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- Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOMference Sunday afternoon Fall 2023
- Replies: 75
- Views: 17165
Re: NOMference Sunday afternoon Fall 2023
And, they have to have a gospel purpose. They can’t just be for social interaction. -613 I just felt like it needed a weird number, because it is a weird belief that socialization for itself has no purpose. Socialization is the gospel. It's a point leaders don't get. They're more concerned about sa...
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 1:55 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOMference Sunday afternoon Fall 2023
- Replies: 75
- Views: 17165
Re: NOMference Sunday afternoon Fall 2023
Resurrecting the don't say no to callings. -100
I mean, if people turn down a calling, maybe honor that or... gasp... ask them why or what their wishes are. Don't start up with the obligation garbage.
Have more activities. +50
"At little or no cost" -50
I mean, if people turn down a calling, maybe honor that or... gasp... ask them why or what their wishes are. Don't start up with the obligation garbage.
Have more activities. +50
"At little or no cost" -50
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 10:18 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOMference Sunday morning Fall 2023
- Replies: 71
- Views: 15634
Re: NOMference Sunday morning Fall 2023
I'm beyond it but his talk will hurt a lot of people.
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NOMference Sunday morning Fall 2023
- Replies: 71
- Views: 15634
Re: NOMference Sunday morning Fall 2023
-500 for Uchtdorf or however many points it takes to ensure he goes negative. His talk will absolutely be weaponized.
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:45 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Are you ready for Moroni Day?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13935
Re: Are you ready for Moroni Day?
Someone should do a Jan 6th montage with that song. Captain Moroni's Lament.Linked wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 9:46 amMy favorite Moroni Day tradition is putting on brown-face and watching the Moroni's Lament music video, by "I Heard Him Come" writer Jeff Goodrich.
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:43 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Are you ready for Moroni Day?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13935
Re: Are you ready for Moroni Day?
What are our favorite Moroni Day traditions and foods? https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/5dbccf65-e657-49e1-a0fb-8fbc8e9a4094/d3gb9i1-68559fae-3632-43f4-980c-4204622fa9a0.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhM...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 3:34 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Bednar dedication of the Smith home
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12121
Re: Bednar dedication of the Smith home
Jesus didn't tell parents to do that until he told Joseph Smith.This home was a place where they obeyed the commands that the Lord recently had given to parents: to teach their children the gospel and bring them up in light and truth.
Was it also the house where the Lord revealed sliced bread?
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:01 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15000
Re: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
I wish I could remember a few specifics. It's been about 10 years since I've done an endowment session and the memories fade. The insights I had were never anything amazing. At first learning something each time meant I got a little farther with memorizing the presentation at the veil. After that it...
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 12:41 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15000
Re: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
As a full believer it never felt like I was making things up, it felt like I was discovering the deep hidden meanings buried in things where the meaning was there all along just waiting for me to discover it. Reflecting back I can say that the ordinances in the temple have little intrinsic meaning. ...
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:36 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15000
Re: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
I'm a convert, so I wasn't bone-weary of the Sunday School lessons by the time I went to the temple for my endowments. Sure, it was just a retelling of everything you hear during Sunday School, but it didn't elicit the, "not this again" reaction that it would elicit from me today. I 110% bought into...
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:09 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15000
Re: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
I'll start off with a tangent. What is the policy for when a person is eligible to receive their endowment and is that policy different for men and women? Back in the day when I received my endowment, women generally couldn't receive their endowment unless they were getting married or serving a miss...
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:45 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Returning Missionary Procedures
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12926
Re: Returning Missionary Procedures
I only made it about 12 seconds into the ETB video. I got what I needed out of it before the lights in the background dimmed. I know there are other videos of general conference during that era that do a better job of showing it but that video was another reminder that there was more individuality b...
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:38 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: A Reasonable God?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 50585
Re: A Reasonable God?
He rationalized that God was just waiting for the time when the (99.9%) white membership would accept black people into full fellowship- any earlier and many white people would have left the Church over the acceptance of black people. And yet people that use that argument seldom like it when you ex...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 12:51 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Returning Missionary Procedures
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12926
Re: Returning Missionary Procedures
I have never heard of that.
I don't know the procedures for such things but I would have thought that if a missionary had done something that required a "church court" that they would have been sent home for the council to be held in their home stake.
I don't know the procedures for such things but I would have thought that if a missionary had done something that required a "church court" that they would have been sent home for the council to be held in their home stake.
- Wed Jul 19, 2023 1:42 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The Cost of a Janitor
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13291
Re: The Cost of a Janitor
One hundred and one billion. That's why we don't have them yet.
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:11 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: How inspired was Paul from a Mormon perspective?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6852
Re: How inspired was Paul from a Mormon perspective?
Grace/faith vs. obedience/works is a debate that's been raging for much longer than Mormonism has been a thing. There's an acknowledgement that Christ's atonement is vital, it's impossible to be saved without the grace of that act, but also a built-in response to a logical conclusion; if we're saved...
- Sun Jul 16, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: After 10+ years inactive, I decided to return for good
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12998
Re: After 10+ years inactive, I decided to return for good
Honestly, I dread the idea of being on my death bed, having denied God because I got doubtful about church money, controversies, contradictions, church history, while denying all the good blessings I had received as a believer. Maybe denying god is closer to not getting upset by financial misdeeds,...
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:55 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: We do not feel that we’re obligated to fill in that box.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1624
Re: We do not feel that we’re obligated to fill in that box.
If that's the case then presumably they would have left the box empty. They didn't. They wrote a misleading number in that box.It was simply meant to communicate that we do not feel that we’re obligated to fill in that box.
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:53 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Decline of Mormonism in USA
- Replies: 7
- Views: 824
Re: Decline of Mormonism in USA
The article brings this point up; the GOP has a Mormon problem and the Mormons have GOP problem. It's tough to feel any sense of belonging with my church community when the line between politics and religion are nonexistent. Not only do you have to contend with the constant loyalty tests to church, ...
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 1:08 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: After 10+ years inactive, I decided to return for good
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12998
Re: After 10+ years inactive, I decided to return for good
I'll echo others, I'm glad you found your niche. I began to see very good people. I began to see beauty in the missionaries, and other faithful members and I realize that those ARE good people. In the outside world, I often ran into a lot of crap, crappy people, backstabbers, liars, and even stupid....