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Why Mormons Should Think Twice Before Identifying Themselves As Republicans (1)V
Mormons are Republicans. OK, not everyone, but a lot of them. Especially the ones in the US West. This bothers me, not on the face of it, but because I’ve seen and heard so much from some of these members that suggests they have not fully considered the many relationships between this (or any) political ideology and the doctrine of the LDS church. ( Read more... ) -
Day 25
Part of me is relieved, as only a doting father can be. Another part, however, feels a growing concern. It’s not her behavior-my darling daughter is a bubbly, adorable infant as she should be-it’s the behavior of-well, things, around her. I still feel a dread at sharing any of this with her mother, who cannot be grieved with vague, probably ( Read more... ) -
Day 20
I write this with a growing mix of love and dread, mixed perhaps with some fear or fear-like emotion-possibly just extreme nervousness and a bit of flatulence, which-let me tell you-can sometimes turn perfectly ordinary mild fear into full-blown terror. Please let it be the gas. Just the gas. I write so that those who read these words might begin ( Read more... ) -
Gender and Brain Lateralization?
Here is some rampant, unsupported speculation: Maybe there’s some kind of case to be made for brain lateralization as a metaphor for gender abilities/roles/specializations/uniquestuffs. You know, say that one side was like “male” and the other was like “female.” No, seriously; dig it:
- Specialization obviously occurs.
- There’s some nature going on, ( Read more... )
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Conference Spring 2011
I’ma blog a bit about conference. Just random thoughts, and I make no guarantee that I’ll get everything (or even listen to all the talks). Note: I missed yesterday (Saturday) because of childbirth education classes and then trying to catch up on the work I missed while in said classes. So I’m starting with…
Sunday Morning Session
Elder Uchtdorf
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Sea Monkey Life Tips #1
Dear Sea Monkey,
You are currently at about 34 weeks gestation, and I just saw some birthing videos. Here is your first Life Tip:
HEAD FIRST, FACE DOWN.
That is all.
Originally published at bobbyfiend.com. You can comment here or there.
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Patriotic Sex versus Patriotic Violence: LDS Preferences?
I have a habit of trying to point out logical problems in ideas by suggesting counterexamples. I know proof by analogy isn’t ultimately very valuable, and I know not everything can be demonstrated (or disproved) by examples, but it still seems valid at least as a way of illustrating - in ways people can understand immediately, if I do it right - ( Read more... ) -
Massive Nick Thread on fMh
So my loving wif has been describing to me an EPIC (or epic-esque) thread on feminist Mormon housewives. It was dominated by a guy named Nick who had some issues. Big ones. And it captured both our attention (honeypie’s and mine). I made word clouds of Nick’s comments and the general thread, for some kind of comparison. I don’t think this exercise ( Read more... ) -
Who will run the Church in ten years?
I sometimes wish I could go get a new PhD in something else-in this case, sociology or anthropology, to study LDS people. I’ve been having some odd thoughts about de facto succession of leadership and participation in the church. I feel, lately, that I have seen a pattern emerge from time to time:
- Apparently doctrinally-orthodox member distances ( Read more... )
