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Recurrent dream of signing up for an 8 AM course in **shudder** English grammar. Decided "Why did I ever decide to take that?" However, didn't bother to drop the course. Never attended, did no homework, never took any tests. Dropped my GPA by quite a bit. Somehow plugged away, ignoring it,...

I don't know Gad, I've had plenty of people (family mostly) who have shared these kinds of stories in a very sincere manner. There was a whole Birther movement. The desire for news that confirms one's world view can be pretty strong. Couple that with a President who regularly dismisses legitimate r...

In the culture I come from, we have a unilateral truce. We ignore things Mormon. Studiously. Because this results in some degree of peace, it has worked for 170 years. However, when they discover that we are not Mormon, and do not adhere to the trivialities of the Mormon code, or the prejudices, all...

I don't see it going anywhere. He will retreat to his emotional testimony and you will to yours. Sure deutero Isaiah is a problem but so is the lack of evidence for an exodus, adam and eve, etc. I think both suffer from myth problems. Ancient myths and the development and maturation of the human co...

The survival rate is one of the best. And, as seen here, it is no longer a deep, dark family secret. You have some great company.

There was a pretty interesting PBS documentary (Nova, I think), that explained the many dragon myths in various cultures as the finding of dinosaur fossils by ancient peoples. They pointed out that even in China today, some people refer to them as dragon bones. There was a time when they were mined...

They have a tough row ahead of them to catch up with grossly inaccurate headlines. Click-bait wins the ad revenue.

Cher is uniquely mixed. But any Native ancestry is only a small bit, if there is any. She is more Armenian than anything else, which makes her look like a Cherokee woman. But we have been through these issues before. Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian. Cher’s father, John Paul Sarkisian, was born in C...

Then how do you explain the success of the Book of Mormon? And the general level of education and access to information was HOW compared to today? Such a book as Tosh proposes would be laughable, except as a parody, without research into the sources I provided, and others. Which is why your TBM wif...

Authenticity works better. You, as a historical re-enactor, Tosh, should know that.