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the purpose of meetings such as Sunday School, Priesthood and Relief Society, is to facilitate learning. I love RFM’s take on this. The church is stuck teaching kindergarten over and over. RFM, and I, and many others have graduated beyond kindergarten. You can think it’s beautiful to repeat kinderg...

Being lectured by a dopey Mormon on spirituality is akin to being lectured by an ancient astronaut theorist on history. The above is just pure hubristic B.S. written by a small man. The top-down egoism of the Mormon hierarchy is on full display right now. - Doc Perfect. I needed some irony enrichme...

And who is responsible for kind of soil the seed is placed in? I know I didn't pick the soil I landed in despite what Saturdays Warrior claims. The accumulation of genetic factors and the acre of soil I grew up around seems to indicate god wanted me to be atheist. To the extent that we aren't respo...

Wade, in your view, did any dropouts previously pass the test of spiritual faith and taste the delicious fruit thereof? I am not in a position to say for certain, but your wonderful question is best answered in Lehi's dream as expounded by Nephi (see 1 Nephi 11: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/...

The question isn't can you get other people to fall into the trap er...I mean other people to agree with you about your spiritual belief. In the case of people who agree their spiritual growth has happened, we still are unable to determine if there is anything to the claim. Each and every of the mi...

Wade But, Alma 32 does include falsification. See verse 32: "Therefore, if a seed groweth it is good, but if it groweth not, behold it is not good, therefore it is cast away." So why are those who have tossed the seed away from the test, since obviously it is not good, always getting into trouble a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNopr1ZvCFg I made a few comments on the manner in which Elder Bednar was attempting to teach something profound to the missionaries in the MTC. Come enjoy an 8 minute response, the length of the video. Enjoy my reply as well: Issue #1: Why no Q&A during sacrament me...

You can leave off the “does that help” comments. Unless you want me, a professor at an exceedingly more prestigious university than yours, to condescend correspondingly to you. It was an innocuous and hierarchical-neutral way of asking if I had clarified things sufficiently so as to be correctly un...

Sadly, I don’t think he sees room for all people to find happiness in their own way. He must ridicule another’s choices to justify his own. Quite the contrary. I explicitly acknowledged that other people can find "happiness" through beliefs and practices divergent from mine. In fact, their "happine...

Could you expound on your definition of functional methods? Above you are saying they “help minimize or surmount confirmation bias where possible,” but then further on you say processes are functional “if they produce the intended growth, development, and progress.” The problem is that “intended” d...