It's not bad once in a while. Many families back in the seventies had it every day. As I said- that ever-lovin' trek back to Missouri that absolutely was going to happen before Jan. 1, 2001.
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We did too. We had to get our stomachs ready for the trek to Missouri.
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will gush.Nothing will change. Thank you.
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In one of the temple talks, the speaker will subtly imply that he (or maybe she!) feel so inspired when they follow the gaze of the steeple upward toward heaven.
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News flash: you can encounter "God" with no input from "The Church". The main lesson from "The Church" is that you are defective no matter how hard you try.
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Remember that the actual reason for tracking the seasons was to tell the farmers when to plant their rutabagas.
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The reason church schools don't have national fraternities and sororities is because they are ground zero for alcohol abuse.
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Correction: American upper middle class. Mormons in Australia just laugh at all the photos of the "typical" Mormons families in the church publications. Straight outta Riverton.
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Graybar Hotel, I believe.
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tig Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They say that maybe they will excommunicate him if he is found > guilty of anything in court. Unlike Sam Young.
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The Mormon connection is that the church failed to do anything to protect the victims even after the church officials were informed. As usual.
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If the church fails to open up, it will not lose youth. It will lose people with compassion. One suspects that is the desired goal.
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I'm sure it makes all the Catholics and Jews and Orthodox and Buddhists and Navajos just so elated! Then there's the atheists, but American society has made it abundantly clear that we just don't count.
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Because the church leaders starting with BY were/are all industrial CEOs until the recent switch to attorneys. Need I say more?
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Just FYI, the fraternities took their cues from the Masons.
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As Lot's Wife points out: I know what the Bible says. The Bible is wrong.
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Faithful teenagers could get: 1) Special priesthood levels, with new secret ceremonies 2) Relaxed dating restrictions (could be linked to the above- get the cute girls to wash the boys' feet?) 3) Extra-special opportunities to pay higher tithing rates Just some thoughts.
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It makes perfect sense when you understand what God is. God is not a self-existent, objective reality. God is each person's projection of their own individual world view. So obviously God is going to want them to succeed in life. Just like God amazingly agrees with them on everything.
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Being from kSL, you expect a biased production.
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I predict that Fairview will be the beginning of the end of Mormonism.
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The Church (TM) firmly believes that its precepts will eliminate all mental issues.
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In the sixties, we all "knew" that the Black Panthers had maps indicating every Mormon home so they could rob us of our food storage.
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That is the great question. All I can surmise is millions of years of evolution that have produced the kind of brains we have.
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I sometimes have fantasies about going back in time. If I did, people would expect me to tell them that the future was all Jetsons and Tomorrow-land. It would be so heartbreaking to inform them that all those dreams keep getting dragged down by the worst of humanity's biological impulses.
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I refer you to "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell and "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero" by Otto Rank, and all the sources they used and referenced. These authors- and hundreds of others- ask the next question: what was the model for the story of Horus? And the model for that model? and so on. What they deduced is that the ultimate source of our myths lies no
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I was just about to post the article. Thank you.
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Increased property values mean something very different for the actual homeowners. The excellent folks in Salt Lake are all business developers. They see the world in terms of what they can suck out of it. For this group, increased property values are what it is all about. They live their whole lives based on returns on investments, and they see houses as just another commodity like soybean fu
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Tim Ballard or M. Russell Ballard??? -Oh, wait...
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$100 says everybody they hire will be related to a GA.
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Things like this bother me. They imply that most Mormons (or whoever at the time) are really hypocrites. That nobody in the organization is really, truly sincere. We all know that that is absolutely not the case. Yes, it happens, but the vast majority of LDS members are trying to live good moral lives. A better expose would be to investigate the mental toll that Mormonism takes on all its memb
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