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Helmuth Hübener's unwillingness to comply would have made him a bad fit for BYU. His sentence may have been carried out by the Honors Committee Authorities.

Dr. Shades wrote: ↑

Mon May 13, 2024 8:45 am

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?

Because they are not really guests, but computer artifacts that slow down loading.

bill4long wrote: ↑

Mon May 13, 2024 4:19 am

Do you know what libertarian means?

Sort of like anarchy-lite?

If we follow the twin admonition of "No more slam dunks" and "No more Mister Nice Guys (Mormons)" you come to Dr. Peterson's enforcer Pahoran or Kiwi (a.k.a. Russell McGregor). Russell will show readers not to mess with Mormons or else face their considerable wrath.

That episode entitled The Brighamite Church and Following the Will of Landru sounds very compelling. I am glad that the Community of Christ pursued the path of Captain Piccard rather than James T. Kirk of the Palmyra Kirks.

Also, we already know that translations can alter meanings. Excellent point. God could have been saying "Tapirs of unusual size" and it may have been translated as horses. Same way with steel and chariots, let alone mistaking spacecraft that could land on the Delmarva Peninsula as ocean-going ships.

Imwashingmypirate wrote: ↑

Sun May 12, 2024 8:22 am

Aww is there more?

Much more courtesy of The Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51 ... mages.html

The creation story in the Finnish Kalevala is much more creative and has a fun rhyming meter. In primeval times, a maiden, Beauteous Daughter of the Ether, Passed for ages her existence In the great expanse of heaven, O'er the prairies yet enfolded. Wearisome the maiden growing, Her existence sad an...

Res Ipsa wrote: ↑

Sat May 11, 2024 3:05 pm

I’m not playing whack-a-mole grievance theater today.

The only requirement to be an efficient mole in this game is to be an election denier.

Why not balance it out by also including a story of a non-Mormon lawyer (or comparable professional) and amateur archeologist or even a non-Mormon professional archeologist, who worked in Mesoamerica and made connections different from Ferguson, and came to believe the Book of Mormon is an ancient ...