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- 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...
- 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.
- 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?
- 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...
- 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
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.
- 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?
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.NOMinally Mormon wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2017 1:03 pmI can't help but think getting all three degrees at BYU and then working there would lead to a myopic view.
- 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...
- 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?
- 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...
- Sat Jun 03, 2017 5:12 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Fawn Brodies book
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2704
- 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 ...
- 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.
BTW, there is no truth to the rumor that once Frodo arrived in Valinor he changed his name to Irving.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...