NOM

Where will you go? What will you do? Brunch with friends. The lake with the kids. The barn with my horses. Visit the many various locations of the Church of the Great Blue Dome in my region. Sleep in after a long week. Work on projects around the house. Help friends with projects at their houses. Va...

Hell, boys can't even pass the sacrament in my ward if they aren't wearing a white shirt. I wonder if the shirt is more of a barrier than the gender. I have seen it back when I did go that some boy would intentionally wear a colored shirt so that they had an excuse to not have to pass. That way the...

The conversation I was having came to an abrupt end when the ladies shut it down stating that God wouldn’t make them have to participate in eternal polygamy. Unfortunately this isn't true. If they are sealed to a man and then the wife dies and the man is sealed to another woman in this life, both w...

Outlander!!!!!!

If someone were to develop an AI to listen to popular music and generate new musics based on what is popular, I would expect that you end up with something like Nickleback. Everywhere you go,any one you ask, they always say they hate Nickleback. They are the butt of sooo many jokes about the music i...

I don't know any specifics on how ChatGPT work, so this is a guess. When asked a question, the software does a web search based on the critera provided. IT looks at the first few websites to some up to see if the info meet's it's critera. Once it has enough info, it goes onto the next part of the pr...

I guess another way to ask the question is do I have the legal right to request an accounting of all the tithing I have paid in my lifetime, and how would I go about it? I'm sure they have a record of it. Not that I would necessarily go to the effort if it turned out to be a complex bureaucratic ki...

I heard a rumor that the church is deleting all member donation records. Probably just a rumor, but it would certainly make sense why they would want to do so with grumblings of class action suits floating around. I have seen similar rumors floating around. It could be a simple matter of bad timing...

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Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:40 am

I guess I won’t be in any family pictures, but I refuse to be treated like an unclean unworthy untouchable. Nope.

Here! Here! Well said.

If I am understanding thing correctly, the got a $5M fine for failure to disclose a $35B investment fund. So if they make 7% interest of that money, that fund alone will earn the $5M back in 6.81 hours. Meaning that by the time the check has cleared, they have already make back their money. $5 is n...

I'm fairly sure that is the plot of the movie The Omen: The Final Conflict. Isn't the NT pretty clear that the 2nd coming will be when Jesus returns in full power and glory and will cast out Satan from off the face of the earth? Any 2nd coming without full power and glory could be taken as a false p...

To put this in perspective: If you had $100,000 in the bank and we’re fined by the SEC you would be paying a $5 fine. It says more about the lack of enforcement bite the SEC has to slap billion dollar companies with meaningful fines. The church won’t ever admit they hid assets and this is considere...

There are number of aspects of life that are difficult to figure out on a good day. Things like finances, sex, and other various day to day aspects of life with someone. Living with someone makes knowing what you are getting into with a long term relationship a lot easier. Some things are even worse...

If it came down to it, and if there turned out to be some sort of very expensive solution, would they cough up the money to help, or would they use it to abandon the common folk, get out out of dodge, and establish a new throne elsewhere? Considering cut and run has been the church's MO since the b...

New allegations of financial misconduct by Ensign Peak Advisors have been submitted for review by the US Senate not claiming the they were defrauding the IRS. This is a followup and expansion of the original 2019 allegations. https://religionunplugged.com/news/2023/2/8/former-employee-of-ensign-peak...

Is the whole thing a slide show?

Wasn't the 2019 change a slideshow into at the start of the endowment and then live action film after that? Did the whole thing go the power point route or am I miss understanding this?

Have you ever been in a rainstorm? A really, really bad rain storm? One where you can't see to drive? One where you are soaked to the skin before you make it 15 feet from the door? That is a rain storm that is delivering .5" per hour. A big hurricane might be able to deliver an inch an hour. Mount ...

So just a little question here. How would you respond when someone inevitably says "the leaders of the church will be held responsible for how they use the funds. We are just responsible to pay our tithing." The scriptures say to tithe to build the kingdom of god on earth. Since the LDSInc. leaders...

There is a joke where a priest, a minister, and a preacher are trying to decide how much money to give to charity. The priest says: "Draw a circle on the ground, then throw all the money up in the air and whatever money lands inside the circle they should give to charity." The minister says: "No. Dr...

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Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:36 pm

Bloody Mary

Are we talking about the tomato and vodka version, or the bathroom mirror version?