I think the comparison was made not to minimize rape (rape survivor here, last person to defend someone doing that), but to highlight the apparent opportunism. What is called into question (I think) is her motivation. Why was she silent for all those years but vocal once he became a prophet. It was known that GBH was going to die eventually and Monson would likely replace him. Why not stand up be
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Begging for specialty food? OMG that's a new low.
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If gay people needed contraception, then it seems like it would solve one of the "biblical" arguments against gay marriage. Isn't the religious point of marriage to spread seed to have fruit born of one's loins? Don't the fundies say there's no point to gay marriage if they can't procreate? What kind of illogical mind conflates contraception legislation in health care and gay marriag
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Separate but equal. I wonder how slapping a cutesy euphemism on things would have changed the outcome of an earlier civil rights era. One water fountain for wanoodles and one for bladoodles, one high school for wanoodles and one for bladoodles. That would be fine, right? And on a job application wanoodles can indicate that race, and bladoodles can indicate that race. No harm done. Separate bu
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I know this isn't the point, but just so you know, setting yourself as invisible will not prohibit your son from texting you or from you replying. Just let him know that even if you appear offline, text anyway because you are probably set to invisible.
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Had to click away immediately. Otherwise I'd be staring at the screen w/o blinking, eyes wide as dinner plates, for days. That's some crazy stuff
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Never did it enter the parent's skull that the kid wanted Romney to win so their "otherness" would be more mainstream? Kind of like a Jewish kid wishing for chanukkah episodes instead of just xmas ones, etc?
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I don't think it makes a difference, at least not based on who won. But my perspective is that missions make them money, a minimum of 2,500,000 a month (assuming only $50 of mission fees is profit and only 50k missionaries are out). Less missionaries wanted to go out, that means less revenue for the church (converts and tithing is gravy). Lowered age = catching boys before they have a chance to l
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Looks like question 6 will be a success in MD.
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Jews don't use this either, as anything more than lore.
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Ok
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No, the thought only just came to me as I was looking at your site. I can try to put one together (though with new sites popping up everyday, it wouldn't be exhaustive at any given time other than when the list was culled together).
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A suggestion for your site (and possibly a section on exmormon.org) is to list all the sites that appear to be unbiased explanations of LDS, but are really church owned.
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It's usually december. Last year someone talked about a ward party where the bishop announced, during the event, that they'd be doing settlement interviews during the party.
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n/t
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I agree, it's fine to do as a personal thing, but it's absolutely stupid to make it a daily FB post.
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I will be thankful when November is over and the month of thankfulness posts go away!
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On the other hand, they already know your screen name and monitor your posts. Make THEM feel foolish and turn it around on them. Mock them for their culty surveillance behavior under your screen name.
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What a bunch of nuts. That is totally the behavior of a cult. Change your screen name and come back with slightly changed details to preserve your anonymity. If you have 3 kids, now 4, if you have all sons, add a daughter. If you've been married 10 years, make it 15, etc.
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Something I learned from a shrink, I grew up in a household of emotionally abusive, verbally abusive alcoholics who never admitted to their alcoholism. As a result, I spent my entire childhood looking for validation I would never get ("you are drunk again, you are an alcoholic, look, dad is passed out in the car and can't even drive for the 4th time this week" "no wittyname, you ar
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Sounds like lots of drama. I had been poking around that board for a long time and it was always completely drama-free. How odd. Before this past week, the last time I checked it, there was some discussion about changing the name of the group since it was mostly exmormons, but I hadn't checked back in to see where that went.
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Marylanders shouldn't need to go out of state to gamble.
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Exactly!!
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Yep. MD is blue, blue, blue and the main reason to vote was for Question 6.
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I only pop over there from time to time. It used to be that I read the MB only for the train wrecks (and not the mo vs exmo type, more like the "I had my first orgasm last night after 10 years of marriage, and didn't know that's what it was, my husband thought he broke my amniotic sac, went to the hospital, turns out I'm fine, I'm just a gusher" train wrecks). I used to like the M&
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I agree that they are trying to mainstream, and have been for quite some time. Gone are the old TV commercials to order a book of mormon. Now all the offers are to receive a bible.
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It's just a harsh place. Mormons & More used to be a better place, more like RfM with a handful of trolls, but it seems like even that has turned lately (I missed the whole Mr. Paully drama but he's the most hardcore creep on the MB so I was perplexed that he'd even be a GO on the M&M board)
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pigsinzen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > "As you guys are aproaching the year mark, I'm > sure that people have been talking to you two > about the temple and the chance you have to be > sealed to your family FOREVER. What greater > blessing is there than that? To know that we can > live with God and Christ and our loved one
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n/t
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You might get more satisfaction if it wasn't the BBC forum you were looking to for acceptance. They don't even accept people who are "not mormon enough" - that was a losing battle. Kind of like how many times people who are TBM come here and want to be understood and accepted. It just doesn't work that way.
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