hope you're well. I am loving the JWT.
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death to all organized religion! viva democracy and reason!
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It begs the question why we can't see further than 13.7 billion light years if the universe didn't begin around that time. You will often here about distant objects being further away than 13.7 lightyears away, but they're talking about the modern object that the image we're looking at turned into, which we will never see, because we cannot look beyond the cosmic horizon. The cosmic horizon is 13
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"The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it," said Joseph Smith Jr. What do Mormons believe in 2022? They believe that no principle, teaching, claim, fac
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my face, followd closely by my gut.
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fatwa:its like selling free indulgances to commit murder
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There was an article recently appeared in the Deseret News wherein Brad Willcox, popular author and fireside speaker in the Morridor, minimized his own misconception of Religious Trauma Syndrome as if he was nailing "the critics" to the wall. He didn't. All he did was miss the point and perceive it as a form of calumny designed to shake either his faith in the church or the faith of oth
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It hasnt been up there a month yet, and alread they want a bigger one.
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I made it through the most tumultuous time of my life, socially and emotionally, with this board there to hear me vent my drama and give me valuable feedback. That means a lot to me. I'm glad there is a place with an as-long-as-it-takes, forum-style format with regular people who understand Mormon b.s., a place where Mormons who had it all bottom out can come and get a reality check and some posi
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There is no shortage of souls who, if the Christian afterlife was real, wouldn't hesitate to come back if but for a moment to warn their loved ones. This is such a con. If we are to assume that the afterlife is real, that souls live on as they were in life, than we must assume the only reason no traveler returns from death to warn us about what we need to be doing to secure the better part of the
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Jesus Christ…
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Oh snap.
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In 1996, I was 7 turning 8, the oldest kid in a high councilman's young family recently settled down in Phoenix. It was the year my dad's best friend, his brother in law, and his father (my grandfather) died in very rapid succession. He was distraught, and so was my mother. She's a good soul but a bit of of neurotic woman, and he is her anchor of certainty about anything and everything. So when h
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n/t
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Systems of thought that completely justify the obliteration of the individual’s ethos in order to accommodate and entertain the authoritative ethos are whatever word denotes shame and contempt, because groupthink and deep interpersonal discomfort and naked awareness of self are the only things those people respond to. It’s the only form of argument they actually internalize and get twisted in
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It is very annoying how often our memories are slandered by the religious after we are dead and gone. It is, however, consistent with their general faith-based mental mode of operations. They choose to believe things that comfort them, because that is how they deal with reality; whereas somebody likes me wants to know what's real even if it doesn't make me happy at first and then get over myself
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That is all I have to say for now.
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Utah had the highest drug overdose rate between 2013 and 2015. Prescription drug overdoses that end in death specifically has risen 400% since the year 2000. Most of these people are Mormon, obviously, and only 1 in 10 gets the treatment they need. Sources cited in the article below: https://www.alpinerecoverylodge.com/utah-drug-abuse-statistics/ Despite these facts, it is also true tha
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The majority of students getting anti-depressants from the Student Health Center at BYU are only struggling from massive amounts of guilt and extreme self-criticism because they think they're the only ones who wank. This is exacerbated by social media peer pressure, I'm sure, but still. I saw this with my own eyes as a soul tormented by my demented, sexually-repressed authoritarian indoctrination
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It was coined by a professional named Marlene Winnell. Here is her website. https://journeyfree.org/rts/ The purpose of coining this term is not to encourage a mass exodous from organized religion in and of itself. Brad Wilcox seems to be under this impression. The purpose of talking about vanilla PTSD is that many people have it and if not properly counseled and attended to, it can lead to su
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"Some claim that this faith factor is merely the result of communal integration and should not be attributed to spirituality or belief in God. However, the fact that religious people are less bored as adults suggests that there is something more personal and meaningful about their religiosity, since its effect extends beyond their personal happiness and relational integration, all the way in
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'Adult men and women who attended religious services at least weekly at age 12 were more likely to report that they were currently “very happy,” more likely to report that they receive “a lot” of attention from others, and less likely to indicate that they were frequently bored, when compared to those who attended less frequently or not at all.' I find this to be true in my own case; h
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I think Americans of all stripes are exhausted with the culture war. There are issues they feel strongly about and will not compromise on, but they also do not support what the state-level Republican-domianted states are doing, which is try to ram as much extreme social conservatism down America's throat as they can while we're still reeling from the multiple shocking rulings SCOTUS handed down t
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My impression: Even exaltation, the concept of eternal progression, was ripped off of the ideas of better men, howbeit with some twists and dialed up to eleven. When Dick uses the phrase "world without end," that triggers me. I have a love/hate relationship with this book as I slog through it. What's important to understand is that Smith was not the only one attempting to square
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news that I was on the spectrum created a tenuous peace and I'm on speaking terms with my family again. They don't understand what aspie anxiety can be like, and I didn't know how to explain it until just now. I have spoken to my mother about it, and she didn't even realize I was going to feel left out the instant I saw photos of them up there in Seattle with a friend I would have very much have
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A family friend who isn't Mormon and won't join the church despite my family trying to convert him repeatedly. I have had discussions with him at length about religion both before and after my apostasy, and he and I agree on most things these days. They all drove up to Seattle to see it and just forgot that I might like to be there for him too. I'm upset. I don't know how to process this or w
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It is in self-interest that people allow their wills and their thoughts to be subsumed into tribal identities which require tribal thinking. In exchange, you get counted as a member of a larger social organism that has your back -- it at least makes you feel that way -- as long as you're doing your part. I think this is a universal part of human nature, and the feelings it creates in my own being
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I’ve been avoiding Covid news for a while since my father and I came to blows over it. Interesting. Even Jon Stewart came out and had said the virus was probably from the lab that exists there. I guess my only point bringing that up is the concept of ‘gain of function’ research is technically an organism being modified genetically just to see what they can make it do, and when you’re
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1. There is no credible evidence accepted by the relevant scientific and academic communities that the Native Americans are wholly or even partially partially descended from Hebrew refugees in the last 26 hundred years. At least the church itself can finally be cited on this issue to educate people about it. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/book-of-mor
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Give credit where it is do to encourage more similar behavior. I ride the church's ass on gay rights from the perspective that polygamy was seen as an "alternative" lifestyle by the rest of the the Christian United States in the 19th Century and the Mormons were persecuted for it. A liberal reading of the 1st Amendment should have been on their side. The arguments made on the Mormon
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