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That is true, @Blade . We have to define what exactly a troll is because it's not just confrontation or opposition. Oxford Dictionary states: a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them. It...

On a basic level, yes. But in actuality, most regular people are not "looking for a reaction". They are seeking to communicate, they want to add their voice and feelings to a conversation, they want their opinions validated, and they want to connect with others. Trolls do not want these things...

Specifically, they are looking for a reaction. We can hypothesize all day about the insecurities a person might have in order to devote so much time and energy to merely getting a rise out of others, but it feels like a useless exercise. Some trolls "do it for the lulz" meaning, they just pick...

That seems really spammy, He is the Way. Instead of posting the whole article here, how about you post the link and then use your own words?

30 or so times.

Aaaaand we're done. :D

I was always told that was the language God and heavenly beings speak in. I was taught even to use thee and thou in prayer, because it is respectful. Come to find out that it's just a way to sell it as a holy book companion to the Bible. How do you convince Biblical Christians to read and...

Except it wasn't revealed from the plates. It came directly by revelation from God through the seer stone, word by word. Why would God not edit those words as he was revealing them through the stone?

It's the claims made by the LDS that validate. They claim that Joseph Smith got the words directly from a seer stone that allowed him to receive revelation from God. It was such a precise process that the scribe working with Joseph had to write down the spelling of strange names correctly or get...

In the 1800's there was a lot of speculation on the origins of the Natives found here. Several books written during the time Joseph Smith was alive, theorized that the Native Americans were from the line of ancient Israelites who had somehow traveled to the new continent. There was also a...

If what you say about character is true, why do Mormons still present the three and eight witnesses as credible? Especially considering how Martin Harris claimed to constantly see Christ and the Devil in animal forms that talked to him, and he joined and bore testimony of several other churches...

A testimony is a testament or declaration of faith. The LDS specifically refer to a general testimony as being I know the church is true. I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I know Joseph Smith was a true prophet. I know that Jesus Christ is the son of God and that He died for my...

It's based on a false premise. We can trace everything in the BoM to discussions both political and religious that were going on around Joseph as he was growing up. For example, the theories around the origin of the Native Americans as being ancient Hebrew had many books and news articles and...

You say. But then you don't seem to be able to follow the implications of what you're actually saying when you contend that there was a Great Apostasy right after his Apostles died. I agree that Jesus was never wrong. But then again, I'm not the one saying that his true teachings and gospel was...

There is something grossly contradictory about the Great Apostasy and Restoration in Mormonism. • Several scriptures get referenced as pointing to a Great Apostasy foretold or currently happening at the time these documents and letters were written, which we have copies of. So...this agent of...

Are you serious? What about all the prophets in the Bible who ran away and hid from God? Jonah? Balaam? And yet he stayed with them as His chosen men, even when he had to convince them. In 1,800 years He couldn't find one man willing to do His will and bring souls to Christ?

D&C 27:12 "12 And also with Peter, and James, and John, whom I have sent unto you, by whom I have ordained you and confirmed you to be apostles, and especial witnesses of my name, and bear the keys of your ministry and of the same things which I revealed unto them;" I guess John decided to pop...

Storytime. Colby is a rescue. Nothing bad happened with the folks before; he just spent a lot of time in a crate kennel or outside on a line all alone. The first night he slept with me, I laid down three different blankets on the floor in different spots for him to choose from. It was an anxious...

Every instance of archaeological evidence for the BoM I have looked into has been either stretched to the point that it invalidates the seer stone translation process or it isn't the right time period or the right region, etc. I don't see how you can connect this sword-club to BoM people. Just...

I wish Ironhold would post the evidence discovered that makes the Book of Mormon more plausible. Who knows? Maybe I've been misled this whole time by anti-Mormons who said there was no archaeological evidence for the Nephites and Lamanites and the Jaredites.