LW, you don't care about anybody or anything but your own views and your own feelings. You are nobody's ally; you're just here to chop everybody else off at the knees to nurse the wounds the Mormon church left on you.
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Honestly, what does that mean? If it comes to your attention that as many as half of the Ts are on the spectrum, do you wave your hand and say "sterilize yourselves, I don't give a shit," or do you ask questions... half? half. [[]] HALF. You know what I think is that perhaps some people choose that view of themselves because in practicing it, it makes them feel like they fin
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https://youtu.be/2O1nvDfgRX0
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The right combination of what people thought was right and what must logically and morally follow. Nobody wanted to have “celestial marriage” sprang on them, but he was very careful only to do it to people who already placed a high degree of trust in him. Not everyone took it, but I think most whom he cornered this way did take it eventually. But when he was speaking publicly, he was ver
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“Church History,” 1 March 1842 We claim the privilege of worshipping Almighty God according to the dictates of our conscience, and allow all men the same privilege; let them worship how, where, or what they may. (Joseph Smith, “Church History,” Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1842, 3:710) Ought not the views of the trans community and many other despised communities to fall under this
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We wish it likewise to be distinctly understood that we claim no privilege but what we feel cheerfully disposed to share with our fellow citizens of every denomination, and every sentiment of religion, and therefore say that, so far from being restricted to our own faith, let all those who desire to locate themselves in this place, or vicinity, come, and we will hail them as citizens and friends
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I believe that a religion is instituted of God and that men are amenable to him and to him only for the exercise of it unless their religious opinion prompts them to infringe upon the rights and liberty of others. But I do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men nor dictate forms for public or private devotion. The civil m
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Mormonism is truth, and every man who embraced it felt himself at liberty to embrace every truth. Consequently the shackles of superstition, bigotry, ignorance, and priestcraft fall at once from his neck, and his eyes are opened to see the truth, and truth greatly prevails over priestcraft; hence the priests are alarmed, and they raise a hue and cry: “Down with these men! heresy! heresy! fanati
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Hence we say that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard. It is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner. It is to all those who are privileged with the sweats of its liberty like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and a weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burni
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https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/largest-study-to-date-confirms-overlap-between-autism-and-gender-diversity/ The thing that makes this link interesting is that obviously gender dysphoria is one mode that that the autistic struggle can take. If you feel like you're living outside of the mainstream of humanity, if you feel like you're not real in your own skin, if you feel like people don't see
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He neither desires to educate himself about it nor to leave it alone.
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Did you find a link? Try these websites in tandem. https://mormonessays.com/ https://web.archive.org/
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But if a 12yo child wants to alter her body irreversibly, that’s supposed to be just dandy because that’s an appropriate age to make life altering decisions even without parental consent?
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I guess this is how some political systems are going to deal with the stress of information overload in the information age moving forward. It is a big problem if you think about it. Culture is in flux, and people are getting mad at each other over how fast human beings can adapt to new values. Urban brains seem more flexible, but maybe this pace of change is too much. We've seen this reactio
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These novels by CJ Cherryh continue to thrill and intrigue me. There's this novel series called Foreigner about a human diplomat living among a race of humanoid aliens whose minds are significantly different from humans. The protagonist's emotional isolation and his witty internal dialogue being a diplomat in an alien culture without ever being entirely sure if he has other people figured out rig
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I can’t begin the list the contexts in which people have dismissed other things I have to say because the left is associated with this. Drag Queen Story Hour did not exist before 2015, and it doesn’t need to be a thing. Let’s talk about how the planet is cooking in solar radiation because of carbon pollution or how we’re on the precipice of world war three with two major rival nuclear
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“Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is a program in which drag queens read children's books to young audiences in libraries, schools, and other community spaces. The idea for DQSH originated in San Francisco in 2015 when writer Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions organized the first event at the Michelle Tea Bookstore. The event was a success, and it quickly spread to other cities across the United St
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There’s a huge chasm between Shakespearean thesbianism and people with pathologies that exist on and off the stage in the same way. It is not bigoted to feel uncomfortable with “drag queen story hour” and the importance it has stolen for itself in the liberal mind. IDK where this idea even came from, but the fervor with which people defend it after having lived their whole lives with n
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No, I will not enter into this stupid issue on the side of drag queen story hour. Let the opposition have it. It makes us look completely bonkers to Christian parents and undermines other more important issues.
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Back in my day when you weren't allowed to go until you were 19 -- they made they made you spend a whole year out of high school resisting temptations to go to college or begin a life instead of doing the one thing they beat into your head since youth -- there were some Elders I spent a long a time with. I reconnected with one of them, and it was very interesting. He and his companion knew m
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Is it necessary to expose children to drag? idk I feel like the liberals were whipping ass in the culture war and then they felt the online mob pressure them into reflexively defending that shit. So now the other side has rebounded with renewed purpose. It’s no statement at all about whether parents have the right to let some drag show they don’t know read a book to their children. It’
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guess not. Ask the AI. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt
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Open sidebar Porter Rockwell's Biography. Me: What do you know about Porter Rockwell? Porter Rockwell was a figure of the American Old West who is perhaps best known as a bodyguard and loyal friend of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. Rockwell was born on June 28, 1813, in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and later moved to New York with his family. Rockwell became involved with the Chur
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Haven’t heard of it. Looking it up.
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My life is an object lesson about emotional isolation when I look back on it: Mormon in a non-mormon world, doubting Mormon in Rexgurg, exmormon in a Mormon world, and finally neurodivergent mind in a neurotypical world. The Foreigner series makes flesh a feeling that I've not seen done anywhere else in literature or sci fi quite as well. The protagonist is a human on an alien world, or an al
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Don’t take the culture war bait. That man spent all the political capital he had entangling his nation in a “special military operation” that ended up being a war actually, a costly one both in terms of Russian lives and cultural access to the broader outside world. What for? Well, now he has to invent reasons, and he’s taking a leaf out of Trump’s book on that front. He’s holding
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Ideas are more real to me than flesh and blood. The discovery of how things tick is far more exciting than sex or getting to know somebody. The majority of my life I spend with my head in the clouds as other people would say. Those Clouds, that Other World, is my real universe, and it's this one only abstracted. If people grant me some patience and stick around, I come down from the clouds and sh
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Sorry. I hear from a cousin who has a lot of contact with the elders in Phoenix that they have replaced “investigators” with “friends.” Whether it’s local or something soon to be more common in other missions, I find it the same caliber of culty I’ve come to expect — using words that for normal human beings have warm, positive connotations or human connection but you only mean them
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