I've heard that's good.
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That's a little how I felt. It was a panicked feeling that I was going to have to sit and listen to that beady-eyed crustacean until I could get the AppleTV fixed.
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Indeed, it is. ;)
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Years ago, when they were pestering me like that, I remember noticing how robotic they are about it. Also, they don't tell each other the most important piece of information about you -- that you're not interested in their church. It comes as a surprise to every person you have to talk to. They are a bothersome, pushy, mindless religion. I would send the letter just to save yourself the troubl
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It's completely unnourishing spiritually. The things they talk about are either dumb, obvious, or wrong. It offers nothing to a seeker of truth, unless you aren't one and then it's probably just perfect. Glad you got away!
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Yeah, maybe they're trying to deaden neural activity.
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I used to do that too, but it was so that I could pay attention. Gluttons for punishment are we.
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My elderly parents needed help setting up their AppleTV so they could watch the white guys in suits show from Utah. I heard ten to fifteen minutes of that slow drawl, and it was like a hand was reaching out to squeeze the life out of my brain. I don't know how I used to put up with it. I just needed to tell someone. Thank you.
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That's true, and the Mormon church even released a statement in 1999 saying that they never said anything about dates and only God knows when Jesus will return for the Second Coming. This after freaking out all through the 1970s and 1980s about the signs of the times and the last days, but when the year 2000 finally arrived they were whistling past the graveyard.
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Philip Wylie wrote a sequel called "After Worlds Collide" where they settle on Bronson Beta. I read the books when I was a kid after seeing the movie. Great stuff. My favorite end of the world is whichever one is happening this year. I can never get enough of the hysteria.
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I thought it was typical of the Mormon cynicism that I grew up with. Nobody in the world does anything for noble reasons. It's all just for money. I hear that negative attitude from the Mormons in my family today. It's sad.
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I just moved back to Carmel a couple of months ago. I grew up here, but I haven't lived here in decades. I'm not sure if the temple is busy or not. There is a meetinghouse on the property, so it's hard to tell by how many cars there are in the parking lot. There's a big push to do genealogy ordinance work, and my father was called as a veil worker. I think that's how they plan to get the members
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I used to mark them as offensive too. They are offensive to me, and I was just being honest. I haven't seen one in a long time, so maybe it worked.
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That's funny. (Aggravating, I know, but funny.) Years ago, after I left, I had some woman call with some sort of Caller ID blocker, so it showed up as anonymous on my box. When I picked up the phone... Surprise! It's the Mormons! Great trick. I hung up as soon as she called me "Brother."
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I just posted about Mormonism being an obnoxious religion before I saw this post. Otherwise, I would probably have just replied here. Yeah, when I left the Mormon church, coworkers used to ask me if I was embarrassed for having belonged to such an idiotic religion.
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I'm not surprised in the least.
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My nevermo sister-in-law was telling me that every so often she gets Mormons at the door looking for my brother, and she has to go through a prepared speech about how her husband hasn't been a Mormon in decades and he is *not* interested. She's been a good sport about all this, but my brother isn't. He gets very angry about the stalking and harassment he has received over the years, the ambushes
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All religion just sounds like "yakity yak, don't talk back" to me. Tens of thousands of different subvarieties of that, and it's the unbelievers who don't seem to be able to get a name that everyone agrees on.
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I gave them two weeks notice when I quit my last calling. They didn't like it, but that's their problem. There is nothing more you need to do than to give two weeks notice, and they know that. Don't let them bully you.
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I was the only Mormon in my school, and it was social death to tell anyone I was a Mormon. Mormonism was a weird religion full of inbred oversexed country folk as far as they were concerned.
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I heard through Mormon family members today that their church leaders are now claiming the new anti-gay policy that they've adopted actually came as a commandment from God. Hilarious. If the anti-gay policy was a commandment and not a policy, then they would have said so from the beginning. They lie like ten year olds. So desperate. When my father mentioned it to me, I said "Wow, that's g
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That's why the only thing I say to them is "No, thank you."
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That was a good choir. I have their Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Op.37 "Vespers." Just otherworldly good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2NSfTXjEPI
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I'm doing well. My son is 12 now. I'm tired of the whole Mormon/ex-Mormon thing, so I don't spend much time on it anymore. I just thought it was funny how unremarkable that choir is and wondered why that hadn't dawned on me before now. :) I mean, I never liked them, but now I know why. I like choral music too.
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They do seem really gung-ho!
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Equal, as in the Catholic church will start recognizing Mormon baptisms now?
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Well, I rarely think of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at all. I didn't realize that's who it was at first. I just noticed a lot of old lady warbling and suddenly remembered I hadn't shaved this morning. I'm no expert on choirs, but you're right -- a "sharp crisp (enjoyable) choral performance" they are not.
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I was at Market District across the street from the Indy temple, and I noticed that there are a lot of same-sex couples who shop there (Market District, that is). I wonder how they feel about this bright, shining local monument to bigotry. Then again, they probably don't even know what it is. Probably think it's a Baha'i temple or something. That said, religion in general is a huge waste of ti
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My mother has a number of their recordings, and she was listening to one today and I couldn't help noticing that they just aren't that good. I'd always heard (from other Mormons) that they were one of the finest choirs in the world, and they just aren't. The organ sounds a bit pinched too. It sounds like my electric razor. The material isn't that interesting, either. Just wondered if anyone el
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It will make a nice title company someday when the Church sells it off. Replace the altars in the sealing rooms with conference tables, and it would make for a nice place to sign closing documents.
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