NOM

Mormonist Hugh Nibley I'd like to see a Jared Hess movie about a character named Huge Nibbler who is a satirical conglomerate of all of the apologists we know an love. In my imaginary script Huge is a guy who will defend any crazy-ass dogma he's told to defend as long as there is a glimmer of admir...

Mormonist Hugh Nibley put forth the idea that Mormons came way later than the rest of humankind Did Nibbles really teach that? It balances so well between truth and parody that I could see it going either way. Nibley found it hard to deny evidence of the past and so the pre-Adamite idea helped him ...

Mrs. Hagoth and I watched via Zoom. Our ward Christmas program is about as top notch as it gets. We have an amazing choir, plus string quartet and percussionist. Our choir director and some of her family are professional musicians and she is Lex de Azevedo's daughter. Sometimes Lex even shows up and...

moksha wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 22, 2023 5:16 am

Mormonist Hugh Nibley put forth the idea that Mormons came way later than the rest of humankind

Did Nibbles really teach that? It balances so well between truth and parody that I could see it going either way.

I would be happy if both Trump and Biden were removed. I'd take Bernie over either of them. Being old is not as much of a curse as it used to be.

Let's all join together to praise Joe Biden for getting the gas prices back down! Poor Joe, he always gets the blame when gas prices go up, so I have to assume he deserves credit when the go down too, right?

I have a fondness for Ai Apaec, the Peruvian Decapitator God. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F9f%2Fac%2Ffa%2F9facfaab2f35827e87027736c843b1e3.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=3b6d2757241ae11406a81b449916ff2c124b8d76f3efbe3ee6a79738cd4284c0&ipo=images He's kin...

If you ignore Luke's unsupported claim and just read the passage from Isaiah... Old Testament proof texting in the New Testament is overall pretty sloppy, if you ask me. Jesus was from Nazareth, but they have to cook up some pretty noncredible ways to have him come from Bethlehem and Egypt to fit t...

The SEC settlement was punishment for misleading other investors and the market, but the real reason the church leaders did it was to hide the church's wealth from tithe paying members. It was to deceive the most ardent believers. And if they are so eager to lie about that I think it's safe to assu...

I stopped in to Kish’s house the other night to say hi. Turns out he’s now an ordained noodle. A brother in the gospel. I too am an ordained man of the noodley cloth. I am also an ordained minister of The Church of the Later-Day Dude. https://dudeism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/dude-vinci.png Yo...

moksha wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 18, 2023 7:21 am

Perhaps these stones could help reveal the FSM's holiday message to us and allow us to be the best Noodlists possible.

Wow, those are spectacular. I'm seeing visions already!

... and that really makes sense given how badly the author of Matthew is trying to fulfill prophecies from the OT.! And to do so he uses the inaccurate Greek translation, where Isaiah is actually talking about a young woman who not only wasn't a virgin but was already pregnant at the time of his wr...

May ye and yer kin be touched by his noodley appendage this Solstice season and live to tell the tale!

Ain't no way I'd leave my family, kids, grandkids, to go somewhere and give free labor for a multi billion$$ corporation. I believe many retired couples feel the same way but end up going because they get guilted into it, or because they are told that it will bless their children and grandchildren ...

I've listened for 14 seconds and Holland is triggering me. He knows good and well that someone, many someones, are thinking about going home. Unless I was really weird, it is constantly on the mind of many missionaries. This is good. Thanks. I hate it when he uses his condescending don't-you-dare-t...

Just in time for Christmas, here's some interesting discussion with Bart Ehrman about the virgin birth:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cH ... HQAAAAAQAQ

The part of the BofM I really dislike the most is the part where it says that it's okay to murder someone, chop off their head, steal their belongings and justify it by you being told by an angel, of all things, that you had to do it so that others might not "dwindle" in unbelief. Dwindle? The hell...

Another interesting thing about NHM is that modern scholars translate it as Nihm, but on the maps in Joseph Smith's time it was Nehem. If Joseph examined one of these maps at his school or library he might have seen the word and riffed on it. Or he might have been borrowing from the Bible, as he oft...

moksha wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:57 am

Listen for 5 minutes and see whether this is a worthwhile way of viewing the missions.

I have listened for SIX minutes and I think she already makes a pretty good case.

The best thing they have is the Semitic letters NHM carved on a stone in the Arabian desert. The NHM was from an inscription on an altar in the Temple of Sheba. That is like passing through Salt Lake and only making mention of some lawyer from an advertisement at a bus stop. Here it is, the entire ...