That would be a hellish situation. "So you're God, huh? And this is they way you want things? And you're going to punish me for not liking it and for thinking you're a tyrannical @sshole? Then I guess I'm totally f#cked."
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I was a good Mormon but miserable -- feeling constantly judged, never validated for the things I felt were important, felling unloved, unworthy, unfulfilled, exploited... Looking back, maybe that was a good thing because I might have wasted a lot more of my life in the church if I had been a little happier.
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Schizophrenics think their own thoughts are voices of other people. Mormons think their own negative feelings and actions must come from other people.
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Does ETB's patriarchal blessing actually say that none of his children or grandchildren will fall away? Or is that just other Mormon lore? If it does, well, the church says the promises contained in patriarchal blessings are conditional, dependent upon one's righteousness and worthiness. So it looks like ETB wasn't worthy.
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Your patriarchal blessing will cease to be confusing once you accept that it's utter bullshit. They aren't predictions of the future (and a good patriarch would've emphasized that), they're just meant to steer you in the direction of being a good cog in the church's machine.
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My father would if it didn't get in the way of his many many church duties.
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I don't know what it's like these days, but a generation or so ago the saints in Cardston viewed the church as their private club. They had no interest in bringing in converts.
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This is about toxins being pumped out currently.
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And Salt Lake is the second most toxic county in the country. From Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceonomics/2017/11/07/the-most-and-least-toxic-places-in-america/#3c8967104ac1
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CateS Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think boring people are attracted to such a > boring church. And the interesting & fun people tend to leave, so it gets more boring, which drives away more of the interesting & un people, and so on.
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I got a "subscribers only" message.
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Some divorces are total surprises to those outside the marriage. Other divorces are no surprise to anyone. I think the Weeds are a case of no one being surprised except the Weeds.
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Your HT partner isn't being polite to you, so why should you be polite to him?
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Not since I was a little kid -- from another little kid.
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85-year-old Bill Marriott is the Executive Chairman. The CEO, Arne Sorenson, was born in Tokyo, and has degrees from Luther College (founded by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and the University of Minnesota Law School. I doubt he's a Mormon. Marriott Internationals, Inc. is a big company employing all kinds of people. But if it's too Mormon for you, Crazyhorse, that's okay. Stay wher
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Mother Who Knows Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No. > > Usually something else about their personality > repels me first. For example, he will come across > as being arrogant or Narcissistic. He will say > something sexist or racist, that will turn me > away, in two seconds. Yup. I've been meeting a lot of new people the pas
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OhWellian Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you could reinsert yourself into the Mormon > Matrix and unknow all of the truths that pulled > you away, would you? For me it wasn't a matter of learning the truth about the church. It was a mater of realizing the truth about myself: I was actually an atheist. So, if I could go back? I'd listen more
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Amyjo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What uses are there for lentils that are roughly > 41 years old? Mmmmmm, how about pavement? Bead blasting? Buckshot?
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Women's temple garments are proof the brethren are sexless and stupid. They could use their power to require women to wear super sexy lingerie in order please the men. Hell, they could require nudity. But no.
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As I've written before, I think DU was selected as an apostle in hopes of energizing European Mormons. (After all, he's not related to any of the brethren.) When that didn't do much, he was elevated to the 1stP. But that didn't move the needle either, so now they're probably sending him there to cheerlead in person.
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However, when it's Mormons dating each other, it's often: Promise you'll be chaste until marriage Have sex anyway Lie about it in interviews Insist your children remain chaste Repeat every generation
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Except for a brief marriage, I've lived my entire adult life alone. I prefer it that way.
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I will probably spend eternity non-existing. If not, then I'd want to spend it in an endless orgasm.
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This reminds me of when I was in college, occasionally going to church only for social reasons, and The Lord inspired the bishopric to call me to be the elders quorum president. I chuckled to myself, because not only was I a disbeliever, but I was graduating in a couple of weeks and moving away. I let them set me apart, then they never saw me again.
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There are scholars who make a good case for Paul having invented Christianity by blending esoteric Judaism with Greek mysticism.
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baura Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Leaders are free to criticize anyone who is under > them on the authority-food-chain. In other words, shit rolls downhill.
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Modern Wicca is sort of a grab bag of stuff. So just do the same and make up your own rituals. Give it whatever name you like, or no name at all.
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Or, that thing that's supposed to be greater than the sum of the parts is actually just one of the parts we failed to include in the sum.
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They don't call you those names to make you happy. They do it to make themselves feel superior.
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They were around to witness dirt being created.
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