Dave the Atheist Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So you can get god to do what you want him to do > by not eating ? > Mormonism just keeps getting more absurd by the > day.
And the more people you get to not eat, the more likely it is that god will do what you want.
Yep, absurd. But it's not just mormons who do things like this...
Anyway, as to the OP: I know of one specially-called church-wide fast: January 27, 1985. All members worldwide were asked to fast "for the starving children in Ethiopia," and the fast offerings were supposed to go to feed them. Apparently $6M was raised. Somehow I don't think all that money went to feed the starving kids in Ethiopia...
I have a hereditary kidney condition that requires me to stay as well-hydrated as possible. When I first joined the church and learned about the fasting deal, I explained to the bishop that while I could go without food for a day, I was not allowed to go without sufficient fluids.
He insisted that I bring a letter from my nephrologist saying so.
My nephrologist took a very dim view of this attitude, but wrote a very firm letter about my need to remain well-hydrated. Boy - did I get some LOOKS from people, when I dared to drink at the water fountain! But word got out that I was drinking "legally."
It doesn't stop for dead members. It picks them up in the lifeafter (as it puts them down in the now)... and probably runs over them again [and takes what's left (which isn't right)].
It only cares about itself, which makes it heavy and slow, so it forces the gears (followers) to fast. Probably because they are so wide! That's why they hide (under the garments and LDStalk).
The only fasting I remember was on Fast Sunday, as I wasn't in long enough to have a ward or stake fast being declared. I was only a hormonal convert who quit after less than a year.
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I remember fasting (well, being told to) just after I came home from my mission, 1971 or so, for the emeritus stake patriarch in our stake, close to 98 years of age.
He'd been a bishop for 20+ years, SP for about as long and then made emeritus because he had what I'd guess was Alzheimers but at that time he was just called senile.
He died about 2 weeks later so I guess the fast worked, which may have been what they were looking to do. Although they didn't say it outloud.
yes, the last one ordered by Monson for Northern Utah was the first of February 2014. It hadn't rained or snowed all winter on the Wasatch. The mountains were bare and two days after the fast on a Tuesday a snow storm finally came.
It really works, I encourage everyone to pay attention to these things.
Our SP said we should pray for rain. They also tacked it onto the last fast. They made a big deal about it when it drizzled last week. It was a miracle because it NEVER rains here in August. Right. Next month we should fast for gravity.