Search found 5049 matches

by moksha
Wed Jun 07, 2017 3:26 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Took a Calling & Regret Decision...What Next?
Replies: 18
Views: 11054

Re: Took a Calling & Regret Decision...What Next?

1. If teaching a lesson, teach it in the way you think it should be taught. 2. Bargain with your husband so he feels that it will be okay just to attend once in a blue moon. 3. Remember you are a Child of God and not bound by the philosophies and superstitions of this peculiar group of men and women...
by moksha
Wed Jun 07, 2017 12:19 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Change in Google ADs?
Replies: 10
Views: 6768

Re: Change in Google ADs?

I think with all the search manipulation know-how available to the Church, you might need to click on page 2000 for the really juicy stuff like NOM 2.0.
by moksha
Wed Jun 07, 2017 12:13 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: oK Everyone....it would suck to be a GA
Replies: 50
Views: 33772

Re: oK Everyone....it would suck to be a GA

When it says General Authority base living allowance, does that mean the starting allowance increased in increments with of position and seniority? On top of that would be the parsonage addition and perhaps other things like royalties, performance bonuses and corporate dividends?
by moksha
Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:57 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Things Men Sometimes Say to Women
Replies: 41
Views: 18081

Re: Things Men Sometimes Say to Women

Here is a somewhat positive story coming out of Salt Lake. During their annual LGBT Pride Parade, a Salt Lake City man set a new world's record by sticking his head in the cotton candy machine till he had a creation three feet high. Flavors ran from bubble gum to raspberry. http://www.sltrib.com/csp...
by moksha
Sun Jun 04, 2017 10:22 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: oK Everyone....it would suck to be a GA
Replies: 50
Views: 33772

Re: oK Everyone....it would suck to be a GA

Give It Time wrote:
Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:45 am
The Q15 go to tithing settlement.
I've read various accounts of the Brethren being exempt from tithing in the sense that it would be like robbing Lucky Luciano to pay Joe Bonano. I guess going to tithing settlement would be more than just for show.
by moksha
Sun Jun 04, 2017 8:00 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Why is it all really just nepotism?
Replies: 12
Views: 7627

Re: Why is it all really just nepotism?

NOMinally Mormon wrote:
Sun May 28, 2017 1:03 pm
I can't help but think getting all three degrees at BYU and then working there would lead to a myopic view.
This wouldn't stop US News and World Report from giving BYU a top ranking. They favor any school that is private, it is part of their social philosophy.
by moksha
Sun Jun 04, 2017 7:30 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Exclusion of Girls from Mission Prep Class?
Replies: 11
Views: 4976

Re: Exclusion of Girls from Mission Prep Class?

This class is offered during the Sunday School portion of the service. The 17-year-old would rather have attended the missionary prep class than being in the young women's group where the next oldest girl was 14. Found a website talking about the mission prep class that displayed a picture of both b...
by moksha
Sun Jun 04, 2017 6:00 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Exclusion of Girls from Mission Prep Class?
Replies: 11
Views: 4976

Re: Exclusion of Girls from Mission Prep Class?

I hope the answer to this question is not sacred and secret because I would really like to know whether this class should actually be open to young women wishing to pursue a mission. Is it a church-wide policy to exclude mission bound girls?
by moksha
Sun Jun 04, 2017 3:25 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Exclusion of Girls from Mission Prep Class?
Replies: 11
Views: 4976

Exclusion of Girls from Mission Prep Class?

I am asking this question for a 17-year-old girl who is new to the ward. She was directed to a Sunday School class for boys ages 12-14 and all the young women combined. The boys over age 14 were sent to the Mission Prep Class. She was told it was for boys only. What's the scoop with this discriminat...
by moksha
Sat Jun 03, 2017 5:12 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Fawn Brodies book
Replies: 4
Views: 2704

Re: Fawn Brodies book

Rob4Hope wrote:
Sat Jun 03, 2017 7:25 am
Biggest reaction I have is during the pre-Carthage chapters, where the Expositor was written.
Is that the one where he lambasted the "fake news" and tweeted out that no one has ever been treated as badly as himself?
by moksha
Sat Jun 03, 2017 5:07 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: An Invitation To The Visiting Teachers
Replies: 14
Views: 7011

Re: An Invitation To The Visiting Teachers

This is just my personal thought. I would love it if my home teachers would come visit me. Haven't had a formal visit since December of 2015. Come see if I am still alive. It would be nice if you had a lesson, but that is not necessary. Even a five-minute visit would be appreciated - we could shake ...
by moksha
Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:00 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Is Immanuel really a name for Jesus?
Replies: 8
Views: 4535

Re: Is Immanuel really a name for Jesus?

When Frodo became the ring-bearer, his name still was Frodo - even though he became the savior of Middle Earth. Hope that helps.

BTW, there is no truth to the rumor that once Frodo arrived in Valinor he changed his name to Irving.
by moksha
Thu Jun 01, 2017 6:19 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: The fading LDS Eschatology
Replies: 7
Views: 4216

Re: The fading LDS Eschatology

That painting of Joseph Smith, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Humphrey Bogart all sitting in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, located on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, during Ragnarok really makes you stop and think.
by moksha
Thu Jun 01, 2017 2:00 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Church returns $150,000
Replies: 2
Views: 2096

Church returns $150,000

The church had been sued in federal court by the court-appointed receiver of the DeYoungs' company, American Pension Services, for return of $239,755 in donations (from $25 million in stolen retirement funds). The LDS Church has agreed to return $150,000 of the tithing received. http://www.sltrib.c...
by moksha
Wed May 31, 2017 6:27 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: My best friend under threat
Replies: 17
Views: 8793

Re: My best friend under threat

Here is the proper link, I hope: http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2017/05/consolidation-of-church-units-some-reflections/ Whenever members are abandoned in such a manner, are they ever redirected to a spiritual home at another faith tradition when travel to an alternative LDS unit is not fe...
by moksha
Wed May 31, 2017 6:13 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Things Men Sometimes Say to Women
Replies: 41
Views: 18081

Re: Things Men Sometimes Say to Women

"What do you know about that anyway?" (Said by a real estate agent after I asked whether the studs in a house were 18 on center or 24 on center). I think you mean 16 on center or 24 on center ;) The salesman could have been inquiring as to whether she wished to have the house collapse on someone sh...
by moksha
Wed May 31, 2017 4:12 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: When did religion start and what is its purpose?i
Replies: 21
Views: 11743

Re: When did religion start and what is its purpose?i

LaMachina wrote:
Wed May 31, 2017 9:06 am
Lol, I think we can all agree, the USC trojans are a bunch of troglodytes. ;)
I've always been curious at to where the UCLA students get that oversized latex product they sometimes slip over the head of the Tommy Trojan statue before the big football game.
by moksha
Wed May 31, 2017 1:02 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Religion's Vital Role? What About the LDS Role?
Replies: 13
Views: 7829

Re: Religion's Vital Role? What About the LDS Role?

I think I understand Elder Oaks argument. If religion has the freedom to promote change that benefits humanity, it should also be accorded the freedom to oppose change that benefits humanity. So where Desmond Tutu, Mother Teresa, and William Wilberforce exist, there should also be their religious co...
by moksha
Wed May 31, 2017 12:54 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: When did religion start and what is its purpose?i
Replies: 21
Views: 11743

Re: When did religion start and what is its purpose?i

I suspect they had an animistic religion in the Indus River Valley around 8000 BCE. Most likely they paid reverence to whatever they thought could help them survive. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/f2/fe/47/f2fe47b3abd432c2988e8cfe84b281c4.jpg Hopefully, these early religionists brought an...
by moksha
Tue May 30, 2017 5:59 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: When did religion start and what is its purpose?i
Replies: 21
Views: 11743

Re: When did religion start and what is its purpose?i

The moment in our evolution (argued to be about 70,000 BCE) where our brains developed the capacity for fiction or "imagined realities" as he calls it. I imagine that musically our Sapiens ancestors had a different sense of rhythm than the Neanderthals. We might have started with a one and a two, w...