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2 hour church has made me grumpier than 3 hour church. In the past- I could leave after sacrament and get my weekly grocery shopping done and a starbucks or something and make it back to the parking lot just in time for the end of 3rd hour. Now there is not enough time to fit in even a quick errand...

There is one on Thomas B. Marsh. The milk stripping story has been relegated to a footnote. Now they are throwing current Q15 members and their recent conference talks under the bus. https://www.lds.org/study/history/topics/thomas-b-marsh?lang=eng Yet, after moving to Far West, Missouri, in 1838, Ma...

There seems to be a bunch of new essays creeping up. No dates, no announcements. Don't spread the word, we wouldn't want people to actually discuss these things! Edit to add headings to the links. Formatting cut off the part that actually showed what they are about... Masonry: https://www.lds.org/s...

I wonder what it costs to rent out these stadiums. They just did this in Seattle too. I attended a conference at the University of Washington years ago, where we woke up every morning to the repeated chant of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo coming from the stadium. It was rather en-chant-ing. Hearing those wor...

Kishkumen wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:15 am

Brent wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 22, 2019 6:15 pm

I volunteer for "Ward Whisky Disposal Specialist".

I will pay 10% of my beer to whomever comes to clean out my garage.

I think you have this reversed. Whoever comes to clean needs to pay YOU 10%.

https://janariess.religionnews.com/2019/01/15/how-mormons-handle-doubt-blame-the-victim/ Great article. This article has now hit the SL Tribune. With this kind of coverage there is no doubt that the Q15 will be discussing this in their meetings. Commentary: Latter-day Saint apostle Dale G. Renlund ...

According to fuller consideration.com, there was an increase of only 22 units worldwide for 2018. I am waiting for the official numbers but that is the lowest number in many decades if accurate. I believe the Mexico situation had a lot to do with this. 2017 saw an increase of 202. Sent from my iPhon...

This is being shared elsewhere: So even with the temple being "spared no expense", they cheap out and go to extremes to minimize the cost to film the new movie. Wow! To be fair, the whole 'return and report' section was really annoying and anti-dramatic. I would be glad to see that gone if I ever a...

The last thing Joseph said after he was shot was "Oh Lord! my God!". No one ever seems to be bothered by that.

I think if I said that after hitting my thumb with a hammer it would turn a few heads here in Utah County.

This kind of reminds me of a thread I came across years ago where LDS people were discussing which sex positions are acceptable unto the Lord. Neither the church nor the scriptures have anything to say about this but some people seemed to know exactly what God wants. The final consensus was that yo...

The thing that disgusted me most was he gave this nice talk about being like Jesus, then when it came to defining how to be like Jesus, it wasn’t feed the hungry, help the poor, or cloth the naked. No, it was make covenants n the temple. Sorry, but Jesus didn’t ever make those covenants in the temp...

I think this quote from the Polygamy essay on lds.org sheds some light on this: “I made a greater sacrifice than to give my life,” said Zina Huntington Jacobs, “for I never anticipated again to be looked upon as an honorable woman.” Why would Zina think she would not be looked upon as an honorable w...

Bill Reel's court was last night. He did an IOT interview this morning, and said that he went through a list of problems in the church, and saw more than one High Councilman's shelf start to crack. So you could go to the court, and try to bring several out with you! Someone really messed up by allo...

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Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:18 pm

Holding your hand in a cupping shape for water

I always heard this was to catch your guts that rush out as you disembowel yourself during the execution of the penalty.

If the recent changes are a restoration from the primitive church that would mean: Home teachers were called ministers in the early church. There was a two hour block back in Christ's time. Some of the changes actually are more like the primitive church: They didn't use the name Mormon or LDS back i...

Nothing causes the wackiness of it all to slap you in the face like seeing it acted out by live actors. Besides, to fit the current apologetics they would need two Cumorah pageants. ;) Here is a photo from the Manti Pageant: https://photos.thechurchnews.com/file/5e63aa0031/dnews/galleryImageLarge/a...

I have a couple of other questions to add to this: Is there anything that Christ's atonement can't cover? Can it make up for the fact that someone didn't get baptized? Can it forgive someone for not being married in the temple? If the atonement has limitations is it truly infinite? Why is Satan so p...

This reminded me of a Mormon Expression podcast of several years back. I still like to listen to these once in a while. Episode 281: Top 10 Things You Would Expect To See If The Church Were Actually True http://johnlarsen.org/podcast/Archive/MormonExpression281.mp3 Most of the old episodes are avail...

They actually tried to get away with printing three dollar bills:

Whey he came on the TV and I heard something about PoF, I immediately left the room to avoid saying something that would offend my TBM wife and in-laws.