Posted by:
Lowpriest
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Date: March 30, 2020 11:45AM
I have been lucky to be surrounded by good family and friends throughout my life.
Even when I have have called someone TBM in my posts, it was not meant to be derogatory. I truly love and respect them.
But I have to pose a question -
Are they nuts?
As the pandemic has spread, I have not heard one of my TBM friends or family ask, "Why didn't the prophet warn us?"
My wife watched a conference talk yesterday from 6 months ago. The speaker spoke at length about when Gordon Hinckley was inspired to know where to locate a particular temple site. That's amazing stuff, right?
It's great that we can have a prophet on the earth to tell us to be good and love Jesus. It is wonderful that he can help us to know that we shouldn't swear or wear too many ear rings.
But how about letting us know that a pandemic is coming?
The crazy part for me is to hear my TBM associates go on about how brilliant the church has handled the situation. Are you kidding me?
For whatever social or emotional benefits mormon church membership may offer, can we agree that fortune telling and prognostication are not on the menu?
Instead of useful bits of insider information form planet cobol, mormons are treated to hucksters who offer cold readings.
TBM mormons put any coincidentally favorable outcomes in column A and the failures in column B, which they toss into the memory hole.
Oddly enough, the more perilous the times are the greater the dedication grows to columnA.
Am I imagining this?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/2020 01:33PM by Lowpriest.