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[_Mister Scratch]

Thanks for the information guys.

Is there anywhere the LDS can go to study LDS doctrine exclusively?

Is there a program at BYU where you can study LDS doctrine exclusively? Like a subset of religious studys?

Bond

This pretty much cuts to the chase, and basically serves to reinforce my claim about FARMS and peer review. There is no such thing as "Mormonology," and to a certain extent, systematic study of LDS doctrine actually seems to be discouraged. I.e., there is always a great deal of hand-wringing when it comes to actually defining "official" doctrine.

[_harmony]

Businessmen don't think out of the box? Guess we run in different circles.

As for the original question, none are theologians in the sense you use it. By having a lay clergy it is doubtful any theologion will even lead in the High Councils of the Church. CES teacher is about as close as one gets.

Businessmen have only one goal: show a profit at the end of the year. Minimizing overhead, reducing personnel, cutting benefits while increasing profits means a big bonus at year's end. Not much out the box thinking for that. The really innovative businesses are the ones that can minimize overhead while maintaining staff and benefits. When that happens, you have a Starbucks. But still, not exactly out of the box thinking. The real innovation comes from the inventors, the wizards, the R&D folks, not the businessmen. You know: the people whose bread and butter is thinking outside the box.

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[_Bond...James Bond]

Businessmen have only one goal: show a profit at the end of the year. Minimizing overhead, reducing personnel, cutting benefits while increasing profits means a big bonus at year's end. Not much out the box thinking for that. The really innovative businesses are the ones that can minimize overhead while maintaining staff and benefits. When that happens, you have a Starbucks. But still, not exactly out of the box thinking. The real innovation comes from the inventors, the wizards, the R&D folks, not the businessmen. You know: the people whose bread and butter is thinking outside the box.

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It's easy to show a profit when a business inexplicably gets hundreds of millions in donations every year from the customers.

I think this is modern day tax farming. Instead of the Roman Army enforcing it, its the threat of hell/outer darkness.

Bond

[_harmony]

Businessmen have only one goal: show a profit at the end of the year. Minimizing overhead, reducing personnel, cutting benefits while increasing profits means a big bonus at year's end. Not much out the box thinking for that. The really innovative businesses are the ones that can minimize overhead while maintaining staff and benefits. When that happens, you have a Starbucks. But still, not exactly out of the box thinking. The real innovation comes from the inventors, the wizards, the R&D folks, not the businessmen. You know: the people whose bread and butter is thinking outside the box.

[edited to correct fuzzy grammer]

It's easy to show a profit when a business inexplicably gets hundreds of millions in donations every year from the customers.

I think this is modern day tax farming. Instead of the Roman Army enforcing it, its the threat of hell/outer darkness.

Bond

So these businessmen accomplish their goal, and reap their bonus (adulation, reverence, power over millions of people) every year, and they don't even have to publish a detailed yearly report to the shareholders on how they spent those 'donations'.

[_Bond...James Bond]

Businessmen have only one goal: show a profit at the end of the year. Minimizing overhead, reducing personnel, cutting benefits while increasing profits means a big bonus at year's end. Not much out the box thinking for that. The really innovative businesses are the ones that can minimize overhead while maintaining staff and benefits. When that happens, you have a Starbucks. But still, not exactly out of the box thinking. The real innovation comes from the inventors, the wizards, the R&D folks, not the businessmen. You know: the people whose bread and butter is thinking outside the box.

[edited to correct fuzzy grammer]

It's easy to show a profit when a business inexplicably gets hundreds of millions in donations every year from the customers.

I think this is modern day tax farming. Instead of the Roman Army enforcing it, its the threat of hell/outer darkness.

Bond

So these businessmen accomplish their goal, and reap their bonus (adulation, reverence, power over millions of people) every year, and they don't even have to publish a detailed yearly report to the shareholders on how they spent those 'donations'.

That's about my conclusion. Crazy right?

Bond