Badassadam1 Wrote: > But how do you live in a mostly brainwashed and > controlled society? As an awakened person, as a person who has recovered their personal power, and who applies that power diligently to survive and prosper, and yes, even be happy, in an odd world. Have compassion on others who are struggling with various delusions, but make choices to benefit yourself and the wi
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CIA controls media content. Every studio, every paper, every network has CIA agents or like surrogates on site and at the ready to "contribute" to the "content" of every show. I agree with you, it is obvious that most of today's media product is essentially propaganda and mind control. I disagree somewhat with EOD, in that I believe the organic process of working to make as
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summer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, the most basic message of Christianity is > that God loves you unconditionally. I am at a loss > as to how this somehow eluded Russell Nelson. From a reading of the OT and NT, I'd have to say this statement is very debatable. All the Bible-based religions are reward/punishment based. Commandment breaker
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But if there are that many new members to the Amish group (and DW tells me Mennonites are not counted among the Amish), that can't be net growth, and must not include deaths. Can there be that many Amish in the US?
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yes Don, very good odds you are right, he must sniff money up the ladder, or sumpin...
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Keep it up SusieQ#1, please, sending good vibes your way for full recovery now. :)
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Babyloncansuckit Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 2017 is certainly the worst year TSCC has seen in > a long time. 2018 will be even worse. Father Time > is taking this one to the wood shed. ji ji ji beautiful! :) If TSCC is smart, they will begin a mass immigration effort to bring all members and their families from their previous homes in West
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Dave the Atheist Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I made it past a normal human life span. I guess > 2017 could have been worse. :)
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catnip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, it's not every year that you can turn 70! > I'm glad I made it this far! > > My body creaks and doesn't work very well, and my > memory isn't firing on all cylinders sometimes, > but, all in all, I'm glad to still be around. > > I have been in despair about politics since > Janua
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"Mahana, you ugly, but your Dad gave me a bunch of great cows!"
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I followed a link on that LDSLiving page, to a testimony of a lawyer who has had a very odd on and off again relationship with the LDS church. He has recently been re-baptized, with a new ordination, and yet another wife I suppose. As part of the recovery of his testimony, he claims he had this convo with god: "“One of my issues was why is there no archeological evidence of the Book
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Straight up OG Mennonite (origin of Amish) was not really so odd in terms of European Christian culture. LDS is much weirder imo. Dutch Protestants, who didn't wish to follow the Dutch Reformed Church, and thought infant baptism was wrong. They were persecuted, driven out of Holland, and eventually, after long stints in Germany and Ukraine, migrated to USA. They have an agrarian tradition, and b
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You may be right, as I know of no requirement in Amish theology to have a big family. My wife's Mom's family is Mennonite.
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BYU stabbed the WAC in the back, made big promises, signed big contracts, then bailed to be "independent". Pissed a LOT of big players OFF. Not a really good "integrity recommend" to other conferences considering a BYU application. Hubris is a signature characteristic of LDSInc. from the beginning.
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so classic, poetry in motion. Arrogance bears a poor fruit for LDSInc..
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I think you nailed this, eod. But they may also have been counseled to "observe conditions generally", and return and report. Missionaries love to spy on the members for the bishop.
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yes, there's a popular belief among reincarnationists that we share karma with a certain group of souls that we incarnate with in various relationship combos life after life, as well as associations in the astral (spirit world). Many of these people also believe that when they have evolved beyond incarnations, they will have complete recall of all their past lives and loved ones, as well as conti
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yeah, ya wanna hear something really disturbing? My DW is a MORMON!
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"Yeah, the Japanese fighters tried to bomb the HI temple, but every time they did, their bomb doors would jam shut, and their machine guns would jam".
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Horus hangs ten...
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unemployment stats say everyone has a job and so should be happy? Almost 100 million people are not working in the US now. Others are underemployed, part timers or below skill level. Social Security has been frozen for years, inflation is killing the poor. Debt is beyond belief, and default is the rule of the day. Yeah, we're a happy group...
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Visitors Welcome Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Secularism is neutrality. Hopefully true, but not always the case. Secularism is often a term used by proponents of a would-be dominant "religion" or other strongly held cultural belief or practice, which seeks to control society and establish a type of religion or social climate that the secularists w
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I focus on whole plant foods. I don't consider harvesting a beet or carrot from a clump to be "killing the plants", rather I see this as taking some, leaving the rest. The beet is a clumping creature, you don't kill the clump when you take some greens or the odd root. You don't kill the vine when you take a few potatoes. Many useful food crops are clumping, like pineapple. When you eat
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Sufis are theologically and mystically aligned with Hinduism, yoga and buddhism, more than with Islam. But Sufism had to deal with a rising Muslim culture, so they had to play along with Islam.
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Church of England--as involved in human trafficking, sex slavery and pedophilia as the RCC. AofC is as guilty as pope Francis. And this AofC should know the history of Christian Zionism, which was hatched in London and supported fully by the Crown and parliament. Of course Christian Zionists will support Trump, he is their servant in fully supporting everything Netanyahu wants. In any case,
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BB, you are basically right, I have not done a deep study of the Quran. I have read some shocking passages tho, and in his Book, Allah is every bit as ruthless as Yahweh. There is also a changing group of all too human Imams and clerics issuing fatwahs of destruction, going back 1500 years and causing many schisms among the faithful. Not to mention the savagery of Sharia law. BB, have you done
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FB and other media may be partly responsible for youth problems, but why not examine the technology as well? The smartphones are proven to irradiate the brain with damaging, carcinogenic microwaves, and there are now "cell towers" (microwave broadcast stations) on almost every urban block, it seems. This represents a mass public health experiment with no precedent or follow up, no mean
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in the case of Islam, there are scriptural, divine commandments to punish the evildoers and non-believers in this manner. So it's actually not hard to understand why some Muslims act this way. Muslims, in the name of their "god", have been giving horror and grief to the Indian subcontinent for around a thousand years now, and they are still at it.
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My spirit is not hungry, and in any case does not need any nourishment. But I do kundalini yoga exercises to feed my brain with life force, so that awareness of spirit increases. Your friend thinks he is separate from the universe, and in need of spiritual food, lest his spirit starve to death. He has created this situation, and now must live in his delusive world of self-created limitatio
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Sarah does all kinds of "questionable", "extreme" stuff. Should we love her too?
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