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- Sun Feb 17, 2019 1:12 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Bad movie night is the best night
- Replies: 34
- Views: 32296
Re: Bad movie night is the best night
I love this thread! Inspired by your bad movie night ideas, I searched on RiffTrax last night on Amazon Prime. One of my 12 yo twins is pretty sick w/ strep and needed cheering up. So I found “Birdemic” and checked a parent guide to make sure it wasn’t super inappropriate. (we only fwded through a ...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Oh the times they are a changin'
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5107
Re: Oh the times they are a changin'
Come to think of it, it really does make a lot more sense to swear on the constitution of the country your serving than to swear on an ancient middle eastern law book. For one thing, one of those two documents outlaws slavery while the other gives instruction for properly beating your slaves. I can...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 5:28 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Sci-Fi of Choice
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11066
Re: Sci-Fi of Choice
Yes to all of those. I'm also a big "Stargate" TV franchise fan (all 3 shows) as well as my most recent favourite (but unfortunately cancelled by SYFY) Dark Matter.Just This Guy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:18 amSo a random poll to get to know people. What do you prefer:
Star Trek
Star Wars
Firefly
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- Sat Feb 16, 2019 5:14 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Bad movie night is the best night
- Replies: 34
- Views: 32296
Re: Bad movie night is the best night
Oh, you're not digging deep enough. Some of my favourite worsts include ones like the ORIGINAL Fantastic Four movie from the 1990's (a tough find, but I think I watched it on YouTube). This was the one that never officially got released and was only made to maintain the production company's rights. ...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 5:04 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: What Would It Take to Keep You?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7021
Re: What Would It Take to Keep You?
Doesn't matter what changes they make - they can't make the Church what it claims to be. Making a fraudulent, oppressive Church incrementally less oppressive doesn't change in the slightest its fraudulence. Short answer: nothing. The Church is a fraud - making it nicer shouldn't make me want to sta...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 5:00 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Transitional underwear
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10485
Re: Transitional underwear
These ones are sorta-kinda close. The big difference is they'd fit a lot better.
https://www.jockey.com/catalog/product/ ... dway-brief
https://www.jockey.com/catalog/product/ ... dway-brief
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 4:54 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Missionaries can call home weekly now
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12878
Re: Missionaries can call home weekly now
I don't think it was about long distance costs to a large extent. I was told when I went it was to help me focus on my mission. I really don't think it was primarily a cost savings measure - I think it was about keeping the minds of missionaries where they were at and not back at home. And I think ...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:54 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: To stand or not to stand
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7970
Re: To stand or not to stand
I agree totally with discussing it with your wife and taking her feelings into account, and that this is between you two only. If the ward is anything like mine was though, your participation WILL be taken as a sign that you have had a change of heart/seen the light and are either on your way back o...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:09 am
- Forum: Staying Faithful
- Topic: The Church needs a transcendent moment
- Replies: 20
- Views: 51428
Re: The Church needs a transcendent moment
I'm not sure what that transcendent moment would be, but I'm sadly confident that it would not be self-motivated. In the Dalai Lama's book "Beyond Religion", he said: “I do not agree that ethics requires grounding in religious concepts or faith. Instead, I firmly believe that ethics can also emerge ...
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:46 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Nelson visit
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13607
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:37 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: I have an idea for NOM!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11815
Re: I have an idea for NOM!
I love the idea!
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:25 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Report on "Special" Stake Conference
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5377
Re: Report on "Special" Stake Conference
TLDR: It wasn't all that special. The church is growing! Anti-Mormon literature makes you feel dark and icky, the BoM makes you feel bright and happy. The main speakers were Elder & Sister LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. They were introduced after a few other talks and some music, with a reminder to the cong...
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:34 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Does truth really matter?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 25127
Re: Does truth really matter?
I think this kind of question is why Carl Sagan said that science is more than a collection of facts (the "truth"), but a way of thinking. It's one that gives us a way to apply a set of standards to thinking which should weed out errors, biases and irrelevancies. This helps us figure out how the uni...
- Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:49 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: LDS fireside this Sunday on "Navigating Doubts"
- Replies: 57
- Views: 24807
Re: LDS fireside this Sunday on "Navigating Doubts"
The whole thing falls apart once you realize the sense of danger is manufactured by the freaked-out, delusional people on the boat, and you can choose just to enjoy a swim in the calm water or wade ashore and stroll along the beach. Wait. There's a beach and a shore? Not only that, but if you stand...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 12:00 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The exodus from doctrine. An appeal for enjoyment.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3087
Re: The exodus from doctrine. An appeal for enjoyment.
The problem is the top-down corporate-think that believes activities and goals which are better off left to grow organically can instead be regulated and enforced into a corporate mold. A bunch of friends getting together to help a less fortunate member of the congregation because they WANT to, are ...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 2:35 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Areas where science has forced the church to change their story/approach/whatever?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 17881
Re: Areas where science has forced the church to change their story/approach/whatever?
Does Joesph Fielding Smith’s quote that man would never go to the moon count? “We will never get a man into space. This earth is man's sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it. The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You...
- Thu Jan 03, 2019 2:59 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Need Advice - Potential Visit from a Seventy
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18310
Re: Need Advice - Potential Visit from a Seventy
It sounds like your name just came up on a list of less active people and they’re doing it because they “have to”. I’d say if you want to go, go. But if you don’t, don’t bother. I personally don’t see the upside to it. They’re doing it because it’s their “duty”, and unless you’re going to get some k...
- Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:55 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Ordained minister
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13089
Re: Ordained minister
Hey, now I'm a Dudeist Priest, too! That was so much easier than, you know, that other kind.
Does this now make me officially (more) apostate?
Does this now make me officially (more) apostate?
- Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:28 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Struggling...A Lot
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13684
Re: Struggling...A Lot
First, I can tell you from having been there depression-wise, it WILL get better. Please don’t do anything drastic. Second, as soon as possible seek help, even if it is simply one of the crisis support lines. I’ll echo those above in encouraging you to also seek some therapy, both for yourself and ...
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 5:20 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Struggling...A Lot
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13684
Re: Struggling...A Lot
First, I can tell you from having been there depression-wise, it WILL get better. Please don’t do anything drastic. Second, as soon as possible seek help, even if it is simply one of the crisis support lines. I’ll echo those above in encouraging you to also seek some therapy, both for yourself and w...