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- Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: The Mormon church is looking to crack down on... garments?!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 747
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:44 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: The Mormon church is looking to crack down on... garments?!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 747
Re: The Mormon church is looking to crack down on... garments?!
The people that are more casual about garment wearing (their target audience) is already beyond the reach of such messages. I suppose this is the predictable phase one, orthodox leaders pounding the rules. If that effort fails, maybe we'll see a phase two where they soften the policies to make it lo...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:49 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: GC wish list !!!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 442
Re: GC wish list !!!
I'll do my usual prediction that's a play on a quote from Groundhog Day. I'll give you a conference prediction: It's gonna be derivative, it's gonna be boring, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life. The only thing anyone can currently guess is that women are going to be eternally pregnan...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 4:21 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: no NOMfrence?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 231
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:03 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Doubt
- Replies: 8
- Views: 275
Re: Doubt
"There are large trees called Indian laurel... Recently many of these trees were attacked by a disease... When this fungus attacks, the effects are not seen for some years. However, the fungus gradually rots the roots of those beautiful trees, and they begin to die... and the trees must be cut down...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Declining callings and talks is getting easier for me
- Replies: 14
- Views: 349
Re: Declining callings and talks is getting easier for me
I flux in and out of it being easy to decline invitations. I was good for a while but let my guard down, so I currently hold a calling. :) It can be tough. Some leaders like to pull out all the stops. It's like the opposite of that episode of The Office where Ryan uses up all the excuses. I can't. I...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: 9 stories from those who returned to the faith
- Replies: 9
- Views: 365
Re: 9 stories from those who returned to the faith
We might start with a simple belief as a child, but at some point that childlike faith faces questions and concerns. While our untested faith may have served well as a spiritual foundation, we must now move from simple faith through complexity to mature faith that is able to withstand future challe...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: The church and Equal Rights for women
- Replies: 15
- Views: 498
Re: The church and Equal Rights for women
Can someone please remind me of the church’s stance on ERA from the 1970s and if the stance has changed since then? I haven't researched it and my credit card was declined at the holiday inn but from what I remember the opposition was something along the lines of: 1) Women are already equals, they ...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 5:23 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: A Uchtdorf rise to the Prophetic throne is reasonable.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12071
Re: A Uchtdorf rise to the Prophetic throne is reasonable.
Richard G. Scott never remarried. There may be others but that's the off of the top of my head answer.
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 8:23 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: New Apostle
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2241
Re: New Apostle
They've probably already submitted some names for K&M to thoroughly vet.
If there's a conflict between who the prophet wants and who passes the background checks, who wins? Who calls an apostle in the modern church, the sitting prophet or the lawyers?
If there's a conflict between who the prophet wants and who passes the background checks, who wins? Who calls an apostle in the modern church, the sitting prophet or the lawyers?
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:07 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: My donation history
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1705
Re: My donation history
I am wondering why it only goes back to 2013. Do they artificially cap visibility to your donations at 10 years, or is it something else? I've checked my donation history from time to time over the years. My experience is that there's a 10 year cap on how far back you can go. Next year you'll only ...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 4:29 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Primary Program 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1696
Re: Primary Program 2023
... faithfully repeating someone else's beliefs until they are your beliefs ... Oof. Now I know how to describe what church meetings are like to all my never-Mo friends. :P I'm thread-jacking at this point but if that's what church meetings boil down to, it's a shame we spend all our time repeating...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 2:34 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Joins Christianity
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2225
Re: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Joins Christianity
Yet I would not be truthful if I attributed my embrace of Christianity solely to the realisation that atheism is too weak and divisive a doctrine to fortify us against our menacing foes. People worried about "menacing foes" probably do need religion... or are unable to completely divorce themselves...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 5:19 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Primary Program 2023
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1696
Re: Primary Program 2023
The adults lost their minds over it though. It frustrates me how these grown women and men draw so much meaning from kids doing what they were trained to do. The kids say the words that were written for them by these same adults. And somehow that makes the church true *sob* and in good hands *sob* ...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:06 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Elder Ballard gives tithing records to Tim Ballard
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2325
Re: Elder Ballard gives tithing records to Tim Ballard
Church leaders earned their reputation, whatever that reputation might be. “President Ballard has never released tithing records to Operation Underground Railroad or any other organization,” the church spokesman said. The following could be realities that would still make that statement technically ...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:14 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: One more thread severed: ministering
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2086
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 6:40 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Church Member Records
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3164
Re: Church Member Records
It might not have been an annotation. When a member transfers to a ward the bishop is instructed to contact the member's prior bishop to get all the dirt on them. From the current handbook in section 33.6: Sometimes a member has not lived in the same ward continuously for at least one year. In that ...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 10:49 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: 36 new missions created - why?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3180
Re: 36 new missions created - why?
Some of that growth is natural, more missionaries means more missions. I'm assuming that 36 new missions all at once is far and above the natural growth rate. Leaders have lots of statistics in front of them and I'm guessing that one of them is telling them that lots of kids are leaving the church a...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 10:21 am
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: The Reality of Woke Ideology
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3272
Re: The Reality of Woke Ideology
Information silos are just a means of surrounding oneself with what one wants to hear and repeating nonsense back to people who want to hear it. Once I read a thread a person here created that was very close to what you describe. The only difference was that the nonsense was repeated back to people...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Martin Harris- why did Jos. Smith trust him with the 116 pages?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5583
Re: Martin Harris- why did Jos. Smith trust him with the 116 pages?
I don't know whether Joseph Smith trusted Harris. He may have felt obligated because Harris was bankrolling the operation. Harris may have threatened to pull funding after the first several rejections.