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Just This Guy wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 25, 2020 12:17 pm

My only question:

Will it be in the main auditorium, or will they be back in front of the salad bar like last go around?

I wonder if Oaks will be able to hold a beat.

In 23 years the name of the church will be The Church of David H Bednar, incorporated” or CB for short. All members will be taught through nightly neurolink CB bucket updates. All hail Bednar... https://y.yarn.co/929a44ed-c885-4fba-9d1d-b24a0f7ff58e_screenshot.jpg The Sea Bees will be livid.

Don't we know that the Smith family worked with shippers? Wasn't there a lost shipment of ginseng or something that ruined them at one point? I don't know if that would provide a conclusive link, but sailors tell stories almost as much as former pilots. JS could have heard about Moroni and the Comor...

I was listening to the Gospel Tangents podcast. One of the recent sets of episodes was an interview with Taylor Petrey. He holds a degree from Harvard Divinity School and was talking about the recent history of homosexuality and Mormonism. You can find the interview here: https://gospeltangents.com/...

There is an old sectarian notion that suicide is a sin. I am glad he labeled this false. It would help if he acknowledged that this can be found in old church materials and is still false. Absolutely agree. But it will be a cold day in hell before that happens. Throwing older prophets under the bus...

There is an old sectarian notion that suicide is a sin.

I am glad he labeled this false. It would help if he acknowledged that this can be found in old church materials and is still false.

It takes some chutzpah to say that it's not the time for blame when the organization you lead is unavoidably to blame. I liked GBH when I was TBM. The more I learn about him, the more I realize what an actor he was. He played the kindly grandpa while actually being Monty Burns.
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I know Pres Nelson was ALL sorts of excited to roll out this new proclamation - the awkwardly abbreviated TROTFOTGOJC:ABPTTW (seriously) or as I like to think of it, the "Fleshy Tables Proclamation." I'm sure he has visions of himself being the next Hinckley but it sure doesn't seem to be going tha...

deacon blues wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 05, 2020 8:25 pm

It was during "potato harvest vacation" and I was 9 at the time. Wow, memories.

I'm a little younger than this conference. We once took a similar vacation. My mom was mortified when I explained to people that we were out of school for "spud harvest."

... when necessary we must adopt the communist technique in our ever present battle against Godless Communism. The hypocrisy shown here is stunning. I can't believe how much I admired this man when I was young. The church needs to apologize. Obviously, there are valid concerns about Jonathan Street...

For me, lately:
1. Long walks on Sunday mornings. The extra 2 hours has given me a chance to explore the trails nearby.
2. My good friends that I can call when things are rough.
3. Watching cheesy TV, along with the occasional BBC drama, with my daughter.

My Dad who served in germany and likes german history had a different take on the Hubener story when I confronted him about it in my very angry phase. His very humanistic approach was that the saints simply adapted so they didn't go extinct. The herd did what they had to do to survive. They compart...

There are so many examples in my life of people teaching me things that were not true. I don't know how much of the time the person teaching knew the real answer. I once asked my seminary teacher, "What is the 'Gift of Aaron' that Oliver Cowdery had according to JS?" He looked surprised and told me ...

Congratulations!

It sounds like you are moving on happily.

Britain, for example, has been continuously occupied for about 12,000 years. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/first-britons.html#:~:text=For%20thousands%20of%20years%20the,were%20highly%20adaptable%20hunter%2Dgatherers. Fantasy stories in the Bible, such as the flood story, the whale story, and the to...

Suppose we take Elder Cook's words as truth. Brigham Young's hateful teachings about race were caused by the attitudes of the general population around him. If we also accept that he was a prophet, it means that God allowed his prophet to teach hateful false doctrines and claim that they were eterna...

One thing I noticed about Muhlestein's screed. He talks about how people misunderstand what "Latter-day Saint scholars believe or have said." Why should scholars be restricted to responding to what "Latter-day Saint scholars" say? There are so many problem with what the leadership and membership bel...

So what exactly happens if thousands of people sign the petition? How will BYU be more like BYU? Is the idea that BYU will turn into BYUI? I think that is exactly the idea. There is an Instagram page called "Keeping Faith at BYU" where students can post the "apostate" things their professors say in...

Is yellow an official color for volunteers?

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to help out with a church service project. We were all wearing yellow shirts or vests with "Mormon Helping Hands" printed on the front and back and an advertisement for Mormon.org. It occurred to me that not even dozens of victories for Satan could prevent the church...