NOM

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...

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 ...

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...

[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).

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...

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...

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 ...

Give me one example of a play, song, painting, sculpture, book, (or religion, for that matter) that is targeted at the LDS market that isn't. Except Arnold Friberg paintings. Those are awesome. That guy was a freakin' master. He could out-Kincaid Thomas Kincaid. A few years ago, I visited SLC and s...

Kind of a tangent, but here is a deleted scene from the movie version of Saturday's Warrior, for anyone who has not seen it and might find it interesting:

https://youtu.be/Jp86mQX127M

Various lines from the Missionary Guide tapes. For example, "Elders, yes we will!" "You know, party parties. Sometimes we'd party all night." "Where was your loving God when some of my best friends died?" (And the missionary's response.) (The way that one guy said "physical death.") etc. I wonder if...

I wasn't familiar with the Brewsterites other than maybe hearing the name in a list of Mormon splinter groups, but I stumbled upon this video the other day about an event known as the "Oatman Massacre" and found it interesting. https://youtu.be/16_y_Qh0NFg This is the only related post I could find ...

I guess I've come to see myself as something of an outside observer, even though I still participate in Mormonism to some degree and have some devout family members. I still find it all interesting from an anthropological perspective (Mormonism and faith in general), but I sometimes think that I mig...

The game is loaded with motion-captured famous people. Reedus is the main character that you control.

I hope that my video game reference has not been too much of an unwelcome distraction in this Doctrinal Discussion thread.

Hey Ghost, where does this picture come from? I am intrigued. This is a character from a recent video game called Death Stranding . After an apocalyptic event, the only people left in the "United Cities of America" live in a few fortified cities and bunkers. Those who live in the bunkers are the "p...

I have some frogs in my yard. I guess that could be considered a half-hearted plague. I like them, though.

This might be a good person to interview, if you can track him down. He interacts with all of the preppers regularly.

I hope this isn't too irreverent, but I heard a joke not long ago about how one of Jesus's most impressive miracles was having twelve close friends in adulthood. I can relate to a lot of the comments in this thread. I never really fit in at church. Or anywhere else, really. But I've cultivated the a...

It’s been so engrained we STILL feel Mormon even after we stopped believing. Absolutely. I can't imagine not thinking of myself as "Mormon" on some level whatever the state of my beliefs or practices. I don't think it's entirely irrational, though. I'd think that someone who has been involved in Mo...

I finished listening to the last of these episodes today. The sound quality was certainly rough in places, but I found the whole thing fascinating. I've wondered at times what it would be like to open up to an LDS leader about my heterodoxy. In the past, I've thought it could be interesting and help...