I don't understand why he wanted a flood in the first place. Couldn't he just kill all of the wicked people with the snap of his fingers and be done with it? Why go through all of the trouble of building a boat, gathering two of every species, etc.?
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I think it becomes an addiction when it starts to interfere with daily life. Like neglecting basic hygiene, friends, family, work, etc. to feed your addiction.
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I don't want to go to college after graduating from High School, and perhaps not even go to college at all depending on how well I succeed without it. I get that the really high paying jobs such as Doctors, Dentists, Lawyers, etc. require college, and I used to want to be a Dentist. But I have since realized that maybe I'm just interested in the money and not the field itself. Anyway, money is st
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But of course, we all know that apostates are truly miserable and lost in sin, whereas the "saints" exude pure joy. Except the church has done nothing for me in terms of happiness. But all I feel at church is sheer boredom, and the occasional burst of anger when someone makes an unbelievably ridiculous, ignorant or otherwise frustrating remark. No, I was never happy "servin
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I honestly can't find a significant difference between the content of Priesthood Session and the content of General Conference. It seems to me that Priesthood Session exists purely to make men feel special.
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I hate it with a passion. As I still live at home with my parents, I am forced to watch it. It's so dreadfully dull and repetitive that it's actually headache inducing. To say nothing of the actual content, of course, which we all know is just a bunch of nonsense. I am, however, looking forward to hear the inevitable talk or comment on the current situation with gay marriage or homosexuality in g
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That is what I hope for. I want to go straight to work after High School and get my own place (an apartment, of course). But it seems virtually impossible to do without a College Degree. I just want to get away from Mormonism and feel like I've actually accomplished something. (I plan on going to College later, just not after HS). Really, it's just having a ton of anxiety about the future. It som
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Have any of you ever felt like you've been alive for far too long? I'm only 17 years old, and I feel as though I have lived long enough. I feel like I have no future, nothing to look forward to, nothing to live for anymore. I've lost interest in so many things. Friends, my hobbies (drawing, reading, video games, in particular). I feel burned out in a job that I haven't even had for a year. I
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They did George Carlin... *face palm*
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I wonder, has anyone baptized Muhammad? If that got out, Muslims would go crazy. I also wonder if any of the former Popes have been done.
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Sure enough, here's a list of Gospel Topics: http://www.lds.org/topics?lang=eng&letter=a I looked through a few of them and I think I've heard just about every one of them. And I'm only 17.
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Precisely. Tell a life story, relate it to your topic in some way or another, crack a few lame jokes and you've got yourself a conference talk. And it's not just the topics that are repititious. Even the talks themselves have plenty of redundancy within them. They just ramble on and on, saying the same thing twice or even three times. Have you ever noticed how long it takes them just to get to th
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How do two people give enough equal care and attention to 15 children while being able to work and take care of themselves?
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At some point, you stop learning things from church and begin to simply hear the same things repeated in a slightly different way. How many talks/lessons have you heard about - The apostasy and restoration - The first vision - Translation of the BoM - The trek west - Temples - Modern Revelation - Obedience - Chastity - Word of Widsom - The apostasy and restoration - Miracles
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It makes me feel so lucky to have discovered the truth in my early teen years. While I cannot say I've been there, I empathize completely.
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This wasn't written by me, it was a repost.
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I saw this comment on the BestPlaces.net in the Utah page. It was obviously written by a Mormon. "Hello, my name is Luke, and I have to share some experiences I had living in Utah as a person. When I first came here, the first thing I noticed how much I hated Mormons, here are my top 5 reasons 1) Mormons are too nice and too accepting, they are always smiling and waving and being hap
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I was in the same situation a few years ago, when I was fifteen. It's really nice to get that off of your chest, trust me. Though I don't know how strict or TBM your parents are.
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Not only that, but they fail to prove to us that they are anything more than ordinary men.
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Reminds me of a lesson of sexual purity, wherein a non-virgin girls were compared to a licked peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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The same goes for going to Church and reading the Book of Mormon. If there's such an amazing sense of spirituality and peace attached with the aforementioned things, then why do members constantly have to be prodded into doing them? Why do so few of them seem to actually enjoy church/reading the scriptures/going to the temple, etc.? Many of them even seem to dread it. Has anyone ever gotten excit
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I don't get it. Pre-marital sexual relations is heavily demonized. Apparently because it can lead to pregnancy and or STDs. But once you become officially pronounced husband and wife, a magical switch is flipped that makes it okay. Does being married automatically make you prepared to have and raise a baby, as well as make you immune from STDs? Does the money needed to support a family automatica
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Let's assume that Mormonism is true, but God did a very, very poor job of restoring the Gospel. For my fellow Athiets or non-Christians, let's assume that everything in the Bible makes perfect sense and it's all logical, etc. 1. I would have picked someone with an honest, hardworking reputation and who had influence in his/her community to restore my gospel. 2. Anyone would be able to see
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Well, the church may or may not be directly related. But the main problem that I have with the WoW is that following it doesn't actually get you anywhere in terms of fitness. You could easily get fat while abstaining from Coffee, Tea, etc.
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1. Utahns 2. Utes 3. Utarians Utes are technically a native tribe, but apparently that's what some people call us. I personally like 3 the most :)
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Makes you wonder why Lorenzo didn't use the Urim and Thumim...oh, I know why, because they don't work. But anyway, thanks for the information. Do you know if it's written in contemporary Italian or not?
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As I am learning Italian, I would like to read a book in the language. Since the Italian version of the Book of Mormon is readily available for free online, and since it would be a good excuse to read it to appease my parents, is it better than the English version? I.E. is it as repetitive, and does it use an archaic dialect or something? Thanks...
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I think so too, but the implication with this story is that God killed the gays to save the temple
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Because a General Authority told the story. No evidence required.
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