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  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for sharing that information.

  • Gabe posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago

    Archive.org is a great source of primary texts that are anywhere from a few decades old to a few centuries old. This was the source of the criticisms of Mormonism I mentioned in my last post that my mother used to make reprints. I am using it as a source of writings by economists that were contemporary of Adam Smith, but did not get nearly…[Read more]

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    Good. He was only looking at one side of things. He glorified the Republithug party.

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    No problem Katie. My mother was actually the one who found this.

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    Thats true. However, there are self-publishing sites mentioned in the link that I put in my post that allow authors to retain even more of their income than Lulu and they are more user friendly.

  • Gabe posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago

    For those of you who write books or are interested in writing books. The Alliance of Independent Author ran by author Orna Ross has a list of a hundred self publishing services and gives accurate ratings on each one of them. Lulu got one of the lower ratings because it takes a large share of revenue from books sold on their website. This…[Read more]

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    I looked at Lulu and Blurb.com. Lulu is cheaper than Blurb.com. Blurb.com charges $2.99 to publish a 24 page book at their small size and $0.01 for every page after that. While Lulu would only charge $2.60 for a 30 page book at their smallest size and they offer smaller sizes than Blurb.com, so more options for customization. Also, I was not…[Read more]

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  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks justawhoaman. Please let me know what you find. I would prefer a self-publishing site that has hard cover as an option.

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    I never thought you were still a Mormon. Farrell does talk alot about the Eastern Orthodox Church and how Western Augustinian (st. Augustine) theology took a dialectical rather than analogical approach to the Trinity and believe in inherited guilt. St. Augustine ruined Western theology and it impacts the way we think about everything from law,…[Read more]

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for sharing. My mother has watched alot of videos on Youtube and read books by people who left Mormonism talking about their experience and illustrating Mormonism.

    • I don’t consider myself as “leaving” Mormonism. My body may have got wet from the dunking, but my soul never participated, thank god. I think I was born a free spirit from the get go, somehow I’ve not succumbed to too much BS in life. Easy to spot once you know.

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    I am well aware of that. My mother is looking into it.

    • I have been in contact with another friend who is an artist and also publishes so I am looking up alternatives. Hope I can help.

      • Thanks justawhoaman. Please let me know what you find. I would prefer a self-publishing site that has hard cover as an option.

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    Romney is a technocrat just look at what he did to healthcare and the economy in Massachusetts while he was governor of that state in the early 2000’s.

    • I was baptized a Mormon Saturday March 31, 1962 and confirmed one Sunday April 1, 1962 at eight years old, not exactly the age of consent.
      I now think the confirmation date was of significance. Living in a small town the pressure is great on the parents to not have a heathen amongst the family. Luckily for me my parents were not zealots about…[Read more]

      • Thanks for sharing. My mother has watched alot of videos on Youtube and read books by people who left Mormonism talking about their experience and illustrating Mormonism.

        • I don’t consider myself as “leaving” Mormonism. My body may have got wet from the dunking, but my soul never participated, thank god. I think I was born a free spirit from the get go, somehow I’ve not succumbed to too much BS in life. Easy to spot once you know.

      • Geez I hope that doesn’t mean I am still a Mormon. Nah, I was also inducted into the Methodist church almost 20 years ago. Haven’t been to a Methodist church in 15 years. Still have have my Disciple of Christ pin for nine months of bible study. Does that count?

        • I never thought you were still a Mormon. Farrell does talk alot about the Eastern Orthodox Church and how Western Augustinian (st. Augustine) theology took a dialectical rather than analogical approach to the Trinity and believe in inherited guilt. St. Augustine ruined Western theology and it impacts the way we think about everything from law,…[Read more]

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    If any of you have suggestions for a self-publishing site or a good publishing platform I would welcome any suggestions in that area.

    • Dr. Farrell uses Lulu.com

    • I’ve used Blurb before with a NGO I worked with. I didn’t have too many problems using their site. We were printing single books for large donors as gifts so we really didn’t need many and as I remember they were the least expensive for the volume we have which was extremely small.

      • https://www.blurb.com
        Most of the rest of the do-it-yourself publishing are ebooks. I don’t think that is what you are looking for.

        • I looked at Lulu and Blurb.com. Lulu is cheaper than Blurb.com. Blurb.com charges $2.99 to publish a 24 page book at their small size and $0.01 for every page after that. While Lulu would only charge $2.60 for a 30 page book at their smallest size and they offer smaller sizes than Blurb.com, so more options for customization. Also, I was not…[Read more]

  • Gabe posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago

    A few years ago my mother who is scholarly wrote an essay that explains the history of Mormonism and their beliefs. She published the essay as an ebook on Kindle. The book gives analyses into the unlikely explanation that Joseph Smith actually found the golden plates. It is likely that the golden plates, if there were any…[Read more]

    • If any of you have suggestions for a self-publishing site or a good publishing platform I would welcome any suggestions in that area.

      • Dr. Farrell uses Lulu.com

      • I’ve used Blurb before with a NGO I worked with. I didn’t have too many problems using their site. We were printing single books for large donors as gifts so we really didn’t need many and as I remember they were the least expensive for the volume we have which was extremely small.

        • https://www.blurb.com
          Most of the rest of the do-it-yourself publishing are ebooks. I don’t think that is what you are looking for.

          • I looked at Lulu and Blurb.com. Lulu is cheaper than Blurb.com. Blurb.com charges $2.99 to publish a 24 page book at their small size and $0.01 for every page after that. While Lulu would only charge $2.60 for a 30 page book at their smallest size and they offer smaller sizes than Blurb.com, so more options for customization. Also, I was not…[Read more]

    • This is why I do not trust Glenn Beck as far as I can throw him AND his Blaze TV studio. Mitt Romney has become a joke so no time to lose discussing that maroon.

      • Romney is a technocrat just look at what he did to healthcare and the economy in Massachusetts while he was governor of that state in the early 2000’s.

        • I was baptized a Mormon Saturday March 31, 1962 and confirmed one Sunday April 1, 1962 at eight years old, not exactly the age of consent.
          I now think the confirmation date was of significance. Living in a small town the pressure is great on the parents to not have a heathen amongst the family. Luckily for me my parents were not zealots about…[Read more]

          • Thanks for sharing. My mother has watched alot of videos on Youtube and read books by people who left Mormonism talking about their experience and illustrating Mormonism.

            • I don’t consider myself as “leaving” Mormonism. My body may have got wet from the dunking, but my soul never participated, thank god. I think I was born a free spirit from the get go, somehow I’ve not succumbed to too much BS in life. Easy to spot once you know.

          • Geez I hope that doesn’t mean I am still a Mormon. Nah, I was also inducted into the Methodist church almost 20 years ago. Haven’t been to a Methodist church in 15 years. Still have have my Disciple of Christ pin for nine months of bible study. Does that count?

            • I never thought you were still a Mormon. Farrell does talk alot about the Eastern Orthodox Church and how Western Augustinian (st. Augustine) theology took a dialectical rather than analogical approach to the Trinity and believe in inherited guilt. St. Augustine ruined Western theology and it impacts the way we think about everything from law,…[Read more]

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    Your book is kind of close to the title that I guessed in a comment on one of your posts a week ago. I guessed. “The Rise of Teutonic Knights: Templar’s, Hermeticism, Occultism, and Papacy.”. The new book is very interesting and a can’t wait to read it.

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    So Lulu had to take the fun out of the “fun little book”. Very unfortunate.

  • Gabe posted a new activity comment 5 years, 11 months ago

    I’ll bet the topic of the book is close to this title. You said that some of questions in the last vidchat pertained to the topic of the fun little book. So here it is. “The Rise of Teutonic Knights: Templar’s, Hermeticism, Occultism, and Papacy.”

  • Gabe posted an update 5 years, 12 months ago

    In the Orthodox Church the vast majority of the Sunday Divine Liturgy is chanted and this is the case with all of the other types of services. This is an Orthodox Byzantine Chant from the Lamentations Matins of Great and Holy Saturday Christ is crucified and laid in the tomb. The Byzantine Orthodox Chant is the most ancient form of chant in…[Read more]

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