tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post297969103839368982..comments2023-12-13T12:48:29.436-07:00Comments on Mormon Puzzle Pieces: Apologetics, Pizza and PhilosophyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-52752452337365833872019-10-30T09:30:25.731-06:002019-10-30T09:30:25.731-06:00Even better is they declared it mediocre, meaning ...Even better is they declared it mediocre, meaning they must be completely inept.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-68790530308568987732019-10-17T02:22:16.693-06:002019-10-17T02:22:16.693-06:00People often have trouble understanding the word &...People often have trouble understanding the word "tradeoff", sure enough it's easy enough to understand as exchange but in today's corporate parlance it is meant as exchange of one commodity as a cost for another. I was playing Final Fantasy's Dissidia on the good old PSP yesterday when I marveled at the game's replay value, yes I have spent over 50 hours on it already, which is what this entire topic <a href="https://ats.io/sportsbooks/" rel="nofollow">US Sportsbooks</a> all about. Normally if you look at the oldest games like Mario and Dave, they had one thing unanimously common, addiction to it.<br />Justin Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681247471669251411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-76593460120273190172016-10-30T10:58:43.185-06:002016-10-30T10:58:43.185-06:00Haha thanks!Haha thanks!Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17623980118764230707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-38075488094520412422016-10-29T23:44:34.742-06:002016-10-29T23:44:34.742-06:00BTW, my favorite thing about this post is that it&...BTW, my favorite thing about this post is that it's from 4 years in the future. Whoa! :-)Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14498290529550647229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-12623729209497050352016-10-18T17:23:45.750-06:002016-10-18T17:23:45.750-06:00I love this post. I want to suggest however that ...I love this post. I want to suggest however that Joseph Smith was not this case. He accused everyone around him of lying. In order for his narrative to be true the entire town of Palmyra have to be lying. <br /><br />His mother has to have lied. His wife. Brigham, Hyrum, William Law (his second counselor), John C. Bennett (his assistant), Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, Martin Harris...<br /><br />The list goes on and on. <br /><br />If you have that many people who have to lie, in order for your slice of pizza story to stay true, occam's razor says you probably ate that pizza.<br /><br />What's more, you did snitch more pizza. You planned on snitching more pizza. You were repeatedly near that box in an incriminating way. <br /><br />Maybe you weren't guilty of the full crime; but being so close to the crime, it's understandable that you were accused. Similarly, if you're caught lying about banking, revelation and the number of wives you have; maybe even if you're innocent, the world and members of the church should be forgiven for thinking you're guilty.CafeteriaMormonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246007304296582781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-65955282547778177332016-10-09T02:20:55.741-06:002016-10-09T02:20:55.741-06:00Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08134740345378896764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-29846004983829088752016-10-09T02:19:50.333-06:002016-10-09T02:19:50.333-06:00Great analogy (not even an analogy, but more of a ...Great analogy (not even an analogy, but more of a parallel illustration). My favorite point is that "I [laid] out for you a scenario whereby my accuser may have been tricked by an illusion and made a false assumption. But that scenario doesn’t need to be proven. The purpose of the scenario is to demonstrate that we don’t have enough data to decide whether or not his inference was valid. To serve its purpose, the scenario need only be plausible." <br /><br />Believers only need demonstrate that a particular discipline has not disproven our belief. We do not have to prove our belief within the scope of that discipline, because the tools of that discipline are not the reason we believe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08134740345378896764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-41347065821035723742016-07-18T12:21:08.591-06:002016-07-18T12:21:08.591-06:00What's the answer to this rebus puzzle?
matchi...What's the answer to this rebus puzzle?<br /><a href="http://www.eyeconsthegame.com/" rel="nofollow">matching</a>Jr. Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15627387829300054935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-12287355466773659022015-09-09T17:22:38.882-06:002015-09-09T17:22:38.882-06:00What I like about this post is that the only thing...What I like about this post is that the only thing that your critics are willing to contest is your grammar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-74116897904260970582015-07-31T21:19:30.760-06:002015-07-31T21:19:30.760-06:00So you're saying Joseph smiths youngest wives ...So you're saying Joseph smiths youngest wives were only 9?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-35979347123959679542015-07-11T22:44:10.386-06:002015-07-11T22:44:10.386-06:00In the English language, the words "a" a...In the English language, the words "a" and "an" are articles. Articles are very special adjectives with one simple rule of thumb. Anonymous, please note that "a" should only be used if the word immediately following begins with a consonant. For example, "...it was already 'a' named, English animal...." (You forgot the comma between named and English, as well.) "An" is meant to be used whenever the word immediately following begins with a vowel. For example, "... Harry Potter is 'an' actual, true account...." (Once again you forgot the comma. On this occasion, however, the error was amplified by the addition of an unnecessary "a.") Remember, a well written argument may not necessarily be true, but a poorly written argument is guaranteed to be the product of mediocrity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-9109847823159366592015-06-03T17:40:44.980-06:002015-06-03T17:40:44.980-06:00Using this logic you can come to the conclusion th...Using this logic you can come to the conclusion that the catholic church is the true church, the Roman empire never existed, that Zeus was a true God and that Harry Potter is a actually a true account of the wizarding world.<br /><br />When we look at history we can come up with far flung arguments to make things fit into our own world view. For example, when archaeologists have dug up thousands of square of cities that date to the time of the Book of Mormon and have found zero horses even though horses are mentioned repeatedly in the BOM over hundreds of years of writing we can say "Well, no, there weren't horses but perhaps the horses Joseph was talking about weren't "actual" horses, they were just tapirs the nocturnal animal related to the pig. And since Joseph didn't know what a Tapir was, he just said horse during the translation process!"<br /><br />We know they have found tons of tapir skeletons in these archaeological digs and since it coincides with the timing of the Book of Mormon that must have been what he was talking about!<br /><br />Of course, in order to believe this you have to ignore tons of quotes and first hand accounts from Joseph's scribes about the translation process where a word would appear on the seer stone in Joseph's hat and he would simply read the work as it appear on the stone, the scribe would repeat it back and only when the word was read back correctly would that word disappear and the next one would show up. <br /><br />You also have to ignore the fact that Joseph would have easily been capable of coming up with "tapirs" as it was already an named English animal by that point and even if he didn't know it, it wasn't at all an obstacle with other words like the animals of "Curelom" & "cumom". <br /><br />But, you can make up a story to make the details fit even if it contradicts other evidence and is a stretch at best... <br /><br />In this scenario, you have to dismiss millions of pounds of archaeological evidence, actual period native american writings, Joseph's own words and the words of his scribes in order to make your belief fit. <br /><br />The craziest thing is that the tapir argument is a legitimate Book of Mormon apologetic theory and not just something I made up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-32984726124135650982014-07-09T23:28:06.104-06:002014-07-09T23:28:06.104-06:00Yes. And like the pizza analogy the burden of proo...Yes. And like the pizza analogy the burden of proof falls to Joseph Smith and the mormon church since they are making the claim. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-58104683622792626642014-04-16T15:02:35.980-06:002014-04-16T15:02:35.980-06:00This was good! Too bad LDS critics won't see...This was good! Too bad LDS critics won't see things this way.<br /><br />EGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916334562384780452.post-65937371088627835972014-03-14T21:12:15.714-06:002014-03-14T21:12:15.714-06:00Brilliant!
Brilliant! <br />Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04467934930865960893noreply@blogger.com