{"id":66057,"date":"2018-10-06T22:56:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T04:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=66057"},"modified":"2018-10-06T22:57:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T04:57:56","slug":"66057","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2018\/10\/66057.html","title":{"rendered":"Is there any actual truth to this?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Propaganda<\/a>
I have no idea who created this, nor what (if any) copyright limitations he or she may have on it. I\u2019m reproducing it here on the justification of \u201cfair use,\u201d but if the creator or owner of the image contacts me and demands that I remove it on the basis of intellectual property concerns, I will do so as soon as I am aware of the demand. I hope, though, that no such demand will be made simply because I\u2019m known to be an evil orthodox Latter-day Saint who presumably hates women, doubters, apostates, homosexuals, dissidents, all non-Mormons, and pretty much everybody else, as well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I believe that I\u2019ve seen the image above before, but I definitely ran into it today and, thus, I assume that it\u2019s going the rounds now at conference time.<\/p>\n

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First of all, let me state for the record \u2014 though some will doubt my words, since I\u2019m widely known in certain circles that don\u2019t know me to be callously heartless, unfeeling, unprincipled, and cruel \u2014 that I have absolutely nothing in principle against listening to people, not automatically trying to dismiss them, minding my language, trying to understand the concerns of others, acknowledge the pain of those who are suffering, and advocating things that I believe to be right. \u00a0In fact, I quite avidly endorse all of those good things.<\/p>\n

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I do, however, resist casual attempts to use victim status, real or pretended, to blackmail others or to try to exercise veto power over the opinions, statements, or actions of others.<\/p>\n

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And I wonder whether this image represents an attempt to abuse the natural human sympathy of its targets, to press that sympathy into service as a substitute for rational argument \u2014 effectively, to weaponize it \u2014 in a bid to force the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> to alter its standards and change its teachings or even to silence it altogether, and thus, indeed, to damage or effectively destroy it.<\/p>\n

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I wonder whether anybody out there can direct me to actual evidence supporting the claim that suicide attempts and crisis calls \u2014 and suicidal ideation, anxiety, depression and related mood disorders, and broken family relations \u2014 spike twice a year at general conference time.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s possible, I suppose. \u00a0But is there an actual scientific study behind this claim? \u00a0Or is it more like the famous and utterly false claim that spousal abuse and domestic violence against women soar annually during Super Bowl season?<\/p>\n

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\u201cDoes Most Domestic Violence Occur on Super Bowl Sunday? \u00a0It is not true that the incidence of domestic violence against women is higher on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I would genuinely like to see what scientific study or studies, if any, might underlie the graphic image shown above.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Park City, Utah<\/p>\n

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