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DW is at a convention so I’m here with the boys myself, reading Reddit and enjoying the discussions there FAR more than the diahhrea of the mouth crap that the new stake presidency is spewing out of their mouths. Makes me want to thrust all of it out my velvet bunghole for good.

We sang “We Thank thee o God for a Prophet “, and the words, for the first time in my life, made me feel sick. I can see now what the words really are teaching. Do you now “re-analyze” hymns and stuff like that now?

I re-analyze everything church-related now. I can't let any of it enter my mind without evaluating it for truth, goodness, and lack of manipulation.

What I found when I was still attending was that most was either true, unverifiable, or reasonably disputable. Half was good, a quarter was neutral, and a quarter was bad. About a quarter was laced with manipulation of some kind. The sessions of GC I watched this year followed the same pattern.

I have a TBM friend who hates that hymn because it comes off as prophet worship. It has made me feel sick since my FC.

I refrain from singing quite a few hymns in the 20s in the hymnal.

Those and the hymns that have the theme of battling people, how they are wrong, we are right, and they'll be sorry. Also that sacrament hymn about proving ourselves worthy of Jesus' sacrifice sucks too.

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Sun Apr 29, 2018 10:11 am

Do you now “re-analyze” hymns and stuff like that now?

Yes, I do this too, with hymns, lessons, etc.

I felt sick during we thank thee for a prophet for the first time recently as well. I cannot stand praise to the man and won’t sing it.