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- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOM needs to be a safe place
- Replies: 21
- Views: 416
Re: NOM needs to be a safe place
I probably triggered DB’s rant on my thread... DB's entire interaction with NOM has been a rant. He appeared on the scene in the form of an unsolicited rant wrapped in accusations, and then hovered around waiting for any opportunity to offend. I'm sure he feels very picked on, as these guys usually...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOM needs to be a safe place
- Replies: 21
- Views: 416
Re: NOM needs to be a safe place
Yes, thank you for paying the bills, for getting us up and running again after a crash, and using your best judgement on banning or not. It is always a judgement call, because we do want safe, open discussion. It is judgement to err on the side of open or on the side of safe. I personally want NOM t...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOM needs to be a safe place
- Replies: 21
- Views: 416
Re: Dirty Bird has been asked to post elsewhere.
Good. He has been nothing but a disruption.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:24 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 495
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 ar...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 495
Re: Is the church headed for a schism ?
In my opinion your logic on the trans issue is flawed, let me explain. So following your logic, a trans woman is a woman so that means it's perfectly acceptable for a trans woman to be part of the relief society presidency. OK, but what if that trans woman decides to de transition during serving on...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 495
Re: Is the church headed for a schism ?
Wait, Hagoth, I thought Trump was the one mighty and strong. What? You are telling me he isn’t? So, far the church has been pretty quick to excommunicate anyone on either side who starts to get any kind of fan base, before they can get even close to causing any kind of schism. And that seems to conv...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Pray Pay & Obey And Humor
- Replies: 7
- Views: 364
Re: Pray Pay & Obey And Humor
For many Mormons, it is the Puritan influence. Those stuffy Mayflower people (not Puritans, but the same attitude) and then the even stuffier Puritans who settled Massachusetts and most of New England. I mean, can you imagine anyone who is so stuffy they have to escape England, the stuffiest nation,...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:22 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 727
Re: Teaching the wrong stuff
The progressive stance you're taking is basically this. 1. Protect our politicians with pistols and long guns but not our children while they're in school. 2. Protect our judges with pistols and long guns but not our children while they're are in school. 3. Apparently you are OK with police and eve...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Declining callings and talks is getting easier for me
- Replies: 14
- Views: 282
Re: Declining callings and talks is getting easier for me
Good for you in drawing better boundaries than the church likes. The secret meeting stuff is really a power play to cause anxiety and remind you they are the au-tho-ri-ty. And this guy’s attitude on the phone was a bit arrogant in assuming you know his calling and au-tho-ri-ty. Especially to an inac...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 727
Re: Teaching the wrong stuff
Thanks for your thought-provoking post, alas, and also for the helpful communication tips in your other thread. Marriage is one area where the church teaches all the wrong stuff. In the 80’s and 90’s, the church’s programs for teens and young adults put an enormous focus on avoiding pre-marital sex...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 727
Re: Teaching the wrong stuff
Dirty bird, read the book. It gave the statistics to say why it is BOTH guns and lack of mental health support. And it named all kinds of things that your swear word Republicans fight such as better mental health programs for the poor and in schools. If it is REALLY mental health, why are the repub...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 727
Re: Teaching the wrong stuff
Dirty bird, read the book. It gave the statistics to say why it is BOTH guns and lack of mental health support. And it named all kinds of things that your swear word Republicans fight such as better mental health programs for the poor and in schools. If it is REALLY mental health, why are the republ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: How do you define Mormonism?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5166
Re: How do you define Mormonism?
I don't know if a church support group would really be that positive. Their answer for every problem is more prayer and scripture study. It becomes more guilt, heaped on the person seeking help, because they aren't praying hard enough. The support should be at the pulpit, preaching the need for lov...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Communication skills
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3535
Re: Communication skills
These are great tips fam, thanks for taking the time! I've read through this a few times, but haven't had the time to formulate a response, sorry to let it sit for so long. slow the whole conversation down. Start by narrowing the subject... No dirty fighting... kitchen sinking is when you bring oth...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 361
Re: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!
,We are back, again.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
- Replies: 24
- Views: 727
Teaching the wrong stuff
I am reading a book about mass shooters and it is heavy enough I have to take it in bits and pieces. It helps that I have a degree in psychology. It talks about school shooters, but also those who go into work places, stores, churches. It has been analyzing what it is about American society that we ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Looking back....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 813
Re: Looking back....
Baptism didn’t bother me until they made it absolutely mandatory and that was Catholic twisting what Jesus actually taught. It should be symbolic of washing away the old person and rebirthing a new person who takes the name of Christ and lives a life following his example. It should never be used as...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 361
Re: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!
Yes, thank you for fixing NOM and I know it probably took some time. I missed it because this has become kind of my favorite people social group.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Looking back....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 813
Re: Looking back....
Excellent point. Our society recognizes it is unfair for 8 year olds to make an adult decision, but the Church baptizes them and then Bednar tells them they are obligated for eternity. It is so manipulative. :cry: And the covenants we make as adults, or late teens, we are not told what they are ahe...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Question on Mormon Cooking
- Replies: 22
- Views: 695
Re: Question on Mormon Cooking
Mormon food tends to be bland because so many early converts were from New England. I mean, all 6 of my “crossed the plains in a covered wagon or hand cart” ancestors were from New England. And that is all the ancestors I have in that generation. From the “overseas” converts, the biggest group was E...