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+15 for Bacon Backdrop

-10 for "Beloved" RM
-20 for covenant path

+10 for mentioning that everyone deserves to be loved.

-5 for not clarifying what everyone means

-10 Holland for intimating that depression can be fixed by principles of righteousness.

Maybe God really does have a hand in some things about this church. I got to the thread late and was ready to offer advice on how to decline the offer, using the family filter caveat, which in my experience is nearly always respected. "I feel strongly this calling would not be good for my family rig...

I believe in a god and afterlife because I want to. I figure that some things are just worth believing in, and at this point it doesn't really matter whether or not they're true. I don't believe because I know it's true, but because I hope it's true. I want to live after I die, remember my experienc...

I pretty sure she was married to Raymond Bonnin.

She worked with William Hanson, but was never married to him.

Lenny "Little Lucifer" Didn't Keep His 1st Estate Devil: "Boss, we got Brother Brown to start looking at porn at work again, cheat on his taxes, and take the long way home past the strip joint. I'm sure if we keep up the pressure, he'll be smoking crack and pimping babies by the end of the year. You...

But, has the "anti Mormon" campaign really caught on? It seems like I hear the word "Mormon" used in local church and national media about as often as before.

Well, not that I have much of an inclination or good understanding of the man to defend him, but I imagine that if he publicly admitted he's wrong and gave up his tenuous toe hold as the church's Abraham expert, he'd be in danger of losing his tenure and retirement. I imagine that one could come up ...

I grew up with the rectangles and circles and wavy lines. I miss those. You start in a circle and go through the wavy line to another circle with the "you are here" sign. Eventually, you go through another wavy line to either the circle on the top or the circle on the bottom. The circle on top is be...

When it says "wine" in the BofM it really means grape juice because we know wine is bad and back then wine was really grape juice. Well, what about those times the BofM talks about people getting drunk on this "grape juice"? Oh that was really beer because they didn't have wine in the ancient Americ...

Thanks. I think I called the talk "top ten ways to be a member missionary" or something like that. One of the ways was clearly, "stop being a missionary." For some reason, it caught on for a while. I have difficulty believing the WML (me) was the primary reason the ward met the baptismal goals that ...

I accepted a call to be the WML after I was released from the bishopric several years ago and sorta in the beginning times of my serious disaffection. I told the bishop, you know me, you know that I hate missionary work and I would suck at this. To his credit, he sorta agreed but said he still wante...

Obviously there are at least two sides to every story, but in the version you've presented, your DW is selfish, judgmental, and emotionally very immature. Also probably carrying around a lot of anxiety. Her biggest concern is what the church neighbors will think? Not even that her family won't be to...

Very unlikely one bottle of Corona is any different than the next. Actually, Corona from a bottle is famous for being "off." Beer in clear bottles becomes "light-struck" or "skunked" when it gets exposed to sunlight. This is also why Corona is famous for being served with a lime-wedge: The lime cov...

I suspect that the weird taste with the last of your wife's Corona was because you were drinking the last little bit that was probably no longer cold. There's a big difference in the taste of ice cold beer and room temperature beer. Very unlikely one bottle of Corona is any different than the next. ...

And now he can't find an attorney to represent him. How many have quit? Five? Six? Seven? I heard one report that they've backed out because of his insistence on using the stolen election as part of his defense, of which there is no evidence. If there were even a little evidence, he'd have attorneys...

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Now Even the QAnon Shaman Disowns Trump: I Was Duped

Hindsight is a poor substitute for critical thinking. Hopefully millions of people are slowly coming to this realization.

The "Devil made me do it" defense.

When I find myself defending Nelson to these people, something really weird is happening in Zion. I remember when the Catholic church was The Great And Abominable. Now they are the LDS church's allies in "religious freedom." It is quite ironic when the apostates feel a sense of alliance with the ch...