http://puremormonism.blogspot.com/2012/12/are-we-paying-too-much-tithing.html?m=0
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Perfect analogy...and to think they think they are getting somewhere.
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Does anyone besides me think this is a result of people not attending? Too many empty seats?
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I think the first major blow will be when a Temple is closed and they will spin it like they always do.
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I guess Joseph Smith's statement in the Wentworth letter is meaningless now. You know, "The standard of truth has been erected...go forth nobly...penetrate every continent...sound in every ear, etc."
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To think that the Church makes a big deal about FHE when it is often the reason the family is not at home in the first place.
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To my understanding the "wicked men" were really Mrs. Harris who burned the pages. It does not make a good story though.
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Can I just show up on Saturday morning and pay then?
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We're blessed, you're not, you're dead.
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I wonder if he got the "pickle tickle" last night?
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The one sided world view of some LDS people is astonishing. Also, the Church holds up free agency as the key to the plan of salvation, and it's all good, until someone uses theirs.
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I think the over-arching layer. No wonder so many of us were hypocrites to some degree, going through the motions, etc.
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Besides all of the time and energy the Church required, I remember being told, "People are watching you". The pressure of it all was never ending.
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For an organization that holds up truth as the end all be all of life, they only want what fits into an imagined paradigm. I mean, if all of it was true and your whole life was built around it, wouldn't you want to learn the real history. Rather, some base their whole belief on simplistic stories told in Sunday School.
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I have wondered the same thing. As a lifelong member, I could "accept" a few odd things. If, however, I was a new investigator one google search and thirty minutes of reading would end my interest. Also, NO ONE has any good answers to the questions and apologists only confuse the issue.
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I believe that is correct. I know in one of the early revelations one word was changed from "sprout" (manuscript) to "rod" (BoC) to "Aaron" (D&C).
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It's true that missionaries can be overbearing. However, I tend to give them a lot of leeway. They're young, naive, have tunnel vision, and may be under a lot of pressure. It's the older members that should know better than to act how they do and say what they do.
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Agreed. So I guess Zoram had never met Laban, his master, so Nephi could play the part. Crazy. Grant Palmer shows where this story may have come from. I think it's the Apocrypha.
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Thanks.
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The only thing I wonder about is how he got the land Bountiful right. To my understanding, it was next to a trade route for shipping, so maybe somehow, he found a source referring to it.
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It is obvious to anyone who has done the research that the Book of Mormon is not an original document. My question is: Why didn't people see that when it first came out? They certainly would have been aware of VH, LW etc.
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Correct. All based on fear (what if it's not true), and pride (i just wasted years).
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Research on The Book of Abraham (game), The Book of Mormon (set), and Grant Palmer's book on Mormon origins (match).
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Until I recently learned the truth about church history, I would give JS and BY a pass. How could I be so naive? So gullable?
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The Mormon paradigm: We're blessed, you're not.
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Changes have just been made regarding who is eligible to be a temple worker. It involves age and divorce. It seems clear they are running short of being able to staff all of the positions.
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Correct. Joseph really didn't mean what he said.
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