I dispute its applicability, because I’ve known very smart Mormons. Humans are not logic engines. It’s rare to find even a brilliant person who doesn’t have some blind spot.
Even if it were clinically applicable, you presented it as an in-group vs. out-group joke, which is an invitation for people from one tribe to mock people from another tribe. Its message was not primarily informational.
I don’t doubt there are Mormons with a higher IQ than myself, and more knowledgeable in many fields. Maybe the term “stupid person” is too broad, I meant it with Mormonism as the referent, and as being limited in scope to that. Yet it is disheartening that there are such obvious self-deceiving failures of reasoning, and courtesy afforded to dumb beliefs may prop up the Potemkin village, may help hide the elephant behind the curtain.
Reveal Oz in the broad daylight of reason, so that those very smart Mormons you know must address that blind spot.
It stands to reason that if you’ve successfully read even parts of the Sequences, or other rationality related materials, and yet believe in the Book of Mormon, there’s little that will force you to address that blind … area …, so why not shock therapy. Or are you just too looking forward to your own planet / world? (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 18:259) Maybe that’s just to be taken metaphorically though, for something, or something other?
Why go to the Journal of Discourses? D&C 132 clearly states that those that receive exaltation will be gods, the only question is whether that involves receiving a planet or just being part of the divine council. The Bible clearly states that we will be heirs and joint heirs with Christ. The Journal of Discourses is not something that most members look to for doctrine as it isn’t scripture. I, and any member, am free to believe whatever I want to on the subject (or say we don’t know) because nothing has been revealed on the subject of exaltation and theosis other then that.
Personally, I think there are some problems with the belief that everyone will have a planet due to some of the statements that Jesus makes in the New Testament but I could be wrong and I am not about to explain the subject here, though I may have attempted to do so in the past.
I dispute its applicability, because I’ve known very smart Mormons. Humans are not logic engines. It’s rare to find even a brilliant person who doesn’t have some blind spot.
Even if it were clinically applicable, you presented it as an in-group vs. out-group joke, which is an invitation for people from one tribe to mock people from another tribe. Its message was not primarily informational.
Crocker’s Rules are not an invitation to be rude.
I don’t doubt there are Mormons with a higher IQ than myself, and more knowledgeable in many fields. Maybe the term “stupid person” is too broad, I meant it with Mormonism as the referent, and as being limited in scope to that. Yet it is disheartening that there are such obvious self-deceiving failures of reasoning, and courtesy afforded to dumb beliefs may prop up the Potemkin village, may help hide the elephant behind the curtain.
Reveal Oz in the broad daylight of reason, so that those very smart Mormons you know must address that blind spot.
Calling us morons doesn’t reveal anything to reason or even attempt to force me to address what you may think of as a blind spot.
It stands to reason that if you’ve successfully read even parts of the Sequences, or other rationality related materials, and yet believe in the Book of Mormon, there’s little that will force you to address that blind … area …, so why not shock therapy. Or are you just too looking forward to your own planet / world? (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 18:259) Maybe that’s just to be taken metaphorically though, for something, or something other?
Why go to the Journal of Discourses? D&C 132 clearly states that those that receive exaltation will be gods, the only question is whether that involves receiving a planet or just being part of the divine council. The Bible clearly states that we will be heirs and joint heirs with Christ. The Journal of Discourses is not something that most members look to for doctrine as it isn’t scripture. I, and any member, am free to believe whatever I want to on the subject (or say we don’t know) because nothing has been revealed on the subject of exaltation and theosis other then that.
Personally, I think there are some problems with the belief that everyone will have a planet due to some of the statements that Jesus makes in the New Testament but I could be wrong and I am not about to explain the subject here, though I may have attempted to do so in the past.