"no, I wud not lik 2 no no mo" haha "no mo, no mo, no mo, no mo, hit the road Jack!"
But I actually like this man. I think he is one of the better and maybe not really aware of the scam at all, if that is possible. His heart is usually in a good place, which I cannot say, for example , of Oakes.
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The message was, "be grateful even though you never received the blessings from god that were promised you. You held up your end of the bargain, god doesn't have to. I command you to be grateful anyway."
Uchtdorf is a phony and a fraud. Don't let the fake tan fool you.
My acquaintance at Mars Hill Church thinks that just because he believes in and upholds Jesus's teachings that Jesus should provide him with even shelter. Then he calls himself sinful for it.
To be fair, there ARE services that send out things like Bible verses, Bhagavad Gita verses, or inspirational faith-based messages (on an opt-in basis) by text message, so that is nothing new.
I don't text (too technophobic - still faxing!) so my question is: Who pays for the text? The recipient of the message? That would be annoying - receiving an unwanted religious solicitation and then a bill for it!
Of course, that would be all you'd need to know about Mormonism right there.
One thing about texting he actually said was, "I will bet there are some right now texting friends that 'he (Deiter) is 10 min. into his talk and has not given an aviation analogy'" BIG laugh! I wonder if he learned from this place that he was being teased for doing that over and over.
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In the USA, both the sender and the recipient usually pay, although unlimited text message plans are quite common now and make this irrelevant for domestic text messages. Internationally, usually the sender pays, even for international text messages, and the recipient receives the text message for free.
Texting is still quite common actually, and can be quite helpful in areas where the Internet is inaccessible or unstable and Wi-Fi isn't around. (A lot of functions like Facebook communications and Google searches can be done by text message.) That said, Internet-based communication is definitely more widely used now.
How are they going to "build relationships of trust" with texting? It doesn't sound like they've thought this through. I would reply with some variant of "So, the Mormons are spamming me now? God, you people are desperate!"
It isn't much of an issue. The leadership of TSCC will counsel the members to do something like this. They will "COMMIT" to doing it and gloriously TEXT, POST and BLOG vigorsly for a few weeks.
By then the next bit of counsel will come out about reading the BOM 30 minutes more a day, or 100% home teaching or give more community service....etc.
It will soon fall by the wayside. This is the MORMON way.
Keep'em busy/Keep'em failing/Keep'em guilty/Keep'em paying/Keep'em not thinking
I found some of the article on Huffingtonpost interesting. I did not know the history of how the cult's on line missionary site was organized, etc. The statistical info concerning how successful the deal is in conversion and retension rates seems far fetched. Does anyone have any info on this?
Good laughs about the on-line-at-home babtisms in swimming pool or bathtub. Loved, Ready, set, go. (you could cheat and not wear the weird jump suit---rather a biki or, OMG, nothing)