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I always laugh at chiasmus in the BOM as evidence of hebrew origins when the same is used by the Strangites as evidence for Strangs translations.

http://www.strangite.org/Chiasmus.htm

Really enjoying this series as a way to revisit Harrell's book. Thanks for taking the time to summarize and parse out the good stuff!

Good find! We also get a bunch of parallels of the united order in the Owenites that operated secular communal living experiments in the Kirtland area at the time of the early church. In fact the Isaac Morley "family" was a religious manifestation of that communal experiment based on Sidney Rigdon's...

This doctrine became really problematic for me on my mission in the Southern US when the biblically educated would whip out Isaiah 44:6 "Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." I eventually just pu...

Good review. This is one of my favorite books in my journey of discovery because Harrell does a good job of laying out in a systematic form all the ways the doctrine has evolved and I found a few jaw dropping gems I had never considered. I love how he discusses the development of the satan character...

Looks like Brother Jake is posting videos again!

https://youtu.be/qe614-qGg7g

New Zealanders may not have the felt need for firearms because of the way they received their independence. It was practically handed to them in the 1850s by a British government afraid of making the same mistake it had made with the American colonies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_o...

I want to bear my Nom-imony that I enjoy all of Red Ryder's posts denouncing garments and expressing hatred for them repeatedly.

Interesting article on what the author calls "negative self help". I like his thoughts on overcoming our delusions.

https://markmanson.net/negative-self-help

That was my very first thought. TSCC has no concern for it's local leaders and their time/family life. Right? I was never a bishop but I had my four kids really close together and was called as EQP right before the fourth one was born. That was just stupid! Life was too busy for me to do all that a...

Daymon Smith's book of mammon discusses the fact that resignation is merely a flag in the database that gets flipped. All are necessary in the body of MSR, even deletions and requested removals remain in some sector of the digital realms thrown into being at the COB. There is always the possibility ...

-10 for Drama voice and 3x repetition of "evey day".

I'm no longer church-broke

Best comment in the reddit thread:

"Murmur murmur" -the pulpit motor

We have a flawed epistemology and a bat guano crazy end times eschatology.

Zealous Moms everywhere are going to get burned out quickly by having to nag their kids to death with one more thing they have to try and control in their already busy schedules.

Reading a bunch of books.....

"Well, Shi*......"

One correction for this conference. No Priesthood antenna session. It's the ladies turn this time.

Oh hey thank you. Hey did anything ever come of those rescue missions? Was anyone at all rescued? And what were they rescued from anyway? I was too busy rolling my eyes over the very idea to pay much attention to it at all. I doubt it made any appreciable difference to those who already accepted De...

Apologeticsislying wrote: Which one of the ding-a-lings was it who said we are a special witness to the NAME of Jesus? Boyd K. Packer?

Oaks in the Boise rescue fireside a few years ago in order to counter the criticism coming from the Denver Snufferites in their midst.