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redjay wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 26, 2017 3:02 pm

RFM?

Radio Free Mormon.

I flatter myself it is becoming so well-known it can be referred to by initials.

Good grief, RFM just did a whole podcast detailing how the LDS Church has no miracles or revelation left to speak of. Now we have this story where Elder Holland claims a revelation. Only the revelation is wrong. And that is the miracle! We have come to the point where not only is there no revelation...

One of the things this story illustrates is that if there is a choice between Elder Holland being wrong and God being wrong, Elder Holland is going to throw God under the bus . . . every time.

I just yesterday afternoon found out about Elder Holland's "Wrong Roads" story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNQC-_srxH8 Elder Holland tells how he and his son were driving home after a day in the wilds and came to a fork in the road and they didn't know which way to go. So they both prayed and w...

Rob4Hope wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 18, 2017 10:06 am

It makes me angry when I am told "you think too much"...and then treated like I'm stupid because I disagree with the party line.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.


Or something like that.

For those with any interest, Radio Free Mormon has published a 70-minute report on the most recent General Conference, looking at a handful of themes that emerge from the different stories shared by LDS Church leaders. What the LDS Church preaches is one thing. What the stories they select to tell i...

If mission calls became more automated, what would Elder Oaks do with his Magic Wand/Priesthood Antennae? http://thisweekinmormons.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Elder-Oaks-Missionary-Calls-2.jpg One wonders what it is exactly the fellow sitting to the left of Elder Oaks is there for exactly . . . ...

I listened to the Mormon Discussions / Radio Free Mormon podcast review of GC this weekend, and their analysis was exactly this. The idea that missionaries somehow carry a "burden" for decades after their mission assignment was changed is a bogus red herring when they don't want to talk about or ev...

Bill Reel from Mormon Discussion podcast teamed up with Radio Free Mormon to do a General Conference Review. Here are the links to parts one and two, if anybody is interested. I think they do a pretty credible job of dissecting the different talks of interest. Reasonable minds may differ. Enjoy! All...

mooseman wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:46 pm

Got to love what you find on reddit...11326583_477210659102094_561581169_n.jpg

Okay. I read it.

I actually kind of liked the punch line at the end.

Thanks!

I don't know that I any longer believe in a "Satan" with all the theological trappings presented by Mormonism. I believe there are good people and bad people. I also believe there are good spirits/forces and bad spirits/forces that have from time to time broken into my normal life to affect me in pe...

Here is a quote from Elder Ulisses Soares in the Saturday morning session of General Conference I thought might be of interest. It appears to be his belief that Satan uses "logic and reasoning" to lead people out of the Church: In these moments of trial, the adversary—who is always on the lookout—tr...

This was a very interesting talk, but only after going beneath the banal surface. I have never encountered any RM who felt guilty that, due to circumstances beyond his or her control, did not end up serving a mission to the area originally called. I think Elder Bednar is creating this issue out of t...

Priesthood sessions have been getting shorter and shorter over the past couple of years. A quick look at the video length of priesthood sessions on YouTube shows: October 2014 - 1:53 April 2015 - 1:52 October 2015 - 1:44 April 2016 - 1:30 October 2016 - 1:32 So an hour and a half is nothing new, bu...

"But from the rubble, religious paintings were rescued."

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local ... 52731.html

At the 1.50 mark.

So it doesn't sound like the building was actually burning when the pictures were retrieved . . .

At one point, crews were pulled out from inside the building as a precaution and moments later the roof collapsed, LAFD Battalion Chief Phillip Fligiel said. http://abc7.com/news/200-firefighters-battle-church-fire-in-glassell-park/834084/ I sure hope the two firefighters that were injured didn't s...

Elder Bragg in the Saturday morning session of conference told a story about some firefighters who were prompted by the Light of Christ while putting out a fire at a Southern California stake center in 2015. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2017/04/media/session_1_talk_10/5381673733001?lang=en...

It was just pointed out to me that MormonLeaks published in advance the Priesthood Session speaker line-up and they show President Monson at the beginning but not at the end. So it appears that it was known in advance that President Monson would not speak at the end of Priesthood Session. This makes...

Did anybody else notice that Priesthood Session closed a full half hour early after President Monson's closing talk was apparently aborted on short notice? The first thing I noticed was Elder Uchtdorf getting up after Elder Eyring's talk. This was the point where President Monson would normally give...

This one was slow to start. The first 20 minutes was a comparison of science vs religion to set up scenarios where it's ok for new belief or evidence (science) to contradict old beliefs and knowledge and where it's not ok (religion). For 20 minutes I kept wondering when the list of 7 contradictions...