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- Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:36 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: I'm here to listen and learn
- Replies: 56
- Views: 50261
Re: I'm here to listen and learn
Yes, as others have mentioned, we know that Joseph was sealed to men posthumously. It also appears that Joseph taught and performed adoption in Nauvoo, for example: "I have not felt satisfied, neither did President Taylor, neither has any man since the Prophet Joseph who has attended to the ordinan...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 4:32 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Mysterious encounters with EQ
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4762
Re: Mysterious encounters with EQ
The world needs more executive secretaries like Culper Jr.!Culper Jr. wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 4:13 pmMy experience too. I'm the executive secretary in the ward, and I am pretty open about my lack of belief. ... <SNIP>
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 3:50 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: CTB = WTF
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4399
Re: CTB = WTF
you can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into. Sorry, but I have to rebut this saying every time I read it: If it were actually "True™", I would not be here, and many other NOMies would not be here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Fair enough - and obviously I wouldn't be here if it never ...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:10 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: CTB = WTF
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4399
Re: CTB = WTF
This new wave of Choose To Believe rhetoric makes no sense to me. 1- I used to believe in Santa Claus. 2- I no longer believe in Santa Claus. 3- I DID NOT choose to stop believing in Santa Claus. 4- I really want Santa Claus to be real, but... 5- I CANNOT choose to believe in Santa Clause Maybe hum...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:40 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: I'm here to listen and learn
- Replies: 56
- Views: 50261
Re: I'm here to listen and learn
... Joseph being adoption-sealed to men ... Do you have any references for this? The Law of Adoption: The sealing of men and women as children to prominent Latter-day Saint leaders Thanks Pirate! I'm not really looking for the Fairmormon explanation of the law of adoption, I understand what the law...
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 11:42 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: I'm here to listen and learn
- Replies: 56
- Views: 50261
Re: I'm here to listen and learn
Do you have any references for this?
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 11:25 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Does truth really matter?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 24923
Re: Does truth really matter?
So... Truth doesn't matter.
Here's a question for those that think truth doesn't matter: Do you want to believe in things which are true?
Here's a question for those that think truth doesn't matter: Do you want to believe in things which are true?
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 6:48 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Stake Center burns.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9783
Re: Stake Center burns.
I'm confused. It says "the stake center that is being built in the vicinity of 300 East and 400 South," but that church was being built when I was 7, and moved up to SLC the 2nd or 3rd of Sept 1964. And the pictures look like the one I'm talking about (across the street to the east of the temple). ...
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:42 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Stake Center burns.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9783
Re: Stake Center burns.
A couple days later, fire NOT confirmed as arson (nothing confirmed at that point...)
Edit: Another Link with a cool time-lapse of the event.
Edit: Another Link with a cool time-lapse of the event.
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:12 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Reddit post- Something I never noticed
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3817
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:54 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Does truth really matter?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 24923
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:39 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: How are we not talking about this
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11321
Re: How are we not talking about this
I'm not reading through that drivel, so yeah... Nothing to talk aboot.Kishkumen wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:48 pmthe first story currently on LDS dot org
https://www.lds.org/blog/a-message-of-g ... 9?lang=eng
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:19 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Patriarchal Blessings?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5948
Re: Patriarchal Blessings?
I don't remember any fancy first resurrection, or Jesus stuff, I guess I'm going to to have to go find my mormon semi-cold psychic reading and see if I've forgotten those. One funny statement is that I have the gift of reaching out to those who have "left the fold" and bringing them back. I guess I ...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:07 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Just got back from the new endowment Powerpoint presentation
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11739
Re: Just got back from the new endowment Powerpoint presentation
The first time I went though I did NOT have a good experience. The only tolerable part was seeing my family in the C-Room at the end. I was confused, blindsided, dazed, I thought I had messed up some of the stuff I was supposed to say in my head. All that after I had faithfully attended every singl...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:45 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Does truth really matter?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 24923
Re: Does truth really matter?
The objectivity of fact is not the whole story. Surely an acceptance and awareness of the truth matters? ... Well, again, we would have to have to define "truth" wouldn't we? And it would seem that acceptance and awareness of truth doesn't matter to some people. It might be to their detriment, but ...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:03 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Does truth really matter?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 24923
Re: Does truth really matter?
However, people don't always want medical truths either - consider people who smoke and cite the evidence of their 90 year old uncle who has smoked since he was ten years of age and was knocked over by a bus. And evidenced-based medicine isn't a given either e.g. drug trials funded by big pharma, p...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:22 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Does truth really matter?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 24923
Re: Does truth really matter?
Does truth really matter when our brains are wired to support our own cognitive bias? Does truth really matter that much? I don't believe it does anymore. Someone please convince me I'm wrong! What's your definition of "truth?" I think you'd likely agree that there are "truths" that are currently p...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:09 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Stake Center burns.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9783
Re: Stake Center burns.
Will the Church be able to rebuild the structure keeping the intact brick walls? More importantly, were the pictures of Jesus miraculously not burned in the inferno? Haha. It will be fun to see if any "relics" are produced. The urban legends / faith promoting stories that are made up after events l...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:03 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: Alcohol Content of Beer in Utah vs Walmart
- Replies: 59
- Views: 41523
Re: Alcohol Content of Beer in Utah vs Walmart
They don't have "separate" production lines. When a brewery switches from a higher ABV beverage to a lower ABV beverage, they have to "steralize" the entire production line. That would make sense given brewing beer is a batch process. The issue will be that there won't be enough demand for 4.0% ABV...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 7:36 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Stake Center burns.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9783