Easy to be Entreated

I just read this wonderful article on Obama's economic vision. This is one of the reasons we desperately need Obama in the White House. How Obama Reconciles Dueling Views on Economy

Ever wonder what it would have been like to have been witness to Joseph Smith tell his tales right there in front of you? A few former Mormons in England have founded a new church. They have a prophet that has translated a new book of scripture written by the ancient inhabitants of England. Their poor prophet hasn't the creativity to think of anything new, he is following the Joseph Smith story line by line as if it were a script. It is hilarious and sad. I wonder how big a following he'll get and how much money he'll make. As P.T. Barnum said, "There is a sucker born every minute". Here is the church's website. Here is a youtube video explaining the Book of Jeraneck. This guy is an amatuer nave. ______________________________________________________________ Matthew Gill's story does remind me of another, much more gifted Joseph Smith imitator, Christopher Nemelka. Nemelka claimed to have translated the Book of Lehi (remember the 116 lost manuscri...

On a thread on PostMormon, Hiker R wrote: A father took his son into the barn one day and asked him to climb up in the hay loft. Then he told the son to jump into his arms. The son said he was scared because he was pretty high up and didn’t think his dad could catch him. The dad assured the son he could. The son jumped and the dad stepped out of the way and the son hit the ground. The dad approached his son and said, “Important business lesson; don’t trust anybody.” I wanted to dedicate a thread to the topic of trust. I disagree strongly with this father's tactics and the moral of the story. I believe that we should trust others, but not with more than we are willing to lose. Like it or not, homo sapiens evoled to become social animals, and trust is essential in all social interactions. We are vulnerable all the time - vulnerable to being taken advantage of, stolen from, injured, confined, or killed by others. We...

For those interested in learning about the various sects of Mormonism, there is an excellent book called, "Scattering of the Saints: Schisms within Mormonism". The following graphic is of the front cover and shows the presidents of a few of the various offshoot churches. The image is a little hard to read, but the book itself goes through all the various churches. http://www.annuitech.com/ms/ftp/Jim/FrontCover_SotS.gif Once the image comes up, you can click on it to make it a little bigger. Here is a link to the book on Amazon. And here and here and here is some online information on a few of the sects (a number of which have their own websites).

Sometimes TBM family members look down on us as if we are to blame. All they see is that we disrupted the balance. But, I believe that their disapproval is misdirected. It is not our fault the Church isn't what it claims to be. Blame Joseph Smith and those who followed for the emotional turmoil and familial upheaval. We just discovered the "bad thing"; we didn't cause it. And there is nothing wrong, morally or otherwise, with discovering the truth even if it is bad news. It is similar to discovering my sister's husband is having an affair, and the rest of the family hears that I don't believe he is being faithful to my sister. They are unwilling to ask about or really consider the reasons I feel that way and the evidence I have against him. Instead, they all stand up for him and bear their witness that he is a good and faithful husband, and then accuse me of being deceived and blame me for causing this disruption in the family. "Look, it is no...

I just had to share: Draft 2008 Democratic National Platform