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Taves's hypothesis is pretty speculative, but it paints a believable picture of somebody making up a religion that he sincerely believes in. If you grant for the sake of argument that he had visions of ancient Lehites and a desire to write a story about them, creating a set of plates and pretending...

RockSlider wrote:

sock puppet wrote:From my perspective, gyrations like those that Taves posits are a classic example of cognitive dissonance. Not to put too fine a point on it, it seems like mental masturbation to me.

I wonder if Taves has ever heard of Occam's Razor?

Ha ha ha.

From my perspective, gyrations like those that Taves posits are a classic example of cognitive dissonance. Not to put too fine a point on it, it seems like mental masturbation to me.

Friendly CFR here Moinmoin. Where can I find this authoritative interpretation? This is just the top Google hit (class is starting, and I need to sign off), but it contains a form of the statement that is always repeated: m "President Howard W. Hunter stated it this way: “The law is simply sta...

Dr. Shades wrote:Yet another thread about this same subject, in so soon a time frame?

What was lacking about the other threads?

If it is troublesome, feel free to delete this thread.

Dr. Shades wrote:Yet another thread about this same subject, in so soon a time frame?

What was lacking about the other threads?

This one is focused more on observation by one not in the trenches of the fracas, less a participatory free-for-all. You might call this one, distant Lamentations.

I've ignored, informally not through the technology feature, MG for a long time. But it seems that unlike the TBM trolls that have preceded him, MG might have done irreparable damage to MDB. Grindael is on hiatus; maksutov and other hinting at quitting. I think there have been more formidable TBMs t...

Does strengthening a testimony make one more tolerant of opposing views? My feeling is that it should, but some experiences would suggest otherwise. Or put another way, as a testimony becomes weaker, does it make its possessor less tolerant? In theory, I think it should be irrelevant. In my experie...

Does anyone even read MG's posts anymore?

I see he has 6428 posts. I know I've not read more than say 400 of them over the years.

Ah, revisiting an oldie but a goodie meme about apophenia
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and for good measure--

“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.” Mark Twain