Yes, but being stupid is one of the requirements for the job. You have to wonder about the viability of an organization that excludes anyone with the least bit of critical thinking skills from its upper management.
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As he explained how we experience "I am", I was reminded of Ma. Ma is the tone of the divine feminine according to Hindu and Buddhist ideas. A primal tone used to express femininity. Am is the exact mirror of Ma. It's the masculine imagination of being that complements the transcendent feminine.
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Afterlife is a misnomer. It's all life, really. We're just time-traveling adventure junkies.
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Many scientists regard peer review as a sham that only encourages mediocrity.
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"Out of a rock in a hat" is figurative. The ideas in the BoM are all 19th century. Nothing lines up with historical evidence that has come to light after the 19th century. Those are objective hard facts, not subjective metaphysical stuff. For example, rock scrying is acceptable to some belief systems. But very few people disbelieve that the earth is round. Only the blind will follow
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Wasn't much love at home that day.
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So his seer stone was defective. It seemed to work, but it produced what can only be a 19th century derivative bible.
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She needs to want to change: for her, not you. Maybe she just needs to feel better about herself. She's stuck in a cycle. She doesn't like herself because she's fat and she's fat because she doesn't like herself. Work on breaking the cycle by getting her to like herself. You have to work on liking yourself too, because fakeness won't cut it. How? Do the research. Edit: Consider this. You pr
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Now we come to the crux of the problem. Mormons completely out of touch with reality. They can't ask "what are gays like, really?" or entertain the notion that maybe gays aren't sex crazed maniacs. There's just no critical thinking. Because thinking would be, you know, bad.
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Even if reading glowing words on a rock were possible, why is there nothing in the BoM that's actually ancient? Other than the plagiarized sections.
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This I can relate to. I'll concede that maybe we don't have free will, only the illusion of it. We experience the illusion of having free will. I can live with that. Within the "one mind", maybe actual free will isn't even possible. Waking life becomes a collective dream, where you control things in your dream, but your awake and aware self (the transcendent you) participates in and
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The problem is that of technology in the wrong hands. It's the same reason we don't allow 10-year-olds to drive cars. Medium work should only be done by those with a genuine gift. Mormonism rejects the notion of that gift: If you work as a medium, you'll be excommunicated.
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The sick part of this is that they use that passive aggressive approach in the outer world. They make it a part of who they are. If there were a Mormon god, he would rain fire and brimstone on COB.
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Well, in that case I hope they light him up.
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Nowadays I see theism and atheism as complementary. One is what you get from looking inward, the other you get from looking outward. It pays to look both ways. If you pray for the impossible and the impossible happens, was it God that did it or was it the transcendent you? Is there a difference?
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You're going to come out ahead on this. First of all, the BoA and BoM are demonstrably 19th century fabrications. When you couple that with the psychology of Mormonism and real church history, there is zero chance of it being true. Mormonism is a mind fungus, like athlete's foot or genital warts. Don't let it start to grow on you because it's not healthy. Whatever higher truths are there are f
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That's GC, not GQ. Somehow I don't think Jeffrey will ever make the cover of GQ.
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How do we know this isn't a smear campaign against McLaughlin? Filing an outrageous proposal and putting someone else's name on it would be a great way to get back at one's enemies. Lots of bang for only $200.
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Just because primitive ape-like creatures communicate using electromagnetic signals doesn't mean the rest of the universe does.
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As long as you can distinguish fantasy from reality. That's asking a lot of Mormons. "Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man." -- The Dude
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Good advice. Leave the church that not only uses you, it teaches you to use yourself. Why would a church started by a user be any other way?
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It's a sliding scale, not black and white. If I beat up a guy for leering at my wife, most people would say that's not justified. But then, maybe a group of Hell's Angels would think it was perfectly justified. Who is doing the justifying? Moral Authority is an oxymoron because morality is a function of the inner world and authority is a function of the outer world. You can't disregard either
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This is more like it, kolobian. Life as impressionism and an artistic medium for the higher self. The Mormon God is a straw man. So easy to knock down or burn to the ground. I don't know why some people here haven't learned to make allowance for your view of the world. They get a few words in, the ape instincts take over, and the poop starts flying. It might be better to think of God as a m
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You've come to the right place. Try not to distance your family. You may be their only connection to reality. Now that the skeletons are coming out of the closet in droves, it's only a matter of time before your family will notice them.
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n/t
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You lasted an hour? Not bad. When you think you've mastered your zen, mishies and TBMs are the ultimate test of patience. If they can't throw you off your mountain, nobody can.
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When you find yourself crushing on this dude, keep telling yourself: "I'm worth more than this. I'm worth more than this. I'm worth more than this...".
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Finally an original thought: STFU and do something useful. If TSCC were smart, they would transition away from a clickish cult to an inclusive service organization. Unfortunately, too much brain rewiring is necessary. So, this will be a fringe thing for a small minority.
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It would be kind of funny if the BoM, a work of fiction passed off as real history, turns out to be the most widely translated book on the planet.
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I testify that the Easter Bunny lives, that he delivers eggs all over the world, and that through the atonement of his chocolate we can all be sugar-buzzed in Sunday school.
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