Nephi pleads not guilty to Murder and Robbery

In doing background research for an upcoming blog on Latter Day Saints and the Death Penalty, I came across this in a forum and thought I’d pass it along. Food for thought: “In 1 Nephi we have an amazing confession by Nephi himself that he murdered a drunken helpless man (Laban) in order to [...]

Be a Secular and Spiritual Scholar: Inspiration for the Intellectual Growth of Zion

Prologue:
From time to time I get a comment from someone who reads these blogs and tells me what they think, and it means a lot to me. It means a lot A) that someone out there is reading this … and B) that they find it interesting. I don’t expect people to always agree with [...]

Psychological Mormonism

My opinions, thoughts, and passions seem to simmer constantly under my skin. From time to time a certain book I read or conversation I have will bring this simmer to a boil, and I begin to expound upon the subject at hand. When this happens, I will blog it not as a way of altruistically [...]

Insurance: 1 Psychotherapy: 0

In the middle of writing a forthcoming blog on psychological Mormonism, I ascended my self-made cyber-soapbox. As I often do. While doing so, my tangent led me to this thought, this … bone to pick before I step off. Insurance companies are ruining psychotherapy.
I’ll try to curtail this as much as my reeling mind allows: [...]

Religion and Politics

If you want to have polite conversation, discuss neither religion nor politics they say. Since I’m doing both they cancel each other out like a double negative. Bet you didn’t not know that. I’m dumb, forget it.
These topics are heated because people tend to feel very strongly about their opinions, I’m sorry, I mean the [...]

Introduction to my obsession

It is past midnight and I should be turning in for the night, but I have a few things on my mind at the moment and thought I’d jot down a few images before I retire. First of all, I’m glad Facebook has a blogging application. I’m not sure how much I’ll actually use this, [...]

The Philosophical Flaw of Psychology

Ever since the days of Plato and Aristotle, philosophers have contended over the nature of man. What laws govern our existence? Is any one worldview correct, or is each person biased and we find ourselves at a stalemate (Gaarder, 1996)? The various schools of thought can be categorized into two opposing realms, either Materialism or [...]