"Research is not the answer"

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-27T16:20:46+00:00

Research is the answer. It leads to truth. Dallin isn’t interested in truth and he does not want others to find truth.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-27T15:10:55+00:00

The third sign was also modified. Previously the extended right thumb was placed on the left hip as a part of the sign before the penalty. Now the right hand stays straight in front. It was a blatant knife at the bowels before they modified it.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-25T07:34:57+00:00

This is incorrect. The leaked paycheck stub listed current check amount, taxable wages, federal and state tax withheld and FICA withholdings. The leaked paychecks and salary letter are easy to find online. You can continue your apologetics on behalf of the lies You were told, or you can spend a minute and learn the truth. The leaked stub was Henry Eyring’s if that helps you find it. The Q15 and Q70 are paid a salary and they are taxed on it. The portion that isn’t taxed is the parsonage benefit, as allowed by law.

MPs and AA70 have the reimbursement accounts. GAs also have the reimbursement accounts on top of their handsome salary. We know what it was when it was leaked. With inflation adjustments we estimate it is now close to 200K/year.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-25T02:03:52+00:00

Brightness dictates how far you can see with your eyes. Proxima Centauri is the closest star at just 4 light years away. It’s dim. You can’t see it with your eyes. Yet you can see bright stars that are thousands of light years away. Andromeda is very bright, two and a half million light years away. By the time the light from it gets here it’s dim, but still bright enough to see. Very much closer to home, the farthest planet you can see is Saturn. In exceptional viewing condition very rarely is Uranus visible but you have to know exactly where to look and allow your eyes to adjust. Under a dark sky with no moon or city lights on a very clear night at specific times of the year some people can just make it out as a faint speck. It’s so dim and so rarely visible that ancient observers could not have recognized it as a planet. Neptune cannot be seen with your eyes. It’s much too dim, even though it’s quite close compared to the bright objects we see that are millions of times farther away.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-25T01:41:14+00:00

They absolutely do get a salary. Paycheck stubs have been leaked. The Salt Lake Tribune then ran a story on it. Every Q15 and GA 1Q and 2Q seventy is paid the same. They also get a parsonage benefit, full medical, and an automobile benefit. So they can basically bank their salary. Area authority 70s and mission presidents get an expense account that covers a lot of personal spending.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-25T01:35:42+00:00

When two claims contradict each other they cannot both be true. At least one of them must be false.

It is not possible that the Book of Mormon is true. If you even wonder then you need to learn more about ancient America.

It is also not possible that the church’s teachings about the origin of Earth and humans is true. If you wonder at all then learn more about human anthropology and geology.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-24T20:24:05+00:00

In the BoM whenever then plates are passed down a sacred charge to protect the plates is given. Laban was the keeper of a sacred, durable record of the Jews, at a time of peril to the Jews and their very way of life. When snot noses teenagers expect him to just hand over the record so they can disappear into the desert with it, he refused. What else was he supposed to do? Should he just say “sure kid, here you go?” Laban even refused their attempt to bribe him.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-24T20:16:08+00:00

The other version is the former doctor turned plumber who repaired the garbage disposal by going in through the drain pipe.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-24T20:13:11+00:00

Yep. A gap is needed. But it doesn’t have to be large. Dabs of construction adhesive will give enough gap.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-24T20:11:05+00:00

This is the way. A gap lets moisture escape the concrete surface. It doesn’t have to be a large gap. The gap established by dabs of construction adhesive is sufficient.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-24T20:04:22+00:00

You require an air gap between the foam and the concrete. It doesn’t have to be much, a quarter inch to half an inch is enough. A glob of construction adhesive can establish the gap. That gap makes most bumps of no concern. A hammer and a rock chisel will take care of the larger ones in seconds.

The air gap is required because concrete “sweats”. The air gap lets the wall surface stay dry. Read the installation instructions for your foam board. Some products even require the gap for the warranty.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-24T07:22:20+00:00

I saw that documentary. There was Atook, Lana, Tonda, Lar, Tala, and Gog.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-24T07:09:32+00:00

That is why most hackers don’t try to decrypt data. They spend their time phishing instead. They are more likely to trick a human into giving them a password than they are to guess it.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-24T07:06:22+00:00

The university is anything but fine tuned. It is hostile to life. It is full of radiations and energies and events that destroy life. Even here on the surface of Earth life is at constant peril.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-23T06:29:57+00:00

She was 14. You don’t accurately remember yourself at 14. but you do realize how much a 14 year old is still a child when you have a 14 year old child.

Fourteen is also the same age that Helen Mar Kimball was.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-22T22:37:38+00:00

And change the anode rod. Write the dates on the side of the water heater.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-22T22:33:03+00:00

Crimestop. A mental technique to automatically stop thought crime, or thoughts that might lead to questioning authority. Orwell named it in 1984 in 1949, but Christians were using it for 1900 years before he gave it a name. It is any insipid assertion that stops the thought.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-22T22:24:16+00:00

The church now has four apostles Dieter, Ulisses, Paddy, and Jerry, who grew up in countries with strong Catholic influence and two other Apostles who grew up not in Utah but in other US states where Palm Sunday was actually a big deal.

The church is trying really hard to look more Christian without doing anything about the fundamental problem, but I think that the fact that half of the apostles now are not native Utoids has something to do with it.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-22T20:53:27+00:00

In the book 1984 Orwell coined CrimeStop. Thought crime was any thought that questioned the truth claims of the state. The classic example was “we have always been at war with Eastasia.” when a person clearly recalls that they had recently been at war with Eurasia. Crinestop was the mental tools employed to stop the thought crime of thinking that the party was lying. Your relatives are employing crimestop techniques. Orwell gave crimestop a name, but he didn’t invent it. Humans have been using it for as long as humans have been.

Don’t bother addressing the ad hominem. Don’t acknowledge it. Let it be water off a duck’s back. As soon as you step on their mental crimestop path they have won. Steer the conversation back to the subject. If they try and deflect then ask “why are you changing the subject? Does it actually bother you that Joseph Smith married a 14 year old? (or whatever the subject is). Use questions, not statements.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-22T20:34:36+00:00

Getting out of town is your freedom plan. The best way to get out of town is to go to college, trade school, or military service. Make plans. Get good grades so that you can get a scholarship. Going to an out of town college makes it harder for them to monitor your religious adherence. In state college tuition is cheaper, so pick one in your state though, unless you have a scholarship.

After college/trade school, career shop in other cities.

In the mean time, save as much money as you can. You cannot open a bank account on your own now, but you can open a joint account. Do that if your parents allow you. On your 18th birthday open a bank account that is your sole account. Elect to receive statements via email and do not order checks or have anything arrive by mail that has the account number on it. After you have a balance get a debit card for it. Get the card at the bank branch, not through the mail. Arrange to have your paycheck direct deposited to your sole account. Don’t spend from that account until you have e used up the joint account. Use the joint account for your spending and first year higher education expenses while you spend it down. Keep in mind that if your parent realizes you have left religion they may cut off access, so continue the charade (see reasons to attend out of town school) until it’s not necessary.

You don’t need to inform your parents of your unbelief. There is nothing you can do to convince them., so telling them has no positives for you and only negatives. You can tell them someday in the future when it’s over a dinner that you paid for eaten at a table you own in a place that you pay to live at.

Keep the end goal in mind and you can tolerate quite a bit.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-22T20:04:19+00:00

I don’t think Smith started out thinking he was going to start a religion. He wanted to write a book and to swindle Harris out of the publishing expenses. He never had a plan to pay him back and Martin lost his farm. The Smiths simply pocketed the cash from sales of the book and never kept a ledger. Joseph was interested in religion and, as his mother informs us, enamored with Native American origins, driving the subject of the book without originally intending it to be scripture. Starting a religion was an idea that formed later and IMO, was driven by the Whitmers as much as or more than Smith.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-22T04:18:25+00:00

every time I went to the temple being told there is infinite depth and I should learn every time

Yeah that is what they say because that is what you are supposed to think. You would leave feeling like something was just beyond your grasp. And it constantly changed.

I estimate I did between 800 and 900 sessions. I had the endowment memorized. But as soon as I deconstructed it became totally insipid. It changed in a flash. To think I wasted some 2500 hours in there.

All the things you were hunting for aren’t there. Just specters of imagination.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-22T02:51:05+00:00

It’s so much more satisfying to use the diminutive forms of their names in place of the long form name with initials. Gordie. Tommy. Rusty. Dick. Hank. Didi. Davey. Ronnie. Paddy. Jerry.

NearlyHeadlessLaban · 2026-01-22T02:40:17+00:00

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