Economics of Anti-Mormonism

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_Gazelam
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Post by _Gazelam »

Mercury wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:Support your claims, Mercury.


I just cited my experience. Outside of message boards, what other artcipation have you had with the church?

The burden of proof I lay out is my time served as a member and a missionary.



Many of Jerseys real life friends are members of the church. She is well aquainted with both the doctrine and culture. She just neds that witness of the spirit so she herself can get baptised.
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Gazelam wrote:Many of Jerseys real life friends are members of the church. She is well aquainted with both the doctrine and culture. She just neds that witness of the spirit so she herself can get baptized.


And you explain her lack of a witness attributable to what? Sin? Stupidity? Perhaps accountability? not "Golden" yet?

To take such a stance Gaz one must have the belief that Jersey is in error. And, if your information is correct, which I am sure it is, I would accept a certain daily level of experience perhaps. I am still skeptical of jerseys ability as a commentator of actions between Mormons. This is at least from a cultural, historical perspective. In short, stick to what you know Jersey.

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Post by _Jersey Girl »

Mercury wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:Support your claims, Mercury.


I just cited my experience. Outside of message boards, what other artcipation have you had with the church?

The burden of proof I lay out is my time served as a member and a missionary.


What you've written here does not support your claims in any form or fashion. If I were you, I wouldn't go playing fast and loose with "burden of proof" assignment since it's crystal clear that you can't identify the claims that you yourself made even when someone else has bothered to collect and list them for you with a request that you support them with evidence.
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Post by _Coggins7 »

The burden of proof I lay out is my time served as a member and a missionary.



You forgot at least two other points Mercury: you have to have the intellectual and emotional maturity to have received any benefit from that experience, which is also a prerequisite for bringing any criticism of it to the table or interpreting it accurately to others who are unfamiliar.

Like Scratch, you do not fool me, and your pathetic pose as a courageous teller of truth is as soggy as a ice cream sandwich on Venus is late July.
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance.


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Post by _Mercury »

Coggins7 wrote:
The burden of proof I lay out is my time served as a member and a missionary.



You forgot at least two other points Mercury: you have to have the intellectual and emotional maturity to have received any benefit from that experience, which is also a prerequisite for bringing any criticism of it to the table or interpreting it accurately to others who are unfamiliar.

Like Scratch, you do not fool me, and your pathetic pose as a courageous teller of truth is as soggy as a ice cream sandwich on Venus is late July.


You've gotta be kidding. In no communication have you ever shown a decorum of respectability. We are dumbfounded at why you persist with your "justifications" but no, you contiunue in your sad pathetic life.
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Post by _The Nehor »

Mercury wrote:
Gazelam wrote:Many of Jerseys real life friends are members of the church. She is well aquainted with both the doctrine and culture. She just neds that witness of the spirit so she herself can get baptized.


And you explain her lack of a witness attributable to what? Sin? Stupidity? Perhaps accountability? not "Golden" yet?

To take such a stance Gaz one must have the belief that Jersey is in error. And, if your information is correct, which I am sure it is, I would accept a certain daily level of experience perhaps. I am still skeptical of jerseys ability as a commentator of actions between Mormons. This is at least from a cultural, historical perspective. In short, stick to what you know Jersey.

Theres a difference between living Mormonism and observing Mormonism.


Despite the principles of the LDS faith that lead members to believe they can become Gods only one of the most deranged I've met thinks he's a God now. Why do you ask questions that most people can't even answer for themselves let alone for someone else's situation?
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And still no evidence from Mercury to support those claims! No surprises there.
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Post by _Coggins7 »

Despite the principles of the LDS faith that lead members to believe they can become Gods



Huh?
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Post by _The Nehor »

Coggins7 wrote:
Despite the principles of the LDS faith that lead members to believe they can become Gods



Huh?


Badly worded, but I plan to become a God. How bout you?
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The Theory of the Economics of Internet Anti-Mormonism

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We will assume that the utility functions of various Internet activities are continuously differentiable* and that the second derivitive is negative, resulting in a decreasing marginal utility. With a limited amount of time to devote to the persuit of utility on the Internet, one goes about maximizing his utility by solving a constrained optimization problem using the method of Lagrange Multipliers. In a universe with two goods, this can be represented graphically where the amount of time spent on each activity is chosen by the place where the time-restriction line is tangent to the highest indifference curve.

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*It is possible that at the utility function of various Internet activities is not differentiable at the moment of ejaculation.
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