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I really do hope you're 12. Otherwise, I'm afraid that you might be retarded. I was asking because your meaning was ambiguous. It almost sounded like you thought Mormonism wasn't new enough to be worthy of study. I assumed I must have misunderstood, as that's a ludicrous argument. Now, I remember your intellectual ability and realize I shouldn't have responded at all.
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Every time I see this title in the front page, I think I read "Curse on Mormonism at Harvard".
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I agree it's unclear. I'd tend to think the opposite of what malapert seemed to say (in woot's explanation) - after 200 years there's finally enough to start studying it seriously.
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One of the worst books ever written. PS - Sociologists should stick to sociology. I know too many who think they're historians (no offense, woot).
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When you juxtapose "scrambling" and a faith which has been around 178 yrs, don't you see just a mite of irony? Sorry for my puerile assumptions and the concomitant confusion caused thereby. As for your ad hominem attack zoot, I understand that when you let your emotions control, your intellect and reason suffers. Controlling those emotions will come as the maturation process unfolds. What do I know, I'm only 12.
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