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Brent wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 08, 2018 1:54 pm

Which highlighters are Word of Wisdom approved?

I'm pretty sure that uncapping a dozen sharpies and huffing them isn't mentioned in D&C 89, so I think it's fair game.

Would anyone prefer being assigned to read Tolkien's The Silmarillion instead? Well Mr. Penguin, I've totally graduated from all of that. I've got four volumes of the History of Middle Earth on their way this week, and three volumes of tales from the First Age (The Children of Hurin, Beren and Luth...

I'm glad that Jim Dabakis made that post. It is really important. It is so difficult for me to articulate what I am about to say. But I feel it must be said. E Oaks has been engaging in spiritual abuse on this issue since the early 1980s. He created the Church's game plan for fighting the acceptable...

I realize this is political, but I think it's fascinating how many parallels there are between what happens to women in courts of love and what is going to happen to Brett Kavanaugh's accuser on Monday: A handful of middle-aged men will be asking pointed personal questions about a sexual assault to ...

PS: Yesterday I attended the IANDS meeting in SLC for the first time, and listened to a man who had a NDE after his body shut down from N-Stage AIDS. In his drop of blood (or whatever the measured amount is), he had all of 1 T-Cell, where most usually have thousands. His body had no immunity at all...

The actual translation of the scrolls is this:

Without the right permit, Hor's can't breathe in the Afterlife. True story. Tell your dad about that.

I need medical cannabis. The Church's statement makes me very weary in my fight. :( I wish I had the energy right now to type up what I've been thinking. I currently live in Utah out of necessity. I am pursuing another degree and saving up money so that I can move to a more compassionate state. It w...

Ritner, who does know Egyptian, calls out "King Pharaoh" in the "translation" of Facsimile 3 as meaning that Joseph Smith thought "Pharaoh" was a proper name, because "King Pharaoh" really means "King King." If I had found "King Pharaoh" earlier, just going by what I had read, I would have said "Ki...

I ran across this fascinating talk done by a young woman whose grandparents started a Christian cult called "The Assembly". The themes she touches on seem so familiar--control of information, control of bodies/behavior, control of women and minorities, coverups of abuse, charismatic leaders, etc. ht...

Until it... explodes? Collapses in on itself and becomes a black hole? Maybe that's what they want: your doubts won't bother you because they're over the event horizon. Well, if no information can cross an event horizon, testimonies are preserved all around! Unless there is some kind of quantum ent...

Oh for crying out loud, this black box is the same thing as a shelf except that you cant see the stuff on it. It obscures stuff that doesn't support your world view. I posted in another thread about a Bishop named Matt Jones who did an interview on Mormon Matters, this is classic burying you head i...

For me, the danger of the Mormon injunction to forgive immediately was that I never even got to step A. I would "forgive" before even letting myself feel that I was hurt. Needless to say, it's very damaging to the psyche.

The only ones left are my very NOM wife and my youngest daughter and other SIL, who just recently got tattoos. I am not sure how deep in they are, but I won't be surprised if in a few years it will be 10 down in the HIPS family. HIPS, was it one of these tattoos? https://www.tattoodo.com/a/2016/12/...

Slavereeno, never fear, a new and spectacular approach was revealed in the most recent FAIR Mormon Conference... Say hello to the "Black Box". No more need for breaking shelves--the box is reinforced with false promise! Lessons from a black box No Latter-day Saint is immune from occasionally questio...

Great update. That exploration of Church services sounds fun, perhaps nutritional as well when combined with a Sunday brunch afterward. Potential doxology for the Sunday brunch: Truckee to the left of me Carson City to the right Brunching in Tahoe with you. I'd rather brunch at Donner's Pass... Mmm...

I think Joseph was enamoured by Masonry for many reasons--but one really pops out to me, and that is secrecy. I'm sure his mind started turning when he saw a way to bind others to himself with secret oaths in order to conceal a secret practice. We all know what that practice is. And Joseph seems to...

The preceding words should be framed and hung in every LDS home, right between The Proclamation and that faux-marble statue of Joseph giving Emma a coin to kick-start the Relief Society, if for no other reason than to remind us every day of how startling/unsettling/horrifying that first temple expe...

When I think back to my experiences in the temple, and all I have read about and heard about on podcasts, I'm not entirely turned off. I like ritual, and kind of wish we had more of it in our worship. I like symbolism and all that jazz... However, I also recall my first experience at the temple, sur...

How did it become this way? When did it become this way? Was it intentionally engineered to be like this? Did it just evolve mindlessly toward this kind of system? Do human systems inevitably trend toward this kind of abusive control? Is this anybody's fault? Who do we blame? Who can really change t...

"You are an adult and you are a volunteer, you can do whatever you want. Make sure you are treated with respect". I wish I had been told this before I left. It would have taken unnecessary pressure off me. The problem is: I wouldn't have believed it. Will your son believe it, understand it? I didn'...