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Sometimes I go months without looking at NOM. Seems like most of the topics get resurrected again and again, but not in this case. This is an original and thought provoking thread, in my opinion, and this is how I see it being something a lot of us can learn from. First, it is not better in all case...

It sort of depends on if your beloved is open minded or not. Even still, it's a difficult situation because Mormons are taught at very young age by those they love the most that they are the lucky ones to be "born underneath a cov-net". It's not difficult to see why people stay. They like the relati...

Elder Oaks is one of the smartest of the general authorities. If you have spent time around him as some of us have, you realize that this fellow is- or has been brilliant. He really helped launch "Dialogue, a Journal of Mormon Thought". He has a fresh uncluttered mind then. Sweet man with a good hea...

Seems to me that religion in general has become popular with many small-minded folk. There are and have been many brilliant people in the church- JS being one and brother Brig. Smart. Although they, in my opinion, used the church and the membership to bolster their egos and take beautiful women to b...

I totally agree that temple work is pretty silly, though I hesitate to use that word, but I never bought into it. There are those who find a great deal of happiness though, feeling that they are doing something worthwhile and I am happy that they find happiness that way. As someone else said, the te...

Can't speak for the rest of you, but one of the things I found most hard to believe in regards to religion, was that there was a god that was happy to reward you if you were good, heaven, but just as willing to send you to an awful place, hot, brimstone, the devil, all the scary stuff- hell. Well I ...

Spent the last couple of days with a long-time friend. He's a lifelong Mormon, has never smoked, drank, all the no nos- he's stayed away from that. Pays tithing, has had plenty of callings. Super active guy his entire life. He never cheated on his wife, who he'd married in the temple over twenty fiv...

The saddest part about this article is not that the author built up the afterlife as something special, but how she managed, from the very beginning of the article, to run herself down by implying that she didn't quite measure up compared to the rest of the overachievers in her life. Pitiful. The th...

Now comes the difficult part for your friend. We know it all too well. 1. Family talks about you in hushed tones. They are sad you lost your way. 2. You find out about baby blessing, baptisms and the like after the fact. No point having you there if you can't participate. 3. Your neighbors are unabl...

It is difficult for me not to be cynical when it comes to certain Mormonistic points of view. First of all- the church seems to have left the curb some time ago, and has been walking the street of the "corporation". That means "pay to play". The temple. Pay at that window if you want in. Period. Of ...

We could all have some fun with this, but I'm going to keep it in a serious tone. First of all, I am encouraged by the movement in the LDS church with the "Just Serve" movement. I love it. We really don't need a church to advise us that our happiness depends on our willingness to serve our fellow hu...

First of all, how or why would an ambassador of peace, kindness, love and everything good want anyone to bow down to them? Perhaps the most revered and talked about, Jesus & Buddha would have none of that nonsense. Jesus was a Jew, lived among Jews, and yet he made it a point to include everyone and...

Well, I must say, I struggle to see how this could have much truth to it. Does not make sense. For one who has lived on the Hopi reservation and done work for and with the Hopis and the Tewas in Arizona for years this story sounds strange indeed. They are and have been a peace loving people for over...

Some years back, I sat in the congregation of a typical Priesthood meeting in a ward house. After the announcements and opening comments from a member of the bishopric, a young man, a boy really, a deacon, rose, approached the podium (we were in the chapel at the time), folded his arms, bowed his he...

Interesting question. Years ago, I stumbled upon a book written by Bart Ehrman called "Misquoting Jesus". I read the book through, and then again. According to him, the Bible was one huge contradiction. There was no evidence of any original script. No Pauline letters. No copies of original script. Y...

Great letter JustCurious. You've got my respect. Many years ago, when a friend of mine disassociated himself from the LDS church I asked him if he was still a member. He said that he'd not officially resigned, but that his membership did not exist on his own terms, and that he couldn't care less if ...

Nothing new here, same old worn out line, do as I say and you go to heaven, otherwise the devil has you in his evil clutches. Cast the blame on someone or something else. What were the lines of the folk song? "Go ahead and hate your neighbor, Go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of heaven,...

Just Curious wrote,"And remember, this applies to you, to me, and to everybody. We *all* believe we are 100% right, 100% of the time. And this, of course, creates quite a barrier in correcting our misconceptions about *anything*." With all do respect, I don't see it that way, whether or not you were...

Some good comments here, and I agree with all of them. I especially liked Moksha's short comment. The thing is, many of us were taught at an impressionable age, that we should avoid or correct any evil. We were told that we should avoid even the appearance of evil. We have heard the stories..."Don't...

All the religions that I've had anything to do with, and I will add to that, any society that I've been aware of, agrees that it is immoral, and basically wrong to lie about something, or to steal or cheat. Not only that, but once it is discovered that an untruth exists, moral people overwhelmingly ...