You gain a testimony by bearing it. It really works. If you sell a product, you want to believe it isn't crap.
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Clearly he would be bothered if some of these things are true, so to avoid these bothersome thoughts, he assumes they didn't happen.
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How long till someone gets shot?
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I remember a sacrament speaker warning of the evils of cocoa.
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Story of Abraham and Isaac.
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Brian Hales says, "You can't prove it."
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Spot on. This press conference was not about the "good" i.e. celibate / living a lie folks.
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Damage control after the fact.
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If anyone asks (and they are all to chicken shit to ask) I broke up with you BECAUSE YOU AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH. Your morals and ethics don't meet MY standards.
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They are gullible and egotistical enough to believe that an idea in their own head is from God. If Lafferty and Jeffs can believe they are prophets. . . Listen to Christine Clark Jeppsen on Mormon Stories. Her father got his "how to recognize when your thoughts are from God" training from BKP. It was eerily like Lafferty's training in the "school of prophets" from Pr
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Might be Jack Gurney as played by Peter 0'Toole. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9392175/The-extraordinary-Peter-OToole.html EDIT: My mistake Peter Barnes wrote the script. Now I get it.
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I think we pray out of habit, and because it gives us a reassuring sense that we're doing something when in fact we can't do anything. So yeah people mutter to themselves, "Please let him be alright, please make it alright" when a kid is AWOL.
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It takes a lot of words to say something while avoiding saying it.
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I don't think your theory holds up. I have a great aunt from a super super TBM family that would have been named Emma right in the middle of that time frame. Some names like Mary and Sara/h will always be more popular than Emma, but plenty of Emmas in the Pioneer Overland Travel database. http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/searchPage?lang=eng Seems like plenty of Emmas in the Utah d
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I'm guessing this is what the family has been saying for generations. He thinks he's got the real story.
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Doesn't a bunch of middle aged and old men marrying teenagers produce a supply of widows? My husbands great grandfather in his late 40's married a 17 year old girl (it was post manifesto, shhhhh! it's a family secret). She was a widow in her 20's after giving birth to DH's grandfather.
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Flakes are a big deal in AZ. I mistakenly thought that SNOWFLAKE AZ was named after fluffy stuff from the sky. Nope. Apostle Erastus SNOW sent a William FLAKE to be the first bishop of this AZ colony. Side note: Green Flake was a slave owned by the Flake family. He drove Brigham Young's wagon into the Salt Lake Valley. When his owner moved to California (a free state) they decided
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Hertiage Academy teaches from a Cleon Skousen textbook. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa/2014/07/14/mesa-charter-school-religion/12615041/ The constitution being "divinely inspired", and this nation particularly "blessed" has caught the attention of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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"To be trusted voices of light and truth reaching hundreds of millions of people worldwide." http://deseretmanagement.com/mission-statement/ Bwahahaha!
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+++++100
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Arizona Mormons love Cleon Skousen. It is more of THAT kind of Mormon. Lot of the Mormon stock around Southern AZ hail from "the colonies", i.e. the polygamist enclaves in Mexico.
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Maybe not some of the mental ones who cling to blood atonment. The John Lees and Porter Rockwells.
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That would definitely put those covenants to the test. I think in reality every Mormon has his breaking point, a line he can't cross.
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You made me look. Turns out I'm seventh generation mormon not just sixth. Ugh.
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That's a lot to set aside.
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They do have the same palor, I'll give you that much.
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A Down Syndrome child lives a long life now. That means the parents won't always be there, and the responsibility will be inherited by the siblings.
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The "long scroll" diversion used to work on me. So glad I found the "historical method". While the scientific method is about reproducing experimental results, or interpreting the data correctly; the historical method is sorting through all the documents, journal entries and statements and weighing the reliability of the information. Reliability is dependent on how conte
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Fine, you are offended, and get to say so. But don't act like you have a right to go through life without an offensive incident. http://www.gregtrimble.com/a-letter-from-a-dad-to-carls-jrs-and-the-women-in-their-commercials/
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If you live in an information bubble that says those are anti-gun lies . . .
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