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It probably all started when Joseph Smith thought, "Wouldn't it be cool if..." when he heard until death do you part during someone's wedding. That or it started when he read someone else's thoughts about that. Matthew 22:30 probably wasn't even considered. If the verse did come up they probably did...

Why don't Jews like Mormons? Perhaps because Mormons claim to be Jews when they are not? Mormons want to erase Israel - want the messiah to come to America instead? It could be related to church members doing proxy baptisms for holocaust victims in the 1990s. It could also be that Jews hold an unfa...

Gotta say, church revenues must be way down.

I don't pay very close attention but it seems like several conferences have gone by without a mention of tithing. I've heard references to tithing in at least a half dozen talks this conference.

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Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:18 pm

Mystery and uncertainty are parts of life regardless.

And he talked about them as if they are bad things. Uncertainty feeds curiosity, exploration, revelation, hope.

Oh gods a new buzz word... Hear him and a few others didn't take. While I'm anxious for "covenant path" to go away forever, I'd rather it be replaced with nothing. I don't doubt Nelson's sincerity in his comments about covenants, kingdoms of glory, etc. but it sounds like an extremely sad and dissa...

And, they have to have a gospel purpose. They can’t just be for social interaction. -613 I just felt like it needed a weird number, because it is a weird belief that socialization for itself has no purpose. Socialization is the gospel. It's a point leaders don't get. They're more concerned about sa...

Resurrecting the don't say no to callings. -100

I mean, if people turn down a calling, maybe honor that or... gasp... ask them why or what their wishes are. Don't start up with the obligation garbage.

Have more activities. +50
"At little or no cost" -50

I'm beyond it but his talk will hurt a lot of people.

-500 for Uchtdorf or however many points it takes to ensure he goes negative. His talk will absolutely be weaponized.

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Wed Sep 20, 2023 9:46 am

My favorite Moroni Day tradition is putting on brown-face and watching the Moroni's Lament music video, by "I Heard Him Come" writer Jeff Goodrich.

Someone should do a Jan 6th montage with that song. Captain Moroni's Lament.

What are our favorite Moroni Day traditions and foods? https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/5dbccf65-e657-49e1-a0fb-8fbc8e9a4094/d3gb9i1-68559fae-3632-43f4-980c-4204622fa9a0.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhM...

This home was a place where they obeyed the commands that the Lord recently had given to parents: to teach their children the gospel and bring them up in light and truth.

Jesus didn't tell parents to do that until he told Joseph Smith.

Was it also the house where the Lord revealed sliced bread?

I wish I could remember a few specifics. It's been about 10 years since I've done an endowment session and the memories fade. The insights I had were never anything amazing. At first learning something each time meant I got a little farther with memorizing the presentation at the veil. After that it...

As a full believer it never felt like I was making things up, it felt like I was discovering the deep hidden meanings buried in things where the meaning was there all along just waiting for me to discover it. Reflecting back I can say that the ordinances in the temple have little intrinsic meaning. ...

I'm a convert, so I wasn't bone-weary of the Sunday School lessons by the time I went to the temple for my endowments. Sure, it was just a retelling of everything you hear during Sunday School, but it didn't elicit the, "not this again" reaction that it would elicit from me today. I 110% bought into...

I'll start off with a tangent. What is the policy for when a person is eligible to receive their endowment and is that policy different for men and women? Back in the day when I received my endowment, women generally couldn't receive their endowment unless they were getting married or serving a miss...

I only made it about 12 seconds into the ETB video. I got what I needed out of it before the lights in the background dimmed. I know there are other videos of general conference during that era that do a better job of showing it but that video was another reminder that there was more individuality b...

He rationalized that God was just waiting for the time when the (99.9%) white membership would accept black people into full fellowship- any earlier and many white people would have left the Church over the acceptance of black people. And yet people that use that argument seldom like it when you ex...

I have never heard of that.

I don't know the procedures for such things but I would have thought that if a missionary had done something that required a "church court" that they would have been sent home for the council to be held in their home stake.

One hundred and one billion. That's why we don't have them yet.