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- Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:37 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: The missionary half-story
- Replies: 5
- Views: 305
Re: The missionary half-story
Hah! I love this thread. So much cringe in my past. I remember bearing testimony in a zone meeting of how my serving a mission was blessing my family back home. Some missionaries had tracted into my elderly aunt, and knowing that I was a missionary, she invited them in. If I had not chosen to serve ...
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 3:54 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Studying Antiquity
- Replies: 15
- Views: 548
Re: Studying Antiquity
I have a copy of the First 2000 Years on my bookshelf. It was my grandmother's, and I got it after she passed away last year. She loved that stuff... all the crazy claims in that book, and all of the Ezra Taft Benson anti-communist stuff was her view of Mormonism (as it was called back in the day). ...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:41 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: RFM and Peter Bleakley
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1038
Re: RFM and Peter Bleakley
Absolutely fantastic interview with RFM! I also listened to his facebook recordings and they are great as well. He articulates so many of my feelings about the church so incredibly well. One thing he was talking about on his facebook recordings that I found interesting was how the "mormon ideal" is ...
- Sat Nov 28, 2020 4:56 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: #DezNat parody
- Replies: 8
- Views: 557
Re: #DezNat parody
These are hilarious! Every one! I've heard most if not all of these sentiments at some point in my life in the church. There's always "that" person with no filter who believes this stuff..
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:07 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Expect No Good Apologies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 538
Re: Expect No Good Apologies
No wonder the church is not in the business of giving apologies. A perfect God (and his perfect church) don't make mistakes and so have no need to feel remorse. And they can't make the situation right. Yup, there is absolutely ZERO upside to the church for apologizing for anything. Unfortunately, D...
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:46 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Did you learn anything in the temple? Yes!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1052
Re: Did you learn anything in the temple? Yes!
My grandfather told me that every time he went to the temple, he learned something new and different. Heard this so many times. I would always wrap my head into a pretzel trying to understand the hidden doctrine in the temple. The signs, especially. I went through in 1990 after they got rid of the ...
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:16 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: RFM Does President Nelson!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 507
Re: RFM Does President Nelson!
I'm glad someone else picked up on the odd clarification that RMN met Wendy AFTER his first wife passed away. I know exmo reddit especially goes on about him being a polygamist (which in the eternal sense he is) and the "interesting" relationship Wendy has with Sheri Dew. Perhaps he wanted to make i...
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 8:15 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: #givethanks
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2252
Re: #givethanks
He didn't have anything to say, but he had to say something. Regardless, the overwhelming message that everyone should get from it, believer or disbeliever, is that there is no help coming from the COB. Sink or swim on your own, brothers and sisters. Yup, exactly. A constant theme of my arguments w...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 7:59 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: #givethanks
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2252
Re: #givethanks
I expected going into this thing to be underwhelmed, but I was shocked at how ridiculously underwhelmed I was. I'm on team Hermey.... what a sh!+show. Jeezus H. Effing Christ. We are in the middle of pandemic that is spiraling out of control. You are THE one guy that literally millions of people con...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 6:57 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Church Growth in Times of Pandemic
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1312
Re: Church Growth in Times of Pandemic
Thanks Graey, for the interesting info. I believe Covid did the same thing to a lot of members. We were told we wouldnt be happy without church attendance, temple attendance and paying a honest tithe. Members have instead found that staying home on Sunday is actually kind of relaxing. Not attending ...
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:32 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Happy Halloween!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 931
Re: Happy Halloween!
Ah, what the hell. Happy Halloween everyone!
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:21 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The Best Two Years?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1791
Re: The Best Two Years?
After that we were supposed to introduce ourselves as representatives of Christ and boldly invite people to be baptized at the their door. I obediently did so dozens or probably even hundreds of times with no takers. Just a lot of anxiety and misery on my part. Oh, god yes, I remember that! A bapti...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:18 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The Best Two Years?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1791
Re: The Best Two Years?
Went on a mission to SLC, and we were supposed to be the vanguard mission in the shadow of the temple and all that. At the time we were the highest baptizing english speaking mission. And we had Loren C. Dunn as the general authority over our mission so there was a lot of pressure to baptize and be ...
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:41 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Are member's testimonies changing?!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1474
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:27 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Ezra Taft Benson and Conspiracies
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1340
Re: Ezra Taft Benson and Conspiracies
People like to think he gave up his alarming political views when he became President of the Church, but actually he was pretty out of it for most of that time. Had he been President of the Church when he was 20 years younger, it would have been a real dumpster fire. Yeah, I grew up in the 80's and...
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:10 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Ezra Taft Benson and Conspiracies
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1340
Re: Ezra Taft Benson and Conspiracies
Oh yeah, it's on my list as soon as I have some time. I read a lot about this stuff when I read Greg Prince's book David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism. Such a fascinating book. One thing that was really interesting from the book was how the civil rights movement played into his views on ...
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 2:28 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Sunday Afternoon NOMference!!!
- Replies: 134
- Views: 7220
Re: Sunday Afternoon NOMference!!!
it’s funny when they just want to tell a funny anecdote and somehow shoehorn a gospel analogy in there to justify the telling of it.
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:42 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOMference Women's session!!!!
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3388
Re: NOMference Women's session!!!!
Thanks Mopag for making this bearable. You deserve a medal.
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:39 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOMference Women's session!!!!
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3388
Re: NOMference Women's session!!!!
Wife is asleep since Eyring’s talk. Why is the apostate the only one that watches all this stuff. I thought I wasn’t dedicated enough. Insane, isn't it? I've watched more conference today than my "active" children. It's a world gone mad. Yup!!! it’s nuts! I know more about the doctrine and history,...
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:32 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOMference Women's session!!!!
- Replies: 71
- Views: 3388
Re: NOMference Women's session!!!!
Wife is asleep since Eyring’s talk. Why is the apostate the only one that watches all this stuff. I thought I wasn’t dedicated enough.