Rubicon- do you have any stories you can share? Thanks.
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Absolutely it does. There hasn't been anything this exciting in decades. The alternative is a dull and boring sameness to their lives. They cannot survive on serenity.
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And he is the best the Mormon church can come up with. Are you listening, SCMC people? This is why we don't like you.
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The leader of a sustainability initiative ought to be some guy named Russell M. Nelson. Period, full stop. It's obvious to anybody with half a brain that the whole thing is a PR stunt. That's the only thing the Mormon church knows how to do. Anything more would require the Q-15 to get off their arses and actually do something. But that requires effort. And that is totally forbidden by the rule
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All of religion is God amazingly telling his followers that the rules don't really apply to them.
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Yes. As others have pointed out, so what? "Christian" does not mean "only acceptable way of life". Mormonism teaches that its modalities were direct instructions from Jesus for the modern audience. Yes, Jesus/Paul/whoever said other things two thousand years ago. That was then. This is now. The whole point of Mormonism is to give us the full picture of what Jesus/God ha
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Indeed.
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But plenty of people are quite willing to kill if other people don't wear the right kind of ceremonial clothing.
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But will they relegate her coffin to the outer fringes of the funeral chapel?
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But there is no middle any more. I exaggerate some, but not much.
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I needed a lot of emotional Band-aids. Those on the inside just can't see how their actions can hurt so much.
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I was told it was two "prophets", which in the Mormon mind meant anybody who held the Priesthood which included missionaries which meant that all of us sitting in Deacon's Quorum in 1965 were led to believe that we personally could be the Chosen Two in six years and so we all prayed extra hard that night. Believe me, this idea played a major part in our life plans. Because we all knew t
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We all know that every single Mormon is anticipating the call to go back to Missouri, or will by the end of the day. We all know that it will be the hot topic for F & T meetings tomorrow. And we all know that anybody who says these may not be the actual Last Days will be suddenly uninvited to all the backyard barbecues. Here's my prediction: there will be large scale destruction in Israel.
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That's what "they" want you to think...
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"Dear Bishop: it sounds like you need to grow up!" IMO.
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So non-Mormon therapists are now officially declared as Satanic. What could possibly go wrong?????
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And this is 100% opposite from what women have been told for the last 200 years. They have been told in no uncertain terms that sealing means forever. No matter what. Or am I mistaken?
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No. They do not get paid beyond travel expenses.
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As I said elsewhere, when politicians speak they ask why. When church leaders speak, they swoon.
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She was a US senator for many years. Many Mormons hated her, mainly because she had the effrontery to have been female.
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No. Liberals by definition are beyond all hope.
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How 'bout "Up, Awake Ye Defenders of Zion"??? Even the toned-down version is pretty appalling.
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Every Mormon everywhere, probably.
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So no new temple announcements, right?
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They just don't understand how much work it takes to provide them with a carefree lifestyle. Yes, generally a person in America could do just fine with raw milk- but that's only because modern science has given us a field in which any bacterial populations are incredibly isolated, making it highly unlikely to be transmitted. And no, God did not intend for us to drink unpasteurized cow's m
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On a side note, if this really happened then Jesus would have been the most famous person in the entire Roman empire. But... crickets.
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It is the same thing. The title refers to Short Creek.
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One hour and fifty-nine minutes to go (from my location). I'll keep you all poste Note to all: This is slskipper's wife. Apparently slskipper suddenly vanished. That means that Jesus is in the eastern time zone.
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There may indeed be an astronomical calamity "sometime", and that time may be before the sun blows up. But here's the thing: Jesus will not show up. There may be earthquakes, floods, fire raining down from the sky- but (and here I repeat myself) JESUS WILL NOT SHOW UP!!!! I hope you get my point. Thank you.
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The will say "We pray for all God's children". They won't say "Do not beat and rape your children". Any others?
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