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Thanks guys, I was worried that I would end up inoculating my own kids to the point that they knew the same issues but weren’t effected by them because they heard them from a young age forward. That’s a real concern. The key is to dilute. When the wife complained I asked if she wanted to take over. ...

I was reviewing some old notes from the Elder Cook church history face-to-face that he did way back when and found this funny. It was from the Q&A portion... QUESTION 3: We live in the information age. We live in such a world where Google has answers to every question. But is there a way to search c...

Thank you, River Morgan. That actually means a lot to me and it helps to hear. I sometimes feel like my telling of events is a little to one-sided here on NOM. My wife is often very supportive, and I believe we will work through a lot of these things given some time. A lot of the struggle stems from...

I transferred shortly after that and never heard what happened to that guy but I have a powerful testimony that his life was greatly blessed because I listened to the spirit that day. I served in Japan. At some point a good friend from the MTC was transferred out of his city and I was transferred i...

WARNING - Long Post. As a TBM I, along with my wife, insisted that our family have daily scripture study. We diligently read out loud from our own scriptures when our oldest kids were still babies. When they got old enough to sit for short stories we began reading to them from the Scripture Stories ...

Today, I fear I will never turn that corner. Congratulations, Hagoth!

Hagoth wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 27, 2020 2:07 pm

Everything is coming up Hagoth.

You deserve it!

Just doing what Joseph did. Seek for personal gain by committing light fraud before finally realizing that leading a religion is the best way to get power.

That's awesome, fetchface! :D Congratulations! Wise choice recommending that she take it slow. I have to admit to a significant amount of jealousy. I keep hearing people say how COVID gave them a break and space to reflect on what church wasn't actually doing for them. But for my DW, it has been the...

Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy Festivus! And all that jazz.

I truly hope you are all happy and well this week!!

I like this one:

Deepthinker wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 18, 2020 4:37 pm

I made the mistake of adding up the amount of tithing I've paid over the years...

I've made that mistake before. Now I can't get the number out of my head. My house could be paid off. Kids' colleges could be funded. blah

Don't let them take away seeing your daughter's big day too.

Just go. Hasn’t the church stolen enough from us? Why let them take away the chance to see your daughter get married. You got the ticket. So go. I agree with RR. The church spent our entire lives teaching us to be honest and have integrity, only to find that it doesn't practice honesty of have inte...

Sorry to drag up this old thread, but I was thinking in the shower and want to type this out. It's okay, I have a towel on my head... I mentioned in the OP that according to Dr. Christopher Rollston literacy of ancient Isreal was 15-20% at best . Keep in mind that means only 1/5 could read or write ...

Thanks, RR, jfro18, and Linked. In retrospect it is better that I stopped there. In the words of Portnoy Gary and Angelo Judy Hart - It helps having a place to come where people are glad we came. A place where we can see our troubles are all the same. It helps to be where everybody knows our pseudon...

I'm sorry you have to deal with all of this on top of everything else, Thoughtful. MORmONism basically estranged my family of origin from each other, even when we were all attempting to be good MORmONs. "The Church" was always the most important thing in my family, which is what I believed caused th...

Then there's the folks like me who "Already knew it was True™" and never bothered with MORONi's promise... :cry: This was mostly me too. I didn't really get an answer but then one day I heard that genius account of someone learning they weren't getting answers because they already knew. They just d...

I've heard your name spoken here. Whispered as a reverence by the Elders or our day. A legend.

However that works, I'm happy to have another member of our community! Welcome back!

Wonderment wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 13, 2020 7:47 pm

moksha wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 13, 2020 2:09 pm

One thing I appreciate about NOM 2.0 as opposed to NOM 1.0 is that the mods have considered banning me fewer times.

Moksha, I'm glad you're here. I find your sense of humor to be delightful.

Ditto!

I don't want to trigger anyone with this post, so I hope the warning in the subject is sufficient. The recent CFM lessons are closing in on the end of the BoM. Moroni 9:9 contains the infamous quote: And notwithstanding this great abomination of the Lamanites, it doth not exceed that of our people i...

These people will wear long underwear even in hot summer climates because the prophet says to, but they won’t wear a mask when outside their house. [emoji2368][emoji2356] These same people are complaining about recommendations to stay socially distant or wear masks as impeding their freedom. Meanwh...