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I was fortunate to see Michaelangelo's David in Florence as a teenager, with a mixed group of other teenagers from across the US. I did not observe any reactions from our group to the statue being nude. It was more like moments of wonder and awe at the genius that produced such a thing. A true ...

Exactly. The Bible is likely full of propaganda. As is the Quran, The Book of Mormon, and all other "scripture." Many Bible scholars say that much of the Bible is (totally fictional) stories meant to unite different people into one nation with one national identity. The stories of David however ...

Then there are all the so-called Christians going nuts over the girl in college who wrote a religious tract instead of the required psychology essay and is unhappy with her failing grade. They are calling it a freedom of religion problem that she doesn’t know that for a psychology grade your subject ...

I think the primary reason is all of the apostles, who have to preside and talk at all of these conference sessions, are really old. I agree, it is probably a long long weekend for 80-100 year old men who have been doing it for 30 years and are just plain tired. Well, I have a solution for them ...

I think those of us who remember this should come out openly and loudly in support of the podcasters and who ever the church is trying to bully out of using a perfectly good word. They could not make the word “Mormon” disappear by calling its use a victory for Satan, so now they are going to try to m ...

Wait, wasn’t it ruled already that “Mormon” is not a word that they can claim any kind of right to? But trust Oaks to ignore legal president as well as do a 180 on his predecessor.

When they tried getting rid of the Saturday night session once before, many women objected because it completely gets rid of any kind of women’s session where we can have more than 1 out of 20 women speak. First of all, way back, women’s session, YW session, were not considered part of conference. An ...

I am not sure if the woman is capable of rational thought. But maybe her election handlers are telling her to cut herself loose from tRump. And telling her exactly what to say and how to act. Either that of Charlie Kirk’s death really triggered a come to Jesus….no, not that Jesus, the other one that ...

...denial is her first name. After that river in Africa? Several things that she used to claim were deal breakers for her, and she just refuses to accept reality. She does not want to know because then she would have to see that she is wrong. So, she's also a Mormon. Raised that way and I suppose ...

I need a good “how stupid can Trump supporters be” gripe session. And it needs to be where the guilty party can’t read it and realize that if I could never see her again, I would go for it. But then she would just deny that it could be her I am talking about because denial is her first name. I have h ...

So sad. I loved his humor, even when I didn’t get it. He will be missed I noticed he had not been around for a few weeks. I do check in once a week or so, but usually we have no way of finding out how people are unless we know them in real life, and sometimes people disappear because they just run o ...

Respond to abuse with kindness, children... -50 Missed it, came here for synopsis. Can you elaborate on this? Were children told to be kind to those who abuse them??? It was this weird story about someone being emotional and probably verbally abusive (they didn't use the word abusive, but that's ...

I just read an article explaining why so-called Christians are acting so hateful and UNChristlike. It talked about vertical and horizontal morality. Vertical morality is that morality comes from a top authority figure, while horizontal morality thinks about the effect on other people. So, these so ...

Interesting. Those three bodies (FP, Q12, Q70) should each get one vote. No, the RS presidency and primary and YW presidency all need one vote also. That way, women have equal say to all the men in the church. And if there are any disagreements, then that group’s vote is just canceled. Because I am ...

Will you please expound on that? He just kept going on about the good old days before technology, families were better then, blah, blah... He knows we could use a man like Herbert Hoove again. Didn't need no Welfare states. Everybody pulled his weight. Gee, our old LaSalle ran great; Those were the ...

Speaking of “nobody cares anymore” we used to get like 300-500 lurkers and 50 signed in members and 20 different commenters here during conference. Now it says I am the only one signed in and we have 7 lurkers and 2 bots. Sure, NOM is not attracting near as many people now that so many folks are lea ...

I may or may not be able to join. We do not pay for a TV subscription, so pulling it up off of the internet is our only option of watching and dear hubby is trying, but can’t find parts and so on. Shows how much interest he has that he didn’t even plan ahead. So, maybe I’ll join and maybe I will have ...

It is illegal to deploy troops against citizens, but that has not stopped Trump yet. See, all the officers of all military branches swear to uphold the constitution not be loyal to commander in chief and they do not have to obey an illegal order or violate the constitution because the president says ...

Mormons need an alternative to embracing fascism. Why? they went along with fascism when Hitler was taking over Germany and still when he was sending Jews to the gas chambers. They just keep their mouths shut and don’t stand up and call evil what it is. Easier to just go along approving of whatever ...

And it turns out, he was not in a relationship with a trans roommate. The roommate is not trans, only kind of a pretty guy, and they were not in any kind of relationship. He was not believed to be in any romantic relationship. All made up bunk by the MAGA liars. They can make up imaginary crap ...