https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/1981/06/fourteen-fundamentals-in-following-the-prophet?lang=eng

The words 'Love' 'Honesty', 'Kindness' 'Repentance' 'Forgiving / Forgiveness'


aren't used or even suggested in telling people ('members') what they should do.

got that.



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How about taking 10 minutes to pee?

10 minutes?

Get that prostate checked out, son!

The perils of nofap.

This is excellent advice for the continual mental slavery of the slave species of god

This is mind control in its most basic devasting form

"Eleventh: ...the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned..."

Well, yeah, at least he got that right.

Ah, I see good old Ezra's 14 points are still around.

#4 is a winner. The prophet will never lead the Church astray.

Except for that thing about blacks and the priesthood. And the Hofmann forgeries. And the rock in a hat. And the racist BoM.

I could go on. Perhaps there is a special Mormon redefinition for "never"

"14. The prophet and the presidency—the living prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed—reject them and suffer."

Nice to end with a threat.

How would it feel to read that if you were one who kept finding it harder to feed and shelter your children because you were paying tithing. Proof is in the pudding Ezra, Rusty.

Oddly, my life got instantly and constantly better the second I left the "living prophet" in the dust along with the others.

And Mormons have a distinctly different definition of "living" than I do. For sure.

Good grief! This sounds like a press conference for our former dear leader.

"The prophet will never lead you astray!" vs. "I will never lie to you!"

"The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or diplomas to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time." vs. " I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, 'How do you know so much about this? ' Maybe I have a natural ability."

You can pretty much do this for every one of the 14 points.

"Fourth: The prophet will never lead the Church astray."

OMG. Right. They'll never lead you astray. Joseph Smith's womanizing was wrong, sure, but he wasn't leading anyone astray.

- "Prophet never leading astray" is a tautology since the prophet is the one who gets to dictate what "going astray" means. Because he is the prophet, *anything* he orders is by definition not "astray."

- Claudio Costa spoke on the 14 fundamentals in GC in 2010, parroting them point by point. I suspect he was making his case for promotion to the Q12. It wasn't enough.