by Blaire Ostler | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured, Mormon Transhumanism, Mormonism, Religion, Technology |
Fictionalism is the philosophical notion that a statement could be fiction, considered fiction, treated as fiction, yet still serve a useful purpose. In Grover Maxwell’s The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities, he tells the parable of the “crobes” to illustrate...
by Blaire Ostler | Oct 2, 2017 | Atonement, Authority, Disagreement, Featured, General Conference, Homosexuality, LGBTQ |
Dear Elder Oaks, You don’t know me. We’ve never met, but I’ve listened to you speak from the pulpit since I was a child. You’ll likely never read this, but I feel compelled to express myself anyway. You see, something sad happened a couple months ago. I was in the car...
by Blaire Ostler | Aug 15, 2017 | Activism, Featured, heterosexism, racism, sexism |
We are culturally conditioned to be racist before we even know the word. We are culturally conditioned to be sexist regardless of gender identity. We are culturally conditioned to be heterosexist before we have a sexual identity. These ideas cannot be changed without...
by Blaire Ostler | Jul 18, 2017 | Featured, Feminism, Orthopraxy, Porn Shoulders |
I often hear people talk about widening the canopy of Mormonism to be more inclusive of various interpretations, orthodoxy, and orthopraxy, similar to Catholicism. I’m highly in favor of such aspirations, particularly with regard to orthopraxy. While I stopped wearing...
by Blaire Ostler | Jun 20, 2017 | Authority, Body of Christ, Featured, General authorities, LGBTQ, Ordain Women, Theology |
(Photography Art by Seb Janiak) My closest friends know I dream. I dream a lot. I have dreams about fantasy worlds that don’t exist, and dreams that are so closely aligned with memories that I question if they really happened. I have beautiful dreams,...
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