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For some refreshingly candid wisdom I am inspired to quote another Bob-figure of uncertain identity. I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to. As one of his apparent followers put it, Moses parted the Red Sea, Oppenheimer split the atom, but "Bob" cut the cr...

They really have someone in the film saying that the original plates were just a prop? Isn't that kind of like blowing a hole in the bottom of your ship just as you set sail? Nothing they can show in the film can possibly be inconsistent with the plates having been a prop ... because the plates in t...

Every item is presumed archaic until proven guilty in a court of law.

Some posters here can be harsh but I don't think of Philo Sofee as especially so. Perhaps I just don't notice. Telling another person, "You need to be a better person" is a little arrogant in my book, though, Bob. Who made you the judge? Is this really a Mormon thing after all, priesthood holders re...

Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two ...

So, Kwaku for grown-ups?

Lem wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 4:33 am

I'm not sure Carmack understands how telling this statement of his is:

It's at a point where easier ones to track have been determined to be persistent....

Yeah, Carmack needs a cue from the prompter. "Your next line is, 'Wait.'"

At least it sounds as though these people are willing to distinguish more and less important beliefs. They're committed to some core of last-ditch beliefs but they're willing to modify other beliefs that are more peripheral. Or at least they say they are willing to modify these. This is the kind of ...

Late to this discussion but it seems to me that Hinckley might have been at least arguably telling the truth in saying no tithing funds were used to build the mall, even though tithing funds were used to underwrite it. I'm not an expert in real estate financing but I believe that underwriting is ess...

Moksha wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 29, 2020 7:42 am

by the way, the newly discovered monolith in the Utah desert just vanished, but don't worry, it was translated to the Kolob space station where will be assigned its own planet and harem of sister-wives ...

... becoming a polylith.