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- Mon Jan 18, 2021 1:15 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Status updates?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 389
Re: Status updates?
My ward had been meeting in person and also broadcasting for a while, but a few weeks ago the virus was actually spread at church despite precautions and they moved back to video only. (I haven't been attending or watching, personally.) We have several ward members with the virus right now, includin...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:37 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Is Christianity Dying?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 605
Re: Is Christianity Dying?
Oh sure, some of us feel dumb about entertaining the idea. It's convenient to allow others to look stupid as they explore this crazy idea that we are children of the stars. But if every believer suddenly disappeared then plenty atheists would take up the cause. I wonder if this might be one thing t...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:45 am
- Forum: Staying Faithful
- Topic: Philosopher AI's answer to: Who is God?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1023
Re: Philosopher AI's answer to: Who is God?
To base your identity on the idea that another word/idea lacks definition, seems rather vague. That's fair, and I personally gravitate toward the "ignostic" label primarily in avoidance of two other terms that I don't care for: agnostic and atheist. I've never applied either of those terms to my ow...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:36 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Is Christianity Dying?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 605
Re: Is Christianity Dying?
I wonder sometimes whether civilization needs religion to remain stable. Civilizations obviously "want" religion, since it always pops up. It probably doesn't matter which religion or how accurate any of the supernatural beliefs are, as long as it provides people with some combination of community, ...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 3:43 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Wife dropped a bomb on me
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1058
Re: Wife dropped a bomb on me
That's much better than many of the things your subject line could have been referring to. Good luck with this transition.
- Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:19 am
- Forum: Staying Faithful
- Topic: Philosopher AI's answer to: Who is God?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1023
Re: Philosopher AI's answer to: Who is God?
Sounds like AI provides as coherent an answer as anyone else. I've long thought that even within a church congregation there are probably no two people with identical definitions of who and what God is, despite the assumption of shared beliefs. If pressed to provide a label for my own views, I would...
- Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:12 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Greetings Comrades
- Replies: 17
- Views: 742
Re: Greetings Comrades
Welcome to the site. Unfortunately, it can feel fraught to have an honest and open discussion these days about nearly anything of significance. I also have never lived around a lot of Mormons. I don't know whether that makes it easier or harder to navigate reconsidering one's beliefs. I listen to vi...
- Sun Dec 13, 2020 10:03 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: The End of the World: August 2020
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1811
Re: The End of the World: August 2020
Thanks for sharing your story, Five. I can relate strongly to many of the things you've said, such as the excitement of researching everything even if you're actively tearing apart fundamental parts of your world in doing said research. It's easy to feel alone in this, and in some ways it is somethi...
- Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:28 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: A Brief Introduction
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1459
Re: A Brief Introduction
Update The closest thing I have to a written journal about personal/spiritual things in recent decades is my posts on various incarnations of NOM. And so, here's another one. Because one of the best things about NOM is reading the stories of others and relating to them, maybe pieces of this will me...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:22 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Has your definition of right and wrong changed?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 851
Re: Has your definition of right and wrong changed?
Can there really be any eternal truths or anything that really matters if reality itself dies someday? I've been trying for years now to come to terms with the idea that our morality is all arbitrary and made-up. I still follow and even care about a lot of the principles that I learned in Mormonism...
- Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:49 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: God vs Evolution vs middle land
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3126
Re: God vs Evolution vs middle land
I like something Richard Dawkins once said, that it's conceivable that there are beings in the universe that are sufficiently evolved that we'd consider them gods. I believe he said that this is the only type of god he would consider remotely likely to exist. When I read this, years ago, I wasn't ye...
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:39 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Mormon quotes popping up in unexpected places...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1041
Re: Mormon quotes popping up in unexpected places...
A supermarket that I drive by frequently has an electronic sign that rotates through specials on produce and inspirational quotes. A few years ago, there was a Neal A. Maxwell quote in the rotation. I don't remember what it was. Some kind of general encouraging sentiment. Editing to add that I just ...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:05 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The Great Mysteries
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1209
Re: The Great Mysteries
My two favorite questions: When you look at the sky, does space go on forever? Any possible answer is hard to even think about. Why is there anything instead of nothing? Citing God as an explanation for complexity is fine, but it doesn't answer the question at all. All you're doing is introducing so...
- Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:15 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Grrrrrrrrr
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3466
Re: Grrrrrrrrr
In my area, the message has been similar to what Linked described. There are some dates starting next month when partial wards can begin to meet occasionally (though at this point I'll be surprised if those dates aren't pushed back), but they started out by saying that you can't come if you're over ...
- Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:09 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: What aspect of Mo’ism do you still hold dearly?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3409
Re: What aspect of Mo’ism do you still hold dearly?
I'm always impressed with the responses to natural disasters. There's quick mobilization and significant expense that goes into those projects, on top of the volunteer labor. And I also appreciate the opportunity to jump in and provide meaningful service in those situations when I wouldn't know wher...
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:10 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Grant Palmer's non-believing GA revealed
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3909
Re: Grant Palmer's non-believing GA revealed
[Redacted] was my favorite of the speakers that I heard from as a missionary. I still remember some of the things he said because they were a little different from what I was accustomed to hearing and in some cases refreshingly less vague (but still entirely faithful).
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 4:00 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Material wealth and death
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1621
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:40 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Bruce R. McConkie - REDACTED
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1441
Re: Bruce R. McConkie - REDACTED
Years ago, a guy in my ward lent me Bruck R. McConkie's biography. I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about reading it because at that point I was already leaning NOM (more than I admitted to myself, even) and preferred more nuanced approaches to things. But I ended up enjoying that book. I'm with you i...
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:08 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Bruce R. McConkie - REDACTED
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1441
Re: Bruce R. McConkie - REDACTED
Thanks for putting this together. I always enjoy reading this type of thing. It's too bad we don't seem to have anyone in leadership in modern times who really takes the doctrines and their implications seriously like this. At least not publicly. I remember reading Doctrines of Salvation (Joseph Fie...
- Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:47 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Biblical scholarship vs the Book of Mormon
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4006
Re: Biblical scholarship vs the Book of Mormon
Maybe some of these arguments don't come up as much as others because the Book of Mormon becomes less relevant when you've reevaluated the Bible itself. By the time you reach the point of acknowledging some of these issues, your view of the Bible has probably evolved to some degree. And, similar to ...