NOM

“Though there are several plausible hypotheses regarding the geographic locations of Book of Mormon events, the Church takes no official position except that the events occurred in Narnia.”

Whoops! It was either Narnia, or some other make-believe place...

But seriously, it really is like her programming was violated... How do you even handle that?

It's almost like there really are only two categories--active Mormons, and everybody else. Add more categories, and BOOM!

It's difficult to find an evidence-based path to happiness in all the noise. I don't think it exists. I think you can determine the overall structure of how to obtain happiness from evidence, but that actually obtaining it requires believing in fiction and bullshit. That probably comes across as ne...

My clinical chemistry professor actually used the words "little factory" today to describe B-cells...

"every time you masturbate, you've blown it" :shock: ;) :lol: :roll: In all seriousness, I constantly felt like a failure because every time I did something that was completely natural and an important part of a person's sexuality, I had blown it. After my mission, I spent seventeen of the prime ye...

Thoughtful wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 10, 2018 5:08 pm

My retort would be that it's creepy for 45 year old men to show such interest in a teenage boy....

PLEASE send this text. I will give you $5.

You are fighting millions of years of evolution. I wonder just how much of Mormonism flows from the amygdala*. I would guess a lot of it. In order to be a chosen people, there have to be the unchosen. It goes with the territory. It sucks but haters gonna hate. I think the best course of action is t...

I would like to do a Taqueria 27 shindig.

I have not seen it, but I expect to do so probably after it comes out on video. My somewhat unfair concern over this movie is that my most believing family and friends will watch it and think, "Wow! I'm so glad that we don't discriminate against anyone any longer!" Then they will studiously avoid a...

Hey margarita, I'd love to meet you. I'm in Logan all the time, and pass through Brigham every day.

I recently went to see Jane and Emma with my father. I knew that the movie was about Emma Smith and Jane Manning, but didn't really know much else about it. In the movie, an early African American Saint named Jane Manning keeps vigil with Emma watching over the body of Joseph Smith on the night afte...

Hey folks! I recently had lunch with Hagoth, and had a great experience! It really helps to meet fellow NOMies IRL. I live near Odgen and would love to meet more of you. Let's reach out to each other more!

-Josh

HOW WILL THE DOTERRA GET SOLD???!!!

Corsair wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 09, 2018 3:02 pm

moksha wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:50 am

Would anyone prefer being assigned to read Tolkien's The Silmarillion instead?

Yes, that's a new theology I would enjoy arguing about.

It may be that Nephi and Moroni are just as likely to be real as Numenor and Mordor.

This is like the third goal this year that I've heard to get people to read the BoM. It's like that scene in Wedding Singer where George takes over singing duties while Robbie Hart takes a break. At the end of George's song he doesn't have any more material so he just starts singing the song over a...

Hagoth wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:49 am

We love you Achilles. So glad you're here!

Awww....

So sorry you were born into a hate-group masquerading as a church Achilles. Most of us will never be able to understand what you've been through, but Oaks' hate is hurtful, even for us. On a lighter note: I just read a post on "that other" angry message board of a person who was investigating the c...

The sad thing is that no matter how loud E Oaks gets on this, a statistically stable number of LGBT children of God will continue to be born into Mormon families. It can't be stopped. Even by excommunicating and shunning and denying ordinances.

It seems plausible to assume this was an idea taken from many message board posts over the years. Rank and file COJCOLDers will support any decision made by Headquarters as being inspired. Totally. When I listened to Pres Nelson's talk about the name of the Church, he basically rattled off all of t...

jfro18 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 08, 2018 2:33 pm

You can read it 1000 times, but until you have that emotional snap to the church, you'll never see the flaws... but once you do there is no turning back.

I used to really enjoy those BoM sprints. I haven't tried to read it since I left. Maybe I should have a look...