I liked "Pet Sematary," until the very end--I thought the ending was way over the top. I liked both "The Shining," and its sequel (the title of which escapes me now). I think the most terrifying of Mr. King's books was also his most realistic, "Cujo,", about a dog who contracts rabies without anybody knowing it. His other works (mostly) dealt with the supernatural bu
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Yes, I read those that were available in braille back in the mid-1970s. For those not in the know, the Great Brain was the author's fictionalized escapades of him and his older brother Tom (otherwise known as "The Great Brain," because of the way he conned other kids out of their material goods) during the late 1890s in a town (I believe the name was fictional) called Adenville, Utah. T
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...and I can see where your confusion comes from, given how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints treated scouting in the past.
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I think I related this story elsewhere on this site a while ago but I think it's time to repeat it. The LDS woman whom I was considering dating (my interest in her brought me to this site initially) fasted one Sunday, all day Sunday, per month. Unfortunately, she was also an athletic woman who ran daily to keep in shape. On one of the trips driving me to my residence from our worksite at the s
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Though they weren't surveyed, I suspect that many U.S. Roman Catholics have fallen for the prosperity gospel as well. Even if their own pastors and ministers don't preach it, all one has to do is turn on the TV or radio and you will hear the prosperity gospel coming from both commercial and non-commercial religious stations as well as from some commercial non-religious ones. It seems this gospel
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The funny thing is, these same people don't have any problems with private businesses telling them what they can say and do. At least in the United States, you can vote your individual representatives out of office; you can't do that with businesses.
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If the missionaries are allowed to wear and carry crosses, that would be evidence that the current prophet, Russell Nelson, is trying to show publicly that Mormons were just like other Christians. However, as Brother X points out (see above), the current LDS church still has those temple ceremonies and rituals, practices that are not accepted by rRoman Catholic and evangelical and mainstream Prot
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This came out of the last four postings on the recent list of books the state of Utah has banned from public school libraries. While I don't seek to have these books banned (I think that was, and remains, a bad idea), I was sure glad when these books (which I had to read for various high school English classes) were in my rear-view mirror. (Fortunately, there were enough good books I read to make
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While I don't have any comments on your questions and the sister missionaries' responses, I do wonder what they would have said if you had asked them how muchfinancial allowance (money) they were ok'ed to live on. With rents and grocery prices skyrocketing and reports on this very site of the LDS church cutting back financial support for its missionaries, I'm now wondering how much money those si
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I'm pretty sure this was an evangelical Protestant baptizing attempt. Mormons use the baptismal fonts built in their temples and Roman Catholics no longer imerse the whole body in water during their baptism ceremony. Given that this took place in Texas, my guess would either be southern Baptist or one of the Calvary Pentecostal groups.
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X.X wrote in part: "Mormons live in the Eternal Present (like a lot of people) because they've got a shallow memory and a short term outlook. They are fixated on whoever is in charge now and whatever he says." What you define here is a problem that all of us have to one degree or another and it goes way beyond religious practice into the worlds of business and politics, to name ju
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Some thoughts: 1) Another possible culprit vis-a-vis Utah women having plastic surgery done on them is their depression. I've seen statistics cited by others on this Board that show that Utahans have the highest rates of use of anti-depressants of the 50 U.s. states. Of course, the use of anti-depressants may be another symptom of the problem than the problem itself. 2) One point about porn
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Your response reminded me of an article I read in a braille teen/musical magazine as a teenager/young adult. The article was an interview witha woman who had been a British teenager during the 1950s. When asked about sex, she said (if I remember correctly): "Well we did it but we never flaunted it, if you know what I mean...On the night before my wedding when my mom was going to give me the
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Old...out of touch...secretive...greedy...
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The advent of AI may change what we know about the world and its origins; however, it will not change what we believe about the world and its origins. And when it comes to human decision-making, especially decision-making on the fly, belief trumps knowledge 9 times out of 10.
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Also, it is worth noting that Dr Kurzweil wasn't the first human to ever seek immortality. One remembers the quest of the mythical (was he Persian or Babylonian) king Gilgamesh to do the same during civilization's early years. And I suspect that the current Russian leader, along with some of the wealthiest people on Earth today, are looking for the same thing as well.
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And now, to counter the rosey predictions of the future made by Dr. Kurzweil, I give you "In the Year 2525," by Zager and Evans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3yDLvp9le0
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For those not in the know, Ray Kurzweil was responsible for developing the Kurzweil reader, the first machine that you could place a printed page on top of and it would read it back to you in an electronic voice. It was big, bulky, expensive, and absolutely loved by many blind and visually impaired people. For a few years, only public libraries and a few wealthy blind people (Stevie Wonder was on
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In the case of Utah, you are essentially correct, now--the bans apply only to public school libraries and not to, say, the Salt Lake City public libraries. Unfortunately, that isn't true in all states as Louisiana, Florida, and Texas are now seeking to ban many of these books from city libraries where adults would otherwise be able to check them out. Yes, for now, anyone with money can purchas
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Unless us nevermos sent our names and/or emails to your former church in an errant display of religious patriotism, I don't think that we will be love-bombed either.
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And yet, I think I can see how Human could come up with these ideas. Keep in mind that Mormons are encouraged by their leadership to get married after a short courtship (usually six months) with no premarital sexual engagement. It's tough figuring out (and sometimes you don't figure out) all of your partner's shortcomings within the standard two-year courtship even if you do engage in sexual rela
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I believe that the law refers to what the school libraries can carry, not what students can bring on campus for their own perusal. That said, I wonder if we will be seeing LDS bishops and priesthood holders walking around grade school and high school campuses looking for any students who are reading these books in public...
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Interestingly, one author, Sarah J. Maas, has more books (6) on this list than any other. I wondered who she is/was so I looked her up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_J._Maas Two points from her Wikipedia entry: 1) Her minor was in religious studies; and 2) no other state, as of yet, has banned any of Mrs. Maas' books as far as I know. Since all of Mrs. Maas' books are young adult an
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This is my morning for agreeing with Done & Done. And, to add to one of his points, I would say that while Mormonism doesn't create this kind of behavior, it certainly encourages those who engage in it to keep engaging in it.
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Done & done's points are very much on the mark. As my late mother told me several times during her lifetime, "You don't love someone because they have no flaws. You love someone *despite* all of the flaws you see in them." And, of course, the reverse is also true.
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From the LDS church site posted by Sunbeam: "The Church’s position on this matter remains unchanged." I'll call baloney on that claim.
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...you don't need to return to Mormonism to have a simple lifestyle. All you need is the will and the means to do it on an individual level.
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In 2010 (if memory serves), NPR ran a story about how early humans used religion. Basically, because there were no police forces around (like we have today), the threat of "I'm gonna get you even after we both die," was used as a means of enforcing the tribal leader's rules among skeptical (and sometimes rebellious) tribe members. So yes. Religion was used as a means of keepingthe then-
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