Posted by:
koriwhore
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Date: June 23, 2018 02:32PM
Babyloncansuckit Wrote:
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> When was the last time someone acting like a dick
> changed your mind?
Actually, I was Mormon at the time and at a company Party, standing around with a bunch of guys I respected and one of them mentioned I was Mormon. Another guy who was super Born Again, Praise the Lord!, kind of Christian who said, "You're Mormon?"
I said, "Yeah"
He said, "Do you really believe you're going to become a God?"
I realized how absurd my Mormon beliefs would sound to 8 General Contractors, who I had to manage in my day to day work,
I had to admit to him "No. I don't believe that I am going to become a God, but that is what Mormonism teaches. I don't believe that however. I'm sure there are lots of absurd things your church teaches too, like Virgin Birth. Isn't that kind of an oxymoron?"
I got a big laugh out of that but having to defend my absurd beliefs did make me stop and examine them more seriously, which is what finally made me start Googling all those rumors I had heard, and wanted to really research and get to the bottom of, like, wives of Joseph Smith, which led me to In Sacred Loneliness, and that alone is enough information to do the math and see that it doesn't add up.
But there's something missing in today's Mormons, the ability to admit they're wrong. They were wrong to exclude blacks from the temple and they have no excuse. Yet they won't admit it was wrong. Because that would make the whole house of cards come tumbling down.
And when they realize this, a mental block kicks in. The fight or flight instinct drains all the blood flow from their pre-frontal cortex, then the cerebrial cortex, then it goes right down to the reptilian brain functions.
They become blind to anything you say.
They employ the old "See no evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" attitude and either run, or attack you as evil.
And they end up accusing you of all kinds of evil and misfortune to follow you.
When they could just do the math and they wouldn't lose all credibility.