NOM

It's been a while since I posted, mainly because Everytime I visit the board and think I am going to participate in discussions, I realize that I just don't care. I have really been able to move on, and it's rare now for me to spend much time thinking about churchy stuff. Part of that is the fact th...

With such a dedicated and narrow focused membership how could you not use this kind of tactic to save face and distract from your utter inability to be a prophet, seer, and revalator.

In in NorCal. My best pal is a law enforcement office way up in the leadership (trying to be careful). He just told me he heard that looting has begun in SF. It's such a big, populated city with one of the largest homeless populations (not blaming here, just stating a fact) and I have to imagine ki...

Just checking y'all, haven't visited in a while. I had hoped Nevada would not be as hysterical as the rest of the country. Still no toilet paper here either. I'm in the Reno Carson area though, so maybe the rural areas are faring better. The governor has mandated telework for all state workers and m...

and experience(?) with revelation. Or lack of it, according to himself. The art of being Mormon is to know when to use things in their correct context. The context is whichever direction the wind blows in April and October in SLC. The direction is dictated by the collective flatulence of 12 men all...

I'm curious what you all think about Greg Prince's, and any others in his camp for that matter (Givens, Bushman), view on Mormon supernaturalism. Do you think he believes the priesthood actually gives you supernatural power? I dont know that I can really comment very well on what the Neo-Apologists...

I suppose a cynic could say that the good Samaritan went away patting himself on the back but wouldn't that be projecting one's own character flaws onto someone they didn't even know? Oooooh, sick burn! But yeah, you are right. It is entirely unknowable what a person is doing charity for, even the ...

And it is gross how the church only performs masturbatory charitable acts. The only group they are really helping is themselves. Maybe its just me and my cynical mind, but I think most (not all) charitable acts are masturbatory in some form or another. Do people give because it makes them feel good...

The hoarding of money and accumulation of wealth, it seems, IS the actual purpose of the church. It falls under the banner of building the kingdom of God on earth. This. Joseph believed that he was building an actual "Kingdom." That Kingdom was not just a "church," it was a theocracy that would lit...

My 4 year old responds to anything she doesn't like with "c'mon dude!" It's the cutest thing in the world.

There's a counter-point to your counter-point, though, that I find rather intriguing. With race, say for example African-Americans, it is easier to establish the in-group and the out-group. They tend to stay nicely and neatly segregated. Black parents expect to have children that look somewhat like...

Kind of a counter-point? I think it will remain easier to justify resistance to the LGBTQ rights movement than it was/is for racial civil rights. I would still like to discuss the parallels to the civil rights movement. I still think it is hard to justify racism (although we have uncovered the fact ...

- There's tension between charitable work and investment. Right. I'm just trying to point out that those are and should be two different things, not one thing pretending to be the other. I have no problem with an institution saving as much rainy day money as they want, as long as they do it legally...

Given that nothing happened under monsons watch and a crap ton has happened under Russel Nelson's watch indicates that he probably is running things, policy wise. The person who influences how money is used is likely the presiding bishop. He would probably be the person beat positioned to say "we sh...

That said, not sure why anyone would go there in the first place, aside from it being affordable. The culture at byu just seem toxic, even for believers. Intellectually, I found BYU culture to be comfortably progressive compared to how I was raised. For some topics, attending BYU marked the beginni...

I dont think this is a nothing-burger to those people who are on the fence about church behavior. What this shows is a disregard for humanity. Folks on the fence see through the end-of-days justification and quickly realize what 7 billion annually could do for the world. And that the church is activ...

But I purposefully decided not to get into the weeds on this thread because I thought NOM was supposed to be soley for social support and religious discussion. So I ignore a LOT of comments here about "the orange man" and other derogatory statements. Alright, I will take this one on the chin. I sho...

Mormorrisey wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:31 pm

So this is the message I got today when I tried to get NOM through LDS Access.

Could it be that I'm looking at it too much, and they caught on?

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I;m sure you have thought of this, but for restricted websites I used to install a free VPN and use it for exmo browsing at church.

Weirdly the church members give too much credit to satan in regards to temptation and thus he becomes the glue that sticks people to the Gospel. Yup. I didnt mean for this to become a political focused thread, but I think it is fascinating that when I let go of Satan as a motivating factor in my li...

I just read an interesting article, which is relevant to how politics play into how the brain works. This article talked about a study which sought to put people at ease within their imagination, and then asked them a bunch of political questions. Those who had been identified previously as conserva...