Maybe I’m feeling too hippie dippy today, but maybe the truth is what resonates with you. Mormonism did resonate with me. It wasn’t wrong then. Magical things happened. It’s just wrong now. I can’t ignore “little flecks of history”. The late Charles Manson might just as well have asked me to ignore little flecks of history like the Sharon Tate murder. Yeah uh, how about not.

Church leaders are doctrinally self-lobotomized boobs incapable of inspired leadership. No offense. That’s what resonates with me now.

I spent a lot of years being seriously pissed after my Mormon world was demolished by objective truth. But I didn’t understand why “bad” things happen or what they mean to me. Everything happens to teach me something, so says the heart. Learning to love these seriously messed up TBMs, more teaching. I guess if it were easy it wouldn’t be worth doing. Christ was never accepted by his own people, but instead executed. I could be in worse company.

Maybe it’s just me pretending. But life is short. Believing that God is holding it all together works for me. I’m of the Gottfried Liebniz view that whatever happens is the best thing that can possibly happen. That’s a God I can believe in, not control freak Mormon God. It’s not my fault Descartes led civilization on a 400 year romp through Cartesian Dualism. Maybe the cooking should be left to the French and the philosophy to the Germans.

So today’s Mormonism, meh. But as a freak show quite entertaining.

babyloncansuckit Wrote:
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> Learning to love these seriously messed up TBMs,
> more teaching.

Sometimes the loving is more about letting go. Learning to love yourself takes precedence over playing whackamole with Mormons.

I guess if it were easy it
> wouldn’t be worth doing. Christ was never
> accepted by his own people, but instead executed.
> I could be in worse company.

Let Christ love them. Don't you be a martyr.
>
> Maybe it’s just me pretending. But life is
> short. Believing that God is holding it all
> together works for me. I’m of the Gottfried
> Liebniz view that whatever happens is the best
> thing that can possibly happen. That’s a God I
> can believe in, not control freak Mormon God.
> It’s not my fault Descartes led civilization on
> a 400 year romp through Cartesian Dualism. Maybe
> the cooking should be left to the French and the
> philosophy to the Germans.

Yes, life is short, even too short to be of much comfort. Which is why we're told to 'eat, drink, and be merry,' for tomorrow we die. Cheerio! Things could be worse.

The French have their philosophers too btw. Not sure I trust philosophy to the Germans after the lessons of the Holocaust.

'Follow your heart' is a good sentiment if only it didn't get so many people into so much trouble !

Good OP, Opie.

:o)

OP you are smarter than ever I was!

Babylon is very smart indeed. Too smart for Mormonism to keep its grip on him for very long.



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babyloncansuckit Wrote:
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> Maybe
> the cooking should be left to the French and the
> philosophy to the Germans.

And abusing people with their religion to the religious?