Right. It may be no more true or false than any other religion, but the relevant question is is it more or less damaging than other religions.
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That's why it is important for bishops to go on missions, so they can learn how to report ward attendance the same corrupt way they reported First Discussion's given per week. And we wonder why there is so much fraud in Utah. It's run by a religion where lying is a foundational practice.
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Doesn't matter. gallup didn't get the numbers from the church, it got them from survey participants.
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All the survey has to ask is "what religion to belong to?" We know from national censuses that ask for religious affiliation on their census (notably British Commonwealth countries) that roughly a third of the number of members the Mormon Church claims actually self-identify as Mormon on their census. The number is probably slightly higher in the US. I'd guess between 35% and 40% So,
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Exactly.
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No, it didn't change when Briggy took over, at least not completely. The RS building that is across (what used to be) the street from Temple Square is a pretty substantial building, and that was paid for and build by the RS. They had dues, their own budget, their own magazine. One time I was exploring in souther Idaho, near a thing called City of Rocks, due south of Burley, ID. It is apparentl
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$400K would be a low to middling salary for the president of the big state schools in the Great Plains, and big schools in the Plains are 15K to 20K students. Google tells me the Red Cross has 35,000 employees. $400K seems like a rather modest salary for an organization that big. Yeah, I think executive salaries are absurd too.
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Me too. It's just too damn much trouble to move now.
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I was mostly being tongue-in-cheek. When I was there in the 1970s, Dallas was on television, the Hunt brothers tried to corral the silver market and nearly succeeded, Ross Perot was a rich, obnoxious gasbag. OTOH, Roger Staubach and Tom Landry were standup leaders of the Dallas Cowboys. Sure, there were wonderful people in Texas, but there was a lot of self-congratulation there too. And the li
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I didn't know Gen Z needed fixing. The older half of Gen Z are in their 20s, so doesn't apply to them. No phones in schools seems like a decent idea. Students will complain, and more than a few parents will complain too. And that would probably increase the number of HS dropouts just to get out from under the restriction. Other than that, great idea.
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By staying a member, you are giving them some power over you, specifically, the power to excommunicate you. You may not care, but for a great many Mormons, including the PIMOs, getting excommunicated would be a serious blot on their reputation. Excommunication carries the implication that you did something really icky, whether that is the case or not. As long as you are a member, you allow the
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I'm curious. What charities do you like? And the rant (I'm impressed they actually use the word in their URL) about the Red Cross showing migrants where to cross the border is a steaming pile of misdirecting BS. The implication is that they are showing the migrants how to cross illegally. In reality it is advice on how to travel safely, where clinics are, where the ports of entry are, what
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Doing it and announcing it is better than not doing it at all.
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>They are public people but that doesn't mean they are owned or owe every detail of their existence. They don't owe every detail of their existence, but they do owe some detail. I think Buckingham Palace handled this badly and the results were entirely predictable. Most of us of a certain age know people who have had major abdominal tumors removed, or hysterectomies, or both. In all the
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It's not a single fault line either. There are dozens of them. Plus, unless a building happens to straddle the particular fault that slipped, often the most damage is done some distance away from the fault. The 2020 quake was centered in Magna, in the NW corner of the SL Valley. The worst damage was to older brick buildings in Magna, but second worst was in the Liberty-Wells neighborhood just
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It's Microsoft that wants to throw in with the Mormons. They want to be able to sell software upgrades for the dead.
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There have been a number of people here who have written about parents who were in the same ballpark as these two. A few that come to mind - Don Bagley's dad, Cheryl's mom, Punky Dilemma's "my father, the anus", the poster whose dad was a chiropractor. And we're not that big a group. I bet most wards have at least one person who qualifies as a religious nutcase, and many wards have a
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The easygoing attitude of Catholics and many Protestants is a relatively recent phenomenon, pretty much since WWII, and for many issues, like divorce and female clergy, quite a while after WWII. For gender issues, that is still a work in progress. There are still Catholics who will jump through all kinds of hoops to get their previous marriage declared annulled so their current marriage can be
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What makes you think she was forced to speak about the cancer now? Couldn't it be that they were waiting until it was discussed with the children, that is now done, so OK to go public? You said the timing is too much of a coincidence. Co-incident with what?
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I am amazed that any young women stay in the church. They have managers and teachers and adminstrators and coaches who are clearly accomplished and authoritative women. Then they look at the Mormon Church Church, and women are in charge of children and other women. Period. That ought to cause some pretty powerful cognitive dissonance. In my lifetime (and I'm officially old at this point) I
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If JWs commemorate the death of Jesus at easter, do they put out the easter baskets on Friday? Do they fill them with brown cellophane grass and dead leaves?
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Yeah, and the senior companion calling the shots is 19. Ha ha your own self. ;)
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Bingo - F it is. It is technically not in any key, since all 12 notes are used the same amount, which is why I defined what I meant by "key" - what note lines up with January. No deeper meaning, just pure coincidence that the chromatic scale and longer/shorter months can be aligned.
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Hopefully it is just one clueless missionary desperate to fill time who thought this was a clever idea. Never underestimate the cluelessness of a 19-year-old. If it is a mission policy, then I have in fact underestimated the MP's cluelessness.
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>idk if still true, but: at one time all mailboxes were stamped : PROPERTY OF THE POST OFFICE (or was that U.S. Government?) I c a find no evidence that that has ever been true. It is certainly not true now, and the USPS does not own privatelty purchased and installed postal boxes. They are the only organization legally allowed to use them, but that is not the same thing as ownership..
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I lived in Dallas, and felt like it was too hot, too crowded, and too full of Texans. Got a job offer in northern Dakotasota. That solved all of the Texas problems. Figured I'd be there 3 or 4 years. Ended up staying for 20, loved it. Even moved to Manitoba for a few years. Loved that too, and nearly retired there. Would have, had my mother not been in Utah and in poor health. Never expected t
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Besides golf?
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The few people I have talked to about it who are active LDS seemed pretty excited, and they were definitely aware of the purchase.
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The comment from the RS general president said that no other organization in the world gives women the same power the RS sisters have since they have priesthood power through the endowment. That did no go over well. There were over 8,000 comments on the church's Instagram page. They generally tried to be polite, but they clearly were not happy. Here's one: "Genuinely, I could have stay
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misplaced
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