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- Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:00 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Elder Kevin Pearson
- Replies: 8
- Views: 248
Re: Elder Kevin Pearson
This guy came right out of arguably the worst part of corporate America, and he seems to act like members are the employees of a churlish employer. I put this guy ahead of Bednar for toolyness. He seems to be trying hard for a front row red chair. Hoping he makes emeritus age first. Sounds like the...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:56 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Effectivemess of the Great Re-Branding
- Replies: 1
- Views: 107
Re: Effectivemess of the Great Re-Branding
I'm not a good person to ask, I don't pay attention anymore. But I will tell you this - for someone who is supposed to be a mouthpiece of the Almighty, its a piss poor showing as a prophet, seer, and revelator when the best you can point to as evidence of your prophetic mantle is renaming some dumb ...
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 10:03 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Elder Kevin Pearson
- Replies: 8
- Views: 248
Re: Elder Kevin Pearson
There's a link to the talk on the LDS Freedom Forum website, but I'll be damned if I am going to provide a link that sends any traffic to that site. You can go there on your own if you want and find it as long as I am not directly responsible for sending you there. Dude's a tool. "God already told t...
- Thu Aug 11, 2022 10:15 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Sinking in how racist the Church made me
- Replies: 3
- Views: 102
Re: Sinking in how racist the Church made me
ETA - Alas' comment about Hispanics reminds that Utah is NOT a low diversity area. I was wrong. I will be better. That is something I need to work on as well. I sometimes tell people where I grew up everyone was white, but that isn't true, we had a small but visible Hispanic population in Idaho. Bu...
- Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:20 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Sinking in how racist the Church made me
- Replies: 3
- Views: 102
Sinking in how racist the Church made me
Yesterday I was helping to lead a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion activity at the institution where I work which involved a lot of sharing of personal experiences. I had never shared this with anyone at work, but I told everyone how I was raised in a religion that taught me that people were born bl...
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:42 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Church Statement on AP article - training of those who work with children?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 280
Re: Church Statement on AP article - training of those who work with children?
..but it's something the church can point to and say, "look, we do stuff!" Which is the only reason they even did this...like so much in LDS culture it is all about the appearance over the substance. -lost Yes, and I should also note that the timing was clearly a response to the Prophet Sam Young's...
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:50 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Church Statement on AP article - training of those who work with children?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 280
Church Statement on AP article - training of those who work with children?
So the Church has released a statement on the AP article: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-offers-statement-help-line-abuse Help me out with this statement: Any member serving in a role with children or youth is required to complete a training every few years about how to watc...
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:43 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Convinced the Q15 know the truth
- Replies: 15
- Views: 398
Re: Convinced the Q15 know the truth
This one? https://youtu.be/qI4nsngvcGw Well, keep in mind the source of the story is George P. Lee. This George P. Lee: https://www.deseret.com/1994/10/11/19135762/lee-accepts-plea-bargain-in-child-sexual-abuse-case I guess I am not convinced by a story whose provenance is George P. Lee to Ogden Kr...
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:48 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Convinced the Q15 know the truth
- Replies: 15
- Views: 398
Re: Convinced the Q15 know the truth
Oh, I don't know that someone as arrogant as Bruce McConkie is capable of the self-examination a deathbed confession would require. I'm skeptical. As for the Q15 knowing, I think they know and they don't. They know the Church doesn't work the way most members think it does, they know there are some ...
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:37 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matt. 7:20) - Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen
- Replies: 27
- Views: 689
Re: “By their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matt. 7:20) - Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen
First, I want to express support for anyone of you who ever experienced something like this. Second, the Church's response to situations like this tells you everything you need to know about the organization really - there is little concern for the victims, the organization's focus is always on defe...
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:37 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Renlund story makes me mad
- Replies: 18
- Views: 659
Re: Renlund story makes me mad
No non-member who heard this talk would be at all interested in whether the proper wording was used because they would be too busy trying to figure out what kind of bizarre cult even has a healing ritual like that.
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:13 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Did Robert Kirby retire?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 524
Re: Did Robert Kirby retire?
How would you like to have a name like Gordon Monson? Ouch. I'd have changed that in a heartbeat.
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:10 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Losing our Eternal Families
- Replies: 10
- Views: 512
Re: Losing our Eternal Families
What does an eternal family even look like? A man and one or more women, sure. But you aren't gonna be living in a house with your kids - and their kids, and their kids' kids, and on and on ad infinitum. People picture it as being with with spouse(s) and kids, but the kids will have families of thei...
- Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:54 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: The church is burning printing presses
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1361
Re: The church is burning printing presses
Let me make sure I understand this - the Church pressured a publication they do not own to remove an article that was less then flattering about them? That's outrageous. No organization, religious or otherwise, should have the kind of power that allows them to censor an article in a publication they...
- Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:46 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Source Says There Is Disarray Among the Q15
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1484
Re: Source Says There Is Disarray Among the Q15
I always take these things with a grain of salt. The source may very well work for the church, but even then you don't know exactly what it means. The bits I saw were that the "disarray" is over social issues and the secondary source mentioned that temple attendance is so low that the temple dept d...
- Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:14 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: "Keep Sweet" or I will break you.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2079
Re: "Keep Sweet" or I will break you.
It actually kind of pissed me off they went so easy on the LDS Church. The whole reason Rulon and Warren Jeffs were able to have the power to make the lives of so many of their followers to miserable is because Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and John Taylor and their gang laid the groundwork. The kind...
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:45 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Are LDS hyper-sensitive about religion?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 647
Re: Are LDS hyper-sensitive about religion?
Many elements of Latter-Day Saint history and doctrine sound weird, cultish, and/or humorous when spoken out loud or by non-members. So, yes, I think many LDS people are hypersensitive about having outsiders - or even insiders in some cases - talk about those things. Mormons are also raised with a ...
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:37 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Is it wrong to be apathetic to the world’s problems?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 793
Re: Is it wrong to be apathetic to the world’s problems?
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr, 1932 It's a VERY big world and a person is a VERY small part of it. You an drive yourself insane caring for all the world's problems. Apathy is...
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:23 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Holy Fetch! (Update…)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2181
Re: Holy Fetch!
I am glad to hear she may be coming around, and I hope things continue to move in that direction. Something similar happened with my wife about a year ago, I didn't think she was ever going to come around, then a Youtuber she watches did a takedown of the Church and destroyed her shelf. Gotta admit,...
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:14 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Education and commitment
- Replies: 11
- Views: 810
Re: Education and commitment
You know, I am kind of offended that your referred to this Church leader as simply "David Bednar". The appropriate name to reference him by is "Susan Bednar's Husband". I apologize profusely for my disrespect to Susan Bednar's husband's wife. His middle name is Pickles 🤣 Heh, I'd forgotten about th...