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Kolab name has Mormon references
by Kelly McNeill on Friday 28/Jan/2005, @12:18

A somewhat unknown part of the Mormon religion is that the universe is a modeled after what we know as a solar system... in essence the entire universe is rotating within a fixed orbit. In the same way that the Sun is the center of our solar system, the universe is rotating around its own massive object. Mormonism theology suggests this object is an ULTRA massive planet that is so large is would cause the entire universe to rotate around it. The name of this massive planet is Colab.

initially I would have thought of the name as something coincidental, but the Colab logo causes me to think otherwise.

Are there Mormon influences within the Colab project?

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Re: Kolab name has Mormon references
by anon on Friday 28/Jan/2005, @13:00

kolab was founded mostly by germans in germany, and I don't (think) there are very many mormans in germany, so I doubt it. Interesting information though.

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Re: Kolab name has Mormon references
by ac on Friday 28/Jan/2005, @14:26

"Are there Mormon influences within the Colab project?"

The project's name is Kolab, not Colab

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Re: Kolab name has Mormon references
by anonymous on Friday 28/Jan/2005, @15:05

The client name is Kontact, not Contact.

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Re: Kolab name has Mormon references
by Kelly McNeill on Friday 28/Jan/2005, @15:12

I might have misspelled the name. I just remember someone telling me... never seeing it spelled.

Back in college, I had to Mormon missionaries that lived across from me at apartment that told me the info.

I should have typed Kolab to make my text relevant.

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Re: Kolab name has Mormon references
by Kamil Kisiel on Friday 28/Jan/2005, @14:29

I'm sure the name probably comes from "collaboration" seeing as it's a groupware solution. I'm no definitive source though, ask the developers :p

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Depends....
by a.c. on Friday 28/Jan/2005, @17:04

If you are mormon, then yes.
If you are not, then no.
Issue solved.
:)

But most of this was done in germany, which is heavy luthern, no?

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Re: Kolab name has Mormon references
by Torsten Rahn on Saturday 29/Jan/2005, @06:40

I created the current version of the Kolab logo (modelled after a previous existing one for the kolab project). AFAIK neither the original author nor me (pretty sure about the latter ;-) are Mormons. And the name is just a short form for collaboration.
Still it's a nice story (although as a physicist I'd like to point out that you don't really need the hypothesis of a massive central body just to make the remaining universe rotate around a common center ;-) .

But of course everyone needs Kolab! :-)

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Re: Kolab name has Mormon references
by Mark Kretschmann on Saturday 29/Jan/2005, @07:26

On another note, I would like to say that the logo is totally awesome! It looks extremely professional and fresh.

Great work, Torsten!

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Re: Kolab name has Mormon references
by NotaMoe on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @12:53

The exact Mormon name is 'Kolab'. Not Colab. You can see this referenced by their mountain and canyons in Southern Utah -- Kolab Canyon. Google it.

Btw, mormons suck.

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Re: Kolab name has Mormon references
by Jim Avila on Thursday 15/Feb/2007, @12:59

Although I am now a follower of Christ, I am a former Mormon who attained the Melchezidek priesthood, therefore I can speak from personal experience. I can tell you that Mormons believe and teach that Jesus originally came from the planet Kolab, which is somewhere in the universe. They may deny this, but they also believe that Jesus and Lucifer were brothers created by God the Father. They teach that God the Father told Jesus and Lucifer to come up with a plan for the salvation of mankind, that God the Father preferred Jesus' plan of sacrificing Himself over Lucifers plan to force mankind to obey God. That, supposedly, was the beginning of Lucifer's jealous rebellion against God. They also believe that those who are worthy will become gods themselves and create their own worlds just as Jesus did. Their real focus is not on Jesus, but on Joseph Smith as a prophet of God. In reality, because they believe that Jesus was created, they deny His deity as part of the Triune God, which, by definition qualifies Mormonism as a cult. Mormonism is truly one of the more cleverly devised deceptions of Satan. I know a great deal about Mormonism and am willing to answer any questions about it.

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JESUS is coming!
by A. Christian on Saturday 17/Nov/2007, @16:30

Are you ready?

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