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- Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:28 am
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Is Big Tech the new Church?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18064
Re: Is Big Tech the new Church?
I tuned into Alex Jones once or twice and the man was basically insane in my book, but he had more viewers than CNN on most given days. Reminded me of drivers bringing freeway traffic to a crawl by slowing down to look at a car crash. The car crash that is Alex Jones was finally towed for being a t...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:02 am
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Is Big Tech the new Church?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18064
Re: Is Big Tech the new Church?
If you are a conservative, you have been hearing about, and even experienced cyber-voice suppression. Like right now, Twitter has locked the New York Post account because they posted a negative story about Hunter Biden. Still locked after 8 days. There are thousands of other, smaller accounts that ...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:22 am
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Keeping up with Trump
- Replies: 984
- Views: 1289466
Re: Keeping up with Trump
They have fallen for the hucksterism of Trump and can't break their trance. Or are emotionally doubling-down in the face of facts, as many of us saw ourselves do when we were confronted with evidence that our religious convictions were misplaced. This statement is sort of what I have been battling ...
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:21 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Keeping up with Trump
- Replies: 984
- Views: 1289466
Re: Keeping up with Trump
So, don't think of us as "enablers" but rather as sponsors. The enablers I'm really trying to emphasize are the hypocritical politicians who sold their souls and dignity and still like to play at being Christians. They are not the "stupidest people on earth," just some of the most morally vacant. I...
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 3:23 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Keeping up with Trump
- Replies: 984
- Views: 1289466
Re: Keeping up with Trump
Who I do blame are the enablers. One of the misconceptions is that Trump somehow convinced us to support him. More toward the truth is that he represents us. Years ago, Trump said something to the effect that if he ever decided to run for president, he would run as a Republican because they were th...
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:30 am
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Is Big Tech the new Church?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18064
Is Big Tech the new Church?
If you are a conservative, you have been hearing about, and even experienced cyber-voice suppression. Like right now, Twitter has locked the New York Post account because they posted a negative story about Hunter Biden. Still locked after 8 days. There are thousands of other, smaller accounts that h...
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:27 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Keeping up with Trump
- Replies: 984
- Views: 1289466
Re: Keeping up with Trump
As a rabid Trump supporter, I've often wondered, sometimes aloud: Given all of the "crimes" that Trump has been accused of, how do you reconcile all of the violence, in the name of peace and justice that the Left and Radical Left have supported? Or the attacks on conservative women at the "Women Mar...
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:16 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Keeping up with Trump
- Replies: 984
- Views: 1289466
Re: Keeping up with Trump
Republicans come loaded with stories manufactured in Russia. Americans can listen to the horrors that Trump has tweeted, admitted to in news interviews, or from genuine investigative reporting by American reporters. None of that unslick disinformation from foreign governments wanting to preserve th...
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:50 am
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Keeping up with Trump
- Replies: 984
- Views: 1289466
Re: Keeping up with Trump
Republicans come loaded with stories manufactured in Russia. Americans can listen to the horrors that Trump has tweeted, admitted to in news interviews, or from genuine investigative reporting by American reporters. None of that unslick disinformation from foreign governments wanting to preserve th...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:04 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Keeping up with Trump
- Replies: 984
- Views: 1289466
Re: Keeping up with Trump
Oh, the Democrats did acknowledge him as the rightful president, but they recognized right from the start that he was corrupt, a rapist, and a wanna be dictator, so yeah they tried to get the a**hat out of office right from the beginning of January 2017. But there is BIG difference between recogniz...
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:09 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Disturbed by the First Vision Account
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3133
Re: Disturbed by the First Vision Account
Do you know the specific place you found this version? I'd like to do research on this. No. An old NOM guy, Seerstoned, pointed me to it. It was sort of a backdoor into the BYU database, because I cannot find it through the search engine. The link was in the old NOM but we lost that history, which ...
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:26 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Disturbed by the First Vision Account
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3133
Re: Disturbed by the First Vision Account
It's a lot of fun to speculate about mysterious powers influencing the minds of humans, but of course it is far more likely that Joseph Smith is fundamentally no different than the people who made up most religions: deceptive, deluded, or a combination of both. My testimony of Satan was the first b...
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 6:07 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Disturbed by the First Vision Account
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3133
Re: Disturbed by the First Vision Account
Oddly enough, I agree with the comments about Moroni. There is a different account of the story in the BYU archives that I found fascinating. Joseph Smith was young, a treasure hunter, and playing with old powers that most good Christians had discarded. He used divining rods, seer-stones, and other ...
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:22 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: What if?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8830
Re: What if?
I think there would be a half dozen Mormon guys claiming to be the new prophet before the end of the month. I support this theory 100%. In the 1880s, John Taylor was under a lot of pressure to dump the polygamy doctrine. He refused, and he died in hiding. Wilford Woodruff did dump it. John Taylor s...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:28 pm
- Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
- Topic: Death among us
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3909
Re: Death among us
Sorry, Anecdotes about your jeep are not convincing (for me at least.) Edit: And since I'm spewing about "Data and Facts" I saw the "overall excess death rate" in a video. Here's a quick screen-grab of the source for that for just the USA, and a direct link to the graph where you can get more info ...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 7:29 am
- Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
- Topic: Marital stress
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9114
Re: Marital stress
I've been away from UT about 25 years now. You can take the kid out of the cult, but you can't take the cult out the kid, eh? In my search for truth, I learned that what I THOUGHT was the truth, wasn't the truth at all. Like, you think, "did God really talk to a farm kid in NY? I mean, seriously, a ...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 6:51 am
- Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
- Topic: Death among us
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3909
Death among us
Actually, I'd like to see where S.P.G. got those "statistics." I've heard/seen the opposite: The actual overall death rate has increased, even though with the shutdowns, death rates have decreased in other areas, such as car accidents. (You should start a new thread S.P.G., so we quit jacking up jf...
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:35 am
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Keeping up with Trump
- Replies: 984
- Views: 1289466
Re: Keeping up with Trump
What happens if Trump loses and refuses to leave office? Just like from the beginning, people have to accept it or look like traitors. Winning elections gives him the right to occupy the office. Just like before, some people will have to get over it. Many of the left have defiled the idea of the "v...
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 12:33 pm
- Forum: Staying Faithful
- Topic: Philosopher AI's answer to: Who is God?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18017
Philosopher AI's answer to: Who is God?
I could have written this myself, and it is a small clip of what I believe. But for your entertainment, you can ask your philosophical question to this AI. It's sort of fun, though some of the answers are contradicting. https://philosopherai.com/ Who is God? God is not a being or a person. God does ...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:57 pm
- Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
- Topic: Really frustrated lately...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 18310
Re: Really frustrated lately...
Well... I, for one, would like S.P.G. to let us know what sort of answers/help "religion" has provided to help with the current pandemic? (Sorry, I couldn't stop my fingers.) I tell people, that if we knew what was out there, that could kill us everyday, we wouldn't leave our houses. The normal dea...