Church of Stockholm Syndrome of Latter-Day Saints
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There's room in this church for EVERYONE . . . as long as they act exactly like us.
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God made the coffee for use with sick cattle . . . no, wait, that was the tobacco . . . it's so confusing.
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"Oh, Heavenly Father, who didn't stop the Holocaust, please help me find my car keys."
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When I was a kid "tea" had one meaning. Since then "tea" has come to mean all kinds of "infusions" made with all kinds of different plant leaves. So it's become muddled.
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2 early 2 log in Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Actually, the easiest is to not put tobacco on > your sick cattle. Interestingly, one of the largest cattle ranches in the world is owned by the Mormon Church. It's in Florida. I always ask if they also have a tobacco plantation nearby so they can obey the Lord in taking care of their cattle.
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Hebrews 3:2 "Be not forgetful to entertain Mormons: for thereby some have entertained angels' underwear."
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I saw this as a teenage Mormon on temple square in the '60s. It just so clearly showed how only Mormonism could be true. Of course, back then you didn't see black people on TV. They only played "black" roles in movies (servants mostly). So the fact that Heaven was 100% white didn't strike me as unusual at the time. Of course, if they had wanted to reflect really accurat
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Look at any painting of Jesus praying in Gethsemane. Does he have his arms folded and his head bowed? https://www.google.com/search?q=Jesus+Gethsemane&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA3ZXFwrncAhVJMt8KHSb2DS0Q_AUICigB&biw=947&bih=459 Mormons pray that way because it is symbolic of the strait-jacket they've put on their minds.
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Ah yes, the "proof" that the world refuses to look at yadda yadda. When I was a freshman at college in the fall of 1964, I met a graduate student. We were both members of the same campus club and we walked across campus and chatted. I found out she was an archaeologist specializing in New World archaeology--mesoamerica etc. Wow, I thought, this is perfect. So, with &qu
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You're at a crowded venue with your concealed-carry permit and firearm. You hear a shot ring out and someone falls. You immediately reach for your firearm and look around. You see a person holding a gun. What do you do? (Note: at this point you are a person holding a gun.)
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Every now and then the ENSIGN runs some story about some Mormon who had a "prompting" and avoided a dangerous situation. The punch-line is something about the benefits of living "close to the spirit." These FPRs must be heartbreaking to the parents of a missionary who is killed on his mission. The implication of the ENSIGN story is that the missionary wasn't &qu
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She must have shown her shoulders while she nursed.
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Boyd K Facker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Third, they asked bishops to "hook up" the most > attractive single young women in their Wards with > gay men (the theory being young men become 'gay' > if they can't find a sexy woman to marry). And the bishops had no problem with this. However, isn't it interesting that the bishops
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You forgot to mention how the missionaries are routinely insulted and belittled by the MP and APs.
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I don't being old and decrepit. I'd rather be young and crepit.
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On a related note, Nietzsche said he misspoke and meant to say "God isn't Dead." Thus Misspake Zarathustra
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Greg Prince once asked the question, who did more damage to Mormonism, Faun Brodie, or Bruce R. McConkie? He pointed out that for decades every Christian minister had photocopies of select pages of McConkie's "Mormon Doctrine" in their files. When one of their flock was contacted by the mishies, the minister would simply pull out the quotes from "Mormon Doctrine"
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There's a difference between being able to do it, and having the confidence that you can it 100% correctly. With a calculator sitting right there, why not use it if you're not a "numbers person?" Similar experience: I have a coupon for dollar off a fast food item good for TWO discounts. With the dollar off it comes to $1.49 each for a total of $2.98 plus tax. I get to t
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In 1918 the flu virus went viral
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Jack Chick!
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Polyamory is WRONG! Either multiamory or polyphilia, but mixing Greek and Latin roots is WRONG!
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Brother Of Jerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > there have been some at least verbal knock-down > drag-outs among scientists, and even science > sometimes advances one funeral at a time. I've been witness to many "knock-down drag-outs" by scientists. It was always about the topic and never about the person.
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Being at the pulpit is a scary situation for a lot of people. Here you are basically giving a speech before a couple of hundred people. You're standing there and they're all staring up at you waiting for you to talk, and, of course, they'll judge what you say. Performance anxiety is sure to kick in. So adrenaline is produced to aid the "fight or flight" response. Well, yo
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Mormonism is one of those jokes where the point of the joke is to not admit it's a joke.
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But if you go to your Bishop and say you're thinking of leaving because you're convinced that the BOM (or BOA, or FV etc.) is fictional, then suddenly they start looking for some kind of "middle ground" to talk you into staying. All of a sudden it's "a good way to raise children," or "where will you go? What will you do?" or "You can't throw the baby
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Independence Day
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Even Rosetta Stone doesn't do Hieroglyphic Egyptian. "Rosetta Stone" for crying out loud!
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GNPE1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've heard TBMs say the word 'generation(s) has > different meanings. > > Yup, that's Mormonism: > > Keep things Totally Ambiguous!! The term "generation" in Mormonism became ambiguous when the temple in Indepedence Missouri hadn't been built for a long time. In the early days they
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FallenShelf Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Statements like that make me feel like the kids > are being pressured to come to church. Duh. Mormonism has refined the concept of peer pressure to an extreme level. > Here's the thing: I like the bishop and > counselors. Knowing these guys, I think their > intention is probably to be suppo
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