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Your recent edits

First, editors cannot call sources " non-biased and non-affiliated" - that's not our role - in fact, much of the text of your edit was what we call pov, see WP:NPOV. Please read WP:NOR. Secondly, sources normally must discuss the subject of the article, also see NOR and WP:VERIFY. I don't know why you call theFARMS non-affiliated as it is clearly affiliated. If you think you can justify any of these, please take them to the appropriate articles' talk page. Thank you. Dougweller (talk) 10:42, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits to Nephite continue to be problematic. Please discuss future edits you wish to make to that page on Talk:Nephite; we're happy to explain our concerns if you're interested in discussing it. Triacylglyceride (talk) 00:07, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How is the following not an objective criticism of the archaeological evidence of Algonquian prehistory?

'Contemporary linguistic perspectives reveal controversies between archaeological and linguistic theories regarding reconstructions of the prehistory and migration of the societies that correlate with proposed origins of the Book of Mormon. According to the Journal of Archaeology of Eastern North America, "Most archeologists in the Northeast, rejecting earlier theories of migration and diffusion, now assume indigenous cultural development and continuity of settlement in the region, from Paleo-Indian times until the historic period. However, this assupmption appears to be incompatible with linguists' reconstructions of Algonquian prehistory, which presuppose a relatively late migratory expansion from a northern homeland. When archeologists have not simply ignored the linguistic evidence, they have either drastically altered the proposed linguistic chronology to fit their own models, or else have questioned the theoretical validity of the linguists' models. (e.g., Snow 1977, 1980)" This linguistic evidence suggests that current archaeological models may not reflect the beliefs of other scholarly domains of historical analysis.' http://www.jstor.org/stable/40914351 Thepasta (talk) 00:25, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FYI you really only needed to post this in one place. Triacylglyceride (talk) 17:14, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks BTW. Thepasta (talk) 13:22, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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In response to your feedback

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Salma Vian (talk) 01:18, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's discouraging when we provide peer-reviewed references to challenge media sources, but somebody would rather revert your addition than consider that they might have been misguided; moreover, providing multiple sources doesn't seem to make any difference, because all the opposition needs to do is find fault in one of the references to justify deleting your changes. I wish that people would be more ethical, but I suppose that most people would rather feel powerful than know the truth. Thepasta (talk) 04:21, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is disappointing. It seems that you haven't read the links above or the edit summaries of those reverting you, but instead have decided to attack other editors. You might want to start with no personal attacks and assume good faith.

You are being reverted by me and other editors because your posts and your approach to editing is against our policies and guidelines. Take your recent edit. Who decided that the word 'ironically' applies? Who has said that " a northern homeland" relates to the Book of Mormon? Where does the article even mention the Book of Mormon? You've chosen something decades old to use - does this represent current thinking?

So - language. See WP:NPOV and WP:Words to avoid. Please don't use 'ironically' or similar words except in quotations. Make sure your language is neutral.

My next point is about the source. It's a reliable source for what Snow thought at the time, but it doesn't mention the Book of Mormon, and it is your personal interpretation/analysis that you are using here. Please see WP:VERIFY and no original research. Sources need to discuss the subject, and this one doesn't. Dougweller (talk) 09:35, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Foremost, I wish that people would follow their own rules. I'm quite sure that I'm not the person who violated the part of no personal attacks that states, 'In disputes, the word "you" should be avoided when possible... Insulting or disparaging an editor is a personal attack regardless of the manner in which it is done.' I counted about twenty instances of "you" or "your" that were directed at me by the people reverting my edits; I'm quite certain that my usage of "your" was referring to myself in the case of putting someone in my shoes. Consider this analogy: Somebody refuses to believe the Law of Cosines is true because any explanations or sources of proof depended at least partially upon the Pythagorean Theorem, whereby the author of the Law of Cosines (Euclid) was affiliated with the author of the Pythagorean Theorem (Pythagoras). Further justification of their reasoning is that Euclid and Pythagoras were both associated with the same school, which was the only available source of the applicable subject at the time of reference. This same justification could be extrapolated to invalidate all further proofs to-date if and only if they are even remotely associated with that same Greek mathematical belief system or the Pythagorean Theorem. Logically, this is a form of self-recursion - which falls under the domain of set theory logic. Essentially, this method of reasoning depends on whether or not their set of information includes what they believe to not be true.

Now, somebody could say that this analogy is irrelevant because anybody could read the papers by Pythagoras or any proof that includes the Pythagorean Theorem. I believe there is a common consensus that 100% of the people who carefully read the documentation that was produced by Pythagoras will then believe that the Pythagorean Theorem is undoubtedly true. But as long as this person refused to read any of the proof produced by, or affiliated with, Pythagoras, then this person will be basing their beliefs on an incomplete set of facts. This same form of self-recursion applies to people who have not read the Book of Mormon because anybody who has will see the connections between late migratory expansion from a northern homeland and descendants of Lehi, the father of Nephi and Laman. At this point, I could choose to spend 60+ hours gathering a list of several hundred references, but since at least half of them would be somewhat affiliated with the Book of Mormon or documents or schools or areas of study that depend on statements from the Book of Mormon, my work will undoubtedly be reverted, and my time will be further wasted; therefore, I will waste my time no further, especially for people who think that assume good faith means that it is ethical and wise to judge something without ever even having read the documentation underlying both sides of the argument.Thepasta (talk) 10:40, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Pride is like a beggar for whom ignorant people mistake for a king. It dazzles and it fascinates, and it makes people blind to the underlying errors. Oh, know they not that their vain and ignorant considerations are the lies which poison the hearts of the good and silence the ears of the learned? These puffed up penitentiaries of wickedness know no bounds, for these set theory methods rely only on self-recursion and ignore the justice of complex numbers. Only a fool is characterized by one sided analysis: the just will always hear both sides of every argument. Do these wicked and haughty serpents think deception is great and cognitive errors are mathematical proofs? Yea, it is clear - upon analysis - that this is the case; any pure eyes will discern as such. Are these people really that naive? Nay, we know what they do, and they think not about the consequences. They are wolves in sheeps' clothing, and they tempt the Lord to squash them like a stinging ant. Their swarms will be poisoned by their own works, which are the works of darkness. Consider they not the misery they feel every waking day? Then wait; they have failed the judgement of the Lord, and surely they will be quickened, lest they be pushed unto suicide and purged from the kingdom of God for eternity. Yea, they will be pruned like a hermaphrodite stamen that seeks to make bitter all the choice buds of the Lords sweetest flowers. They will be burned by chemotherapy and radiation and the works of the people who have foolishly invented such devices. The caffeine and nicotine will ensure that they survive not such cancerous growths, and they will be eliminated from those who have earned mercy and deserve the upper bounds of justice. Consider they not the danger of their normalcy bias? Nay, they shall be snipped and prevented from destroying the hopes of more children of men. And what shall they do? Come tither and murder my statements? Constrain they from stealing the truths that be spoken by a servant of the Lord, even the same God whom parted the waters for Moses and saved all by the Atonement by his only begotten son? Think that they should be wise to silence the Lord, and lie before his observation unto the children any further? Deserve they to be visited by an angel of the Lord and persuaded to change their ways? Nay, for we see that they silence the words of the righteous the same. They deserve not to know the truth, for they would use it to flatter and deceive the words of the true and be burned furthermore. Word of God is eternal, and perspective is the key that opens the doors to understanding of mysteries. And I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.Thepasta (talk) 23:19, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Terry Lewis - OMB Investigator (January 27)

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