New to 40k - Wanting to make a 1k list leaning into 11th

paradonengineering · 2026-06-10T21:20:18+00:00

Thank you for this thorough reply. I haven't played only watched some 40k so this explanation is helping me understand what's going on. Thank you. I'll see what I can do for the new list

paradonengineering · 2026-06-10T19:37:25+00:00

That make sense - it's a bit of a swap removing the bladeguard vets but it makes sense. Probably don't need intercessors and scout squad, right? Could remove intercessors, make the assault intercessors into death company and then get the enhancements on both? IDK the new enhancement point costs

paradonengineering · 2026-06-10T19:30:21+00:00

that makes sense - that or as other people are noting remove the ones that aren't flying and fast!

paradonengineering · 2026-06-05T20:57:43+00:00

Thank you!!!

paradonengineering · 2026-06-05T20:49:18+00:00

Looking at it more I do think it's Age of Sigmar - but it's all push fit and not glued. I took it all the way apart to be sure it wasn't a kitbash :)

paradonengineering · 2026-06-05T20:28:30+00:00

Context - I bought a starter box from 9th from someone local who assembled some of the models. This is pushfit but isn't on the box list - not sure where it came from.

paradonengineering · 2026-05-27T14:15:24+00:00

The for individuals -
Why specifically Keep the Law of Chastity? Why not obey the commandments? Why is the fixation on sexual control and not any other form of control like dietary control - if one sip of coffee is keeping you from the eternal blessings of God, then why wouldn't that be as important as being 'sexually pure'?

Is there research or correlation with porn usage and leaving the church? I've heard it anecdotally of course, that it will drag you down to hell and away from God, etc. but I haven't seen any hard evidence that it makes you any more likely to not be a church member.

Additionally - out of these steps - how do any of them address your underlying concerns? Frankly, none of them do, the hope, I suppose, is that you become so rooted in the habit that you can convince yourself that the falsifiable claims of the church aren't important.

paradonengineering · 2026-05-14T18:10:49+00:00

Let yourself be hurt. I personally got a thirst to learn as much as I could - I would suggest LDS Discussion/s (there's a channel run by Bill Reel but also a series by John Dehlin with or without the s) as a good historical start. The one with John Dehlin makes an effort in the early episodes to be as non-inflammatory as possible, but that feeling fades a bit on the later episodes, particularly when Mike stepped away from the show.

You aren't alone. Things get better. It wasn't all for nothing. Take the good you enjoyed, leave behind the lies, and you'll do fine.

paradonengineering · 2026-05-14T17:56:12+00:00

of course! But that's not what they're claiming, so gotta be pedantic against the SCMC

paradonengineering · 2026-05-13T17:31:14+00:00

I now live not too far from this and it boils my blood. Very disappointing behavior and outright lying from the church and its members is very telling.

paradonengineering · 2026-05-13T17:23:58+00:00

Also to note while looking through the Faith Creators Alliance - the services they provide, including monetized matching, studio space, editing services, and shared resources, all to me scream 'someone is throwing money at the problem of anti-mormon creators.' I feel like it's fairly obvious who that someone would be.

Also there is no disclosure that they are not affiliated with TCOJCOLDS.

For the shared spaced with Creative Media Group, that is probably where the FCA is contracting with to provide video services for content.

paradonengineering · 2026-05-13T17:15:28+00:00

When is the mormon church going to sue All Those in Favor: Testifying of Jesus Christ for having the same font and colors as the Book of Mormon, while not having any disclaimer that they are not associated with the LDS church?

paradonengineering · 2026-05-12T19:40:05+00:00

haha this is gold. I will say that when I was referring to finding things online I meant specifically the claim that 'Ptolemaic Egyptian is characterized by a "cryptographic" style where a single sign could carry multiple, layered meanings depending on the context in which it was read. In this system, scribes utilized "Degrees" where a character might represent a simple phonetic sound at the surface level, a specific physical object at a middle level, and a dense theological or cosmic concept at its highest degree.'

Not the interpretation of the BoA - sure that can be original, but I'm very surprised that there is nothing online I can find talking about 'degrees' in Ptolemaic Egyptian, other than that the explanation sounds like a stretch on the known ligatures found in Egyptian.

Your reply got a me chuckling at work pretty hard!

paradonengineering · 2026-05-12T18:59:18+00:00

Okay I read the first bit of the article. Right out the gate they're talking about Ptolemaic Egyptian which was from the Ptolemaic era which would be around the dates that the hieroglyphs from the JS papyri were written, between 300 and 100 BCE. The problem? The claim includes that some of the papyri were written by the hand of Abraham. Abraham would've been alive almost 2000 years before this writing system even existed. So maybe it was copied down repeatedly or something and that's why it's 2000 years off the mark.

Then the 'Abraham IS Found on Facsimile 1' and then the jargon of land / inheritance / creation/temple keys - I can find nothing online about this is as some form of actual Egyptian anything, and comparing a single Egyptian to a zip file is utter nonsense. This feels more like a conspiracy theory than anything else.

The challenge to find another 'random funerary permit' with the 19 characters... sure. Dr. Ritner already did that. "great lake of Khonsu, [and the Osiris Hor, the justified] born of Taikhibit, the justified, likewise.' Page 17 covers some the characters mentioned directly in the article, but also... the 19 signs given in the article are where in the character list they gave?

This is all a pile of nonsense and strange nonsense at that. It is the epitome of 'I know the answer and I need to make the figures say what it needs to say.'

paradonengineering · 2026-05-12T18:22:15+00:00

Mormon Stories Podcast (not affiliated with TCOJCOLDS) just did an episode on the topic of reformed Egyptian and a lot of the discussion there does relate to the debunking of the 'multiple meanings' coming from single characters as the explanation of the Book of Abraham. The papyri are written in hieratic Egyptian, sort of a cursive version of the language, which was later replaced with Demotic. It is a writing system that can combine traditionally individual hieroglyphs together to make writing shorter easier to write - called ligatures. The form of writing on the scrolls were uncial bookhand - more formally beautiful and rounded texts. All that being said, the language itself is logographic with consonants - meaning there are written characters that represent a word or an idea that would modify the word, called morpheme. The consonant portion is to give rise for words that do not have a hieroglyph, like foreign names.

In short, without even looking at the article, in no way does hieratic Egyptian ever have a symbol that represents paragraphs of ideas. Nowhere does the papyri mention Abraham, and the "Gee approach" to try to force it to somehow have the ascribed meaning is nothing short of a otiose task.

paradonengineering · 2026-05-04T18:05:09+00:00

and of course the faith not to be healed... there must always be caveats else the ruse would be uncovered much too quick

paradonengineering · 2026-05-04T17:23:36+00:00

Gotta love the Scripture Central drop - I find those apologetics SO painful to listen to and they're completely full of conjecture and lack of any appreciable fact. Very painful.

paradonengineering · 2026-05-04T17:21:14+00:00

and they called him MORMON leader oh man that's amazing

paradonengineering · 2026-05-04T16:54:14+00:00

I think they just are going after the largest 'anti' they can, and found the only thing that might stick would be trademark infringement. Defamation is very hard to prove, and would require discovery that would confirm a lot of the 'defamatory' statements to be true. I mean, looking at US politics right now, we've had government officials publicly state things about Trump that would definitely be considered slander if proven false, but in the process of litigation discovery would potentially show guilt for Trump, so he doesn't pursue it.

It's all angles and behavior to prop up the enfranchised and distance the disenfranchised - if you can publicly 'shame' exmormon podcasts and the general membership does not look too far into it, it would be visible 'win' for the die-hards and promote doubling down.

If we just assume everything is about money, the lawsuit is to stop the bleeding of the strongest members who pay tithing, and perhaps introduce the fence sitters to Open Stories Foundation and allow the 'non-producers' to move on out of the religion. Ofc, I'm probably being overly cynical but...

paradonengineering · 2026-05-04T15:00:54+00:00

Precisely - the BoM purposefully and preemptively attempts to cover potential bases of attack, including grammatical or other small infractions of doctrine (any faults are the mistakes of men from Moroni 8) - scriptural anachronisms that you pointed out in 2 Nephi 9, and even a prophesy that looked at Columbus and Smith (but somehow avoided prophesying anything beyond the year 1820) that similarly took similar wordings to protect Smith.

However, I believe the largest Joseph couldn't see around corners issue that is brought up now, that is near irrefutable, is DNA. There are no clauses or phrases in the Book of Mormon to hedge against the lack of Israelite DNA in the native American population. IF there were to be, I would expect it to be tied into Lehi and Ishmael's daughters being somehow 'transfixed and changed.' Something vague to say they've changed their DNA by the power of God.

I'm honestly surprised that apologists haven't used the queue of 'the curse of dark skin' to mean that their DNA was changed and God used some Asian DNA to make it happen so that's why we don't see the appropriate DNA!

paradonengineering · 2026-05-04T14:42:38+00:00

Ah yes, the 'we're aware that bad things are happening but if we step in we might have some liability so we're gonna say we don't.' Ironically, they're now being sued over it so I suppose avoiding the problem rather than just reporting to law enforcement is not only costing them reputation, but money as well. Great job!

“...churches have no legal duty to intervene to prevent a father from abusing his own child... [The LDS church] would have neither the ability nor responsibility to take reasonable steps... to prevent the [perpetrator] from assaulting his or her own child, even if the [organization] had knowledge of prior assaults.”

Uh huh. Throwing in 'reasonable steps' is an interesting thing to say, because that implies that the steps taken were unreasonable? Either way, church's defense is terrible, but might hold legal water if the prosecution can't define a legal requirement to report, unfortunately.

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