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by 2bizE
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:15 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
Replies: 15
Views: 388

Re: Teaching the wrong stuff

So, if the issue is not necessarily the guns, but mental health, why is mental health much worse in general across the USA than in the 1970s and 1980s?
by 2bizE
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:13 am
Forum: Support
Topic: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!
Replies: 10
Views: 160

Re: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!

Muchas gracias
by 2bizE
Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:44 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Question on Mormon Cooking
Replies: 22
Views: 626

Re: Question on Mormon Cooking

I have Mormon cooking questions, too. 1) do you have recommended cooking wines? I need to get some that aren’t the kind from the Utah grocery store loaded with salt. 2) Is it okay to bring a good tiramisu to a ward function? 3) is it still a thing to add ground up pinto beans to zucchini bread? See...
by 2bizE
Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Question on Mormon Cooking
Replies: 22
Views: 626

Re: Question on Mormon Cooking

I have Mormon cooking questions, too. 1) do you have recommended cooking wines? I need to get some that aren’t the kind from the Utah grocery store loaded with salt. 2) Is it okay to bring a good tiramisu to a ward function? 3) is it still a thing to add ground up pinto beans to zucchini bread? Seem...
by 2bizE
Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:14 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Tithe or you'll be burned?
Replies: 6
Views: 516

Re: Tithe or you'll be burned?

Can you imagine if other charitable organizations acted like the church does? March of Dimes: if you do not donate 10% of your income to our cause, you will burn in hell. St. Jude’s: if you do not donate 10% of your income to children’s cancer research, God will curse your children and grandchildren...
by 2bizE
Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: Support
Topic: The church and Equal Rights for women
Replies: 15
Views: 462

Re: The church and Equal Rights for women

I find it odd that few women called to the general boards of primary, Relief Society and Young Women are the stay-at-home moms that the church has proclaimed women should be. They do not follow the prescribed path.
by 2bizE
Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:29 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: The church and Equal Rights for women
Replies: 15
Views: 462

The church and Equal Rights for women

Can someone please remind me of the church’s stance on ERA from the 1970s and if the stance has changed since then?
by 2bizE
Thu Jan 18, 2024 8:06 am
Forum: Support
Topic: How do you define Mormonism?
Replies: 53
Views: 4939

Re: How do you define Mormonism?

I love that. I would add… Mormonism is a time consuming lifestyle made up of a series of non-standardized rules that each church member and leader personally interprets differently and then expects everyone else to abide by their own interpretation, that ever so slowly evolves from generation to ge...
by 2bizE
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: How do you define Mormonism?
Replies: 53
Views: 4939

How do you define Mormonism?

I’ve been thinking about how I define Mormonism and have settled on this:
Mormonism is a series of non-standardized rules that each church member and leader personally interprets differently and then expects everyone else to abide by their own interpretation.

How would you define Mormonism?
by 2bizE
Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:10 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Book of Abraham Apologetics History
Replies: 5
Views: 1418

Book of Abraham Apologetics History

I’m wondering if there is a timeline or account of when LDS apologetics regarding the Book of Abraham started changing their insistence that it was literally written by Abraham to realizing that the book had nothing to do with Abraham….but instead was a common scroll. When did church Egyptologists s...
by 2bizE
Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:59 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Russell Brunson
Replies: 5
Views: 1303

Re: Russell Branson

I found him rather annoying on his rant. It seems like he is defending Tim Ballard without knowing the whole picture. I think he has been manipulated
by 2bizE
Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:07 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Elder Ballard gives tithing records to Tim Ballard
Replies: 14
Views: 2270

Elder Ballard gives tithing records to Tim Ballard

It appears in an amended lawsuit against Tim Ballard from Operation Underground Railroad (OUR): "The Davis County Investigation, according to OUR’s own internal documents, revealed that Elder M. Russell Ballard and other authorities from the Mormon Church, provided Mormon tithing records to OUR to h...
by 2bizE
Fri Nov 03, 2023 3:34 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: 36 new missions created - why?
Replies: 16
Views: 2985

Re: 36 new missions created - why?

My understanding is that service missionaries also report to the mission presidents in the areas they serve. More missions means fewer missionaries per mission president to oversee.
by 2bizE
Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:06 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Complaint and Victim Statements against Tim Ballard
Replies: 1
Views: 4676

Re: Complaint and Victim Statements against Tim Ballard

Wow. Tactics right out of the Joseph Smith playbook.
by 2bizE
Mon Oct 16, 2023 11:18 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Lot's Daughters
Replies: 13
Views: 6557

Re: Lot's Daughters

Did I read that this was because Lot’s son did drag shows on the weekends? Oh, wait, that was Brigham Young’s son. I wonder what this story was trying to convey back in the day. I do not believe most of the Bible stories to be true. Adam and Eve, Noah and the ark, there were all fables passed down a...
by 2bizE
Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:40 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Fight The New Drug
Replies: 138
Views: 80132

Re: Fight The New Drug

I haven’t read many of the replies to this topic, but I find the statement that Porn is the new drug to be repulsive. I think is is a manufactured “drug”. There are multiple bad things about porn, don’t get me wrong. I believe pornography is an industry. It sometimes takes advantage of people, parti...
by 2bizE
Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:37 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: NOMference Saturday afternoon Fall 2023
Replies: 69
Views: 15927

Re: NOMference Saturday afternoon Fall 2023

græy wrote:
Sat Sep 30, 2023 1:17 pm
Tithing != being right before the Lord

-10
I agree. Straight from the mouth of a bishop.
by 2bizE
Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:37 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: NOMference Saturday afternoon Fall 2023
Replies: 69
Views: 15927

Re: NOMference Saturday afternoon Fall 2023

If I’m not mistaken, the Norwegian saints get free university in their country. Why pay to come to BYU?
by 2bizE
Sun Sep 24, 2023 6:18 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Garments always hanging out and it drives me nuts
Replies: 21
Views: 19077

Re: Garments always hanging out and it drives me nuts

Pet peeve: I really dislike the look of men wearing the Gs tops that have the full neck and then wear a t-shirt and the garments stick up about a half inch above the t-shirt.
by 2bizE
Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:50 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: The Cost of a Janitor
Replies: 28
Views: 13262

Re: The Cost of a Janitor

We know that the members do the regular cleaning of the church, but he church does have deep cleaners come in and do additional cleaning and maintenance that the members don’t do. You would never guess who in my area owns the company that deep cleans many church buildings…..three guesses…. If you gu...