you look closely you can see that that guy is actually the Death Dealer’s more socially adept brother, the Zucchini Skewer Dealer.
by Physics Guy
Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:39 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Infer, Imply, Affect, Effect - Those Terms.
Replies: 16
Views: 1068

Re: Infer, Imply, Affect, Effect - Those Terms.

So your understanding of implying and inferring is kind of like the two people in the conversation, one implies something and the other infers the meaning what what was implied? Yes, exactly. Implying is suggesting something, and inferring is picking up a suggestion. In this sense "imply" and "infe...
by Physics Guy
Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:08 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Infer, Imply, Affect, Effect - Those Terms.
Replies: 16
Views: 1068

Re: Infer, Imply, Affect, Effect - Those Terms.

Implying is saying something without quite saying it. Inferring is hearing something that wasn't quite said. It's true that "affect" is usually a verb, and "effect" is usually a noun. If you affect something, then you have an effect on it. Unfortunately there are some more seldom-used words with som...
by Physics Guy
Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:17 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: I am amazed at the change.
Replies: 29
Views: 2090

Re: I am amazed at the change.

I was thinking of children younger than ten, like two to six. By ten I think most kids do have a lot of moral awareness. Some are mean and some are kind; some have lived in circumstances that make one or the other of those easier to be.
by Physics Guy
Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:11 am
Forum: [Super Spirit Paradise]
Topic: Washer Dryer preference
Replies: 14
Views: 1442

Re: Washer Dryer preference

Hmm, the condensing dryer probably does take longer. We run it overnight, or in the day while we're at work, so it has plenty of time. A lot of our clothes we hang to dry, over a day or two, because we don't want them getting slowly shredded into lint by any dryer. That seems to be common practice h...