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by dogbite
Mon Oct 30, 2017 7:47 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Postmodernism anybody?
Replies: 95
Views: 63461

Re: Postmodernism anybody?

Do you know what a public accommodation is? Do you know the laws and the reasons for those laws regarding public accommodation? The rights you claim to assert are not recognized as rights of a public accommodation. Further the business isn't religious. It's a separate entity from the people employed...
by dogbite
Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:10 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: What is the key to happiness?
Replies: 39
Views: 19031

Re: What is the key to happiness?

Oops, repeated myself
by dogbite
Mon Oct 30, 2017 7:59 am
Forum: Support
Topic: What is killing the church?
Replies: 28
Views: 17091

Re: What is killing the church?

Church was boring in the 70s and 80s too. I was severely bored. Correlation was in full swing and the lessons cycled just like they do now. I remember porn and masturbation lessons starting when I was 12 in the 70s continuing all the way through. The 70s was the era of the little factory speech and ...
by dogbite
Fri Oct 27, 2017 5:19 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: GA´s know they are losing the fight
Replies: 76
Views: 67194

Re: GA´s know they are losing the fight

https://wheatandtares.org/2017/03/28/mo ... sa-trends/

Confirms 72% are gone by age 20. That's in line with what is claimed for the 70s statement.
by dogbite
Wed Oct 25, 2017 5:50 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Postmodernism anybody?
Replies: 95
Views: 63461

Re: Postmodernism anybody?

I wasn't a strong conservative as a Mormon. My politics were socially liberal and fiscally conservative, Libertarian mostly and remain so.
by dogbite
Sat Oct 21, 2017 7:14 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: The "coming Mormon revolution"?
Replies: 43
Views: 44251

Re: The "coming Mormon revolution"?

Mormonism has evolved in my lifetime. We weren't Christian, now we are Blacks were cursed, now they're not Interracial marriage was overtly discouraged now it's lessened or gone. Young earth has become we don't know No death before the fall is evolving now, related to garden of Eden was on Earth and...
by dogbite
Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:07 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Starting to believe
Replies: 44
Views: 31045

Re: Starting to believe

"This specific idea of God seems to make me a better person, his idea helps me deal with life, therefore I think I will believe in it." I question that it is reasonable. It has many hidden assumptions that are packed into that statement. It's sloppy. Indeed your use of rational strikes me as apropp...
by dogbite
Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:45 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Starting to believe
Replies: 44
Views: 31045

Re: Starting to believe

Wouldn't we then define pretty much all religious people as delusional? I realize that many do, and that religious people bristle at this, and that this is where logic, philosophy, and religion collide. At some point don't we need to stop forcing faith in a box, let religious people have some room ...
by dogbite
Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:18 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Starting to believe
Replies: 44
Views: 31045

Re: Starting to believe

So, I get what you are saying. Inherently flawed though, depends on what a person want to govern their life. If it is logic and reason then it is flawed. If it is emotion and feeling then asking what you want to believe is perfectly valid. I don't think so. There is manipulated emotion as we well k...
by dogbite
Thu Oct 19, 2017 7:25 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Starting to believe
Replies: 44
Views: 31045

Re: Starting to believe

I think utilitarian philosophy is strong personally but many struggle with the moral implications. I'm also strongly evidencialist. So yes, I think much of common morality is rather arbitrary and weakly supported. I don't think there is an absolute reason or meaning to all of this. The reason is to ...
by dogbite
Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:23 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Starting to believe
Replies: 44
Views: 31045

Re: Starting to believe

There are logical and philosophical paths to support all of those positions (and challenges to some). But the strength of the arguments has a lot to do with what you set as basic assumptions and how few of them you make. Rigorous skepticism and challenges of the assumptions is how you strengthen you...
by dogbite
Thu Oct 19, 2017 4:53 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Starting to believe
Replies: 44
Views: 31045

Re: Starting to believe

Here's a restatement of that by Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises:

"Isn't it pretty to think so."
by dogbite
Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:45 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Special Meeting S Idaho
Replies: 9
Views: 8050

Re: Special Meeting S Idaho

I'm guessing it's a safe to be faithful meeting a la Hans Mattson. You are in the heart land of the Remnant movement.
by dogbite
Sun Oct 15, 2017 6:47 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Starting to believe
Replies: 44
Views: 31045

Re: Starting to believe

What do you want to believe in? This is a dangerous starting point. The following is from the Anathem wiki. Diax is fictional, but possible actual sources for the idea are also given. Diax's Rake "Never believe a thing simply because you want it to be true" A warning against wishful thinking attrib...
by dogbite
Mon Oct 02, 2017 1:04 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Elder Hales passed away
Replies: 5
Views: 3409

Re: Elder Hales passed away

I don't know. He sold all the same lies and rhetoric as the rest. He just played good cop about it and was more soft sell. He perpetuated apostolic in person witness of Jesus Christ; the veracity of the first vision; personal visits to the afterlife attested to by his wife as well; the historicity o...
by dogbite
Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:48 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: The Inoculation is Working
Replies: 24
Views: 12869

Re: The Inoculation is Working

Why do we teach a monotheistic OT when the Hebrew were polytheists until after Babylon. Jahweh and El were pagan gods. There were at least six (pagan) Jewish temples. The law of Moses is a much later retroactive rewrite. All of this contradicts the claims of nephi. Why does nephi quote deutero Isaia...
by dogbite
Mon Sep 18, 2017 11:17 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Near Death -- and contradictions in LDS Theology
Replies: 15
Views: 7853

Re: Near Death -- and contradictions in LDS Theology

https://lifehacker.com/what-it-feels-li ... 1798643965

NDEs are explainable with the understanding of modern medicine.
by dogbite
Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:40 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Postmodernism anybody?
Replies: 95
Views: 63461

Re: Postmodernism anybody?

Lipton misconstrues the triggers and operation of epigenetics. If you read the link. It was clear. You didn't read the link.
by dogbite
Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:53 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Postmodernism anybody?
Replies: 95
Views: 63461

Re: Postmodernism anybody?

My link explained liptons errors. No need to repeat it here.
by dogbite
Fri Sep 15, 2017 9:14 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: "And it came to pass" - evidence for BoM authenticity
Replies: 22
Views: 19431

Re: "And it came to pass" - evidence for BoM authenticity

Hebrew was well developed at the time of the BoM and compact enough to the purpose given the claimed size of the plates. There was no reason to go to reformed Egyptian except to give Joseph a dodge for his claim / con. It's actually suspicious to make the claim of necessity for reformed Egyptian. T...