"Hey Russell, round up the other 14 asshats and go heal all the kids with cancer at Primary Children's Hospital. It's like a 5 minute drive from your office.
"Either 1) you can't, and you're full of shit, or 2) you won't, and you're evil."
Now I can see one way out: He, ghawd, is testing us!
Cancer is just ghawd's way of showing us how powerless we are without his help. Used to be that way with polio and whooping cough, etc., but in his mercy he allowed scientists to figure those diseases out for themselves. what a guy!
My dad got cancer. I asked him if all his praying and tithing paying helped him. He could not come up with a sufficient answer to his getting cancer and being a TBM. I told him the other day that I am purposely not going to his funeral, and he did not believe me.
You have your whole life ahead without him. It's probably best to mourn your loss, even if it is the loss of what might have been. Most of us are better off if we ultimately reconcile with our own pasts.
nolongerangry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My dad got cancer. I asked him if all his praying > and tithing paying helped him. He could not come > up with a sufficient answer to his getting cancer > and being a TBM. I told him the other day that I > am purposely not going to his funeral, and he did > not believe me.
What was the point of telling him that? He picked the wrong answer so he loses your attendance at his funeral? How will that prove anything other than you have tantrums when people don't say the right thing to you? Yeah thats gonna really show him.
All of the above. Can't AND Won't. Full of shit AND Evil.
Could make the news. Can't run the risk of having everyone realize the magic potion--olive oil--doesn't work except on pasta with garlic and basil and a bit of fresh grated reggiano.
And this testing thing. Really nice wonderful people get cancer and all sorts of awful things. What is the test for? The Job thing all over again with Heavenly Father betting against Lucifer? I guess they got tired of the boils and thought cancer would be more fun. Somebody needs to get them some video games---stat.
logged out (nli) Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Exmormon reddit. . . generally leans even more left than > this one does.
It's confusing, isn't it? The predominance of liberals and similar scoundrels at the other ex-Mormon sites almost makes it seem like RfM is centrist or even a bit to the right on the American political spectrum.
Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > logged out (nli) Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Exmormon reddit. . . generally leans even more > left than > > this one does. > > It's confusing, isn't it? The predominance of > liberals and similar scoundrels at the other > ex-Mormon sites almost makes it seem like RfM is > centrist or even a bit to the right on the > American political spectrum. > > But that can't be true. . .
Hahahahahaahahahahhaha. Have I told you lately that I love you Lottie?
God must have told Rusty not to bother saving Gordo as John D Lee had waited long enough to set him straight on a few details which the Hickster had so clumsily attempted to re-bury.
Yeah... in the mission field we had to get permission from the MP before we could shake the dust from our heels. I don't know of anyone who ever asked, much less got that permission.
Kind of awesome though, walking around with nuclear power in my shoes.
elderolddog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah... in the mission field we had to get > permission from the MP before we could shake the > dust from our heels. I don't know of anyone who > ever asked, much less got that permission. > > Kind of awesome though, walking around with > nuclear power in my shoes.
Plus it explains your glow in the dark socks. Just kidding folks.
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Heartless Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > God has already answered this. > > The 14th chapter of Alma has Alma and Amulek > watching women and children being burned alive > because of their faith. > > Amulek wants to use the priesthood to destroy the > evil men burning the saints. > > But....Alma says "The spirit constraineth me that > I must not stretch forth my hand."
One of the things I have been doing lately, in the longer-than-I-thought-it-would-be quest to get to the next part of my creative life, is researching Sephardi history around the time of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions--during both of which, Spanish and Portuguese Jews (or Christians thought to be Jews, because they had been tortured into giving confessions of their supposed apostasy), WERE burned to death--as part of a joyous, fiesta-type day for the Christian population.
For Jews, this "burning alive people to death" thing is very real, and feels very personal.
Maybe the author of Alma (I have no idea who the author is--Joseph Smith??) was, at least subliminally, reminiscing nostalgically about the "Good ol' Days," when "burning people to death" was a fresh opportunity for a previously unplanned fiesta day, somewhere on the Iberian Peninsula?
This was multiple lifetimes ago but I played a gig of sephardic music at either the cabildo or the presbytere on Jackson square in New Orleans. The event, some time in the mid 80s, was the opening of an exhibit on the sephardic diaspora. I believe it would have been curated by the Louisiana State Museum.
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...I just don't feel like using them right now. And it's not right to show off.
I mean, I would use them, you know, if I really needed to. But this is not one of those times.
Most importantly, it would be wrong to use my superpowers just to satisfy other people's curiosity or just to "prove" to others that I have them. Trust me. I do have them. Whooo boy! Do I ever have big, big superpowers. But I don't have superpowers to entertain people, as though I were a carnival act. That would only cheapen the deep and profound meaning and sacredness of my superpowers.
Sometimes you need to know when something that you don't like is happening for a reason that you can't appreciate now, but will understand later to be a valuable learning experience. It hurts me more than the people who are hurting when I have to control my urge to use my superpowers to stop their hurting. I could stop their hurting with a snap of my fingers. Of course I could! But that would defeat the bigger purposes and opportunity for spiritual growth that they have been given in the form of special challenges....
Well, I think that should just about cover it.
We all know that, just like me, the Mormon Prophet and Apostles have super amazing POWER, AUTHORITY and KEYS to perform all manner of miracles. They're just holding back because that's how great they are.
What's the use of having superpowers if you never use them? Is that what you're asking???
They don't never use them. Have you already forgotten how they changed the 3-hour meeting block to a 2-hour meeting block? How could they do something like that if they didn't have amazing superpowers and authority and gifts of revelation and inspiration that they received directly from God? No ordinary human could ever change long-established meeting policies. Shortening the time spent in church in meetings involves the manipulation of time itself. They're like Time Lords!
Well of course they USE their superpowers. It's just whenever they do, it's "too sacred to share." And you never hear of the beneficiaries of these superpowers telling anyone, even though it would give the church some incredible PR and cause people to flock to it. It's like they signed an NDA or something, and we know how big the church is on NDAs…
And they really do have super powers... how could a group of old white grifters convince millions of people that the TSCC is The "true church" and they do have magic healing powers and underwear... if in fact they didn't have super powers?
I've read the New Testament several times. It seems to me that Jesus healed everybody who came to him--no questions asked.
Maybe some of the "plain and precious" parts of the Bible that are missing are the times that Jesus said things like:
"you need this test of your faith, so no healing for you." "it would mess with my divine plan in a way that you can't understand if your illness was miraculously taken away." "I can't do public displays of my power because it's too sacred."
Well of course they wouldn't!! That's the whole point of Jesus leaving the Three Nephites here to await his return.
I'm simply saying that if the DID know what a tire iron looked like, then they'd be able to figure that each of three guys carrying one was a Wandering Joe (from the tribe of Joseph).