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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:55 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: How did Nibley miss this one?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 93
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:53 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Declining callings and talks is getting easier for me
- Replies: 14
- Views: 284
Re: Declining callings and talks is getting easier for me
My wife and I did not readily accept the last calling we were offered, which was something about family history, I think. I'm not against family history, so considered it, but had no interest in helping others find names for the temple. My wife had zero interest. She is still involved with music, bu...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:39 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Apologizing for your faith?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 152
Re: Apologizing for your faith?
I don't think my behavior is necessarily all that different between groups, it's more about actively trying to disassociate from Mormons if something I say ties me to them while with non believers, yet letting assumptions go that I'm still fully part of the group when I'm with Mormons. I do not beli...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:41 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Apologizing for your faith?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 152
Apologizing for your faith?
I've wondered if anyone else has had this situation. When I was a TBM, I'd encourage questions about my faith, or leave the door deliberately open for folks to ask something like, where did you learn Chinese? Then eventually I kept the door mostly closed and when something like language came up, I'd...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOM needs to be a safe place
- Replies: 21
- Views: 437
Re: NOM needs to be a safe place
Yes, but I should know better than to offer bait. I got thinking about it several days ago and knew I had just given him more to go off about. And then instead of ignoring his rant and taking the conversation back to church topics, I reacted to his derailment. See, I am not always so good myself at...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:50 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 728
Re: Teaching the wrong stuff
And prob should be separate thread, sorry
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:50 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 728
Re: Teaching the wrong stuff
DB, kidding aside, you've given us too much to consume in one post. If and when you have time, I'd be interested in a more detailed argument of just one of those bits. Say gun ownership. Perhaps who should be allowed to own guns, what type of guns, any guns prohibited, etc.? Places or spaces guns sh...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:21 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 728
Re: Teaching the wrong stuff
I accept victory.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:15 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 361
Re: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!
Thanks to all who keep the lights on, and all who fixed the lights. Thank you very much.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:12 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: 9 stories from those who returned to the faith
- Replies: 9
- Views: 336
Re: 9 stories from those who returned to the faith
What would be more interesting, to me at least, are 9 stories of people who don't believe some or all of the things, how they reconcile not believing some of the important things that most Mormons believe, and still stay in the faith. I think it would go farther for the church to promote that it's o...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:57 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 728
Re: Teaching the wrong stuff
I do agree that it kinda seems like society swings back and forth left to right, sorta like a pendulum and I used to think that was probably good because in the long run it kept us kinda down the middle of the road. It sure seems to me that lately this pendulum is swinging wildly back and forth quic...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 728
Re: Teaching the wrong stuff
Good lord, Dirty Bird. Half of what you say makes you sound completely full of shit, and most of the other half of what you say makes you sound completely uninformed and ignorant, but thankfully a little bit of what you say makes you sound like a decent human being with a modicum of intelligence. Th...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Sunday post church and post football
- Replies: 1
- Views: 148
Sunday post church and post football
Sleep in. Relax. Eat breakfast. Work out. Relax some more. Watch some television. Play some guitar. Wash some dishes. Avoid some work that I know will still be patiently waiting for me tomorrow. Feeling very fortunate. Feeling very blessed and very lucky. Understanding that finding the gratitude is ...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Communication skills
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3535
Re: Communication skills
Reminds me of the Mehrabian Study in the 70s, Alas. When communicating emotionality, it's what... 52% body language, 47% tone, and 7% the actual words? I'm sure I have the percentages off slightly, but that's the gist. This study has been misunderstood quite a bit, but is particularly applicable to ...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: How do you define Mormonism?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5167
Re: How do you define Mormonism?
Years later, the man is completely out of the picture and the kid seems to be doing ok.
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: How do you define Mormonism?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5167
Re: How do you define Mormonism?
Angel, you said members won't go outside the box to help a child? I did. When I was still a TBM I observed a man physically abusing a child alone in a classroom during sacrament mtg. I got in his face and told him to stop immediately. I told him he knew that was wrong. He didn't argue. I called CPS....
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:39 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: How do you define Mormonism?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5167
Re: How do you define Mormonism?
My heart aches for anyone abused. When I say the church is behind.. i mean lags behind the science, the data, the social understanding how to deal and address and treat the victims and the oppressed and those who are a little different than the norm. It isn't everyone in the church, but because the ...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:18 am
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: The 10 Commandments (JST translation)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 634
The 10 Commandments (JST translation)
1. Thou shalt have no other God's before me, except my God, thine grandfather God, and his God and so on, but not whilst thou toil in this mortal existence. For now, I am thy God and I am a jealous God, so watch thine ass. 2. Thou shalt not make into thee any graven images except temples, which are ...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:50 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Church and State; Utah and Texas
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1499
Re: Church and State; Utah and Texas
I would just like to mention what somebody said on another thread when they mentioned wanting to keep political discussions to the coffee shop as much as possible, so that these forums don’t get taken over with politics. They mentioned how political discussions can become so consuming as well as ma...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Has Finland Anti-LDS Values?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1292
Re: Has Finland Anti-LDS Values?
Again, what Alas said.
I know there has to be a balance, but it ceases to amaze me that the folks who spout their Christian values the loudest are often the ones who act the least like Jesus.
I know there has to be a balance, but it ceases to amaze me that the folks who spout their Christian values the loudest are often the ones who act the least like Jesus.