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- Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Annalee Skarin- Mormon Prophetess?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1605
Re: Annalee Skarin- Mormon Prophetess?
From the cited WIki page: Annalee Skarin (born Annalee Kohlepp: July 7, 1899 – Transfigured 1952), was an American Latter-day Saint writer ... Wow! Whoever wrote that page was a believer in her... I have never seen someone listed as transfigured on wikipedia. Yeah! That made me wonder if some peopl...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Annalee Skarin- Mormon Prophetess?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1605
Annalee Skarin- Mormon Prophetess?
It always amazes me when I learn about new, to me, actors in the Mormon drama. Annalee Skarin is such a person. Wikipedia gives a short description of her life, but leaves more questions than answers. Has anyone else encountered her story? read her books?
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Old thoughts from Sunstone....I really liked this one.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 911
Old thoughts from Sunstone....I really liked this one.
Janice Allred: "This idea, that theology and revelation are incompatible, that theology is a substitute for revelation, is widespread in the Church. I will argue that, on the contrary, revelation and theology are inextricably interrelated and that the real danger to the Church is orthodoxy which doe...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: A miracle for Satan? Temple reopening delayed
- Replies: 1
- Views: 524
Re: A miracle for Satan? Temple reopening delayed
I think Pres. Nelson and the LDS Church playing the "devil" card is toxic. They do it too much and, for me, it is ridiculous. I do know TBM's who would disagree with me, but if they reviewed LDS history it seems self-evident to me that blaming so many things on the devil is stupid, even if one belie...
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 12:56 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Put your holiday greetings here!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3006
Re: Put your holiday greetings here!
God bless us, every one.
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 12:54 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Do you have a god?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1048
Do you have a god?
This thought just popped into my head- "Do You Have A God? I would answer yes: my God is Love and Truth. My God did not create the world in 6 days. My God did create people, in a metaphorical way, and maybe a literally metaphorical way. (I'm not prepared to explain that) My God did not tell Joshua t...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:03 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Tithing Unsettlement
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2786
Re: Tithing Unsettlement
You don't have to answer this question Graey, but I am wondering: do you emphasize tithing a lot? Do you think a vigorous campaign to increase tithing settlement attendance next year would make a difference?
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Mormon Missions ARE Human Trafficking
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1489
Re: Mormon Missions ARE Human Trafficking
the Church had to work long and hard to get me on a mission, and ultimately it was a growing experience. In retrospect, I wonder if I would have stayed after I learned some of the unsavory aspects of historical Mormonism in my 12th month, if the Church hadn't made coming home early so shameful. I do...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 8:58 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Peter Santanello's new "Mormon" YouTube videos.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1727
Re: Peter Santanello's new "Mormon" YouTube videos.
I watched two of the videos and parts of two others. Santello questioned the Post Mormon guy harder than the group of TBM's, at least in my opinion.
I had never heard of Santello before this series. How did he get to be so popular?
I had never heard of Santello before this series. How did he get to be so popular?
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:59 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The most correct book....
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3968
Re: The most correct book....
To paraphrase Gordon Hinkley, "people find what they're looking for." The BOM is often presented as the "proof" for TCOJCOLDS and everything associated with it. People who want it to be historical find evidence, slim though it is, for it. It really hasn't made inroads into mainstream History, or any...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 3:11 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The most correct book....
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3968
The most correct book....
With the whole LDS world focusing on the Book of Mormon next year, I was wondering, "what does--or doesn't-- make the BOM the most correct book on earth?"
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:10 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Book of Abraham Apologetics History
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1434
Re: Book of Abraham Apologetics History
This is, for me, one of the big smoking guns shooting down Mormonism. The historic claims made by the Book of Abraham, the Book of Moses, and yes the BOM all are incompatible with ancient history that is recorded on Egyptian temple walls grave vault walls, Mesopotamian, Sumerian, and other ancient t...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:48 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Non-Partisan history is more interesting.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1228
Non-Partisan history is more interesting.
Being a history buff, I pay special attention to other history buffs. We are weird, nerdy, and often snobbish. We are also often partisan to a particular view. Civil War history buffs can be interesting, but if they are partisan to one side or the other, they can also be a pain in the tush. A Southe...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:22 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Peter Santanello's new "Mormon" YouTube videos.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1727
Re: Peter Santanello's new "Mormon" YouTube videos.
I watched the second video, the one where it's just like a neighborhood FHE. The questions were soft and the TBM's were giving all the standard, pat answers, except for the one lady who said if it wasn't for the Church she might not have chosen to have children. I thought, "That's interesting" but t...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:42 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1605
Re: Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
From my "1975 missionary" perspective the Priesthood Ban was not going to change until the Millennium. That was what Brigham Young said. According to the Tribune article, and other things I've read, the Lester Bush article made a deep impression on Spencer Kimball. It's possible that it influenced a...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:22 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1605
Lester Bush, author of "Priesthood Ban" article dies
This is especially interesting for old-timers like me: 8-) Historian who traced racist LDS priesthood/temple ban to Brigham Young dies www.sltrib.com Lester Bush's story is a very interesting contrast to that of Russell Ballard. I would submit that Bush impacted the Church far more significantly tha...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:50 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Joins Christianity
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2194
Re: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Joins Christianity
I agree that there are some people that need religion, but it's not for everybody. Personally I see the quest for knowledge as giving meaning to life. Also Love as a principle of action can give meaning to life, apart from religion. Oddly and/or sadly some people can't seem to see love or charity ex...
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:08 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The 'Zina' Principle.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2249
The 'Zina' Principle.
Zina Huntington Jacobs Smith Young was in the curious situation of being married to three men: Henry Jacobs, Joseph Smith, and Brigham Young. Odd aspects of the situation are that Joseph proposed while Zina was pregnant with Henry's child, and that apparently Brigham ordered Henry to quit living wit...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 6:16 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Russell Brunson
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1314
Re: Russell Branson
Russell Branson and/or the LDS church have some explaining to do.
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 5:56 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Belief is easy, doubt is hard.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1932
Belief is easy, doubt is hard.
From a Psychology Today article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201912/why-evangelicals-may-be-hardwired-believe-trumps-falsehoods "One reason ______ supporters believe him comes from a basic fact about the brain: it takes more mental effort to reject an idea as false th...