I am a compulsive reader. I once had to end a relationship because the lady criticized my habit of carrying a paperback in my back pocket and reading it instead of talking to her. I'm not good with 'small talk'. I never read to be "a better person." I read for my pleasure. I have no one book that I thought 'changed' me or made me a better (or worse) person. You know what's ter
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dydimus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > "Job: A Comedy of Errors" by Joseph Heinlen > Robert Anson Heinlein is a personal hero of mine. Truly an awesome story teller, until he became afraid of dying. I was probably doomed in terms of remaining a mormon once I stumbled across his 'teen' books, i.e., "The Rolling Stones", Po
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If they get a dick-head MP, they might be told not to visit you since it's a "waste" of their valuable converting time. The ability to be a dick-head is accentuated by elevation to MP-hood. Of course, any priesthood calling allows for dick-headedness...
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I'd just ignore him. Blood ties mean nothing if the appropriate behavior is not there. Also, your dad is nutsy-coo coo. Belief in having access to 'secrets' about the future is contra-indicated by everything mortal man knows. It's one thing to guess what stocks to buy, it's another to say that ghawd told you what stocks to buy. You're lucky! Buy golf clubs, learn to play the game and you
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And it used to be that you were asked to swallow the fable that the Native Americans waving "Hello!" to Columbus and Cortez were direct descendants of the House of Israel whose countenances were altered to "ugly" brown by the very ghawd who chose the loins of Abraham to father ghawds own chosen people.
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When I still had some notion of The Doctrine being valid, I used to take a bit of pride in how mild my sins were, and how Jesus couldn't really "feel" them, by comparison. Now, it's, "Ha ha! Take that, Chuey!"
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I love the notion of The Spirit World (Pat.Pend.). Once they got started with this narrative, they couldn't stop themselves, adding details and nuance to their fable. I'm not edumacated with regard to Religions, but I don't know of any other religion that claims to know so much detail about The Spirit World. What gets me is the certainty los mormones have that when I, an apostate who kno
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That's a shame to hear. If she were a loving person, all she needed to do was think about her pets that had died.
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AnonAmongTheSaints Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > What kind of a freeky church puts > a gal through this? > Also ask yourself, 'what kind of a gal puts herself through this?' Seriously, what are you hoping or expecting to get out of the experience?
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But yeah, if there's something wrong with your meal, wouldn't you worry about complaining to your armedc waiter? Especially if he was wearing ear protection...
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I like high caliber restaurants!
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Well, it does me.
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Makes you proud to be an apostate, doesn’t it?
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Me, my shelf and I are just trying to make it through another day...
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What if the Big Bang wasn't so much an explosion, as a bursting pipe from another dimension? And what if it was a sewer pipe?
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What if they 'converted' him but then found out he couldn't have a member number because their program rejected him because of his age?
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When David O. McKay was in charge, he cribbed a mantra (From Shakespeare, I think) that was preached at us young missionary skulls full of mush that is reflective of what you've stated: "Whate'er thou art, act well thy part." Which was explained to us in the mission home, "maybe you're not the world's best missionary, but that doesn't stop you from acting the part!" I t
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You're sure to make it as one of this week's topics in the letter home to the folks. The only issue is whether you'll be a "tender mercy", "mini-miracle", "miracle" or a full on encounter with either John the Baptist or one of the three Nephites. Congrats on entering someone's folklore!
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"The teachings of the Spirit trump the teachings of man. Joseph Smith saw God and conversed with Angels and just because men of science can't accept this does not make it any less true!" -- Many an Idiot giving a Sacrament Meeting talk
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It's likely that mormonism only embraces those with the capacity to pay tithing, and who do pay tithing. Very simple method for *acceptance*.
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If everything is moving away from the spot where the Big Bang occurred, does that mean there is a growing "bubble" of emptiness that has the point of the Big Bang at its center?
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Noble fingers.... Amén!
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Continuing in the spirit of just being vague, I read something about an X% increase in missionaries did NOT create a X% increase in baptisms; instead the increase in baptism either stayed the same or fell.
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> > She has BA in Human Development and > a Master's in Early Childhood. > I am officially irrelevant. But I still maintain that, as they say in the army, "No plan survives first contact with the enemy."
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Happiness and Success in Life are not necessarily connected. Having a "Great Job" that brings in a lot of money is not the secret to a happy life. Nobody has a lasting impact on the world. You know how many people Genghis Khan impacted? When's the last time you sat and thought about him, or Hitler or JFK? The people responding to your post have more impact on your world than F
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someone who used "Reply All" has the nerve to yell at you for responding to her email blast? unfreakinbelievable!
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moremany Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > About 3-5 million members are tired of it and go > to please others. > All the BYUs cannot take all the kids whose parents want them to enroll, so as to hopefully keep them 'active'. If kids fall away from the church while on missions, imagine how easy it must be while at a public college that
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The difference between Rights and Powers. Rights are artificial and are enforced by the community enumerating said Rights. Powers are what you can get away with. Rowdy teenagers lounging on your lawn have the power to loll about on your property. If you have the power to get them to leave, good for you. But if you stand on the front porch and yell at them that they have to right to b
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Well, I'm told that the 'bush' has apparently become a victim of the drought, or whatever. So thank you for bringing to the fore the knowledge that I am no longer relevant. ...damn you! How do guys floss now?
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One of the major tenets, at least 'back in the day', was that ghawd knew everything that was going to happen before even Day One of "Let's Build the Earth" Day. He could have assigned us to the position we were going to earn during mortality, but we'd each have wondered... So he let us go ahead and prove him right, like there's a sealed envelope and after the Final Judgment we'll open
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