User:Visorstuff
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Interests include world religions, Christian history, religious texts and Western world history. Areas of specific study have included American religious movements including Catholicism, American Protestantism, and Mormonism and Pre-1890s U.S. history.
My educational background includes: religion, communications (primary degree), U.S. history, business management, American literature, multimedia and architecture. I have informal training and hands-on experience in archaeology.
I am a published author/researcher and spent a limited amount of time teaching secular and religious topics at the high school and college levels.
As an Admin, I am against "missing links." If it doesn't link to an existing article, create a stub or don't link it. I will remove missing links as I can.
visorstuff@yahoo.com
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Use of Visorstuff's Contributions
I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages and photographic and graphic contributions, as described below:
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Current Items Working on/Requests
Most of my time moving forward will be spent editing Latter Day Saint movement and Mormonism articles, creating, correcting and clarifying where appropriate. Although I have interest in other areas, due to limited time, I feel it should be focused on these topics.
I'd prefer that people request I create specific articles, so if you have something you'd like on the subject Mormonism or the Latter Day Saint movement, please let me know or leave a note below:
- Contribute to Wikipedia:WikiProject Latter Day Saint movement
- Decide what to do with List of articles about Mormonism
- Decide what to do with my list missing wikilinks in Mormonism articles.
Some Favorite Quotes
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; If he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." -Francis Bacon
"It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself, and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it." -John Taylor
"To Know; To Dare; To Will; To Keep Silent" - Supposed inscription from inside the Great Sphinx (Context from a historical perspective, not modern magical use).
"It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny...some choices may seem more important than others, but no choice is insignificant." -Thomas S. Monson
"[I]t is not always wise to relate all the truth. Even Jesus, the Son of God, had to refrain from doing so, and had to restrain His feelings many times for the safety of Himself and His followers, and had to conceal the righteous purposes of His heart in relation to many things pertaining to His Father's kingdom." - Joseph Smith, Jr.
"Watch yourselves, and think. As I heard observed... 'think, brethren, think,' but do not think so far that you cannot think back again." - Brigham Young
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation" - Senator Robert F. Kennedy
"In our time, the only restraint left is self-restraint" - Jeffrey R. Holland
"Is there anyone more to be feared or hated than an iconoclast, one who tears down, and bombs and destroys rather than builds and beautifies?" - Spencer W. Kimball
"The righteousness of God [is] revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." (Rom. 1:17-18.)
"You find the spirit of contention [among] apostates and those who have denied the faith, those who have turned away from the truth and have become enemies to God and his work. There you will find the spirit of contention, the spirit of strife. There you will find them wanting to 'argue the question,' and to dispute with you all the time. Their food, their meat, and their drink is contention...." Joseph F. Smith
"The first rule of historical criticism in dealing with ancient text[s] is, never oversimplify. For all its simple and straightforward narrative style, this history is packed as few others are with a staggering wealth of detail that completely escapes the casual reader.... Only laziness and vanity lead the student to the early conviction that he has the final answers on what the [texts] contains. - Hugh Nibley [1] (http://www.boap.org/LDS/Oaks-on-BoM-critics)
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