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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
Topics messages Last message Literary Snobs : What do you need to read to consider yourself 'well read'? 205 semckibbin , October 13Recommend Site Improvements : "Block This Member" Button That BLOCKS Them 212 infiniteletters , October 6Literary Snobs : Unreliable narration 92 kswolff , October 4Site talk : Inane reviews 531 Bookmarque , August 28Combiners! : Combine the tags 'Mormon' and 'Mormons'? 28 vpfluke , August 15Reviews reviewed : Why do you thumb a review? 10 reading_fox , August 12Happy Heathens : Questions to drive religious people crazy 196 clamairy , July 23Book talk : 13 Books That Changed America 18 destinyhascheatedme , June 20The Green Dragon : May Reads 2009 82 DeusExLibrus , June 6New features : Recommendations, now with green checks 78 aglaia531 , May 28Happy Heathens : Librarything and Censorship 58 WhisperedDreams , May 850 Book Challenge : TheaMak's 100 88 Aelith , March 28Literary Snobs : Best books by GENRE 342 kswolff , March 23Happy Heathens : Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith 10 bibliophool , January 9List Five Books Parlour Game : books with book or books in the title 34 varielle , January 7Books and Mormons : Book of Mormon Study Aids 6 TheaMak , December 2008Recommend Site Improvements : Retiring Hot Reviews - or Finding a Deeper Rotation 31 timepiece , December 2008Book talk : Total printed? 9 hailelib , November 2008Book talk : LT Book Rankings 12 reading_fox , October 2008Christianity : Request for recommendations... 57 oakesspalding , September 2008The Green Dragon : What kinds of books (if any) do remember your parents reading when you were a child? 74 Prop2gether , September 2008Bug Collectors : works already in library show up in recommendations too 6 vpfluke , August 2008New features : Member recommendations 136 espertus , July 2008Books and Mormons : Authorship of the Book of Mormon 4 cmbohn , July 2008Recommend Site Improvements : Review of a book not in your library 26 Joles , June 2008Dormant: Transatlantic Literature : Favorite books? 8 ahales , April 2008Dormant: Book talk : Ratings and "star inflation" 41 DromJohn , January 2008Dormant: Books and Mormons : Favorite LDS-related books: Spiritual/doctrinal 7 tjsjohanna , January 2008Dormant: Happy Heathens : How to Deal with a Jehovah's witness...:) 17 drbubbles , October 2007Dormant: LC Classification Challenge : nicole's LC subject area challenge 4 nperrin , October 2007Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Cognitive Science and Science Fiction Requests 21 WillSteed , September 2007Dormant: Political Conservatives : My kind of liberal 104 adkrim , August 2007Dormant: Bookshelf of the Damned : Reviewing controversial books 3 melannen , July 2007Dormant: Upstate New Yorkers : Might as well get the ball rolling 40 andyray , June 2007Dormant: Book talk : Book of Mormon 33 rufustfirefly66 , June 2007Dormant: Learning Arabic : Arabic for Dummies? 15 fannyprice , May 2007Dormant: Combiners! : Griping- To Share Discoveries of Idiocy, cont'd (part 2) 213 skittles , March 2007Dormant: Recommend Site Improvements : Voting on reviews, a proposal 50 paigelynn , March 2007Dormant: Book talk : Book that gets noticed on your shelves... 33 bookishbunny , February 2007Dormant: Recommend Site Improvements : picking the right author by means of discriminating author data 21 darron.shaffer , September 2006
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It's now been a month and a half since you wrote that, and the recommendation of Tim's Holiday Cookbook for The Book of Mormon is still up. Over a week ago, I sent you an email asking you to do something about this, and I've received no reply, and you've (apparently) taken no ...
... death, his disciples burn all "conflicting" transcriptions, thus insuring the reliability of the narrator.
In the Book of Mormon -- which constantly changes due to the LDS tradition of "continuous revelation" -- Joseph Smith transcribes the "reformed Egyptian" texts that were compiled ...
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Including everyone he's repeatedly insulted?
I see that you've left his recommendation of Tim's Holiday Cooking for The Book of Mormon up. Does that mean that you consider it to be in "good-faith" as required by the TOS?
I have my The Book of Mormon tagged mormonism, but Under The Banner of Heaven tagged with both mormonism and mormons.
... be discussed.
But the other 10% - let's say you're someone that wants to jump into LT's own controversial sandbox - The Book of Mormon . This is the book that has had a cover uploaded that consisted of a cat doing its business on said book. This is a book with a current member ...
... separate? Is there a large number of users out there who tag The God Makers as 'Mormonism' while at the same time tagging The Book of Mormon as 'Mormon' and tagging Under the Banner of Heaven 'Mormons' (or would that be 'Mormonism'?)
After all, The Book of Mormon was tagged as 'Mormon' 2 ...
... Mormons - Under the Banner of Heaven or No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith or even about the religion - The Book of Mormon or even something like Riders of the Purple Sage will inevitably have Mormon, Mormons and Mormonism listed as tags.
... and weaknesses of the book are.
I appreciate a cleverly written review like TANSTAAFL's eternally popular review of The Book of Mormon , but it is a fine line. I get turned off when it feels like the reviewer is more wrapped up in the cuteness of their writing than they are in giving an ...
... if one reads Hamlet, Moby Dick, etc. What about more obscure works? Like The Urantia Book, Isis Unveiled, and The Book of Mormon -- lots of people trash the LDS church for its scriptures. But has any non-Mormon ever gotten through them? Mark Twain describing the Book of Mormon as ...
... served with an Anchor translation or the Catholic New Jerusalem Bible
If you're feeling ambitious, also check out The Book of Mormon , Pearl of Great Price, Doctrine and Covenants, and other related LDS scripture. Once you get past the imitation KJV-ness of the Book of Mormon, ...
... bible as the word of god, even filtered through men's minds. It's simply a bunch of myths and fairy tales. A good look at The Book of Mormon or Dianetics prove just how easy it is to make up shit and hope people believe it.
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Newer Testament - The Quran
Yet Newer Testament - The Book of Mormon
Trumping both - Thus Spake Zarathustra
One of my favorite Neo-Christian scriptures is Anna Kingsford's Book of the Mysteries of God in Clothed with the Sun. (Text online DeusExLibrus in The Green Dragon : May Reads 2009 (Jun 6, 2009, 11:58am)
... but quite informative all the same. Read it as research for a thesis I'll be writing on Mormonism. I'll probably be reading the Book of Mormon , Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrine & Covenants next, although maybe not right away.
Still reading Bloodhound, and greatly enjoying Pierce's ...
I agree, Currer. Paine should definitely be there. And The Book of Mormon . Maybe Why We Can't Wait by MLK. (ACK! Somebody fix the way the good Doctor's name is listed on that touchstone!!)
... Dale Carnegie qualifies as "religious"). Where, in particular, is the foundational work of that American-created religion, The Book of Mormon ? And no, I'm very definitely NOT a Mormon! But whatever one's beliefs, putting on blinders as to the importance of religion is a mistake, a ...
... my number one Member Recommendation is Tim's Holiday Cookbook by Tim Spalding as a recommendation for owners of The Book of Mormon . Tim's brother Oakes is the sole LT owner of the cookbook, and the recommendation was made by "Anonymous user". I suppose that this is funny in the ...
... and conspiracy theories.
Best sacred text / extended joke:
Principia Discordia
The Book of the SubGenius
The Book of Mormon ;)
"Salvation guaranteed or triple your money back!" -- Bob Dobbs
I've been using The Book of Mormon Student Manual but it's borrowed and I will have to give it back eventually...
Thanks for the suggestion of A Companion to Your Study.... I'll look up...
... Among other things they asked me whether I had ever heard of their religion. I admitted to owning a largely unread copy of The Book of Mormon and noticing that all the angel names were Samoan. The young woman from Los Angeles seemed to get it, but the young woman from Las Vegas seemed ...
... of the Earth are in - a few days ago, The Diary of Anne Frank comes in to replace Catcher in the Rye and yet...
The Book of Mormon and Twighlight are still there.
All I'm saying is that even TRL used to retire videos after a certain number of days - yes, they know folks ...
... no need, really - that's what the terms of use are for .
The Book of Mormon has a review on LibraryThing which became very popular for a while. It's not a positive review. ;)
Edited for crazy brackets.
... Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith by Joseph Smith. Stories on the history of the LDS Church.
95. Book of Mormon: Student Manual . Study manual for intensive study of the Book of Mormon. Informative.
96. Life's Little Instruction Book by H. Jackson Brown. Brief ...
... 00506%
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 55,000,000 1898 0.00345%
Tale of Peter Rabbit 45,000,000 1537 0.00342%
Book of Mormon 105,000,000 1379 0.00131%
Boy Scout Handbook 40,000,000 400 0.00100%
She 83,000,000 650 0.00078%
Scouting for boys 150,000,000 45 0.00003%
Poems ...
... vpfluke.
Chariots of the gods has been thoroughly debunked, both in books and with television documentaries.
The Book of Mormon is the only other book on either list that I recognize. I suppose I might look at the reviews and descriptions of the other books with strong ...
... on
Must have 50 raters. The numbers are the standard deviation of rating—how much they differ from the average.
The Book of Mormon (1.83), People of the Wolf (The First North Americans series, Book 1) (1.62), The bondage breaker (1.61), The jackal of Nar (1.52), Minion : a ...
... to "come down to a question of faith," if that's what you're saying. Consider these claims:
1) The angel Moroni gave The Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith.
2) The angel Gabriel dictated The Koran to Mohammed.
3) Jesus physically died and then was physically resurrected.
Now, I ...
I see that your book is a student manual for the Book of Mormon . Sacred texts are not well 'combined ' in LT, as there are so many variations and editions of them. And bookish people tend to have multiple copies of things like the Bible or the Qu'ran to compare translations or reference ...
Murder by the Book by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Old Books, Rare Friends
The Book of Mormon
Freddy's Book
The Bookwoman's Last Fling
... listing "Bible" in the author field for purposes of combining. What do you all think about listing "Book of Mormon" for The Book of Mormon , "Doctrine and Covenants" for The Doctrine and Covenants, and "Pearl of Great Price" for The Pearl of Great Price. Since all of these books are ...
... that this reviewer never read the book.
I personally like that you have to have the book in your library. I know that The Book of Mormon is one of the most polarizing books in the LT Catalog - both in ratings and reviews. And in order to be one of the polarizing individuals, one must have ...
24:As the reviews for the book of Mormon show if something is "controversial" enough there will be drive-bys.
... and Bishop Doane: High Church Romanticism on the Delaware" about different religious approaches to Wordsworth in America
The Book of Mormon
Poetry by Byron (Childe Harolds Pilgrimage), Wordsworth, Poe, Shelley, Emerson, Bryant, and several sentimental American poetess' writing about death ( ...
My mother pretty much stuck to the Book of Mormon . My father read all kinds of different stuff. I remember my parents arguing about Schopenhauer, for example. My Mom didn't appreciate Schopenhauer's low opinion of women. My Dad and I used to read Shakespeare's plays together --alternat ...
... if others didn't like it. If I see a book with extremely high and extremely low ratings, but nothing in the middle (e.g. Book of Mormon ), I assume it is being rated for its content or point of view rather than for the quality of writing.
... if others didn't like it. If I see a book with extremely high and extremely low ratings, but nothing in the middle (e.g. Book of Mormon ), I assume it is being rated for its content or point of view rather than for the quality of writing.
... grading final exams for my Intro to Prehistory course, so naturally I was grumpy.
As it happens, the origins of the Book of Mormon nperrin in LC Classification Challenge : nicole's LC subject area challenge (Oct 20, 2007, 2:25pm)
... —Judaism
BQ—Buddhism
BT—Doctrinal theology (Erasmus-Luther: discourse on free will)
BX—Christian denominations (The Book of Mormon )
C--2 subclasses done. 3 more to be read (no potentials).
D--5 subclasses done. Remaining:
DAW—History of Central Europe
DB—History of Austria ...
... by H. G. Wells
Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
Brain Child by George Turner is a novel.
The Fourth 'R' by George O. Smith
... that you read a book that I disagree with...
Short answer would probably be for much the same reason that I have The Book of Mormon , The Bible, Al-Qur'an, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Bhagavad Gita, The Torah, and Tao Te Ching on my bookshelves. Being familiar with ...
... do a feel a lot less jumpy about being scathing about things like Dianetics or Angelic Messenger Cards than I do about The Book Of Mormon ? I have them *shelved* together, for heaven's sake.
Plus, I know if I keep reviewing like I want to I'll eventually get to the parts of my shelves ...
... for religious texts have no greater meaning than "this person rated it 5, this person rated it 4..." Your issue with the Book of Mormon having higher ratings is an issue of fairness . You wish religious texts to be evaluated objectively and the ratings thereof to clearly reflect the ...
As one who tags bibles, The Book of Mormon , and any other religious work as 'fiction', the fact that adherents to a particular belief system are rating their religious works with 5 Stars makes me say... so what?
What is being harmed by this practice? I don't foresee someone researching Mormon ...
The Book of Mormon has 62 five star ratings. Is this a case of stacking, I mean have some members of the Mormon faith decided to manipulate the rating? I have nothing against Mormonism but it seems strange to me that so many people would give it five stars.
Well, given the fact that the book of Mormon reads like it was written by a sixth grader trying to write in old english, I'm not surprised. Personally I think the book is a steaming pile, but I will leave it up to others to draw their own opinions. I'm not about to dictate what people can and can' ...
One copy of the book of Mormon has as author satan!
... were no works on it, so I went to Joseph Smith's page and, sure enough, someone had assigned Satan as the author of The Book of Mormon and then combined it with the work by Joseph Smith.
I uncombined Satan's copy so that it appears on his author page (where it can easily be traced to ...
For someone who knows the basic alphabet and how to read fairly well, I really liked Introducing Arabic by Michael Mumisa.
It takes a classical approach to classical Arabic, but I guess it really depends on what your goals are.
Also, for writing, at least to learn ruq'ah script, ...
... too much attention was Different Loving, so I moved it back into my reference section in the office. Now it sits next to The Book of Mormon . *smirk*
Now people focus on the shelf of Anne Rice hardcovers. The usual exchange is something like:
"You must really like Anne Rice!"
"No, I ...
... on
Must have 50 raters. The numbers are the standard deviation of rating—how much they differ from the average. "
1. The book of Mormon (1.94) now this has 11 reviews. I won't even get into the question of how you're supposed to review a religious text but people are doing it. Three of ...
... She focused on a community at the northern end of the Appalachians, in the Southern Tier of upstate.
Then there's The Book of Mormon , based on tablets unearthed by Joseph Smith in Palmyra (30 minutes from Rochester). Western NY was a real hotbed of religious revival and creation in ...
... Joseph Smith, Joseph F. Smith and Joseph Fielding Smith, to mean, first, the man who translated of the Book of Mormon , second, the nephew named for his uncle, and third, the son of that nephew named for his father and great-uncle. It can be confusing, for sure (especially ...
... even John Bytheway. And, obviously, the scriptures, but I think that's so much a given that nobody needs to tell us the Book of Mormon is their favorite book. :) But talking about favorite companion volumes/study guides would be neat.
Basically stuff that has to do with the Gospel, ...
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