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I'm going with: nothing really exciting but a way to get the membership buzzing. You stole mine. Members are now plastering it all over FB, mission accomplished. They'll tune in and it will be another meeting where the attendees already knew everything that was going to be said before anyone says a...

Does it really matter? What's the difference between Oaks or Bednar giving a talk as a member of the FP and giving a talk as a member of the Q12? Conducting conference? Mormon leadership reorganizations seem inconsequential. Help me out? Is it the tone from the top? As disaffected members why do we...

Serious question: what is he doing that's so great (in the eyes of your average conservative)?

Reuben wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:37 pm

Often the Spirit is repulsed by humorous experiences or jokes...

This part is crap. What kind of god is repulsed by humorous experiences and jokes?

The kind that calls humorless nonagenarians to be prophets?

Further down in the study:

White, non-Hispanic Protestants (70% of all Protestants): 60% approval rating
White Catholics: 51% approval rating

Maybe the study is just showing that Mormons are more white than most religions

What is the culture, a cult of personalty where the Q15 and any visiting GA or AA are kings.

The leaders have more power than anyone for setting the culture.

sparky wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:54 pm

It's not one thing he did. He didn't sit down one day and decide to start a church with all the insane crap it had by the end. He was savant BS'er from his ... line upon line, BS upon BS.

1smartdodog wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:53 am

What is a healthy navel?

Orange juice mixed with cough syrup?

So I thought I was up on the changes, but apparently I missed something. EQ Pres just said that the topic for the fourth Sunday will be determined by Salt Lake leadership, and it will be the same topic until the next conference. So between now and April conference we're going to have three EQ lesso...

The problem is that the current Apostolic Quorum would believe they are the Jedi Masters in their Jedi temple. The rest of us are literally flirting with the Dark Side if not actual Sith operatives If I follow... what we then would need is the fulfillment of a prophecy of a virgin birth where that ...

During the lesson, the bishop told a story of a family he was warned about from the previous bishop as being fairly hostile to the church. The new bishop has been scared to go and try and meet them. But as part of his new rescue plans, he committed to go and meet this family since he's responsible ...

Maybe I'm wrong but I think they'll go ahead and reform the First Presidency in a week or two. The two new apostles will wait until April though.

Last four RMN conference addresses:

The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like without It?

Drawing the Power of Jesus Christ into Our Lives

Joy and Spiritual Survival

The Price of Priesthood Power

After 15 years of that, they moved to escape the ward. He resents the people who dare to say no, and yet, they move away? Isn't that just a different way of setting limits? The other one moved out of town just to get out of his calling, Yeah, something is definitely wrong with a culture when people...

Interesting analogy. If I were to share your story I'd anticipate someone saying that I had a testimony in the "wrong" things... even though the church continues merrily along placing focus on all the wrong things in correlated lessons at church.

The power point slides on issues leading people away from the church had Denver Snuffer and Need "something more" on the same side. That's no mistake. Many people are straight up bored with the church. The church experience has been stripped to the bone, both temporally and spiritually. Temporally i...

Maybe it's under Bednar's pickle.

People desperately want to believe in the prosperity gospel because they're afraid to admit to themselves that we live in a universe where random bad things can happen. They want to convince themselves that if they're good they can somehow escape the random bad.

Wait... they made garments even longer?

Suddenly holding on to underwear that's old enough to drink is paying off.

Maybe I should buy some new Gs before they go back to ankle length.

And when I expressed my disappointment my spouse snapped at me. Because everything / anything I say now about the church however innocuous is me being negative and hostile and an apostate. Been there. I imagine HQ told every ward worldwide to only hold SM on Christmas Eve. Somehow we managed to scr...