You make Mormonism sound like an acid trip. No wonder its initials are LDS.
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Sounds very Mormonie. If you keep ignoring the truth, maybe it will go away.
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I want to be an atheist, but I believe that God is everyone and everything. Denial of all existence isn't easy, but I'll give it a go. I think, I type, but it doesn't mean that I am. I am just a dream. You are just a dream, a figment of my imagination. My world, the universe, the ground I walk on, is all an illusion. That's right, I do not actually exist and neither do you. Count me as an athe
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Venerate is the word you're looking for. Mormonism is so crazy that you have to go all in for it to work for you. Facts don't matter if you're a groupie.
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Poor, fatuous Jeffrey. Trying to defend the indefensible.
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Any normal business that was run like TSCC would crash and burn. But TSCC isn't exactly normal. It is a business - mostly monkey business.
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Most farm boys are far from simple. Down on the farm, you have to learn how to do everything yourself and you learn how to be creative. If you want something done, you have to do it yourself. Don't know how? Get a book or talk to people. Joseph had access to books from a young age. That means he came from a book-friendly family. So if a kid wanted to invent a new religion, farm life would give
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Too much lube?
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That's always where the problems start, whether in religion or science. People forget to lighten up.
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“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” Originally "H. L." Mencken, not Heisenberg. I heard it first from Terence McKenna. The Hubble Deep Field experiments always find something new. The first experiment was controversial at the time because pointing the Hubble telescope at one dark patch of sky for a couple of weeks could be a was
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Trust in direct experience, not hearsay. That seem to be the atheistic way. But then, direct experience leads some people to God. Not very atheist of them. Maybe it's best to try atheism on and see how it fits.
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Xyandro Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Psi? Remote viewing? Precognition? > > Please point me to these experiments. These are > pretty big claims, they better have scientifically > sound evidence to back them up. Experimental evidence and math. http://www.deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm http://www.sheldrake.org/research http://d
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I just had a dream where I said a couple of really insightful things: "Your lack of attention limits your intention", pronounced with strong inflection on the AT and IN. A group of people were reciting a quote about giving up your sins. I replaced the word sin with "attachments, to the things of the world". These two things relate to Mormonism. First off, TSCC spends
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"we will always need something that no amount of science or reason can ever give us" -- recently closed thread I have hope that science will eventually cross into religion space. It's already starting to do that. There are things happening behind the scenes, sciency things in spintronics, information and consciousness theory, biology, psychology and theoretical physics. A real scienc
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"Magically true." Yup, that's the only way it can be true. Magic is enough for some people. Does God want people to take things at face value, or does he prefer the relentless pursuit of truth? Because the latter will lead you out of Mormonism.
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Pray to Heavenly Mother, Brahma and Gaia. They'll never ask again.
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It's called manscaping.
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"System of views denying the existence of God (Deism) and usually other religious ideas such as life after death." I don't understand the conflation of God with life after death. God is a mental construct. Life is a real thing. Edit: Er, I guess for most people life is a mental construct too.
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All paths to truth lead you out of the Church.
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I've got that beat. I used to belong to a religion that taught me that I was going to be a ruler in an awesome heavenly kingdom while the people of other faiths were going to a sucky kingdom or worse. All I had to do was follow some stupid rules and I was better than everybody else. It was sweet, as Eric Cartman would say.
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Military and law enforcement are (supposed to be) two completely different things. If the military kills the wrong people, it's just an "oops" that gets covered up. If a cop kills the wrong people, the city pays a bunch of money. Having a mentally unstable person on the force can be very expensive. Psych evals are about risk management. On the other hand, the military needs a certain
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Yes. He loves TSCC but can't stand the lies and malfeasance of men who should be prophets. It's like being married to Lindsay Lohan. He loves her but she keeps doing stupid stuff. So he does what he can to contain the damage she causes. Like Lindsay, the Q15 can only correct their belief system themselves. But they are chosen for their position precisely because they are incapable of doing
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Does anyone else think the excommunication letter reads like a Monty Python skit? The somber, pompous tone makes it all the more hilarious. It would be fun to whip out at parties. It's like the 5-year-old at a tea party throwing a tantrum because John stopped pretending the stuffed animals could talk.
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Much face palming going on at COB. But maybe not. Never underestimate the stupidity of people. BoA? Seriously? Wow.
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"The way my MIL gushed over it you would think they were hearing/seeing him in person..." Maude Lebowski: Love me, Jeffrey. Elder Holland: That's my robe.
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"How did you discover mormonism was false?" Personal experience led me to see that Mormonism might just be false. Then research confirmed it. The rabbit hole is very deep. Mormonism is the crap that sits on top of theism, so if you remove that you're still left with theism. Or whatever passes for theism, which is tricky because it's so hard to define. It might be easiest to con
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If I don't believe in beliefs, am I an aist? I believe so.
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I'm not sure this is the right forum for blowing people's minds. What is God, consciousness, reality, time, gravity? Very deep questions that some people dedicate their lives to and still just scratch the surface. I like Wayne Dyer's advice. When you have a choice between being right and being kind, be kind. We're simple folk here, really. We just want the Church to stop messing with our mi
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Because the best new ideas sound crazy at first. You'd crush them along with the crazies.
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I've never heard of an emergency meeting. Is this something new? Maybe it will liven things up, having this real special emergency meeting. Or maybe they are just kissing up to an "apostle".
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