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I live in a mini-Utah. During the Manhattan project a lot of Mormons moved up here to work at the reactors. These same people stuck around during the cold war and a thriving LDS community has built up in our area. Any area outside of the Tri-Cities area in Washington you get much lower populations o...

[funny story] I emphasized grace in gospel doctrine and a member said, "What you are saying makes no sense. If I work an entire day and you work a half a day, God wouldn't pay us the same". I offended him in my response: I thought he was joking and I laughed. In that same lesson, we covered the para...

Yesterday I attended an annual breakfast for Independence Day. It is put on by my mother's ward who is very welcoming and loving towards me, despite my resignation of membership. These are families I grew up with, and while many other wards in the stake are weary of me, this ward is not. I go to two...

I guess this is where mental gymnastics begin

Absolutely.

The episode could have been an hour shorter. I agree with Matt, get out. Don't stay and try to change, get out. However, the viewpoint is too simplistic if the consequence of leaving is too high. There are many on this board who remain because the alternative is divorce. I've been there. The day my ...

Most of Christianity (Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicans, and some Lutherans) do have a form of elevated status for those to look to for a more personal touch in their religion. While some forms of Christianity (Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy) do practice veneration (bowing a cro...

"Discretion and respect for temple ordinances prevents me from mentioning what occurs in a prayer circle, but in my opinion, it would not look out of place in other Christian gatherings" I also found this quote interesting. The prayer circle would be quite out of place in most Christian gatherings....

When we left the church, it was difficult because of so many kind people that surrounded us in Mormonism. Our home teacher in particular was never a traditional home teacher. He genuinely loved and served his families even though he never showed up a single month to teach a lesson. He was there to s...

You don't understand. To them, the talk of how awesome the leaders are, how amazing temples are, why tithing is important, why the WoW is critical, etc. are all, to them the very same thing as talking about Jesus. I know you wrote [/sarcasm] at the end (and with the entirety of the statement it wou...

I'm ignorant when it comes to medical things, but my heart is with you and your mother.

My thoughts on the OP: I know a few people who have been persecuted for their religious beliefs: my mother had her clothes ripped off in public when leaving an LDS meeting house in the 1970s so they could see her Mormon underwear (she wasn't endowed yet), my priest received death threats for standi...

LDS interpretation of scripture is one of linking no matter how weak the link may be. Linking the words in a late-D&C scripture to a 3,500 year old document from an ancient civilization with nothing in common with 19th century US culture is completely valid. Most of the local LDS scripture gurus wer...

By their 4-6 children under 10-years-old shall ye know them. Not anymore, in my community I see more non-LDS people than LDS people. I wonder if the millennials are creating a mini-baby-boom right now. Everyone has a bunch of kids in tow. "By their frizzy hair shall ye know them" (Idaho Mormon wome...

I thought it was funny, too. It reminded me much of the old bash.org.

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Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:01 pm

Satan rules the water!

You win the Internet! Audible laugh that called over my TBM coworker who also laughed hard at it.

Mormons generally do accept that doing things under the advice of a medical professional is OK. However, this is not always true when it comes to some things: - I have a single LDS friend with a twisted tube in his plumbing. It infects very easily and his doctor has told him repeatedly that he needs...

Me too! And I have to give some thanks to Stanley Kubrick for that.

And Wendy Carlos.

When I was in college I got into Max Weber's writings. One in particular fascinated me, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". In there, he talks at length about the development of modern capitalism naturally growing out of the Protestant work ethic, where labor and work is seen as a s...

I worked for other churches for a number of years while still LDS. The last couple of years before we exited I was mentally out but still attended to help my spouse. My then-wife was quite afraid of those churches and I finally told her, "Why don't you just come to one of their services? You'll see ...

I'm putting this in a separate post because I feel it is a completely different thought. I see the resolution of conflict between rationalism and spirituality exemplified in improvised music. Music is a highly rational discipline. Rules of harmony have been developed over centuries and actually have...