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by dogbite
Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:01 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: A positive thing about Utah
Replies: 12
Views: 1602

Re: A positive thing about Utah

My mom, of Scandinavian heritage called them doughgads. In Google, I find only reference to dough gods which seem to be the same thing.
by dogbite
Mon May 01, 2023 3:04 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Jury Duty (the TV show)
Replies: 3
Views: 12667

Re: Jury Duty (the TV show)

It sounds mean spirited to me. I don't find humor at someone else's expense generally to be funny. I just find it mean. Chris Rock was wrong to make fun of Jada Smith over a medical condition she has no control over. Not that Will was right to punch him either. I think the exception is people in pos...
by dogbite
Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:03 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: DNC or DGA has elimated presidential debates.
Replies: 4
Views: 12014

Re: DNC or DGA has elimated presidential debates.

This is standard procedure when an incumbent president is the candidate. Int he run up to 2020 direction Trump didn't have to debate any Republican candidates for the Republican presidency nomination. Yes there are usually some small in-party candidates that make some noise and officially announce e...
by dogbite
Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:09 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Hey, didn't you notice the Antichrist is here?
Replies: 18
Views: 12939

Re: Hey, didn't you notice the Antichrist is here?

What is the scale on which morals are judged as strong to weak.

And why that one?
by dogbite
Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:18 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Mormons are disinterested in spirituality
Replies: 20
Views: 1940

Re: Mormons are disinterested in spirituality

I will expand on my reply. It is my opinion that spirituality is sloppily loaded word. As an atheist, I too feel the emotions of awe, of the numinous in certain situations. My objection to spirituality is that it is usually an unjustified leap from experience to meaning. I have that feeling, the hol...
by dogbite
Sun Apr 16, 2023 4:44 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Mormons are disinterested in spirituality
Replies: 20
Views: 1940

Re: Mormons are disinterested in spirituality

I'm pretty disinterested in spiritually.
by dogbite
Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:52 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Hungry, Hungry 'Hovah
Replies: 4
Views: 674

Re: Hungry, Hungry 'Hovah

The kids game was a great illustration, 'hovas flapping their robes to snag those marbles.
by dogbite
Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
Topic: Marital strife
Replies: 11
Views: 13818

Re: Marital strife

She doesn't seem to accept that you've changed in the relationship. She has changed too of course. I think you should start being more authentically you but with as much kindness and respect for her as you can find. Help her find what she can accept you as. Which is no guarantee of staying together....
by dogbite
Tue Apr 04, 2023 4:45 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Let’s talk about new temples for a minute
Replies: 18
Views: 1645

Re: Let’s talk about new temples for a minute

The members tend to be excited about Temple announcements. It doesn't matter that they're empty or never get built for now. They can play the 24 hours a day work in the millennium card that justifies their " existence" It's some one else's problem. They can pass the responsibility on to later prophe...
by dogbite
Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:10 pm
Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
Topic: The countdown is officially on
Replies: 7
Views: 13023

Re: The countdown is officially on

I hope it brings you peace.
by dogbite
Sun Apr 02, 2023 12:52 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: NOMference Sunday Afternoon Spring 2023!!
Replies: 63
Views: 4280

Re: NOMference Sunday Afternoon Spring 2023!!

I've neither watched nor heard any of conference and there is nothing I miss about the conference experience at all.
by dogbite
Thu Mar 23, 2023 4:30 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Where will you go?
Replies: 12
Views: 911

Re: Where will you go?

Why do I have to go anywhere at all?

But yes, anywhere I want including a comfy chair in my home.
by dogbite
Fri Mar 03, 2023 8:01 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Creator vs Natural Selection
Replies: 15
Views: 8476

Re: Creator vs Natural Selection

Give this a read.

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema

https://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler ... cirema.PDF
by dogbite
Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:31 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Creator vs Natural Selection
Replies: 15
Views: 8476

Re: Creator vs Natural Selection

We find objects and places. But we don't know what it meant to them, or what they were for. They'll often theorize religion but we don't have evidence for knowing. We're just projecting from our own behavior.
by dogbite
Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:15 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Creator vs Natural Selection
Replies: 15
Views: 8476

Re: Creator vs Natural Selection

Most civilizations we have no idea what they believed, if anything. They didn't leave records. I agree that religion has been an organizing principle for humans. But the same theory you use for deciding the search for god is a necessity can be used to say that every civilization that believed in a g...
by dogbite
Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:50 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Do LDS give their Soul to the Church, or to Jesus?
Replies: 6
Views: 691

Re: Do LDS give their Soul to the Church, or to Jesus?

I don't think it's that binary. Mormons come in many varieties from zealots to social members.

I think if you change soul to percent money donations they each make you could score their religiosity fairly well.
by dogbite
Tue Feb 28, 2023 3:15 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Ancient religion vs. modern religion
Replies: 19
Views: 1619

Re: Ancient religion vs. modern religion

To me they're all forms of in and out group thinking. It's ok, even proper to kill the out group. All the atrocities are against the out group.

Atheism doesn't address grouping at all. It's just that some use it for that purpose.

Religion is explicitly about being the in group.
by dogbite
Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:35 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Ancient religion vs. modern religion
Replies: 19
Views: 1619

Re: Ancient religion vs. modern religion

The reason I disconnect atheism from the atrocity is because atheism itself isn't about any particular moral value. It's about one's belief in God. To associate atrocity to atheism but downplay it in theism is essentially a divine command theory claim, that god is the source of morality. What God co...
by dogbite
Tue Feb 28, 2023 10:34 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Ancient religion vs. modern religion
Replies: 19
Views: 1619

Re: Ancient religion vs. modern religion

My point about Scandinavian Countries is that they are very low belief cultures. They don't have religion at the core the of their government and operation though they may still have state churches mostly for historic tradition, As to the atrocities places at the feet of atheistic regimes, is the at...