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by RubinHighlander
Fri Sep 15, 2023 9:02 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Past Stance Against Christianity
Replies: 10
Views: 8375

Re: Past Stance Against Christianity

I wish YouTube had a recording of the early temple film, wherein a (obviously catholic, great and abominable church representative) priest (with a bad perm hairdo) is hired ("I will pay you well") by Satan to preach to Adam and Eve. The early missionary lessons (at least up to the late 80's) also ha...
by RubinHighlander
Fri Sep 15, 2023 8:49 am
Forum: Support
Topic: The Brigham Wheel
Replies: 8
Views: 8123

Re: The Brigham Wheel

I'd like to see a new dinosaur exhibit up at the natural history museum: "How evolution created the Mormon church". It would depict a Jurassic sauropod eating a small chunk of banded jasper in N. America, then migrated south east of the Finger Lakes area where it pooped it out as a smooth gastrolith...
by RubinHighlander
Fri Sep 15, 2023 8:38 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Shunning by Decreee
Replies: 9
Views: 12114

Re: Shunning by Decreee

Now that I've thought about it a bit more, seems to me the letter is actually crafted to be dummied down on purpose. It's just a threat to intimidate. I think they made it so it would not hold up in court because they can't really make that broad of a legal claim without some crime that had been com...
by RubinHighlander
Thu Sep 14, 2023 1:21 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Shunning by Decreee
Replies: 9
Views: 12114

Shunning by Decreee

If you haven't yet, highly recommend this RFM/Bill Reel session: https://www.youtube.com/live/HmUTeRWuLtA?si=nPmVqcIjuoB5Rybb I was surprised at the Kirton McConkie letter and police action, really looked so freaking amateur! Really? Billion dollar law firm and that's the best you could do? RFM real...
by RubinHighlander
Wed Sep 13, 2023 12:13 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Selling Zion?
Replies: 8
Views: 12721

Re: Selling Zion?

Jebus changed his mind; more land grab in Florida perhaps?
Guess he better cool the planet off a bit first before it's all under water.
by RubinHighlander
Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:27 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: "We are belligerents defending good." Boyd Packer
Replies: 6
Views: 12085

Re: "We are belligerents defending good." Boyd Packer

Where'd all this war business come from anyhow? War in heaven? What the hell was that war fought with? Water balloon catapults, but using fence-sitters for projectiles. When I first read that I thought it said "face sitters" as in face hugger alien xenomorphs :D Now that would be a formidable weapo...
by RubinHighlander
Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:20 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Keeping up with Trump
Replies: 984
Views: 1286859

Re: Keeping up with Trump

Red Ryder wrote:
Wed Sep 06, 2023 9:56 am
Didn’t satan use the same stare in the temple endowment video right as he breaks the fourth wall and tells everyone in attendance that he is in power?
Indeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09oDUvGn-sI
by RubinHighlander
Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:18 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Bednar dedication of the Smith home
Replies: 6
Views: 12121

Bednar dedication of the Smith home

https://www.ksl.com/article/50719517/elder-bednar-dedicates-joseph-smiths-home-in-kirtland-ohio In this home, Emma and Joseph worked unitedly to take care of each other, their children and members of their extended family. This home was a place where they obeyed the commands that the Lord recently h...
by RubinHighlander
Thu Aug 24, 2023 12:44 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Rethinking the Renlund's dented boat
Replies: 6
Views: 7982

Re: Rethinking the Renlund's dented boat

I was thinking about Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern from Shakespeare's Hamlet and wondering how the play may have been different if they hopped out, walked to shore, and talked with Hamlet rather than being stuck in that boat. I mean, Hamlet could have had an alternate soliloquy and things would have...
by RubinHighlander
Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:05 am
Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
Topic: Lying
Replies: 13
Views: 13831

Re: Lying

I think it depends on your TBM spouse. After I had broke the news to my DW that I was struggling and the dust settled from that cogdis, months later I disclosed to my DW that I was having a beer with friends at lunch once in a while. That caused her more cogdis and she told me she didn't want to kno...
by RubinHighlander
Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:50 am
Forum: Support
Topic: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?
Replies: 33
Views: 15000

Re: What did you learn in the temple today, honey?

I learnt I was in a cult!
But I couldn't call my dad because he's the one that got me into that mess. So I marched to that drum for much of my life.

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But we both eventually escaped, thanks to the tender noodles of the FSM and other cosmic forces of good.
by RubinHighlander
Tue Aug 22, 2023 11:42 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Rethinking the Renlund's dented boat
Replies: 6
Views: 7982

Re: Rethinking the Renlund's dented boat

I like it! I'd add a bunch of stuff about how there's all these rules on the ship about what you can or cannot eat, that you'll be issued a special uniform to wear under your clothes at all times and lots of rules about sexual behavior, because there's only one "magnificent seaman" allowed on that s...
by RubinHighlander
Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:33 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: A Reasonable God?
Replies: 19
Views: 50585

Re: A Reasonable God?

If my consciousness does survive the death of my meat bag, I expect my meeting with the mormon god to go down kind of like when Kirk and his crew found god: https://youtu.be/KCW5h3rRsnM I just hope the Klingons can save me. Kirk: "What does God need with a mall?*" * or 200 billion dollars Exactly! ...
by RubinHighlander
Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:47 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: A Reasonable God?
Replies: 19
Views: 50585

Re: A Reasonable God?

If my consciousness does survive the death of my meat bag, I expect my meeting with the mormon god to go down kind of like when Kirk and his crew found god:

https://youtu.be/KCW5h3rRsnM

I just hope the Klingons can save me.
by RubinHighlander
Wed Aug 16, 2023 12:07 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Returning Missionary Procedures
Replies: 28
Views: 12926

Re: Returning Missionary Procedures

Hey blazerb, that's pretty messed up and makes me sad your mission was a crappy experience overall. I was out there in the UK 83-85 but didn't run into that question upon my return. I'm guessing it was not a standard question for stake presidents (maybe it was just yours), but it may depend on the y...
by RubinHighlander
Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:47 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Lying prophets & other leaders
Replies: 6
Views: 6933

Re: Lying prophets & other leaders

Conman52 - Don't be too harsh on yourself. The cogdis is painful, but time will help. I slogged 40+ years myself for the corporation. It's still a bit painful to think about all the energy and time it stole from me and my family, all the mental bs it created that I still grapple with at times. But I...
by RubinHighlander
Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:10 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Eckhart Tolle describing NOMs
Replies: 16
Views: 7571

Re: Eckhart Tolle describing NOMs

So NOMs have a strong element of insanity? That would explain the Starship Nauvoo and its multi-generational mission to "Hie to Kolob" and leave those of us so afflicted behind on Earth. Only to have their precious ship stolen from them by belters. This is the hope I have for Huntsman's lawsuit bei...
by RubinHighlander
Tue Aug 08, 2023 7:36 am
Forum: Mixed Faith Relationships
Topic: How do you get your spouse to see that people can still be good after leaving the church?
Replies: 38
Views: 47067

Re: How do you get your spouse to see that people can still be good after leaving the church?

My family is an example of one that escaped to better lives and relationships, which can be a big challenge here behind the zion curtain. In a nutshell: - 1st marriage with 3 kids, spouse that was a cheater and left the church, convinced my kids to leave over time. This made me double down in the ch...
by RubinHighlander
Tue Aug 01, 2023 1:13 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Aliens, the next Beelzebub for the world
Replies: 4
Views: 12136

Aliens, the next Beelzebub for the world

I've had this theory for a few years now: If there's an alien attack, it will have been manufactured by the more secretive powers of our government and the military industrial complex. I spent 20+ years as a weekend warrior for the army. Since escaping the cult of LDS corp and retiring from military...
by RubinHighlander
Wed Jul 19, 2023 12:11 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: SL Trib: The church could be worth $1 Trillion by 2044
Replies: 11
Views: 7484

Re: SL Trib: The church could be worth $1 Trillion by 2044

For me this is important because our current political structure supports this behavior. TSCC sucks billions out of this economy and many other around the world and does not give nearly a widows mite back. It's a harmful waist of resources and significantly contributes to the consolidation of power ...