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I do miss the oneness I felt with my fellow mormons as a believer. I don't think you get that closeness without a significant amount of organization. And part of that organization requires demanding support from those within the organization so that they feel part of it. I get something similar ...

Since we are all Christians we are organized as follows: We worship God, believe in Christ, and invite the Holy Ghost. Leviticus 23: There is a sabbath on the seventh day, which is sabado/saturday, a holy convocation as we do so together on the same day. There are three festivals following the moon ...

Perhaps everyone needs a license to access the Internet so we're all safe and kids won't be endangered.
Outside of the medical industry, is there any reason to make pornography except to reach new, virgin-eye viewers?

Conglomerating all this is why we have modern prophets and ongoing personal revelation.

There could just as easily be 9 days per week with Uranus and Neptune added, Those aren't visible to the naked eye or things would surely have been different as you note. It could be any number of course. It's arbitrary. But our historical path in the west sources heavily from Rome. We used the ...

There could just as easily be 9 days per week with Uranus and Neptune added, Imagine the sly smiles on the Roman faces when they announced it was Uranusday at the baths. Imagine introducing the concept of zero to people that do not believe in nothing: Introducer: "Numbers go from one to ten ...

I was looking into the origin of the 7 day week. [...] The 24 hour day comes from the Egyptians. The rest is a kind of numerology-astrology mashup. [...] You've got 7 planets as they thought of things orbiting the earth. The sun, Mercury, Venus Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the moon. The 7 planets each ...

I received an epiphany which resolves this issue for me: Let people register with their mental health institution for a medicinal prescription of visual stimulation, taken anonymously (without administrative viewing statistics nor history), which accepts content donations as a tax write-off ...

How time is calculated is problematic, considering our calendars are relative to the moon and stars as seen from particular places on Earth, each successive generation being required to know and remember subtle shifts such as leap years, pole shifts, and moon phases. What if tens of thousands of ...

I was deep in thought staring into a cup of the morning's instant coffee that I had let spit in on the counter overnight over breakfast and noticed a flying spaghetti monster had formed, floating suspended in the concoction: I took note of the room and there was a fly buzzing around that would perch ...

There is something to be said regarding countenances. When a person sins their behavior changes, or rather their spirit that moves them was distracted elsewhere since the last time you observed them so they are not interacting with you on the same conscious level. I think most would at least kinda ...

Yes, the Old Testament also treats women like property, slut-shames and has an obsession with their "uncleanliness." Without pharmaceuticals that is what is necessary to survive otherwise you get possessed. Brigham Young excusing wife snatching by being overcome with the spirit or the power of the ...

Does this conflict with what is written in the Bible? King James Version 24 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand ...

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From what I have read in Exodus, Moses along with the Israelites killed many people to hide their relationship with God. The Egyptians, the lambs, the Israelites, even Joshua, Aaron, Miriam, Caleb, and Moses killed. There were children doing burnings, people spreading sexual diseases, cheaters ...

Getting profiled is so annoying, on the same level as stalking. Online records or communication ruin privacy or rather our sacred personal journey. In the same way that computers allow people to track investments or finances, people with access to your information can get others to fight against you ...

Do you think most people are good or most people are bad? I read the scriptures alone on Saturdays, mostly the Old Testament because it's starting to make sense now that I am in my thirties. I have a desire to share what I learn or what I have questions about yet there isn't anyone around to talk to ...

There are a couple quick highlights I recall in the Nauvoo Expositor that stand out to me:
1. The courts in a republic change hearing dates without notice to protect the rich or empowered.
2. Property sold higher than the purchase price without an increase in industry causes societal collapse.

When I was a child, I used to love to open the church door and smell the aroma of baked cinnamon buns, bacon, hamburgers, and occasionally, full Christmas dinners complete with turkeys, hams, and all the fixins. Every table under the stage would be set up, and occasionally neighbors who weren't ...

Growing up out East there was a community center with a pool. At this gathering place neighbors would meet to discuss local issues, hold parties, or enjoy each others' talents. There was even a time that our church building in Virginia was abandoned because there was a disease in the air ducts. We ...