Really, the ability to use Early Modern English grammar has been my only compensation for all those early hours suffering in seminary! I would say my language has gotten a whole lot more DIVERSE since I allow myself to read whatever I like.
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Hello, time to share some thoughts I've been having in the shower. Basically, this is just some thought experiments, just like how a Star Wars fan would try to internalize why/how the force works. So, the whole thing about god is that you have to be clean to enter the celestial kingdom, supposedly where you'd be the most 'happy'. Well... why? Why can't god dwell in the presence of sin? T
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...And then bears his testimony on how this will help let the people of Belgium open their hearts to the missionaries. Can we just, you know, not apply proslyzation to everything? Just for a bit?
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Murder over faithlessness? Ha! Any morMon who reads and believes their Book believes that.
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Hoo boy. My whole family is mormon, mom and dad's side. Mom's side isn't as religious, but they're all the way in texas. Dad's side is worse, and we live near them up in the northwest, plus a few scattered closer to the midwest. Haven't met a soul of my blood that isn't mormon. I'm an enemy spy here, heh heh.
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Make hoola-hooping a grievous sin. Only cults do it. Make freshwater oceans and saltwater lakes and rivers. When people climb a mountain and get to the top, they will be at the foot of the mountain. Turnips will be an urban legend parents tell their kids so they won't dig up the yard. Pasta grows on trees. If someone is being bad, they will be aware of the breathing and their tongu
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elderolddog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's the sibling situation? > > The more siblings, the less your parents' > investment in you. If you're an only child (like > me) you can get away with practically EVERYTHING! > > > If there are siblings, I'm guessing, based on your > presentation, that you're the oldest.
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Ah, you're right, I don't think you misunderstand. I suppose it is unfair and immature. I am immature in the first place, I realize, so this is not something I thought about. Nonetheless, in thought of my own self-preservation and not my parent's feelings, I made up this plan. I'm not sure how to go about in regarding that. Both my parents are good people, my mother especially, but my f
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Haha, I'm here from a long lurking. And for what better reason than to talk about myself? Ahem, anyway. It's been about a or two since I decided I didn't believe in this cult, and an even shorter time since rearranging my core beliefs. I'm a 15 year old boy. I'm most definitely gay, no doubt, but I don't have any actual individual interests right now. So, to get the point, I've had
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So we learned about this today. Normally the activity is at least bearable, but this was a silent 'choose your own adventure'-type thing with paper on the wall which were numbered and you went to anothet paper depending on what your answer was. Did I mention it was tense? Oh yeah, really tense. My teacher's voice was unusually hesitant, and by the end of the day my whole class seemed rea
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Oh, this is just rich.
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Just because the Chinese Communist, doesn't make their flag the communist flag. Nor is the American flag the Flag of Capitalism. This is completely ridiculous. I feel really embarrassed for the people there, how rude it is. I feel bad for the Chinese ambassador who were there, because if I was a ambassador in China, I'd get a little bit worried with people taking down my American flag outs
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In my Language Arts class, we are reading The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck. Personally, I find ths a very good book, and I love to read it. However, a TBM friend of mine says it's disgusting, because it is not 'virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy.' She will have her parents email the teacher that she won't be finishing the book. While I am not planning to convince he of anythi
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Not what made you think the church wasn't true, but how did you get what you needed to connect the dots? Was it a book? Someone you are close to? The internet? Someone hurt you? Your own personality just let you outsmart them? For me personally, it was both my personality and the internet. Because, satire. Oh Satire, you sly yet kind thing. If it wasn't for my love of satire, I wouldn't
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Ah...by the way everyone, I'm not a girl... xD (Laughing is always a good medicine in hard times, at least for me. But that wasn't a joke)
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Hello Kayla. Atleast, that's what I'll call you since you seem to have three extra a's at the end of your name. I know what you're going through. I am fourteen, a month away from fifteen, but I am certain of my religion, or rather, the lack of it. I stay silent, coming out to only a few school friends I trust. When I left, it was not on suspicion of the immoral beliefs of leaders, but rathe
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At an 'AFY' activity. Lots of 'I know's and a just a bit too high-pitch voiced male speaker. Ooh, I just LOVE pre-church Saturdays like these.
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Yep, my dad's a chiropractor, listens to Alex Jones, and makes ne confused about vaccines, fluoridation, health and medicine. For example, he compares health and illness to light and darkness, saying disease is just the lack of health. Well... What the hell is a virus, then?! Oh, being a teenager is greeaatt.....
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Then there's already a great Zion. We call it North Korea.
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Hopefully the stone comes a bit south, in my area~. It's funny, I don't see the slowly rotting culture of Mormonism over here usually.
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I did that last time. Naturally. It doesn't seem to have worked.
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No, but he'd probably call BS on it or tell me 'the spirit ' will guide me.
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Might I add, the topic is on "Making the right choices."
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As I grow older, in this definitive time in my life, I find my beliefs changing and shifting, even though I thought some were solid. It is obvious to me that I do not like or want to be in this church. Today, I was approached by a counselor who asked me to give a talk next week. Now, I remember the last time I gave the talk, and through the whole ordeal, I HATED it. Absolutely loathed the who
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So I was talking to my TBM friend who doesn't know I'm closet-exmo and she says that the 'killing of Native Americans was justified by Heavenly Father because they were Lamanites.' I was honestly flabbergasted, because she's such an intelligent and kind person. Of course, I probably would've thought the same had I known the church thought the Native Americans were Lamanites. But I was done bef
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Yeah, wish I could do that. But no, they were specific in scripture and story.
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Now I'm not sure if any of you did this back in the day, but every month each person in the class gives a devotional at least once. So, this month, being Christmas-y, I need a Christmas-y scripture with a Christmas-y story with it. A little morality lesson that my lil' ol' athiest heart can bear. As a side note, I really wish I didn't feel guilty about not doing well in the class. I just li
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I like to play piano. The old/whole name of it is Pianoforte (Not Fortepiano, that's a different instrument.) I also play Cello, should I have called myself Violoncello? No, no I shouldn't.
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No.
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