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To: lmiller007
You continue to tell me what I believe, when I know what I believe.

No, we are POSTING what leaders of YOUR Organization have said and taught in the past.

You keep trying to say that it makes no difference what they did back then.

We have NO idea 'what you believe'.

373 posted on 02/20/2008 1:35:45 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Again, statements made by some Mormon leaders are not necessarily official teachings of the church or accepted by most Mormons. It would be wise for you to first try to understand what we actually believe.


378 posted on 02/20/2008 1:37:59 PM PST by lmiller007
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To: Elsie
U Said: No, we are POSTING what leaders of YOUR Organization have said and taught in the past.

You keep trying to say that it makes no difference what they did back then.


Have you heard of Quote mining?

Quote mining is the practice of compiling frequently misleading quotes from large volumes of literature or speech.[1]

The term is pejorative. "Quote miners" are often accused of contextomy and misquotation, in an attempt to represent the views of the person being quoted inaccurately. For example, if a person being quoted disagrees with some position, a quote miner will present quotes that suggest that instead, this person is supportive of this position. Material that ostensibly bolsters this position is often taken out of context. Exposition that is at odds with the argument being made in the same text is excluded or otherwise obscured.
Mormons feel that Many anti Mormons and yes In my pinion, you are one of them, Use Quote mining to attack our church, these attacks can often be easily refuted if the poster includes a link to the source, so when a Quotation that seems to contradict what we are saying is posted without a link, we assume it to be quote mining because we see so much of it. When someone cuts quotations from an anti site for example, there is almost never a web linked quotation and it's almost always from a book that has to be looked up off line.

I have in the past spent days of spare time chasing a quotation, only to discover it does not exist, it was a lie. In the posters defense, in that case they did not know it was a lie, they were cutting from a web site that listed a source.

I try to give links to my source documents, and give lesser weight to documents that have no such links.

Just so you know why we dismiss so many of your posts, they've been debunked before.
565 posted on 02/20/2008 9:09:13 PM PST by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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