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I think that God has always been omniscient, just like your parents when you are 2. The only difference is that most people end up realizing that their parents actually are not perfect but many remain convinced that their God is. My position is that either God doesn't exist, or else He is imperfect ...

Imagine that every weekend is General Conference. Except that it is a higher celestial law of General Conference, which has 3 sessions every day except Sunday, which has only 2. Women's session is on Monday morning at 6AM, and Priesthood sessions are 6PM Tue-Sat. Instead of angels wearing white robe...

The wheat and tares is a parable about the Church. And we used to sing about it!
https://www.hymnwiki.org/Though_in_the_ ... urch_Below

moksha wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 10, 2017 10:11 pm

ulmite wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 10, 2017 8:47 pm

Another take on the subject : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74sA0GrjicI

Good thing the video maker stopped short of the oval Nephi cutting Laban into another geometric shape.

I believe truncate is the word you are looking for.

Another take on the subject : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74sA0GrjicI

t~7min : I decide not to add more fuel to the fire by asking whether or not JS would have given to priesthood to blacks and women had he been born in the year 2000. I loved reading your entire post....good for you! I wish I could have been there :) I also wanted to point out that JS did give the pr...

So I am in a ward now where I will not be long-term, so I can safely burn any bridges I want to :twisted: After today, I am probably outed as a dangerous quasi-apostate, and so I will probably just make a habit of popping out heresy for my last two weeks in the ward. Let me know what you think about...

I think it sounds like he cares about you and is scared of you being outed as a taboo breaker when you go out in public like that.
Adding the high emotions of a faith transition makes that fear grow stronger instead of being bludgeoned by reason.

My two cents of amateur psychology.

If you believe the church is 51% bad and 50% good then you are wrong. Mathematically speaking. For much the same reasons as alas, I will not pay one cent to the Church until it fixes the horrible way it treats oh, over 52% of its members, very cautiously assuming perfect gender parity and 4% of all...

This comes at a time when a survey last week by the Public Religion Research Institute revealed that 37% of Mormons support same-sex marriage, with the bulk of that support coming from younger Mormons. I imagine Savannah's treatment will help serve as a dividing wedge between their own belief in so...

What do you do when you can't fit a complex notion into one tweet? Send 21 of course! I think modesty is important, as long as we define it correctly. The problems with my idea are that (1) there is continuum of clothing from a burka to a birthday suit, and so it is very hard to draw a clear line. (...

I'm going to chime in to give my two cents and organize my ideas about this. 1) She's really young. Granted, when I was 12 a scantily clad female could attract my attention. But she seems really young to make such a bold declaration. I will admit my naivete - but if anyone here is willing to share, ...

You misunderstand the 15 year-old figure : the guy writing on fairmormon just took that with no reason other than to "prove" his point. Also, if you check the census data, there is no big difference between the Utah sex ratio and the USA sex ratio, which seems to prove that men leaving Utah to find ...

The fairmormon source essentially tries desperately to prove that there WAS a shortage of men, when there was not. It's main argument is that there were 9 men between the ages of 20 and 34 for every 10 women between 15 and 29. And that polygamy was necessary so that every mormon woman would be marri...

https://www.lds.org/manual/doctrine-and-covenants-and-church-history-gospel-doctrine-teachers-manual/lesson-23-seek-learning-even-by-study-and-also-by-faith?lang=eng Looks like education or scripture study depending on your teacher. If your ward is a little behind mine, you get WoW or if you are ah...

I'm on the East Coast right now. In Europe nobody talks about it. Melingkie (correct spelling?) has reported that in the Netherlands, people mostly say "yeah, whatever" and ignore the November policy. In my big city ward, the mood seemed to be shock, and my father, the bishop in another ward, told t...

I am in the US now, instead of Europe where I live, and I have noticed that the LDS environment here is... different. The Church here seems to be struggling quite hard with the cognitive dissonance of the whole LGBT fiasco. It gets brought up all. the. time. and it leads to awkward situations where ...

I'm sitting in my favorite chair [...] I look at the dappled light in my yard and I think of my sweet son. I take another sip of coffee. A beautiful post. You also need to know that my compliments are quite rare. I will ignore the issue of theodicy here. For me, I feel empowered to choose the God I...

No personal thoughts on this one?

As for me, yes. This question used to ask if you considered yourself "worthy in every way", but they dropped that, probably due to people who would feel excessive guilt.

No way I'm sitting around here eating cactus and lizards while waiting for Jesus to show up and put an end to armageddon. Spoken like a true apostate who knows who's gonna get destroyed first ! :lol: Punjab, your SP had a case of translocatory revelation. My building's running water will be cut for...