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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: January 22, 2015 07:09PM
Are you being true to your eternal self?

"Some he knows have left the church and are living a homosexual lifestyle. When they ask why he doesn't just give in, he answers, "I feel I'm being true to my eternal self." "
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/635165814/Alone-in-the-fold-Many-LDS-gays-struggle-to-cling-to-faith-despite-their-yearnings.html?pg=all

How can an ending self (we all know it is coming) be true to a never-ending self?

This sounds like me saying I want to save money now for my very old self but somehow not. Why? Because a self that goes on and on and on and on and on some more isn't something we can conceive of, right? I've tried before and I cannot conceive of myself as a person with a past I can remember going on forever. At some point I will have to have forgotten large swathes of this very long life.

I guess in this guy's case he is saving himself for his future polygamist wives after God has straightened him out? As a gay Mormon man, walk the straight and narrow path and when you get to heaven you will look like an Arnold Friburg Mountie with the libido of Hugh Hefner and Warren Jeffs combined because you held out for your future forever self?

http://www.artcountrycanada.com/friberg-arnold-trail-ends-at-the-sea-rcmp.htm

I'm not being true to my eternal self. I don't even want to think about myself at my first eon of eternity. I say eat, drink and gay marry for tomorrow you may die.

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Posted by: Lethbridge Reprobate ( )
Date: January 22, 2015 07:16PM
Re: Are you being true to your eternal self?

I don't have an eternal self, so no worries. I'm quite content in the knowledge the dirt nap is the end. It's what I do until then that counts.

Ron Burr

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Posted by: rationalist01 ( )
Date: January 22, 2015 07:33PM
Re: Are you being true to your eternal self?

Yep. Shed religion and enjoy the rest of it shame and guilt free.

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Posted by: AKA Alma ( )
Date: January 22, 2015 07:21PM
Re: Are you being true to your eternal self?

So sad... "eternal self" is just "the person TSCC tells you should become".

How about being true to my "internal moral self" and hope that the rest works itself out in the eternities should life continue after I die?

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Posted by: moose ( )
Date: January 22, 2015 07:23PM
Re: Are you being true to your eternal self?

You know, EB, if you keep playing with these stupid Morg beliefs you'll get burned, right?

;^)

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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: January 22, 2015 07:26PM
Re: Are you being true to your eternal self?

In Hell right?

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Posted by: moose ( )
Date: January 22, 2015 07:30PM
Re: Are you being true to your eternal self?

Hell would be here, if you keep playing with those things! They be dangerous!

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Posted by: Elder Berry ( )
Date: January 22, 2015 07:31PM
Re: Are you being true to your eternal self?

It is cold here.

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Posted by: moose ( )
Date: January 22, 2015 07:32PM
Re: Are you being true to your eternal self?

Well, okay. If you need to warm up a bit.

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