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Maybe the validation email should just be a message that says: "You are good enough, you are smart enough, and doggone it, people like you!" With all due respect to Stuary Smalley, that might be too much of a shock directed towards someone coming from a devout LDS culture. In all fairness, I have h...

I don't know who created this, but it's a brilliant summation of what LDS leadership is worried about.

I think Hales defense of marriages for eternity is actually far worse than what he denies. Hale's defense of "marriage for eternity only" is a really painful concept. I cannot conceive of this getting taught in general conference or in a church manual. Instead it just sits as a rickety shim to prop...

I would temper your hopes with this leak as amusing as it might be. Think about this: Despite the overwhelming evidence against Scientology and being far more oppressive and evil than LDS Inc, the Scientology organization still has thousands of devotees and lots of money. Belief and faith are persis...

I think Friday at Portillo's is a great way to kick off a new round of Phoenix NOM lunches. How about this:

Date: Friday, November 21
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: Portillo's

Portillo's is on the North East corner of Rio Salado and McClintock in Tempe.

wtfluff wrote:

Korihor wrote:I volunteer to represent the accused in any DC's.

I'll bring mild barley drinks to the DC's.

Forget that. I'm having cocktails after my DC.

They can say that the various version should not challenge your testimony. Indeed, we have plenty of scholars and apologists who confidently proclaim that. But would they allow unfettered discussion and critical examination of each version of the First Vision? Hilariously and ironically, the article...

My mother has cans and cans of spam in her food storage. As kids, we took the "keys" off the cans because they made great lock picking tools for the bedroom doors. To this day we still give my mom a hard time for keeping those spam cans for 20+ years. She always reminds us we can come over to eat d...

Funeral potatoes are no joke. My ward does a really nice Christmas dinner for a family shelter that focuses on job training and money management skills. It's actually a really good program and I am certifiably happy that my ward contributes. The organizers of the shelter have annually asked for our ...

I listened to half of it so far. It's a very dense coverage of the issue with lots of details in place. The apologetic response is usually that Sylvia considered Josephine to be sealed as Joseph's daughter but no naughtiness occurred. The whole situation is complicated and easily ignored by the fait...

Yes, it has been a while. What are some good days that you are available?

I have been manually validating logins. I think that spam filters are catching a lot. Brand new domain names like "newordermormon.net" are often flagged as "suspicious" because spam and malware frequently are pushed from new domain names after older names get shut down. Plus, I don't know who or wha...

Zadok wrote:So, you have a new world here, patterned after the old one.....

You need to partake of this fruit here... Now go get Adam to partake!

There is no doubt that Lucifer gets all the good lines. And I'm so glad to see you back here.

The "uniqueness" and "goodness" of the church are not appreciated by non-members. What does the LDS church have left if it gives up the "one true church upon the face of the earth" idea along with exclusive priesthood power for essential ordinances of salvation?

MyTurn wrote:Well..call it what you want..I am ready!! New here on this board..hope no one minds!!

We're glad to have you here

Oliver started posting his thoughts on reddit.com/r/NOMforum. I would be honored if he would copy them to NOM.

Yobispo wrote:I love you guys, and reddit ain't the same. It's fun and I can swear more, but NOM is home.

I'm inclined to allow PG-13 level swearing in Support. In any case, if anyone is having trouble with the email registration, contact me at nom@tranzatec.net.

Korihor wrote:Has it a name?

It has (and it's SSL encrypted).

Hagoth wrote:MDB says "Maximum dimensions; width: 120 pixels, height: 120 pixels, file size: 976.56 KiB." Ours says "6.00KiB"

I don't know how you got your avatar into that small of a package, Corsair. My smallest tapir image is 28Kb

Good point. I changed the size to 180x180 and 56kb.

testmod, you're a xxxx! I knew you would vote that way!

Moderated: cease your poor language