You're the lost sheep. You need to be shorn on a regular basis like all the other sheep. But this is a good confirmation. There's no mistaking how Mormons really are.
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I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but you gotta be sh!tting me. Nobody has shunned me. I'm surrounded by people who truly love me and I understand how special and precious life really is. I'm not just waiting to die and collect my inheritance.
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They can't be right unless you're wrong.
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Even if Dawkins is wrong on God, he's right about evolution. It is the greatest show on Earth. Taking away from that with a dogmatic creation myth is dumber than Atheism could hope to be.
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I'll respect your idiotic beliefs if you'll respect mine.
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I just might take up a new hobby. Thanks.
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You could discuss the various creation myths of aboriginal peoples. There are some good ones among the Native American tribes. Given that the Hopi aren't bombing anyone at the moment (or ever in recorded history), their myth could be less far fetched than the Judeo Christian one. That people argue and disagree over religion is a great example of why critical thinking skills are important.
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One thing's for sure. He wasn't gonna go quietly into the afterlife. Poor guy, so afraid to meet God. When I was TBM, he didn't seem prophety enough. He just stuck to the pedestrian "be a good person" stuff.
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Someone else brought up this point before, but Jeremy Runnels' web site uses the video clip and it hits me as a statement of "You want to know? The truth is right in front of you". That's about all his prophet balls would allow. I also can't find the clip on Youtube. Search is swamped by the party line stuff.
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That was grueling. Soundtrack needs more cow bell. But it makes a great point. If your church is true, they're all true to somebody. But at some point the truth should matter. Sherlock Holmes: How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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So I can rock the boat enough to be excommunicated. I've been watching Mormon Stories and I'm like "ooh, me next, me next!".
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The Inquisition, let's begin The Inquisition, look out sin We have a mission to convert the Jews (Jew ja Jew ja Jew ja Jews) We're gonna teach them wrong from right We're gonna help them see the light And make an offer that they can't refuse (that the Jews just can't Refuse)
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Why indeed.
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The top unwritten rule is "Protect the brand".
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Well it takes all kinds. Mormonism feeds your fears to control you. Controlled people don't leave because they are virtual prisoners. They can't break their chains.
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I don't see how being called an apostate is a bad thing. It's like being blamed for having common sense. If your family doesn't love you, it means you have to love yourself, which means unlearning a lot of Mormon beliefs. Here's a guy that creeps some people out, but he makes a lot of sense to me. He provides a useful way to relate to life, if you can stand him: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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A civilization on the order of a million people that divides into two armies that fight each other to the death, and the last two men fighting are the army leaders. With steel swords and armor (ancient steel?) but no bones or swords or armor ever found. Wooden submarines that are unfeasible by any stretch of the imagination. Wood simply can't support the physics. Let alone the impossibility of
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Goddess bless you.
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Don't buy the BoM acid.
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I'm not sure atheists preach anything. The "A" means without need for, not anti. It's not that the afterlife doesn't exist. It's that it's irrelevant to the here and now.
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Wasn't it amazing how much use you could get out of a Sears catalog?
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I wonder if their tips will go up. But seriously, it's the people without guns who are dangerous. Why give them access to a gun? And then there they are with a tray in one one hand, menus in the other hand, and the only gun they have left is dangling under their kilt.
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I was in the middle of debugging some code today and wanted to see R Lee Ermey's "what is your malfunction" scene from Full Metal Jacket. Ermey did a great job with his role. Now, I had seen this movie a few times over the years and also when I was TBM. What I didn't expect was the visceral feeling of immense sorrow that swept over me when Pvt Pyle blew his own brains out. I even fel
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Earth to Uchtdorf: The Third Reich is over.
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Do you remember the Cold Fusion fiasco at USU? Jones was the guy who forced Fleischmann and Pons to publish their research at a time they wanted to hold off and repeat their experiments. If not for Jones, LENR research wouldn't have been set back 20 years. Jonesey took up the 9/11 cause when a woman in one of his lectures told him she had a vision that 9/11 was an inside job. Not that he was w
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People do have bona fide metaphysical experiences. They can attribute them to God, or whatever the nearest snake oil salesman tells them. Pretending that they don't happen isn't helpful. What is helpful is that the Mormon explanation isn't necessarily the only explanation. After almost two centuries, there may be more useful explanations. If Joe is the kind of guy you would hunt to the ends
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I don't believe because it's unbelievable. I can't believe it, as much as I'd like to, so leave it alone.
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Ah, the good old days. What ever happened to self-flagellation? Someone should compile a list of awful things "prophets" have written in books.
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Here is your BoM "horse": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology_and_the_Book_of_Mormon#/media/File:Central_American_Tapir-Belize20.jpg The BoM is as good as the bible as a morality tale, but don't take it too seriously. Speaking of which, Zootopia is getting great reviews. Much better use of FHE time than reading the BoM.
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Now get Adam to partake.
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