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The plates are critical physical evidence of the truth of the story but not essential to the production of the text. You just made my point right here: The plates are not essential to the production of the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon was produced by a magic rock. If the plates are not essent...

However it contains nothing new and is essentially a catalogue of virtually every complaint or criticism that anyone has raised about the church or Joseph Smith in my life time and I am old ! Interesting... Nothing new eh? Has the LDS Corporation come up with any "new" answers to theses "old" unans...

I have a member of my family who is a very hard-core scouter. Overheard a conversation with said hard-core scouter yesterday, and they don't view this change as a big deal. (I was surprised.) As others have mentioned, the church is only dropping scouting for the boys over 14 years old, and according...

This is how whoever wrote the gospels (since we don't actually know who they were) re-wrote "history" so that Jesus could fulfill some of the old-testament "prophecies", even though those prophecies had nothing to do with Jesus. Instead of writing down actual history, they wrote down what they " tho...

The Ads are marked as ADs . These are the purchased placements, the church pays to have them pop up first...I cannot figure TriGrace would somehow out spend the church. LDS.ORG is still top of the money pile but I've never seen anything other than Church sites appear in the paid content. I don't ge...

It's question number 3 3 Do you have a testimony of the restoration of the gospel in these the latter days? Let me do look okay that thread. Just about every time I've been asked that question, the first vision is a specific follow up question. I can think of three interviews where I've had this. S...

Here's how I look at it: I think it is important to differentiate between religion and belief systems. That's why I said I prefer the term "world view" over religion. Although even in northwest/great plains american native tribes which were much more hunter\gatherer they still had Shaman or Holy me...

#15 Do you consider yourself worthy to enter the Lord's house and participate in temple ordinances? Yes, I "consider myself worthy"; Though at this point in my life, I have absolutely no desire to "enter" and perform creepy plagiarized rituals. Am I "worthy" according to the LDS Corporation? No. Ho...

As others have mentioned: "Religion" probably started when human-like creatures became self aware and basically started worshiping nature. It probably took a while before those creatures started creating gods in their own image, and worshiping those gods. What is religion's purpose? Well, when you b...

Random wrote: ↑

Sun May 28, 2017 6:21 pm

I don't use tobacco, not even for sick cattle.

How 'bout bruises? Do you use tobacco for bruises?

NOWmormon wrote: ↑

Tue May 30, 2017 4:48 am

#14
Have there been any sins or misdeeds in your life that should have been resolved with priesthood authorities but have not been?

No.

As other's have mentioned, there's really nothing in my life that needs to be "resolved" with the General Contractor down the street.

I have this image in my head of a bunch of people in a room pounding their heads against the wall and one guy suddenly saying, "man this sucks, I think I'll go do something less painful," even though he knows the others all will consider him a quitter. Oh man! This is the perfect analogy for LDS Co...

All-Righty-Then. Let's just break this up into it's separate individual questions. 13 If you have previously received your temple endowment: -Do you keep the covenants that you made in the temple? No. Those "covenants" were made by an idiotic, 19-year-old kid, under duress. I not longer consider tho...

NOWmormon wrote: ↑

Sun May 28, 2017 10:22 am

#12
Do you have financial or other obligations to a former spouse or children? If yes, are you current in meeting those obligations?

No to "part a" of the question.

(Whew! Easiest question so far...)

NOWmormon wrote: ↑

Sat May 27, 2017 9:35 am

#11
Do you keep the Word of Wisdom?

NOPE!

(Joseph never cared about it, why should I?)

#10 Are you a full-tithe payer? Oh boy... Another fun one. Here's my official answer: It depends . If going by the dishonest, wink-wink, nod-nod oral tradition in the LDS Corporation today of "10% of income", NO, I'm not a full tithe payer. If going by the actual definition of "10% of increase" as ...

A formerly mormon co-worker of mine has become a cigar aficionado. He has offered to instruct me in the art of the cigar. Like you, I have no desire. I guess that's my opinion, which doesn't help much with your questions, or maybe it does. I do know that when first trying it out, it can tend to make...

ulmite wrote: ↑

Thu May 25, 2017 5:47 am

And also science.

Genius!

Yes, I support, affiliate with, and agree with SCIENCE!

(Science is not a group or individual, so I guess it's still ok to support, affiliate with and agree...)

I know this isn't appropriate, but I hope President Monson lives as long as possible, not out of compassion, but because Nelson is an insufferable prick. Amen Brother Oliver! Maybe the PR department is pulling a Weekend at Bernie's 'cause they don't want to deal with all the crazy sh*t Nelson's goi...

#9 Are you honest in your dealings with your fellowmen? I was sometimes a bit bothered answering this one back in the day. I did "borrow" a pen from work a couple months ago, ya know? But I do my best, so I'll answer: Yes. Now I'd like to answer: "Comparing my own honesty to that of the LDS Corpora...