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I found this, but I have no idea if they will honor it:

https://www.exmormon.org/remove.htm

Palerider wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:15 pm

I call it "arrogance without malice".

Love it!

A couple of priests showed up at our door today to bring my wife the sacrament. I was not home and I was not happy that the ward took it upon themselves to decide that she, without any sort of request or invitation, needed a worthy priesthood holder (pimply teenager) to compensate for my dereliction...

So, when we project onto God our own helplessness at stopping all that evil that atheists project onto God and say that therefore God does not exist…..maybe we are missing the point. Maybe God wants *us* to stop all that suffering, not just throw our hands up in the air and yell at God for not doin...

Reminds me of a song: What if god was one of us, just a slob like one of us, just a stranger on the bus trying to make his way home? If God is the unwanted child who was dropped on his head at birth and can't get anything right, then we, and all his other creations, must be reflections of his cognit...

Here's another way to look at the covenants. We have established that they are made to earthly authorities, not to supernatural entities. In order to enter the temple you had to declare that you are honest in your dealings with your fellowmen. So did our exalted leaders. But they are monumental exam...

Covenants in the church are of the "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" variety. In this life the covenant is one-sided. 100% of the action of the covenant is performed by us in this life. God isn't on the hook until a theoretical next life. We're expected to give hamburger after ham...

I was a little surprised to hear Nelson state that baptism will get you into the Celestial Kingdom but only temple covenants and marriage would get you "Exaltation" within the Celestial Kingdom. I've never read that baptism alone, would get you into the CK. I think this is the standard teaching. Ba...

Hmm. The US also ranks dead last among developed countries in quality, accessibility, and affordability of healthcare. Also dead last on wealth equity, and it's rapidly getting worse. All of those happier countries also provide healthcare to all citizens in a way that American Conservatives deride a...

When they took the penalties out of the endowment ceremony they also removed the most graphic reminder that if you stray from the program you are putting yourself in very real danger. It seems to me that that void has been filled by the growing popularity of "the covenant path." When they talk about...

Just This Guy wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 6:27 am

So part of my social awkwardness is due to the church.

Surely the second head and third arm had something to do with it!

The visit was different than those in the past, and it would be our final one. You see, she had taken herself off of dialysis earlier that week and her body was shutting down. Eighteen years on it was enough. So to me, her answers were fascinating as she stared at her own mortality and accepted wha...

Here's a fun excerpt from a BBC documentary called Conspiracy Road Trip: Creationism, in which as group of Fundamentalist Christians and Muslims are bussed around the US to look for evidence for and against evolution. This awesome clip is when they sit down with paleoanthropologist Tim White at Berk...

TLDR: My question is, what will the next guy do? So, 15 new temples announced today and the announcements just keep coming. People on the temple committee have admitted that Nelson is blindsiding them with temple announcements in places where no investigation has even begun. TBMs are oh so impressed...

People had dreams that made them feel like they had been transported to another world. They often saw their dead loved ones there. They ate plants that made them see fantastic otherworldly vistas and entities. Religion helped flesh out the idea that there really is and invisible world, and helped to...

2bizE wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:21 pm

I used to be fed tripe in menudo and it often tasted and smelled like you might think.

Once when tracting on my mission we went into a home that smelled like an open sewer. I asked, "is everything ok? Do you have a broken pipe?" They answered, "No. we're cooking menudo!"

I looked into my seer stone last night and am making the following prediction: They will double down on garment wearing this weekend at general conference and they will have a woman do it because they want a woman (who is willing to say what the men wan them to say) to try and get the women of the ...

Just dropped in to see what's up in NOM. I had totally forgotten conference was happening today. One big point for me! I will go away for a while now, thank you very much.

Questions to ask: -Where in scripture does it tell you how to wear your underwear? Where are garments even mentioned? -Did Joseph Smith receive a direct revelation that tells us how to wear garments? -Has any prophet declared that the voice of God told him that garments must be worn 24/7? -Has the ...

I can specifically recall following the guidance of the church and asking Godde for direction and personal revelation when I was questioning wearing the garment as instructed. As I prayed, I received a prompting to turn on the TV. No sooner had I done that, the answer to my prayers came in the form...