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Maybe what he was trying to say was applying “why not commit suicide” to “why stay in the church”. I used to give my depressed clients that kind of answer to why not kill yourself. Well because one year from now you will be glad you are still here. But the answer for the church DOES NOT WORK. You g...

I've come to the conclusion that faith and religious belief - no matter what the specific faith denomination - are based almost entirely on emotion. Those who are comfortable with emotion as a basis for belief are much less affected by shaky truth claims and strange, unsupportable history. Those th...

At the recent Face-to-Face with Elder/Sister Rasband, a rare gem of a question was asked. A youth speaker, Harry, questioned: I have serious problems with the truth claims of the church and am considering removing my name from the records of the church. Can you give me a reason why I should stay? El...

However, I’m not so sure it’s reduced the spousehold anxiety as family home church has replaced physical worship. Sister R likes to participate with her family gathering which is ok because it’s pretty informal. My family doesn’t dress up or anything like that even though everyone else does. Howeve...

Not Buying It wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:26 am

not as sheep-in-wolves-clothing phony as President Uchtdorf

I agree with your whole post. But this in particular made me laugh.

Fully agree! When other friends/families have left the church my DW's comments usually went along the lines of "Don't they know what they're throwing away!??" and "How can they give up on being with their children forever!?" It took multiple families leaving, a lot of conversation, and some tears be...

I was a founding listener to the Marriage on a Tightrope podcast. After the first few episodes I invited DW to listen as well, and to my surprise, she did. After the first 10 or so episodes she started to pull back a bit and now generally only listens to new episodes when I specifically recommend on...

I haven't been looking at the Mixed Faith Relationship posts recently, I'm sorry I've missed so much of the conversation here. I'm also sorry that this is so hard. I'm somewhat lucky in that my wife's parents are somewhat science-literate and she has grown up with the mindset of trusting science. I ...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... raham.html In the comments section of his apologetic article here, Peterson baldly declares that Gee and Muhlstein's Egyptology views are mainstream!!!! He literally says that..... Well, why can't we find any mainstream Egyptologists lecturing with them o...

Haha! I had no idea swinging was the final result of this pathway.

I took a bunch of those steps out of order, and often two at a time.

2bizE wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 11, 2020 9:38 pm

What a story...it would make a great movie staring Denzel Washington...

Remember the Titans, but no happy ending.

Welp. No Jesus sightings in my vicinity... No man knoweth the hour. He could be waiting until after rush hour. Well... Unfortunately for Chad, the 24 hours for his prediction have come and gone. It isn't July 22nd anywhere on this planet any more. I guess the voices in Chad's head could be telling ...

2bizE wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 22, 2020 7:11 pm

I think a chip telling me how often I had sex could be useful.
Me: see here mrs. 2 bizE, it says we had sex 3 times in the last 6 months.
Mrs. 2bizE: I see that, if you need to cut back more I can probably accommodate...

I laughed. I related. I cried.

Have any of you had to deal with that at all? I feel like this is Santa but in a very meaningful way... and we still need to have the Santa talk with him later this year! I struggle with this too. Our kids range from 3 to 10. DW enforces scripture study every night. Sometimes we will use a Latter D...

My favorite part of the announcement... "...Given the sacredness of the temple ceremonies, we ask our members and friends not to engage in speculation or public discussions about these changes. Rather, we invite Church members to continue to look forward to the day when they may return and fully par...

Four days after our ward's first sacrament meeting, an older couple who attended the meeting tested positive for COVID-19. Now, three days after the test results were received the ward council is just being made aware of the situation. Several WC members immediately pointed out that other sacrament ...

moksha wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 16, 2020 5:46 am

I'm off to cataract surgery in a few minutes. Can't stay, but I hope I come back.

We hope you come back too! Good luck! Does this mean you'll start seeing visions?

Our ward had their first back-to-church day yesterday. My family did not go. I did receive reports though that about 30 people attended (usual sacrament attendance of ~140). Within the attendees there were infants, elderly, and at least one family who are known to have had direct physical contact w...

Our ward had their first back-to-church day yesterday. My family did not go. I did receive reports though that about 30 people attended (usual sacrament attendance of ~140). Within the attendees there were infants, elderly, and at least one family who are known to have had direct physical contact wi...

She went from 2 Saturdays to none in one fell swoop and she is not looking forward to it. Man, if both you and I could get our respective missuses to think about WHY they aren't excited to go back, then further critical thinking about a host of other things could start to take place. That's the hop...