You can't make this up. The state's first married lesbian couple, and their name is Bush.
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Anything to ruin a perfectly good party.
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The author of the Torah was free to make up any narrative he wanted about ancient Israel. Was he really going to say he got high and wrote down his "profound sh!t" for posterity? Moses was a pen name. There's no indication that a physical Moses existed, but there is evidence that the Torah exists. I'm looking at it from the writer's perspective. Moses could have even been a woman in
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In that case, they are anti-Christ. They have the "My way or the highway" mentality. Christ taught that "whoever isn't against us is with us". He would never use ideology to drive people apart. I like to play nice, but the truth is that Mormonism is stupid. I'm all for idealism, but not stupid idealism that hurts people. It all goes back to the Q15's long tradition of in
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Well, there are just some things he needs to learn on his own. There are worse ways to spend two years. Think of the Merle Haggard song: "No one could turn me straight but mama tried, mama tried."
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Time for Mel Brooks' "The Spanish Inquisition" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnF1OtP2Svk Hilarious.
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He always beats me at thumb wrestling.
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Imagine the House of Commons without British manners and with the pent up frustration of having been hoodwinked by a bullshit religion.
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I would have stayed if they had just fessed up: The BOM and BoA were provably fabricated. Joseph was a whoremonger and con man. Brigham was a whoremonger and tyrant. The temple is a Masonic rip-off. Women should be the backbone of any spiritual organization. If they had just confessed and repented, it would have been enough for me to stick with them.
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It takes humans 7 weeks to re-live the evolutionary experience, from a single cell organism up to differentiation into a human embryo. Talk about a star seed. Mormons at 22%? That can't be right, can it? That would make them too weird.
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JD is the paper bag burning on TSCC's front porch. The disciplinary council is the shoes coming to stomp out the fire. I can't wait to see what happens next.
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There's no need to fear, "Under God" is here.
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One singer is the tradition, going way back. BTW, I think the National Anthem should be modernized. Sure, the bombs and rockets are appropriate, but I think NASCAR and professional wrestling could be worked in there somewhere.
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Watch these and tell me you're still a fatalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exuw4mtzdyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KopmSpe33Eg Find your dharma, or your "one thing" as Curly explained in City Slickers, and live up to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k1uOqRb0HU
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Questions like that don't get asked until the job's kind of in the bag. It was a heads-up that you'll be working people who talk about God at work. Kind of like people talk about the New England Patriots, and maybe you'd want to know in case you hate the Patriots. He could have been more tactful.
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I was expecting Fry from Futurama. Since Mormon God is like any other fictitious character, I'd ask "What kind of drugs am I on and where can I get more?".
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Well said, Sparticus.
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Time for some Ray Parker Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MjuEqaSWmk
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Winning the lottery can be done by visualizing the outcome in a way that the balls come out the way you want. It can't be done by remote viewing the outcome. But that's a skill I haven't learned yet.
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http://www.sheldrake.org/participate/online-staring-experiment-results
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The telephone telepathy experiment is a copy of Rupert Sheldrake's experiment that has been replicated many times over. An automated setup has one of four random friends call you. You guess who the caller is before you pick up. Chance is 25%, "guessing" is 40%. Since the experiment has been duplicated by many researchers, they would have gone over the experiment with a fine tooth comb l
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Let's get a few things straight. Some people don't believe that NDEs are metaphysical because they can't be bothered to investigate the facts. If you want links to evidence that consciousness is outside the brain, go here: http://noetic.org/ http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/ http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2010/03/brain-correlation-experiments.html http://dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf Some peop
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If the dudes really believed, their behavior would be different. Their present behavior indicates either: 1. They believe but they don't really care. 2. They stopped believing and just try to stay above water. Perhaps they are just following the American Dream, where selling your soul for money is just "the way things are done". At least, it is in their circles. Think Ritt Momney
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Pretty typical (and awesome) NDE story. People see whatever God they were raised with. She's Bahai so no Jesus. We don't know what Steve Jobs saw, but his last words were "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow." Bill Hicks might have had it right when he said "we are the imagination of ourselves".
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"Apostle Boyd K. Packer said to Michael Quinn when interviewing him for a history position at BYU in 1976, “I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting, it destroys,” quoted in, Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History, editor, George D. Smith, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 1992), 76n22." Sounds like Boyd. $
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I dunno. How can you eat a bowl of soup without a turd floating in it?
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"I am obliged, as a latter-day saint, to believe whatever is true, regardless of the source" That explains his weirdness during the pompous bullshit prayer at General Conference.
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TSCC has its nose so far up the government's big brown eye that there's no way it would lose its tax exempt status. The most they ever get is a friendly warning and then the brethren are right on top of it.
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"My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like." "Religion is orthodoxy, rules and historical scriptures maintained by people over long peri
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Reminds me of the 1955 Bugs Bunny cartoon "Hare Brush".
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