- E on The “Jim Bridger Discovered the Great Salt Lake” Billboards and the Myth of the Empty West: “I always appreciate every effort to combat our white supremacy/settler colonialism. Thank you for a thought-provoking post.” Mar 5, 10:07
- on The “Jim Bridger Discovered the Great Salt Lake” Billboards and the Myth of the Empty West: “Off-topic, I know, but your story reminds me of a class I took in early 1976 on Presidential Character in which the professor took note of “Reagan” popping up on billboards (he had never noticed it before) and speculating that it was a stealth campaign tactic on behalf of the Gipper.” Mar 5, 09:06
- on The “Jim Bridger Discovered the Great Salt Lake” Billboards and the Myth of the Empty West: “A Turtle Named Mack, sure. If there’s anyone left alive here at that point to put one up.” Mar 5, 07:58
- on The “Jim Bridger Discovered the Great Salt Lake” Billboards and the Myth of the Empty West: “I had the same reaction when I saw those billboards a few days ago.” Mar 5, 07:55
- on The “Jim Bridger Discovered the Great Salt Lake” Billboards and the Myth of the Empty West: “In a few years someone will stand in the exact spot Jim Bridger stood and “discover” The Great Salt Pit. It won’t be something the indigenous inhabitants had known about for millennia. A truly new geographical feature, bereft of water or any other redeeming features. Can we then put up a plaque?” Mar 5, 07:24
- on A Review: Rise Up and Speak: Selected Discourses of Eliza R. Snow: “@rl, as an aside, it appears this is avail on amazon as well as deseret book web site itself. no need to travel or wait!!!!” Mar 4, 12:08
- on Cutting Edge Latter-day Saint Research, February 2026: “My anecdotal mission experience lines up with Alexander Poulsen’s findings” Mar 4, 07:59
- on What We Can Learn from Visions of Glory, Part 3: “Perhaps, if we collectively could keep a humble perspective, and treat visions as a form of symbolic, reflective or parabolic learning, rather than as a literal or even partially-literal transcription of the future, then it could benefit us to share them widely. We could compare and contrast and perhaps gain greater light. At the least we would have uniting insights, windows into each others’ souls. But if we’re sharing for attention or gain, or if we’re sharing with those with whom we don’t have a close personal connection, then we’re losing 99% of that potential value. Is a vision from God, or from the deep folds of our brains and the contours of our experiences? That distinction doesn’t matter much if our primary goal is humility, learning and love. Alternately, the corpus of literature, the body of the Word, is but a collection of visions.” Mar 3, 22:02
- on A Review: Rise Up and Speak: Selected Discourses of Eliza R. Snow: “Thanks for the review, will pick up when I visit Utah next.” Mar 3, 21:06
- on What Did Church Lead You to Think About Yesterday, 3/1?: “Our Sunday School teacher focused on covenants in general and the Abrahamic covenant in particular as a relationship of trust rather than a contract that’s null and void as soon as it is broken. The Old Testament is the story of God relentlessly pursuing his covenant people despite their sins (while not protecting them from the consequences of those sins). I liked that because we’ve got so many people who are afraid that they’ll lose their relationship with God if they fall short. But for me personally, it got me thinking that if I am more mindful of the loving, one-on-one relationship I have with Jesus Christ and my Heavenly Parents I’ll probably do better than I am now. A note of support for your overall project here: In 2 Nephi 32, Nephi follows up on his exhortation to “press forward” and “endure to the end” by turning to the question of what specifically we should do. But he refuses to answer it, because we need to get those answers ourselves from the Lord. He famously tells us to “feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.” We usually take that as an exhortation to read the scriptures, but the words of Christ he’s referring to are *spoken*, not written: “Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ.” I’m firmly convinced that a big part of the Lord’s plan for our gradual progression is our going to church each week and listening to people speak by the power of the Holy Ghost and tell us what we should do (something that happens more often in our meetings than some people think, if not as often as it should). Even if they fall short, if we listen with the intent of learning what the Lord wants us to work on and to do that week, it’s my experience that the Spirit will bring something to our minds, even if it’s only peripherally related to what’s said. We take our church meetings and what’s said there far too lightly. Thanks for trying to remedy that.” Mar 3, 13:20
