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Hmmm. Perhaps this is Dr. Robinson’s personal recipe for success as a monkey-spanker(?) All sounds rather contradictory: Obsess over it by praying harder, write notes to Jeff, chart your fantasies, sing hymns and then in #11 - Stop trying so hard. Move on.

slavereeno wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:53 am

They all talked about how much the LOVED this talk and how they got the feels of the spirit and the like.

Is this the same thing as getting felt up by the spirit?

Wasn't the Church against all things "Pot"?

https://www.kivitv.com/news/mormon-chur ... na-in-utah

This appeared in my FB feed. WTH!!!! And the comments... Really?

See the post here: https://bit.ly/2xV6abG

Ugh... Another overzealous zealot in need of a swift kick to the giblets...

No Tof wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 09, 2018 7:14 am

If my memory serves me correctly, there is the option to appeal any decision to higher authority, until eventually, the case will be seen by the first presidency. Correct me if Im mistaken here.

Correct - at least in theory. What is also bizarre to me is that they call such proceedings, 'sacred'.

Excommunication, in this case, just feels vindictive. And I've never quite understood the notion that excommunication (stripping someone of all their 'blessings' and privileges) is somehow a necessary step to allow an individual to repent - all in the name of love. "When members need to have certain...

The Church is stubborn. It's instilled in the membership. The culture breeds it. Not all that different and makes about as much sense as the JW's 'scriptural' doctrine on blood abstinence (or birthday and holiday celebration, for that matter).

A few takeaways... A gazillion tithing dollars to be spent on a rebranding campaign of “seismic” proportions. Anyone caught using the unauthorized abbreviations and nicknames will necessarily and appropriately be shamed. (The bit about polygamous groups was a bit random) This has been bugging Nelson...

“Google territory” is on the “devils side” - dontcya know?
- The Wandering Octogenarian

...Yes, a cocophany of platitudes and doublespeak delivered at a painfully slow cadence that will leave some dazed and confused and others gleefully satiated.

It’s that booger-effect. You just... can’t,,,, flick’em... free sometimes.

THIS, I just realized, is a secret combination--secret oaths with bloody penalties should the disciple disclose the underground practice of polygamy in Nauvoo. Yet another way that the Church we have differs greatly from the one described in the Book of Mormon... Funny, I was thinking along the sam...

I’m guessing the Church would be quick to point out the difference between salvation and exaltation. “Sure Christ wanted to save as many as possible so he dumbed things down and kept it simple so that even morons could make it to non-VIP Telestial Kingdom - thus, ‘saved’.” I can hear it - just not t...

Corsair wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:25 am

What is the "meat" of the gospel that people are not ready for?

Excellent question. All I’ve ever seen served is correlated skim milk... Stale appetizers, at best. Where’s the beef?

Reads positive from a TBM perspective.

Have Deacons hand them out at the door. Problem solved.

Garments: The other fire insurance (as long as you don’t violate any of the rules and regulations for wearing them, of course).

Could it have turned into a money making scheme (“Hey, let’s go to Canada and sell the copyright...”) or a marketing ploy to attract ‘customers’ that he lost interest in (until some dude years later said, “Hey, let’s promote the hell out of this book as the answer to your problems)? To Joseph, was t...

If only the Church had the technology and Precrime Division (Minority Report). Think of all the souls and calluses saved...