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For those who may feel that delusions of grandeur is an unfair characterization of Joseph Smith's belief and behavior, here are a few quotations and well documented descriptions of his actions and their intent to consider. "I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that h...

He believes that divine providence is all over his life, the hand of God is everywhere. Including in picking the scribes and choosing the people around him helping him, that all becomes part of his process of “studying it out” in his mind of what should go into translation of the Book of Mormon. So...

If DID is more caused by adverse circumstances than by genetic lottery then maybe it is surprisingly prevalent in the whole population but strongly clustered, for example in places where childhood is frequently hard. That could explain why I've never knowingly met anyone with DID, even though I wou...

DrW's 1.3% figure for the incidence of DID is actually on the low end of what I've found from the first few online sources I checked. But doesn't it seem awfully high? It's only smaller than the proportion of gay people by a factor of three or so, and there have been quite a few gay people in my ow...

Among the constellation of consciousness states found in humans, none are better evidence against the existence of a material soul than those reported by people suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID . Previously known as multiple personality disorder, DID is caused by "overwhelmi...

Bro. Hamblin was indeed a true believer who gained an outsized reputation as a Mormon apologist. The passing of one at age 65 is an especially sad event. I join with Dr. Scratch and others in the MDB community in expressing condolences to his family, friends and associates in the hope that at least ...

RI, thanks for taking the time to do the research on the subject and for posting your findings. Angst expressed by American Christians regarding such momentous issues as the need to "defend Christmas" and to fight against the erosion of religious freedom and the persecution of Christians i...

Simon, Thanks for posting this. My first response to Sessions' nonsense as I read was amusement. This soon turned to anger. And finally, after reading Bickmore's commentary, to sadness. It is astounding to me that there are (supposedly) educated adults in the US that can sincerely believe the young ...

On the other hand I would caution against getting too carried away with David Bohm. He was a smart guy, all right, but his ideas about quantum mechanics just turned out to be wrong. They look fine as long as you only talk about a single quantum particle. As soon as you start trying to describe more...

“Thus quantum physics provides no materialistic basis for the physical world. Its totally hypothetical abstractions, its patterns of potentiality, its nonphysical, unobservable wave functions are the only representations of electrons (or anything else) that quantum physics provides us with. They ar...