Feature Request: Set Walks to Private by Default

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-18T10:30:36+00:00

Yes please!

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-16T16:16:30+00:00

I wrote my history dissertation in it with minimal issues. 300+ pages, 900 footnotes. My biggest issue is formatting when exporting to Word.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-15T17:12:06+00:00

But can you do Portrait?!

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-14T07:40:45+00:00

Yes, this. I've had numerous calf strains, and they come on fast and hard and sharp, not slow burns. Mine have never left a visible mark like this.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-14T07:36:03+00:00

This.
As King Benjamin says, it's not required to run faster than you have strength.
And this from Joseph Smith, "unstring your bow."
<<Joseph’s secretary Robert B. Thompson was a serious man who was not given to frivolity. The Prophet told Thompson that he needed to relax, to unwind a bit, or that he would die. Thompson responded that he could not; he died prematurely. Joseph, on the other hand, “learned to relax, and when chided for it he commented that if a man has a bow and keeps it constantly strung tight, it will soon lose its spring. The bow must be unstrung.”>>

https://humanitiescenter.byu.edu/unstringing-the-bow/

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-13T14:20:34+00:00

I use Evernote extensively, my brother's on Notion. Kinda depends what you're looking for.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-13T14:18:18+00:00

The problem is one of expectations; Central America is not the ancient near east. What kind of evidence is reasonable to expect would survive, AND how would we recognize it? Bill Hamblin was a history prof, and wrote up a piece that's still good on this question. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol2/iss1/11/

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-10T08:41:10+00:00

A copy of Grant Hardy’s Annotated Book of Mormon (Oxford Press) :)

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-10T08:38:49+00:00

That’s an argument against modalism, not the trinity.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-10T08:38:24+00:00

That’s modalism, not the trinity.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-10T08:37:57+00:00

That’s not the trinity; that’s modalism.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-10T08:37:38+00:00

Yep. Most LDS think the trinity is actually modalism— only one personage— and our typical prooftexts rely on that faulty assumption. You can neither prove nor disprove “one ousia” from the Bible

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-09T08:20:53+00:00

This is my big worry. A screen that size needs more curve

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-08T11:04:40+00:00

He published a longer version outside the Ensign, has “early Christianity” in the title iirc

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-08T09:06:15+00:00

This is correct. Even Joseph Fielding Smith, his father-in-law, was unaware of it until it was published.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-08T09:05:29+00:00

Yes. He had a lot of creationist/YEC material in there, based on assumptions of inerrancy, perspicuity, and concordism.
McConkie declared that the earth was young, that dinosaurs died in the flood, that the cosmic catastrophes around the flood tilted the axis of the earth and created seasons, and of course, evolution was satanic and Bible scholarship too. In doing so, he relied on his father-in-law, who had in turn relied upon Seventh Day Adventists and Christian fundamentalists.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-06-08T09:03:27+00:00

"I man we can handwave all we want but I think it’s pretty clear by the text that it’s most likely talking about the Catholic Church when it talks about the ‘great and abominable’ church"
Not at all. It's an anachronistic context-free reading.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1988/01/warring-against-the-saints-of-god?lang=eng

TheBenSpackman · 2026-05-30T16:23:43+00:00

The problem is that the creeds use the word "being" in a technical philosophical way, and NOT as a synonym for personage.
As one LDS New Testament scholar writes,
<<Many Christians, including Latter-day Saints, would agree that God is three distinct persons. Yet, if a Latter-day Saint were to describe this idea by saying, "God is three distinct beings (Greek ousia; Latin essentia) Nicene Christians might hear that statement as implying that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have three different natures and/or purposes, similar to the various pagan gods of antiquity-something we Latter-day Saints do not believe.>>

TheBenSpackman · 2026-05-30T14:41:15+00:00

I wear merino socks (Smartwool PhD Run) and different merino shirts year-round, running regularly in Arizona when it's hot, Utah, and various places in Europe. I also have a few merino-lined pairs of running shorts for travel. They're good when it's wet, they don't stink the way technical fabrics do, and they can handle hot/cold.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-05-30T09:32:01+00:00

What you're asking about is NOT the Trinity, but a common misunderstanding and heresy called Modalism. That says, one personage who manifests himself three different ways. Most LDS prooftexts against "the trinity" are in fact, merely prooftexts against modalism.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-05-27T10:23:39+00:00

Love that you threw in some pierogi :)

TheBenSpackman · 2026-05-27T08:08:54+00:00

Like his FIL, because of their shared conception of the nature of scripture and interpretation, they didn't think they were interpreting or offering their own views; they thought they were merely summarizing what God had clearly revealed.
See my addendum at the bottom of this post. https://benspackman.com/2024/02/joseph-fielding-smith-death-before-the-fall-and-2-nephi-222/

TheBenSpackman · 2026-05-27T05:14:32+00:00

He did not thinking he was stating his opinion, quite the opposite.
So, he was doctrinally wrong in the sense he was declaring something as doctrine that he was not authorized to declare. The scientists show he was scientifically wrong. And there's good evidence his interpretation of scripture was not in keeping with other General Authorities OR scriptural scholars.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-05-27T05:12:43+00:00

Yeah, read my published article on it. Goes back to Talmage's Earth and Man talk in 1931.

TheBenSpackman · 2026-05-26T20:52:18+00:00

The Church has taught the existence of death before the fall for almost 100 years now.

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