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But seriously. Isn't the drum machined, auto-tuned, overproduced/over-perfected stuff that gets performed at Super Bowl halftimes and celebrated on the Grammy awards an artistic regression; and what does this mean for civilization as we know it? :( I wonder about this. I think music for the masses ...

All of us privileged souls with the golden ticket went round the corner to a sealing room to watch the event and it made me sick to my stomach that the others weren't there. It felt so wrong, exclusionary, and not Christ-Like. Why why why did we ever think this was right? Why did I exclude my grand...

I am trying to decide how much of keeping a testimony of TCOJCOLDS fits the concept of gaslighting as I understand it. I think deacon's example is almost textbook. But what about all the other things members do to keep a testimony? Do they qualify as gaslighting? The more I think about it, the more ...

I said that's fine, you know your ward, but just so you know, that's not what Elder Chrisofferson was saying. He kind of raised a Spockean eyebrow at that (like most Mormons, I'm sure he didn't really read/pay attention to conference talks), and it didn't help matters that the wife of another bisho...

I was an active participant on the NOM message boards many years ago going by the name Kosh (back in the late 1990s when Babylon5 was first airing through around 2010?), so I have joined this new platform under the same name. I left the church as I had a major faith crisis over doctrine and history...

Wow, Stealth. I thank you for the encouragement, as I have yet to take the plant medicine sacrament but now want to more than ever. I like how you got your wife to be your sitter. Mine is more hardcore TBM but I think I will ask her to be my sitter anyway as there is no one I would rather share the ...

To the OP, the only example on NOM I can think of is Palerider who I think believes in a biblical Christianity. You could search his posts if you want an example of that. I have no idea if he is a stalwart in a local church or if he just practices his faith in his own way. Now to Fluff's threadjack....

lostinmiddlemormonism wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 02, 2022 9:37 am

DPRoberts wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 02, 2022 9:34 am

lostinmiddlemormonism wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 02, 2022 9:29 am

Gong Show...

Dating yourself and those who recognize the reference. Conference could use a technological equivalent of the going.

...the pirate is in the house!

Not for long. Weather is gorgeous and I have some outdoor chores to catch up on. But thanks for the recognition.

lostinmiddlemormonism wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 02, 2022 9:29 am

Gong Show...

Dating yourself and those who recognize the reference. Conference could use a technological equivalent of the going.

That could have been written by a talkmaker algorithm. Ballard, I meant. -10 for boring.

I forgot I have a conflict, so won't be making the solstice celebration either.

It will certainly be a test of our republic. Literacy regarding basic civics in our country is abysmal, so it is not too hard to convince certain people to turn to violence. However, I think I would rather see Trump face charges that are appropriate and provable than have justice denied out of fear....

So maybe I would get more out of the solstice celebration. Tomorrow's weather is supposed to be beautiful so the church of the big blue dome might be better. I don't have much use for new age woo woo.

Hagoth, I think you're on the program for TDA Sunday. It's that correct? I can probably make it.

It isn’t my mama that I don’t want to make cry, but my spouse. Edited to add that I marked that I have no plans to resign, because even if my sweetheart goes first, he asked me not to because that would wipe out our sealing. I promised him that I wouldn’t and I won’t. That's where I'm at. I won't d...

It isn’t my mama that I don’t want to make cry, but my spouse. Edited to add that I marked that I have no plans to resign, because even if my sweetheart goes first, he asked me not to because that would wipe out our sealing. I promised him that I wouldn’t and I won’t. That's where I'm at. I won't d...

This guy has been on my "tool" radar for well over a decade now. He was one of two visiting Seventies at our Stake Conference over ten years ago when my son was still planning on a mission. Elder Tool told a story from the pulpit about how at a mission meeting of some kind he asked a young elder to ...

The two times I've been to the Saturday evening SC sessions were the two most awful church meetings I ever attended. It seems like only the most dedicated attend that session and the visiting GA knows that and plays to that crowd. The last time I attended one of these, and I do mean last time, one w...

I noticed today that TDA has a meeting planned this Sunday that I might attend.

ETA: the info on the meetup is in the newsletter email they send when you join.