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by Cnsl1
Sun Oct 15, 2023 12:01 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Fight The New Drug
Replies: 138
Views: 89894

Re: Fight The New Drug

Thank you very much, Hagoth. Also, I apologize for messing up the quotations. This is incredibly interesting research. I do remember now the study examining mostly returned missionaries. The similarities and yet clear differences in religiousity and spirituality resounds loudly with me, and supports...
by Cnsl1
Sat Oct 14, 2023 4:10 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Fight The New Drug
Replies: 138
Views: 89894

Re: Fight The New Drug

Hagoth, please don't tease with tantalizing tidbits of neuropsych research without giving sources where we can find such succulent morsels. Oh my great God of wonder, research that suggests that the opposite of religious thinking is spirituality? I am aware of studies looking at brain areas that act...
by Cnsl1
Tue Oct 10, 2023 11:44 pm
Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
Topic: How do you get your spouse to see that people can still be good after leaving the church?
Replies: 38
Views: 48509

Re: How do you get your spouse to see that people can still be good after leaving the church?

When people leave, it naturally opens up other behavioral options they may have not previously considered. Most people, anyway. Very very few leave so they can participate in the other behavioral options without being encumbered with guilt or whatever, but the vast majority who leave do so through ...
by Cnsl1
Mon Oct 09, 2023 1:14 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Israel
Replies: 18
Views: 9392

Re: Israel

And yet in church today I heard a talk about gathering Israel. I kid you not. Today. No mention of the Hamas attack on Israel in church. Not even in a prayer. Just how we gotta get the work of gathering Israel. Can we not see the how stupid that sounds? Especially right now. Especially when what we ...
by Cnsl1
Mon Oct 09, 2023 1:04 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Most significant spiritual failures.
Replies: 15
Views: 6813

Re: Most significant spiritual failures.

wtfluff wrote:
Sun Oct 08, 2023 8:24 pm
Is an "angel with a drawn sword" similar/comparable to the Holy the Ghost?
I always thought the angel with the drawn sword was Wholly Shit.
by Cnsl1
Sat Sep 30, 2023 5:07 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: NOMference Saturday afternoon Fall 2023
Replies: 69
Views: 16295

Re: NOMference Saturday afternoon Fall 2023

I'm not trying to be funny or anything, but has there been a single talk yet this conference that doesn't quote Rusty? Is this a new requirement? If you are going to speak in conference you better find away to include Rusty in the talk. Sheesh! Not that I typically read an email from the ward EQ Pr...
by Cnsl1
Sat Sep 30, 2023 4:35 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: NOMference Saturday morning Fall 2023
Replies: 69
Views: 15390

Re: NOMference Saturday morning Fall 2023

MoPag wrote:
Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:34 am
His name is Daines. really good talk.
Could it be Jim McMahon's ex in law?
by Cnsl1
Tue Sep 26, 2023 1:41 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Making your own Dietary Regulations
Replies: 3
Views: 12043

Re: Making your own Dietary Regulations

Exercise
Lots of plants
Grass fed beef
Fish
Some whole grains
Beer
Margaritas
Small doses of THC/CBD candy
Dark chocolate
Lots of water
by Cnsl1
Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:03 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Garments always hanging out and it drives me nuts
Replies: 21
Views: 19184

Re: Garments always hanging out and it drives me nuts

I feel for ya'll. Been there, worn that. So glad my wife and I no longer wear them. She will still wear them to church at times, and when I go, I will usually wear at least the top garm, as it's relatively comfortable under a long sleeve white shirt. Nothing special to me, just a while t shirt that ...
by Cnsl1
Wed Sep 20, 2023 1:39 am
Forum: Support
Topic: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
Replies: 33
Views: 15068

Re: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?

But, was anyone else ever confused about what exactly the "token" was? In a masonic ritual, a token must be performed by two people. So the sign is the little micro-dance you do with the positions of you arms and hands (bent to the square, cupped...) and the token is the actual handshake. Oh yeah! ...
by Cnsl1
Sat Sep 16, 2023 4:00 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
Replies: 33
Views: 15068

Re: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?

It's been years since I've done a session. Still... I think I can remember the first and second tokens of the Aaronic Priesthood, and the first and second tokens of the Melchizedek Priesthood with their accompanying names and signs. But, was anyone else ever confused about what exactly the "token" w...
by Cnsl1
Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:02 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Past Stance Against Christianity
Replies: 10
Views: 8394

Re: Past Stance Against Christianity

I remember feeling very surprised by the preacher dude the first time I went through the temple, and was happy when he was taken out of subsequent temple videos. It seemed very clear to me that the preacher represented ALL the other Protestant Christian sects and that Satan was behind it all, and th...
by Cnsl1
Thu Sep 14, 2023 4:00 am
Forum: Support
Topic: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
Replies: 33
Views: 15068

Re: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?

I remember being a bit startled that Satan in the live session wore a black suit. I just wasn't used to anyone wearing anything but white in the temple. The one live session I attended was pretty fun because it was different. But it was also kinda weird; when you take the same lines and you remove t...
by Cnsl1
Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:57 am
Forum: Support
Topic: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
Replies: 33
Views: 15068

Re: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?

I learned a lot in the temple. The first time through, I learned that it was a bit underwhelming and weird. I didn't learn anything new, really, except my new name and that pregnancy was painful for women because Eve ate the fruit first, but the second time I learned that Eve was the smarter one aft...
by Cnsl1
Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:32 am
Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
Topic: Lying
Replies: 13
Views: 13935

Re: Lying

Not to take away from Alas's sound advice, but if you want to do something bad enough you will do it, and deal with the consequences. You want to try beer but don't want to do it behind her back. So you bring it up, she recoils. She asks you never to do it. You don't. Is your marriage really better?...
by Cnsl1
Wed Aug 16, 2023 5:44 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Gavin Newsom is more in tune with God’s will
Replies: 20
Views: 19972

Re: Gavin Newsom is more in tune with God’s will

Good lord... The folks I was referring to, and I do know some, are inching their way out of the church because they, if I understand their position correctly, feel the current leadership is too liberal in some areas and are becoming more "mainstream" and tolerant while the constitution begins to han...
by Cnsl1
Mon Aug 14, 2023 5:44 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Everything scary was invented by The Church
Replies: 22
Views: 12608

Re: Everything scary was invented by The Church

I agree with all ya'll... the only exception I can think of is Bigfoot. I watched The Legend of Boggy Creek when I was a kid and it scared me. I remember hearing that hairy monster's footsteps following me after I finished the chores in the barn one evening while I was running back to the house. Luc...
by Cnsl1
Mon Aug 14, 2023 5:24 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: The Cost of a Janitor
Replies: 28
Views: 13337

Re: The Cost of a Janitor

[If you are disabled, elderly, or permanently handicapped in any way - there is no support for you from the church. Do you think that comes from the LDS interpretation of Jesus's message to help, or from LDS political conservatism "to be not of the world but rather emulated dog eat dog in the world...
by Cnsl1
Mon Aug 14, 2023 5:16 am
Forum: Support
Topic: NOM for Thee, NOM for He, or NOM for me?
Replies: 40
Views: 17995

Re: NOM for Thee, NOM for He, or NOM for me?

The hateful NOM described by some has not been my experience. In some ways, I feel that the experience anyone has with a group of people reflects the attitudes and personality of the person having the experience. That we change the dynamics of the group and the effect the group has on us by the vari...
by Cnsl1
Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:38 pm
Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
Topic: How do you get your spouse to see that people can still be good after leaving the church?
Replies: 38
Views: 48509

Re: How do you get your spouse to see that people can still be good after leaving the church?

I totally understand the wife's concern. In the Mormon world view, leaving the church equates to losing the spirit and being unprotected from the machinations of the adversary. From this perspective, people can be good before they have the gospel, but not completely happy. Once they have it then lea...