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- Sat Apr 06, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOMference Spring 2024 Saturday Morning!!!!!
- Replies: 68
- Views: 1597
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOM needs to be a safe place
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3497
Re: NOM needs to be a safe place
Speaking from experience, moderation is a hard, annoying job, but it can become necessary. Thanks for taking the effort to do it here and for keeping the forum running.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19282
Re: Is the church headed for a schism ?
To get back to the original topic, I think it's very unlikely the Mormon Church will experience any kind of significant schism these days. Or ever, since the original one as part of the succession crisis, which Brigham predominately won. The history of the Church has shown that there will always be ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:00 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19282
Re: Is the church headed for a schism ?
I don't believe most transgender individuals are pretending to be the sex they identify with. (I say "most" because you will always find an exception somewhere.) Therefore, a transgender woman would BE a woman and could be RS president. A transgender man could become a Bishop if he were worthy. Exa...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19282
Re: Is the church headed for a schism ?
Detransitioners are rare in the context of the entire population. They are less rare in the context of people who transitioned. Do you know what the statistics are? It's not hard to find the statistics. A quick search reveals this recent Associated Press article . Basically, detransitioners are ver...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19282
Re: Is the church headed for a schism ?
Nope, chemical castration is different. It is used on sex offenders to remove sexual urges, and while I am not a doctor either, puberty blockers work before there are sex hormones to block. They work on the area of the brain that triggers the things before the sex hormones are even released. They a...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Question on Mormon Cooking
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3018
Re: Question on Mormon Cooking
I don't know that the selection is as awful as made out to be, but the regulations are truly ridiculous. I've only ever been to the one Utah State Liquor store in Farmington, so maybe others are better, but the selection there was a fraction of what's in the local, tiny liquor store in my neighborh...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Question on Mormon Cooking
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3018
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 10:41 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Question on Mormon Cooking
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3018
Re: Question on Mormon Cooking
As alas said, there really isn't anything distinct known as a "cooking wine". Cooking wine is just wine that you cook with. Things sold as "cooking wine" are not suitable for much of any purpose and certainly not for cooking. Buy wine, and then use it to cook with. We're such lightweights that we li...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:01 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Born of a virgin?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1445
Re: Born of a virgin?
And because Mormonism is the principal focus here, I want to take a moment more and ruminate more on the comments I made earlier about the BoM. Suppose we accept the Limited Geographic Model, desperately maintained by BoM apologists. It's very problematic, but suppose it's just a matter that we have...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 1:27 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Born of a virgin?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1445
Re: Born of a virgin?
Old Testament proof texting in the New Testament is overall pretty sloppy, if you ask me. Jesus was from Nazareth, but they have to cook up some pretty noncredible ways to have him come from Bethlehem and Egypt to fit the narrative they projected onto the OT revelations. Definitely. It's making up ...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:09 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Born of a virgin?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1445
Re: Born of a virgin?
Bart Ehrman goes through how the 'virgin' idea got into the Bible, why it's based on a mistranslation, and then talks a bit about how it's really nowhere else in the Bible and is actually contradicted by Mark/John and I believe he covers briefly that the birth story in Luke is likely a late additio...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:05 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Born of a virgin?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1445
Re: Born of a virgin?
What's the gist of the podcast?
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:08 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: A Uchtdorf rise to the Prophetic throne is reasonable.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19803
Re: A Uchtdorf rise to the Prophetic throne is reasonable.
As much as I liked Pres Hinkley, I groaned when he opined about the ear rings and tattoos. He probably wished he could have taken that back, but who knows. It was a way that TBMs placed a mark on others for rebellion, and it was wrong to do that. Hinckley really rode that folksy grandpa persona and...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: A Uchtdorf rise to the Prophetic throne is reasonable.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19803
Re: A Uchtdorf rise to the Prophetic throne is reasonable.
For decades, or more, members have long dreaded, or anticipated, the ascension of the next president to the grand seat. The reality is that it's rarely made much difference. By the time the individual ascends, he's so feeble or so bound by the tradition of those that came before that they do little....
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:03 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: A Uchtdorf rise to the Prophetic throne is reasonable.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 19803
Re: A Uchtdorf rise to the Prophetic throne is reasonable.
Depends on what you mean by "restore". Or what he would restore it to.
I don't think there's much that can be done to halt it's steady decline.
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:25 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Thom Harrison and "Visions of Glory"
- Replies: 64
- Views: 91174
Re: Thom Harrison and "Visions of Glory"
How does Utah's criminal Attorney General Sean Reyes figure into this Visions of Glory stuff? See this link: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/11/27/ag-sean-reyes-helped-intimidate/ https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/DhnJbf Very heavily. He's right in the midst of all of it. He's engaged in ...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:15 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2127
Re: Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
I'm not entirely sure about the relative influence of everyone, but given all I've seen I assume those at the top of the hierarchy have the only real influence.
And I was curious about the basis for your argument, which does actually have a fair bit of validity. You may be right.
And I was curious about the basis for your argument, which does actually have a fair bit of validity. You may be right.
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 12:08 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2127
Re: Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
Snipping to line things up a little for my comment. as we know it's what "the prophet" thinks that makes the difference. <snip> what significant changes did Russell Ballard contribute to? Since it's a pure hierarchy, the only person whose individual actions matter is the one at the top. Since Ballar...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2127
Re: Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
I would submit that Bush impacted the Church far more significantly than Ballard did. I'm curious how you arrive at that assessment. I suspect that if you asked people at Church on Sunday, hardly any of them (if any) would know about Lester Bush's work, much less who he is, but everyone would know ...