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by deacon blues
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:27 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Looking back....
Replies: 12
Views: 751

Re: Looking back....

If covenants are compared to contracts, and I've heard LDS teachers use that illustration, we don't get the blessing/Celestial kingdom until we die. This is like saying you don't get the car/house/whatever until you make the final payment.
by deacon blues
Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:22 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?
Replies: 19
Views: 580

Re: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?

I'm reminded of the movie Cool Hand Luke (1967) - The Captain's speech " What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. . . well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men." Let me try to com...
by deacon blues
Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:19 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?
Replies: 19
Views: 580

Re: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?

Stephen Wolfe wrote a book that is apparently in favor of Christian Nationalism. The Case for Christian Nationalism Paperback – November 1, 2022 by Stephen Wolfe (Author) I probably won't read it. Below is a summary from a 5 star review of this book. Again, this guy sincerely wants segregation, but...
by deacon blues
Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:04 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?
Replies: 19
Views: 580

Re: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?

Stephen Wolfe wrote a book that is apparently in favor of Christian Nationalism. The Case for Christian Nationalism Paperback – November 1, 2022 by Stephen Wolfe (Author) I probably won't read it. Below is a summary from a 5 star review of this book. Again, this guy sincerely wants segregation, but ...
by deacon blues
Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?
Replies: 19
Views: 580

Re: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?

Thanks for asking nicely. :) White Supremacists include: David Lane, Richard Spencer, Bryan Betancur, Wade Page, Patrick Wood Crusius, and many, many others are listed on line. These type of people are know for wearing masks, or hiding their identity in other ways, so there may be many, many more fl...
by deacon blues
Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:30 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Looking back....
Replies: 12
Views: 751

Re: Looking back....

Excellent point. Our society recognizes it is unfair for 8 year olds to make an adult decision, but the Church baptizes them and then Bednar tells them they are obligated for eternity. It is so manipulative. :cry:
by deacon blues
Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:52 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?
Replies: 19
Views: 580

Re: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?

I'm reminded of the movie Cool Hand Luke (1967) - The Captain's speech " What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it. . . well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men." Let me try to comm...
by deacon blues
Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:45 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: A quick update
Replies: 11
Views: 441

Re: A quick update

Thanks for the update, Red. Best wishes maybe we'll meet again.
by deacon blues
Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:42 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Tithe or you'll be burned?
Replies: 6
Views: 521

Re: Tithe or you'll be burned?

I always heard that in regard to D&C 64:23 "Behold, now it is called today until the coming of the Son of Man, and verily it is a day of sacrifice, and a day for the tithing of my people; for he that is tithed shall not be burned at his coming." The idea that I have always heard is that paying tith...
by deacon blues
Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?
Replies: 19
Views: 580

Re: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?

What a silly post- pretend words and profanity. I'm reminded of when Joseph said, "“What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers....
by deacon blues
Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Communication skills
Replies: 60
Views: 3302

Re: Communication skills

I only get to this every day or two, but.... I think Alas's ideas and writing is remarkable. She's smarter on her bad days than I am on my good days. Different things trigger different people. My Dad's abusive yelling at me was as bad (maybe worse) as being punched, especially since some times it ju...
by deacon blues
Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:49 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?
Replies: 19
Views: 580

Who wants a Christian "Sharia" society?

I am not an expert on fundamentalist Islam, but from what I can see their general goal is to promote Sharia- fundamental Islamic law- a society governed by fundamentalist religion, and they hope it covers the whole world. In my view, much of the USA Evangelical Christianity, 21st century TBM Mormoni...
by deacon blues
Sun Feb 04, 2024 6:19 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Communication skills
Replies: 60
Views: 3302

Re: Communication skills

I personally feel we have boundaries. The old "Your right to swing your fist stops where my face begins" bears that out. Is there something about the word "boundaries" or the way people use it that bugs some people? I'm remembering the grade school mantra about sticks and stones. Words can hurt and ...
by deacon blues
Sun Feb 04, 2024 5:55 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Looking back....
Replies: 12
Views: 751

Re: Looking back....

Right Hagoth. God could give us a memory of eternity. Hagoth said: "See, there's one way that God could give you a reason to make those commitments. How about a ceremony or sacrament that parts the veil briefly so you actually can remember?" A TBM might say, "The Spirit told me it's all true. That's...
by deacon blues
Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:22 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Looking back....
Replies: 12
Views: 751

Looking back....

Looking back, I recognize how the Church emphasized the 'covenants that I was required to agree to from age 8 on. It just occurred to me that the Church/Mormon Jesus gave me no input into those 'priceless' covenants that I had to agree to. They are presented in a "Take it or leave it fashion." I sup...
by deacon blues
Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Communication skills
Replies: 60
Views: 3302

Re: Since we don’t have moderators

Thanks alas and others for the ideas. I think they will be helpful. Humility is very important. Especially when it is so easy to go to places on the internet where we can find people who agree with us and give us that nice warm blanket feeling. That is easy communication. Hard communication is diffe...
by deacon blues
Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:44 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Replacing the New Order Mormon
Replies: 59
Views: 45481

Re: Replacing the New Order Mormon

I'm late to this discussion, but I like it. I like the idea of trying to empathize with those who disagree with me, even though sometimes I let emotion take over and get pissed off. Ideas that seem weird or crazy to me but still make sense to others like: flat earth, young earth, Trump as the soluti...
by deacon blues
Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:35 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: The most correct book....
Replies: 25
Views: 3876

Re: The most correct book....

:lol:
I found what I was thinking about. It's called annotatedbom. It's a great resource for critical study of the Book of Mormon
Annotated Book of Mormon (A-BoM)
a-bom.github.io
by deacon blues
Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:13 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: The most correct book....
Replies: 25
Views: 3876

Re: The most correct book....

Hey Cnsl1, did you write a chapter by chapter critique of the BOM at one time, or was that somebody else who posted on NOM? I've been trying to remember how to find it. Thanks for your posts, by the way. :D The BOM is not the best conversion tool, unless the person reads ONLY the BOM and uses ONLY t...
by deacon blues
Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:07 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Annalee Skarin- Mormon Prophetess?
Replies: 7
Views: 1548

Re: Annalee Skarin- Mormon Prophetess?

From the cited WIki page: Annalee Skarin (born Annalee Kohlepp: July 7, 1899 – Transfigured 1952), was an American Latter-day Saint writer ... Wow! Whoever wrote that page was a believer in her... I have never seen someone listed as transfigured on wikipedia. Yeah! That made me wonder if some peopl...