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- Fri Jul 14, 2023 2:45 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: FAIR's how-to-study guide
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3042
Re: FAIR's how-to-study guide
Just re-read your posts, mostly because, believe it or not, I don't remember having heard of the Letter to My Wife. I read it now, and it is a lot like the CES letter, so not much new there. Not much there to bring the blood close to boilage. Those days are past. This paragraph that angel wrote is r...
- Fri Jul 14, 2023 2:34 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Slowly fading away? The future of NOM?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 15813
Re: Slowly fading away? The future of NOM?
Like many have said before me, this is the site that "feels like home". We've sort of gone through a lot of the same feelings about ten years ago when we started finding out that much of what we learned on our mother's knees were lies. At first I looked at a lot of web sites and learned a bit from t...
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:33 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: FAIR's how-to-study guide
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3042
Re: FAIR's how-to-study guide
Good responses, but I'm pretty sure the gloomy part for me when I started uncovering lies from the church was the same as other times I got suckered into a bad deal, or lied to by someone you trusted who stole your money. The real gloom for me was knowing I got conned. The hair on the back of your n...
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:24 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: We do not feel that we’re obligated to fill in that box.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1624
Re: We do not feel that we’re obligated to fill in that box.
Interesting. Heard about the article or one like it. Is that the same article that mentioned the reason the church didn't fill in the box honestly and accurately was because they feared church members would stop paying tithing?
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 12:17 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Decline of Mormonism in USA
- Replies: 7
- Views: 824
Re: Decline of Mormonism in USA
Interesting post for sure and comments I've enjoyed reading. Where we live, in southeast Idaho, there's plenty of Mormons to go around and to spare but unfortunately, it seems like the sickening self righteous ones are the ones moving in, but not around my place in the boonies thankfully. Our daught...
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6955
Re: The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory?
Two things: 1- Can you prove that Hillary doesn't sacrifice babies to Satan and eat their brains? No? Must be true. 2- I saw Satan moving upon the face of the waters. No canoes for me! But seriously, Don't know what it was, but it was something. There is no doubt that really weird, scary, inspirati...
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 11:38 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: So, why did Jesus have to die?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4918
Re: So, why did Jesus have to die?
The idea of Jesus being sent from God the Father to be sacrificed has never really set well with me or made any sense. How this concept ever got woven into Mormonism is beyond me. I think it hitched a ride on the Protestantism that Mormonism grew out of. St. Augustine kind of solidified the narrati...
- Wed Jul 05, 2023 10:22 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6955
Re: The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory?
What's the Twain saying? The truth doesn't stand a chance against someone determined to believe a lie. So, are all the devil stories just story tellers' morbid and sickening way of scaring people into bowing down to "the one true God"? Are they all made up? Just build on the next lie and then the ne...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 12:06 pm
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: What if the seer stone spelt worse than joseph
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12267
Re: What if the seer stone spelt worse than joseph
This is really a good one and original. Can't speak for the rest of you but I'd never heard of the seer stones until I was well into adulthood. Once I heard about them I busied myself to find out all I could about them. As many of you I said asked myself how this could be. Bring up the stones to a s...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:57 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Book of Mormon reaction
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2603
Re: Book of Mormon reaction
......... the only words she could get out, over and over again, were, "and you guys BELIEVED this?!" Yes. Yes we did. Just goes to show what can happen when kids are made subject to "the (incorrect) traditions of their fathers...." "Didn't any of you guys think to fact check this stuff?????" :roll...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:49 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: So, why did Jesus have to die?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4918
Re: So, why did Jesus have to die?
Interesting perspective by many of you. Many thanks. The idea of Jesus being sent from God the Father to be sacrificed has never really set well with me or made any sense. How this concept ever got woven into Mormonism is beyond me. Sort of why I wanted your views and enjoyed very much reading and r...
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: So, why did Jesus have to die?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4918
So, why did Jesus have to die?
Some of the more uninteresting lessons, I've found, are about the atonement. Never understood that one. My list of things I don't get about it are these: 1. Why did Jesus have to die if the atonement was made while he was still alive? 2. What's this business about great drops of blood oozing out of ...
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 7:44 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: New marketing manual from dear leader
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8435
Re: New marketing manual from dear leader
Great. I wonder whether they'll abandon reading general conference talks one paragraph at a time so they can read the new preach my gospel one paragraph at a time during EQ and RS next year. Because people are leaving and they're leaving because they don't know the basics... the same basics that ha...
- Mon Jun 19, 2023 11:53 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Just because I _____, doesn’t mean I _____.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1160
Re: Just because I _____, doesn’t mean I _____.
Just because my choice of sins are different than yours, it doesn't mean that you have the right to pass judgement on me.
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 3:56 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Reasons to resign
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1893
Re: Reasons to resign
Too much mormon stain on me and it's never going to wash out so why try. Not worth the effort. I'm known for not caring what other people think of me, but I do care. I do. No one wants people to think that they are an a**hole. Not really. It's unique for all of us, sorry if I hit a nerve. The other...
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:58 pm
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Pride works both ways.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1442
Re: Pride works both ways.
Too right. Thanks for the reminder noble mon.
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: NeverMo friend and eternal families
- Replies: 4
- Views: 588
Re: NeverMo friend and eternal families
Interesting post. When the church- any church- destroys families, then it is going against every teaching of Christ himself. It's interesting how people think that their own sweet little fams are going to be gathered around mother's knee and all things will be lovely some time. Yet, that make no sen...
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:43 pm
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Support Opportunity for Arizona NOMs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 493
Re: Support Opportunity for Arizona NOMs
Yikes, this is terrible. I must say that the second paragraph says it all. If this church is really a Christ centered church, then this sort of thing would never ever happen. Christ was sent to the sinners, and if this lady thinks her husband is sinning, she should be working over time to show him l...
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:38 am
- Forum: Support
- Topic: Revisiting my thoughts on an afterlife.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1463
Re: Revisiting my thoughts on an afterlife.
This is the topic that has driven religions throughout the ages, and I trust we all agree on that. Like CS Lewis famously said about belief in a god or gods: Plan A- some or part of what you learn may be true. There may be a god. Or plan B: None of any religion is true. All are wrong, which is the a...
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 5:56 am
- Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
- Topic: Reasons to resign
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1893
Re: Reasons to resign
This is sort of a loaded question of the earlier post "reason not to resign". First of all, I said before and I will say it now, I think it is pointless to resign, and I am speaking for myself only here. It's not worth the effort, and it's sort of fun when some dip-stick tries to sniff your ass as P...