Best online posts / debates in LDS apologetics?

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_Stocks
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Best online posts / debates in LDS apologetics?

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What are your all time favorite online posts or debates in the history of LDS apologetics?
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Re: Best online posts / debates in LDS apologetics?

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Hi Stock,

M#9 asked a similar question recently, here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=51776

But your question including single posts is intriguing. Some of the threads I think back on fondly probably wouldn't be on anyone elses list. And I think many of my favorite posts wouldn't even be recalled by others. I suppose the threads pinned by Shades are good starting places, though.

I'd be curious what posts or threads others are proud of most? Or recall the most fondly? If asked, and being a bit of a dork, I'm most fond of some very unsubstantial posts. For example, viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37174&view=next

Or

viewtopic.php?p=1055212#p1055212
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Re: Best online posts / debates in LDS apologetics?

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honorentheos wrote:I'd be curious what posts or threads others are proud of most? Or recall the most fondly?

The ones I recall most fondly are the fictional series by Bob Bobberson starting with this one:
http://www.mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34500

While not a point by point confrontation with apologetics, I found the stories most enlightening. I would highly recommend the first story, The Annals of the Turley J. Hinton Institute to all who have not read it yet.

The point by point confrontational stories I remember most vividly have been ones started by Dr. Scratch.

I got a big kick out of this apologetic definitions thread by Symmachus from 2016:
http://www.mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=40445
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Re: Best online posts / debates in LDS apologetics?

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Ok stop. I have weeks of reading already!
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