How come nobody seems to care if they own stock in drug companies that grotesquely overcharge, or companies that manufacture anti-personnel mines, or chemical weapons, or nuclear weapons, just to name a few of humanity's less savory creations. Mormon fixation on coffee is absurd. ExMormon fixation on coffee is even more absurd. We should know better.
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Looks more like an incompetent writer had a deadline to meet, and an editor slapped a click-bait headline on it to salvage something out of it.
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Yes, it is accurate.
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I have yet o own a computer that doesn't need to be rebooted now and then to function properly, so I'm not going to hold my breath. And why would a super intelligent computer bother to rule over humans forever? Just get rid of us, HAL-like.
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As LBJ famously said, grab 'em by the balls, and their hearts and minds will follow. LDS Inc creates a wide river between the sexes and then claims they own all the boats, and it's going to cost you to get one. As long as you accept the premise, they got you.
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A) No other successes or competences in life can make up for being Not Mormon. B) The reason for being Not Mormon must be personal failing on your part. It can't possibly be that Mormonism is a defective product. This is basically the Mormon equivalent of Catch 22.
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I never thought the income (donations) to churches should be taxed, but I'd have no problem with their property being taxed, since that property generates expenses to the city/county: fire, police, utilities, roads, etc. It'd just be another cost of property ownership, like landscaping, building maintenance, etc. Oh, and ministerial income tax is its own little bizarro world. Parsonage allow
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I'm sorry, this whole discussion is just silly. First, everybody knows the 16 million member figure is fiction. So you're going to sue them because you object to the way you think they may have come up with their fictional number? Really? To sue, you have to show you were damaged by their action. Since you don't know if they are counting you, and nobody else knows if they are counting you,
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This is rather like a rock band having its fourth annual farewell tour.
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Nothing sounds more Mormon than a heartfelt "oh my heck". Blech. It is kind of entertaining to hear those Mormons and exMos who really don't know the rules, and kind of botch swearing. It reminds me of comedian Jacov Smirnov (name?) and his heavily accented line "easy as cake, piece of pie". All the right parts, but the wrong assembly. It's kind of endearing IMO. Mormo
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My idea of hell. :)
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LOL. Having done a lot of tax returns, I can totally relate. And then there are the people who not only don't open their own envelopes, they won't put all the 2018 tax forms together in a single large envelope with their copy of their return, they put them all back in the original envelopes they came in, so if you need to look at a form again, you have to go fishing through those ****ing envel
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Drums worked in the "road show" in the BoM Musical. No. They will never allow the African stakes to be more interesting than the Utah stakes. I wish that were a joke, but I fear it is literally true.
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It's the Mormon equivalent of a "Made Man". I.e. a combination of silliness and corruption, heavy on the corruption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_man
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As Nephite #2, I never got to have these death-bed visits, having never had a death bed. Spending eternity changing flat tires and keeping cars from hitting deer can get to be a real drag. Working as a clerk at that convenience store in Green River did have its entertaining moments. All brains are capable of inventing events that never happened. We all know that, yet too many people can't
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I use y'all in informal writing (like here) because English desperately needs a plural "you". Plus part of my family is Southern, so grits and y'all feel normal to me. Just like "thine" feels normal in the Lord's Prayer. I see the major problem with KJV English is that most people now are not familiar with it at all unless they grew up in one of those religions that froze t
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It's an ultrasound image of your heart. Same thing they do for fetal images during pregnancy. Google will find you a ton of articles about it.
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It's not even newsworthy anymore unless it is a stake president or higher.
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They have downgraded the yammering to a 3 month supply, which is still about 85 days more than makes any sense. You really don't hear much about that, though. They don't want members asking "but it used to be two years. What changed?" https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/food-storage
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You misunderstood the sentence you quoted. She wasn't saying women don't know what to do. She was saying this is how women are perceived by the patriarchal leaders. And yeah, writing to GA wives telling them to leave their husbands, that'll be effective. She is doing something, as we have all noticed.
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Boats in salt water don't get heavy coats of salt. Plants and marine critters attach themselves to the hull, and need to be cleaned off now and then.
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I never made any attempt to be a NoM. I decided it was all BS while still at BYU, and had to play along until I graduated (about a year as a hostage). After graduating, I never set foot in an LDS church again, except for weddings (receptions) or funerals. My personal sense of integrity (== being one thing) would never allow me to be NoM. I realize that is a personal quirk and others see the si
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If you live into your mid 80s and beyond, you lose money by retiring early. If you die before that age, you get more from SS by retiring early. For example, say you die at 65. Getting a lower benefit from 62 to 65 will get you a lot more SS than getting a full benefit at 66 because you are already dead and don't qualify for any benefit then. Early to mid 80s is about the crossover age on whet
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I strongly suspect they are making it sound worse than it is. In the worst case, at the tail end of the "your SS now becomes taxable" window, you do end up paying about 50% effective tax rate if you include state tax, and just under half of the taxable income would be SS, so yes, your total tax for the relatively small slice of your total income that fell in that window would be slightl
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I hate the BS click-bait headlines on articles like this. Fleeing? What a judgmental word. It makes it sound like people are desperate to get out, and it implies it is a large group of people. South Dakota has a number of fairly large industries that have relocated there over the years. Several major credit card companies are headquartered there. That said, there are still well under a mi
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NormaRae said: There are actually times when that can work against you and you end up owing more to the IRS while you are working than you got in benies. Sorry, that's not true. When a person's other income causes their SS benefit to be taxed, their "effective" tax bracket very nearly doubles. So if your marginal tax rate is 25%, it jumps to 46% until all of your taxable SS is taxed
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SS is very hidebound in regulations. In reality, this is a good thing for you because there is no wiggle room on what you are going to get. There are a few decisions that will need to be made. Your ex may need to be contacted to see if she plans to file on your account or her own. I don't think that actually affects what you will receive, but it will affect what she receives. You may need to deci
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They are already moving toward combining Priesthood and RS. Aren't they already using the same lesson manual, and meeting together once a month? Not much of a leap to change that to meeting separately once a month, then no separate meetings at all. However, I don't see any connection between that and combining EQ and HPG. Nor does having cross gender washing and anointing have anything to do w
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Lots of people in SL valley have asthma, so it is certainly possible to live here with it. Inversions, or rather the gunk that collects in the air during an inversion, can make one feel tired, wheezy, short of breath. That happens ten to twenty days a year, peaking in February. Smoke from forest fires has much the same affect in mid to late summer. The entire mountain west has to deal with tha
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There is a growing shortage of adult male leadership. The change eliminated at least two male-only callings. It's a way to postpone having to combine wards.
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