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Hagoth wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 10:49 am Have you noticed that all of these crazy stories share a common word? It may not be central to the story, but it seems to always be there somewhere. That word is Idaho. Why is that?

It's more Arizona / Utah / Idaho. Which share a different common word.

Bonfire wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:48 pm Sex is a death ritual

Oooh ... that's kind of a kinky way to do it.

Bonfire wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:38 pm Do you think they do this to harness terror?

I wouldn't put it quite that way, but yeah, pretty much.

Oh, thank goodness! I feared for the worst.

John Dehlin's comments in a recent Mormon Stories episode regarding "Visions of Glory" and the problems around it really caught my attention. They weren't exactly related to this discussion, though FtND was mentioned concerning their connections to Thom Harrison. John posed the question, Why does ...

blazerb wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:51 am This has left me speechless. I wonder if Thom Harrison has anything to say about these disciples. It seems irresponsible not to speak up if people are using your story, that you chose to share, to hurt people.

I don't know that they're behaving in contrast to Thom's teachings or beliefs.

Fight the New Drug is also connected into this. And LifeStar. And Jodi Hildebrandt was with LifeStar, which is related to FtND.

This is probably yet another Thom Harrison / "Visions of Glory" connection.

The panel's discussion about the dangers of scrupulosity and the division into good and evil people and spirits reminded me of another pernicious Mormon book. Grant Von Harrison's "Drawing on the Powers of Heaven" was passed around BYU and the mission long ago, back in my day. It doesn't rise to the ...

I keep thinking that there must be some limit to the amount of creepiness and weirdness from Tim Ballard (the founder of OUR, Operation Underground Rescue, and subject of "The Sound of Freedom"), but I keep being surprised as more and more layers are peeled off. Most recently I've been learning that ...

(Note 3: Oh, and John and guests also call out FtND for their harmful practices.)

How about, instead of focusing so much time and energy on this issue (not to mention the pink elephant), which may have negative repercussions, perhaps, but we haven't really been able to pin it down and has been around since the beginning of time, we instead focus on much more serious issues with ...

Lynn Packer was interviewed on Youtube by Bill Reel and RFM last night. I'm watching it now and it's very interesting so far. Packer has done an amazing job investigating Tim Ballard and those involved with him. He's been reporting on this for years. Here's the link for anyone interesting in ...

I think this goes much deeper than we now know. It'll be interesting to see if Ballard flips on the church leaders and exposes how much they really were involved. I don't know. My suspicion is that Church leaders, and Elder Ballard, really weren't all that involved. Ballard liked to drop names ...

Moutsos and Rex are both adamant that a lot more bad stuff is yet to come out. And will.

I hate to go on Rumble and I don't feel much better about Moutsos, but I did watch some of his video. He's taking some heat from some of his right-wing compatriots on his new stance with OUR, who are deciding he's sold out to the woke mob since he longer supports Ballard in everything he does. But ...

Zelph on the Shelf has some good episodes on the topic also.

This twitter account is posting some interesting (and disturbing) info about victims who are stepping forward with statements: https://twitter.com/realericmoutsos/status/1705551631788773519 That's Eric Moutsos. He's a right-wing Utah activist. Very right-wing. The sort of person that would be ...

I don't know if you've heard Mormon Stories interview with the sitting bishop in Mexico (I think there's a new one after he finally left). The census there requires people to declare a religion. I can't remember the actual statistics, but the number of Mexican people who self-identify as LDS/Mormon ...

From time to time I still come across various statistics about the decline of religion in the USA. I'm always interested to see the changes, and particularly when it relates to Mormonism I like to post it here in case anyone else is interested. In the Washington Post article Opinion: The GOP has a ...