A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
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Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#2Not exactly a new phenomena. Remember "A Million Little Pieces"?
Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#3As a few ex-Mormons have pointed out, Sparks was not the first Mormon to publish a text ostensibly based on an original source that the rest of the world did not get to see.
Hah!
Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#4I'm surprised that the article characterizes her as straight-laced, given the pattern of duplicity.
Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#5Buried lede IMO: There's a TV movie of the book, starring Andy Griffith...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBxT53r2AlU&t=2447s
...and mustached William Shatner!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBxT53r2AlU&t=2997s
> the state is estimated by some to boast a Ponzi scheme for every hundred thousand people
Sorry but looking up the state population that's got to be way, way too low. I'd say 1:10k at the least! But so many of them are ad hoc and built on the back of business affinity relationships. (By the time you hear about them from your assigned ministering brother or sister, it's too late and the ground floor has been marbled over. :D)
Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#6As a few ex-Mormons have pointed out, Sparks was not the first Mormon to publish a text ostensibly based on an original source that the rest of the world did not get to see. Hah!
It's pithy, but calling BS on each other's world views is probably the road to flagged comments.
Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#7The podcast You’re Wrong About recently did a three-part series on Go Ask Alice with Carmen Maria Machado. Episodes are here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270 or pull them down in your favorite podcatcher.
Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#8As a few ex-Mormons have pointed out, Sparks was not the first Mormon to publish a text ostensibly based on an original source that the rest of the world did not get to see. Hah!
That's not true. The original people who saw it (with their spiritual senses) also claimed that others could know it was real (with their spiritual senses).
If the world didn't get to see it, or can't see the literal face of, or a pointy appendage of God, or can't see the difference between this religion and every other religion that makes claims based on one's subjective spiritual senses, then that's a problem for them (and their obvious spiritual deficiency).
Why does everyone leave out the important details??
Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#9As a few ex-Mormons have pointed out, Sparks was not the first Mormon to publish a text ostensibly based on an original source that the rest of the world did not get to see. Hah!
It's pithy, but calling BS on each other's world views is probably the road to flagged comments.
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Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#10The podcast You’re Wrong About recently did a three-part series on Go Ask Alice with Carmen Maria Machado. Episodes are here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270 or pull them down in your favorite podcatcher.
Just a tangential request: is there any curated playlist consisting of such good podcasts? I have a difficult time discovering interesting podcasts.
(Maybe that's an interesting project)