By mark do you mean a target as in someone to scam? ~~~~iceman9090
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It might be toilet paper to some but for me, it is an example of how when the right pieces of the chess pieces are in place, you have a winning combination. Humans can be convinced of just about anything. The proof of this is the multitude of religions and various cults. Not even so called geniuses are safe. Very few people escape the religion they were grown into. This has an effect on other
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Source: 15 Most Expensive Buys On Pawn Stars https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2338854 By Top Trending Length = 10:08 @ 0:56 The Book of Mormon Adam brought them an old version of the Book of Mormon. The owner of the Pawn shop valued the book at 25,000$US. He brought in an expert. She estimated that the value is 40,000$US considering it was printing while Joseph Smith was al
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JoeSmith666 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Remember Joe was commanding his missionaries to > take wives of the lamanites - the libido did not > discriminate much. ==What’s your source for this information? ~~~~iceman9090
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So what happened to my thread? A couple of my threads suddenly disappear when I post them. It would be nice to know if it is deleted by the admin. ~~~~iceman9090
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schrodingerscat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 9/11 affected me profoundly because I empathized, > with my fellow Americans, who died after praying > to God to save their lives, with flames licking > their backs and 100 floors of air beneath them. > They chose the latter when God failed to save > them. > So no magical thinking. >
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schrodingerscat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- “"The events of January 6th were a faith-based initiative, and Trumpism is a Christian nationalist movement. Magical religious thinking is a virus, and QAnon is just its current mutation. #Religulous"” ==Yes, I noticed the massive amount of Jesus pictures and other iconography. Perhaps the people
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Dr. No Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I would love to see some good statistics on these subjects. Venn diagrams, just a table, bar graphs, pie charts, whatever other format that exists. Looks like I forgot to address the issue of vaccination. My experience with them is very low. I have more experience with the homeopathic medicine believers (HMB). My opini
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Dr. No Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- “Source: https://aeon.co/ideas/what-makes-people-distrust-science-surprisingly-not-politics "Vaccine skepticism also had no relation to political ideology, but it was strongest among religious participants, . . ." ==I’m not sure if I understood what that article is trying to say. In my experience, youn
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cindysue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Only 57,641 more in the USA? That doesn’t make sense. What sources are you looking at? Just recently, Quebec passed 10,000 deaths and this includes Jan and Feb 2021. Ontario passed 6,000 deaths. Canada passed 21,000 deaths. The population of Canada is 38e6. The population of USA is 328e6. So, the death due to C
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cludgie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I am interested in that statistic link and also the FB link. I will post it myself and a few other things to spread the data. My philosophy is, evidence is very important, data is very important. It should be shared. Facts are nothing to be shamed of. Facts are for everyone. ~~~~iceman9090
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AVB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- “Polygamy was one of the first to go” ==Wasn’t that so that Utah would get accepted as a state? Of course, the mormons believe that god gave their leader a phone call and told him that he changed his mind and that polygamy is uncool now. “karma vs pre-existence” ==Mormons believe that everyone had a pre-exi
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pollythinks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You dumb clucks! Don't you know we are not > Mormons anymore? > > Now we belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of > Latter-day Saints. (LDS, to shorten the title.) How much is latter? ~~~~iceman9090
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JoeSmith666 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The real problem is they are still pissed Paul > Dunn was found out. They knew and kept quiet and > all was well. Then he was outed as a liar and it > has been downhill since then. Thanks for the info! Paul Harold Dunn Born = Apr 24, 1924 Died = Jan 09, 1998 General authority of The Church
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azsteve Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- “Just a few years ago, the Mormon church was spending a lot of money on an "I'm a Mormon" campaign in attempts to convince the public that Mormons are just regular people. Now since that didn't work, they don't want to be called "Mormons" anymore.” ==I remember those. I saw the ads on Youtube. I
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thedesertrat1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- It's best not to call them stupid. Although, if they haven't noticed the lack of scientific evidence for their.... oh boy, that's pretty sad. You also have to take into account that perhaps your family members miss you. You have to find out if they have decided to change their attitude. ~~~~iceman9090
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Dorothy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Good point. However in the christian flavor of religion, if you don't worship the jewish god, then he is not your friend. In the Jesus section (the new testament), there is something about "if you turn your back to him, he will disown you in front of his father". Matthew 10:33 But whoever disowns me before o
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Done & Done Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- “Showing a steely resolve” ==What’s that? “My father once said to me, "What you are doing is wrong and you know it!"” ==Let’s put it this way: Your father is a human and humans are sinners and born in sin according to christianity. The choice he made is wrong and he knows it. So te
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dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- “I ran across an alien probe guy discussing his "facts" once and it would have been more productive trying to teach a pig to sing.” ==I have spoken to all sorts of people: 1. Free energy believers 2. Flat earth (there is a firmament according to the Bible, a dome over the Earth, no one can cross it, there
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dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- “My mom's last words to me as she died were begging me to go back to church. Looking back, I think I could have been the bigger person and not insisted on making her accept my views.” ==I hope I am not out of line when I say this but some people don’t understand that belief is not a choice. If you do not believe in t
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So, who are the people that inhabited America according to the BOM? Let’s say, 15,000 to 10,000 y ago. When did the first group of jews arrive in America? 4000 y ago? How many jews in how many boats? Does the BOM say there were other people in America already? Then a second wave of 50 jews came 2000 y ago? In how many boats? Does the BOM discuss/mention other cultures in America? The Bib
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Is it possible that Joseph Smith declared that the Garden of Eden is in Missouri out of some kind of strategy? Perhaps he wanted americans to have a local holly site instead of one that is on the other side of the planet (Israel, Greece, Armenia) Perhaps he wanted his mormon people to go to Missouri at some point in time? ~~~~iceman9090
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Shinehah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- “To me that symbolizes Mormonism and Mormons in so many ways.” ==What’s the big deal? People want to feel connected to their holy land. If I visited the trinity test site, I would pick up a lot of trinitite. That’s also against the law. That’s a real historical location. It marks the period of scientific ad
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slskipper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- At this point, we are going to run into the typical jewish problems. 1. How did a 600 y old Noah build gigantic boat? 2. If all of humanity comes from Noah’s, then there would be a genetic bottleneck 4500 y ago. No such bottleneck according to the evidence. There is sufficient genetic variation. The genetic clocks sh
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GNPE Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- “Do mormons say that 'literally' the (claimed, assumed) 'Garden of Eden' was in (jackson county) Missouri?” ==That’s pretty bizarre. How did humans end up in Africa and the middle east then? Did they all build a boat and everyone left America at the same time? Also, what about the rivers mentioned in the Bible?
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Source: https://rebirthoftheword.com/1436/?fbclid=IwAR36fTHefoJR3e_bqVmgK6P28eqT24mupky_Ei0kamgVQ4yorUCRySH-FS4 “From what I understand from what I’ve read from many different books is that homo-sapiens were first on this planet sometime around 200,000 years ago and in some cases further back than that, depending on the source.“ ==Yes, it is estimated to be 300 ky. “And I’ve r
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I would say that we are our brains. I would say that it is a pretty sophisticated machine. It can be tinkered with. It can be effected by drugs just like your nerves and other body parts can be effected by various chemicals. That is what the evidence points to. Some body parts can be removed entirely, like your finger, arm, leg, but removing a section of your brain has dire consequences to you p
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Gospel Truth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- What’s an SS? ~~~~iceman9090
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elderolddog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- What has your personal experience been when they came to knock on your door? What about your friends, family members? ~~~~iceman9090
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Cheryl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- What has your personal experience been when they came to knock on your door? What about your friends, family members? ~~~~iceman9090
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