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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 ...

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). ...

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 ...

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..

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Ah, what the hell. Happy Halloween everyone!

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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.

Thanks Mopag for making this bearable. You deserve a medal.

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,...

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.