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If you don't like the taste of Spam, sandwiching it between two slices of apologetic toast with a thick smear of nuance can make it palatable to someone who otherwise might not be able to stomach it. But more importantly, if everyone else is gobbling it up and raving about how delicious it is, you'r...

I am always quick to defend the word "agnostic." It's a great word and it applies to every one of us. No matter how much personal conviction a person has that their particular version God exists they still can't really know for certain. We are all agnostics of one form or another, and we are certain...

If you still attend some or all of your Sunday school classes (my first time back in 5 or 6 weeks) you probably heard a lesson today about Jesus' visit to the New World. I have always felt that portions of 3rd Nephi are among the most touching scripture ever written, but at the same time it has some...

Here's an interesting video of side-by-side comments about what church leadership tells the outside world, compared to what goes on behind closed doors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90EJXrG01O0

2bizE wrote:She was headed with a group of young men and women from her church to Tremonton, Utah. I did not ask her religion specifically, but believe her to be Mennonite.

Yup, lots of Mennonites in the Tremonton area.

fh451 wrote:But I have been able to maintain enough interest to do a nominal (ha ha) job of moderating, but probably not enough to be really enthusiastic.

That's probably why you did such a good job. Thanks for your service, fh451. I hope you'll stick around all the same.

Welcome to NOM, ulmite. -How should I approach the situation with my parents? You have two major things in your favor. First is that your parents have their own issues and are likely open-minded enough to think critically about them, especially if one or both of them reads NOM. Second, parents love ...

I just started listening. Thanks for the recommendation!

ETA: I really enjoyed it. These people encountered just about every kind of family-church situation any of us are likely to encounter and came out on top.

On the local level: -dispensers for "a diet soda that shall remain nameless." -headphones that let you tune to another station when things get really boring -make the sacrament like testimony meeting, anyone who feels inspired to do so can bless and pass the sacrament -lessons that are actually des...

One thing Mormonism does very well, especially if you have served a mission, is to convince you that no other church or philosophy could possibly have truth and that no other kind of God is believable, so once you lose your testimony of the Mormon God that Joseph encountered in the grove, and the au...

Mayan Elephant wrote:Hey cwald, looks like we got callings in the High Priest Group to unorganize not moving people after our home teaching isn't done.

That's perfect.

ME, what kind of ransom does Cwald have to pay to get his face back?

Froggie wrote:IMO, 8 is way too many mods. That requires correlation to correlate, which is simply not efficient. My experience in moderating suggests that three is a very good number.

My name is Froggie. I am Female.

Big green hugs,

Froggie

Hi Froggie, glad you found us!

Welcome, Shawn! I think I see your problem. You need to start praying god God to rescue you from the clutched of Gob! My dear and very faithful wife does tell me how God works in subtle ways in her life. I could respond with a skeptical response about confirmation bias and cherry picking of pattern ...

I hear all the time in church about how clever and powerful Satan is and how effectively he's getting his message out. He's making it very clear what he wants everybody to do, whether it's looking at porn, voting for same-sex marriage, reading anti-mormon literature, using elicit drugs, what have yo...

OK, this is the section that was "revealed" when Harris, a universalist, had a meltdown when he first read about a literal hell of fire and brimstone in the BoM. He freaked out and demanded a "commandment" (revelation from Joseph). This was a problem for Joseph because he needed Harris's money to pu...

Was this before the loss of the hundred sixteen pages? If so I would suspect that what it's talking about.

What have you got in mind, HIPS?

I think it would be awesome if, when they show the big, post-election map, every state has voted for either Donald or Hillary - except Utah. The whole world will be wondering what the hell is going on here.

Don't get me wrong, I'm overjoyed to be on the list. If they kept harassing me to do the stuff I can no longer do I would just disengage completely. I'm hoping some wise leader, probably the SP I mentioned earlier, believes me when I say I'm only there to support my wife and they don't want to lose ...

I have also noticed a striking similarity with the Zoramites, at least when the get up on the rameumptum and thank God for making them superior to everyone else: "thanking their God that they were chosen of him, and that he did not lead them away after the tradition of their brethren."

he "Fight Club" quote did lead the bishopric to ask me to work with some of the more challenging youth in the ward. The figured that anyone with a strong enough testimony(!) to quote from Fight Club was obviously a good fit to fellowship the youth flirting with apostasy. So, are you considering sta...