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by ulmite
Sun Oct 13, 2019 2:44 am
Forum: Support
Topic: A one-liner that captures your disaffection
Replies: 100
Views: 49390

Re: A one-liner that captures your disaffection

I cannot support a power structure that treats my gay sister like crap.
by ulmite
Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:21 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Woohoo!
Replies: 20
Views: 9327

Re: Woohoo!

Nice work oh captain my Captain! In celebration, I'm posting this gospel or perhaps "former" gospel doctrine art. I'm guessing that's Nephi's nipple? Not sure what the story is behind this one but I saw it in the hallway of an O-town ward house today at a TBM funeral. Maybe we can use it as a meme ...
by ulmite
Tue May 14, 2019 4:09 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Speed of Prayer Theory
Replies: 13
Views: 6770

Re: Speed of Prayer Theory

May I point out that an omniscient God knows what will happen, knows what you will do before you do it, and can therefore sidestep the lag problem by sending responses ahead of time a century to a few hundred milennia or so ahead of time. To keep everything coherent with a 6,000-ish year old planet ...
by ulmite
Fri May 04, 2018 9:27 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: For those who stopped believing, how *sure* are you that the church is a lie and what makes you so sure?
Replies: 70
Views: 54063

Re: For those who stopped believing, how *sure* are you that the church is a lie and what makes you so sure?

Then for the church to be true you have to multiply all of these probabilities (because that is how probabilities work) No, probability only works that way if the events you are considering are independent. Example : prob(Cameron is a man)=0.5, prob(Cameron is bald)=0.1, but prob(Cameron is a bald ...
by ulmite
Sun Apr 01, 2018 12:27 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Lds Church statistics
Replies: 14
Views: 7292

Re: Lds Church statistics

Should've mentioned that actually 2016 had a sharper decline in baptisms and births than 2017.
by ulmite
Sun Apr 01, 2018 3:00 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Lds Church statistics
Replies: 14
Views: 7292

Re: Lds Church statistics

104748 deaths, excommunications, and resignations for 2017.
101159 deaths, excommunications, and resignations for 2016.

Looking back at the 2016 statistics, 2017 was actually better for the church. Unless everyone stopped dying and all of those became resignations.
by ulmite
Sat Mar 31, 2018 6:06 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Priesthood Session Thread
Replies: 52
Views: 29785

Re: Priesthood Session Thread

-10 for trying to make 14 year-olds who can read [scriptures here] into a joke.
by ulmite
Sat Mar 31, 2018 6:02 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Lds Church statistics
Replies: 14
Views: 7292

Re: Lds Church statistics

Compared to last year:

75 new stakes.
Same number of missions.
3 fewer districts.
202 new wards.
2475 fewer new children of record.
6042 fewer convert baptisms.
3897 fewer full-time missionaries.
2477 more church-service missionaries.
by ulmite
Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:35 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Priesthood Session Thread
Replies: 52
Views: 29785

Re: Priesthood Session Thread

I have to dock Elder Christofferson 1 point for every 5 words he quotes from what Nelson said minutes, nay seconds ago.
Someone can do the counting later.
by ulmite
Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:30 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Priesthood Session Thread
Replies: 52
Views: 29785

Re: Priesthood Session Thread

wow, High Priests just got more elite!
by ulmite
Sat Mar 31, 2018 9:32 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Saturday Morning Session Thread!!!!
Replies: 153
Views: 68808

Re: Saturday Morning Session Thread!!!!

Ok, I got it, I am done streaming conference.
by ulmite
Thu Mar 29, 2018 6:12 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: At which point is someone a full tithe payer (rhetorical)
Replies: 16
Views: 10194

Re: At which point is someone a full tithe payer (rhetorical)

Do converts have to pay back tithing? (rhetorical)
by ulmite
Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:49 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: What is that you want that the church isn't providing?
Replies: 29
Views: 17697

Re: What is that you want that the church isn't providing?

moksha wrote:
Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:48 am
What is that you want that the church isn't providing?
A rebirth of wonder.
I'll stick with the penguin's phrasing.

I can think of many things that frustrate me within the Church, but I would not put those in the "provide" category.

Oh, and good music (e.g. paid organists) would also be nice.
by ulmite
Fri Feb 23, 2018 9:00 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Is coffee evil?
Replies: 54
Views: 29873

Re: Is coffee evil?

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
by ulmite
Fri Feb 23, 2018 8:37 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Church Security
Replies: 15
Views: 9419

Re: Church Security

In my (European) country, due to terror attacks at some point we received directives to have someone stand guard at the front door of the building. Since Europe has realized that if the only people with guns are hunters shooting wild boar with hunting rifles, fewer people get shot, there are no guns...
by ulmite
Mon Jan 08, 2018 4:55 pm
Forum: Staying Faithful
Topic: In Which Leadership Takes the Underlings for Granted--A math problem for you
Replies: 21
Views: 41560

Re: In Which Leadership Takes the Underlings for Granted--A math problem for you

Usually there is someone who can fill in for a chorister. I beg to differ. Half the time the chorister does not know how to beat a measure, and only 3 or 4 people in the ward actually look at him/her. A baboon with a stick also works. Also it doesn't seem like lacking an organist would be that big ...
by ulmite
Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:09 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: God and Mary the mother of Jesus
Replies: 35
Views: 30690

Re: God and Mary the mother of Jesus

Huh. In all my years of Church attendance I never once heard that God and Mary actually did it. I always thought that God just 'magically' fertilized an egg cell in Mary's womb. All you really need is a set of chromosomes. No sweat compared to healing all sorts of diseases and raising people from th...
by ulmite
Wed Nov 29, 2017 6:34 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Brushes with "the other side"?
Replies: 209
Views: 157984

Re: Brushes with "the other side"?

First off, I have to correct bad science. IIRC, the "double slit" problem is one in theoretical physics that does not have a known explanation in our natural world of three dimensions of space and one of time. The double-slit experiment is perfectly understood by scientists, and though paradoxical, ...
by ulmite
Tue Nov 21, 2017 6:21 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Celestial Procreation?
Replies: 34
Views: 20011

Re: Celestial Procreation?

Hmmm. It seems to me that Heavenly Parents (who we are told have bodies of flesh and bone) having intercourse would make children with bodies of flesh and bone. So therfore we must be children of the mind, and in that case you get rid of any physical limitations.
by ulmite
Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:47 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Priesthood and Women's Session Changes
Replies: 11
Views: 7070

Re: Priesthood and Women's Session Changes

Note how people with a priesthood antenna get to piggyback on the Annual GCs and people without one only get the semi-annual GCs.