"I sense a great disturbance in the force, as if thousands of homophobes are crying out in terror..." OH THE HUMANITY!
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I live here in Dallas! Would love to get acquainted with some of the local Formons here! We should schedule a meetup!
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With the recent passing of Paul Walker a (as Mr. Diety likes to say...) Formon. A family member was expressing her sadness at his passing. I not so subtly pointed out that per Mormon Doctrine, Mr. Walker by rejected the gospel is either suffering in hell (spirit prison) or the doctrine is false and Mr. Walker is not in hell asking which outcome is correct? Initially, I was met with crickets and
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I have this dream myself from time to time. In virtually every case, I'm trying to go out of my way not to have to proselytize and just skate by. In my last dream I was plotting ways to purchase alcohol and keep it from my companion.
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Probably because you recognize it for what it truly is. It's used to rank people based on their supposed worthiness like a credit score. Are you BIC? 1 point. Eagle Scout? 1 point. Serve a mission? 2 points, sealed in the temple? 3 points. Ever been a Bishop? 5 points, and so on...
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I once got banned for a month (it was the 3rd warning from FB) for pointing out the idiocy of giving the church a speaking as men pass when it makes false prophesies but condemning anyone outside the church who makes them like Pat Robertson or Harold Camping. I said nothing offensive but that didn't stop someone from getting their garments in a bunch and reporting me. They love to jump on the cro
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One of those responsible for the passage of this legislature is frankly an asshole I served with on my mission, Francis D. Gibson in District 65. He was a pompous ass in the mission field, all full of himself, telling exaggerated stories and the like. When I heard he became a Senator on one hand I wasn't surprised given his narcissistic, self-elevated persona. So glad I don't live in Utah anymore
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3 boys. My oldest son is going off to college at Texas A&M in the fall. My next son is a senior and has made it clear despite the admonitions of his great-grandmother that he has no intent of going on a mission and plans to go to college as well. My youngest son is 15 and a professed atheist so there's not a chance in hell he'll go either. My parents have 36 grandkids nearly half of which are
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This perfectly demonstrates the church's new tactic of revealing just enough in order to claim they're not withholding anything. When someone claims the church never talks about Joseph Smith dying in a gunfight, they can now show this picture and say, "Yes we do! See! It's even in the history of the church"... I wonder when they're going to finally show a picture of Joseph Smith with h
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The 8th article of faith states: We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God. There's a lot of problems with this article, namely: 1. The biggest problem with the Bible isn't its"translation". It's the fact the translation wasn't done on original texts but copies of copies of copies of co
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJm6nDnR2SE
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According to Professor Ze'ev Herzog in the archeology department of Tel Aviv University, "This is what archaeologists have learned from their excavations in the Land of Israel: the Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the 12 tribes of Israel. Perhaps even harder to swallow is the fact that the
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Not that the number gives any more validity to either position, but I recently learned that it's estimated 2.3% of the world (myself included) claims to be atheist with another 11% describing themselves as non-religious. If you apply that number to the world population, that's 144,000,000 atheists worldwide. Contrasting that with the 14+ million worldwide Mormons, I find it peculiar that atheists
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In the church's latest plea for donations, they stated they now have 68,700 full-time missionaries. Given the current overlap, that kind of makes sense although that's an increase of nearly 9,700 missionaries from what they reported in conference just two months ago, a 16% increase. I guess it's possible now that school is out and this is the peak season for young men to go out right after gradua
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That doesn't jive with Mitt's recent statement, "It kills me not to be President". Hardly the words of someone who never wanted it in the first place... Not wanting to be President and saying something like that would be like me saying, "It kills me not to be a crack whore"...
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So much for Moses 7:18 I guess...
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That argument "needed on the other side" really pisses me off anytime I hear it. My parents made that claim after my older brother was killed in a car accident in 1990 leaving behind a wife and two very young children. I thought it was horrible to tell my sister-in-law, now a widow "God needed him for some special purpose" implying "you didn't need him enough". Suppo
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ablmu65 If you think Jesus didn't attack what others believed, your sadly mistaken. He was full of criticism to the scribes and pharisees, calling them fools, hypocrites, vipers, etc. If you think Jesus was always polite and low-key, you should really read the gospels again. Jesus constantly employed irony and sarcasm to show what he offered was far better than what they were.
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Mormons are extremely sensitive anytime someone like myself comes along and starts poking gaping holes in their faith. Given the obviousness of these gaping holes, they undertake certain tactics to defend themselves like: 1. Quoting Farms and Fair articles verbatim which usually isn't difficult to refute at all since most of the articles have obscured other factual information or just reserted
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