I spat my pop all over my screen! Amazing!!!
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Mormons are the hillbillies of the spiritual world. They have no tact and think that every situation in a person's life is the perfect opportunity to share their hillbilly dogma. You cant meet a mormon or move in next door to one without getting a damnable invitation to church and they are more than willing to offer a rebuke to anyone - Mormon or not - who doesn't meet their "standards&quo
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I wish they would ask me. I would be extremely pleasant and respectful, but I would ask about every single problem or blemish I could think of. I used to go with the missionaries when I was 19 and had first joined - some of the rougher visits saved me the time and money of going on a mission...of course, the downside is that this would probably make the clowns at church think I was warming up t
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I have not, but around the time the = sign profile pictures were getting big, I did notice some of my asshole friends (who have since been removed...no room for homophobes in my life...plus I never liked them anyway...) posting pictures with a pink outline of a man and woman holding hands with a red background. Must be tough to be on the losing side of history...
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I liked it a lot - it is one of my two favorite books about DPRK. If you have a chance and are interested in learning a bit more about DPRK, I'd second the recommendation for "Cleanest Race" and add a recommendation for "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick - it gives an idea of the daily life of your average citizen of North Korea (as told by defectors).
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Personally, I think that if we DID end up going to war with the DPRK (think this is just saber rattling, but only time will tell) the church is going to be DESPERATE to get missionaries on the streets of Pyongyang. With the blind and unwavering devotion the North Korean people have given the Kim's, I think LDS, Inc might be able to help them get their authoritarian fix should there be a regime c
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I can't begin to tell you how much I'd love to visit Pyongyang - I've looked into the trip a few times, but never worked up the nerve to take it any farther than that. I think I've watched every documentary on the DPRK available online - I hope that this is all just a bit more saber rattling by DPRK and that you can make the trip! Be sure to post some details if you are able to go, so people li
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As a political science major who did most of his research work on North Korea, this is like General Conference for me. I'm absolutely fascinated by anything that has to do with that country! When I was thinking about joining the Air Force Officer Training program, the recruited told me that anyone who volunteered to go to Korea for their first assignment got to pick their next assignment - don'
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When I was a TBM, I actually loved Conference weekend. Got to hang out with my friends at church, snooze in the dark chapel without anyone noticing, get a free meal at the potluck Saturday afternoon, and there was usually a tradition that the bishop would take a group of us out for Chinese at some point during the weekend. It is kind of one of the few things about the church that I actually mis
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The person would have my DNA - genetically we will be identical, but we will never be the same. The new "me" will lack a lot of the experiences that I have had that wont be able to be recreated (family, friends, smaller experiences that helped pave the way for bigger ones). My thought is that unless they can freeze my brain and put my hard drive into the new body, it's a completely di
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I'm a lifelong Trekkie - I hope this happens soon so I can submit my application to Starfleet Academy!
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Remind her that it's your private facebook page and you can post what you want. If she doesn't like it, facebook has ways for her to ignore your posts or remove you from her friends list.
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This. There is nothing that the most brainwashed Mormons wouldn't explain away. Sure, a lot of those things might get some of the more level headed Mormons out, but the church would keep on trucking. For the most part, a lot of these things would go unnoticed in the national/worldwide picture just because of how irrelevant the church is. I think if Tom Monsoon got up and bore a heart felt tes
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You and me both. Thumbing through the hymn book makes me want to throw up - most of their hymns are either really lame or a bastardized version of a real church's hymns. To listen to them talk, all of the hymns and tunes in the book have been "restored" - I actually had to fight the urge to be violant when some immature RS dope suggested that Scotland must be an LDS nation...her reaso
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I was actually trying to organize a brass ensemble at Christmas-time and Easter one year to help add a little pageantry to the hymns - we were actually rebuked by the SP for even thinking that it would be ok. I think that he was actually more pissed off that I was proposing a bit of J.S. Bach for the postlude music, but he kept insisting that "the hymns of Zion are to be sung reverently and
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I was only a member for one Easter. I came in expecting to have a great spiritual experience. After a less than inspiring rendition of Jesus Christ is Risen Today, one of the bishopric counselors got up and explained that since the gospel could all be traced back to Jesus' sacrifice, it would be business as usual. The first talk was about the first vision and I left in the middle of it. I wen
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I used to work for a college that had a really lame and pretentious graduation ceremony...each year, the president of the school would introduce the underwhelming student speakers by saying that the school "does not bring in Nobel winners or politicians" because the students "won't remember what they said next week" (not true - I can remember the speech Desmond Tutu gave at my
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They will not offer beef when a milkshake will do...
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I've been inactive for over 8 years and have never had a deacon knock on my door once...I feel so unvalued by the Mother ship...guess I'll just have to keep giving my "fast offerings" to real charity instead of shopping malls...
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I don't think being a TBM hurt his lying, but I don't think that was the cause. Mitt knew that to beat Obama (who is fairly well liked by Moderates and Independents) he would have to make himself walk on water to get the Conservative base excited. This eventually didn't work, so he took a page out of John Kerry's playbook and ran an "I'm not Obama" campaign. Not meant to be political
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I have him on my list of historical people I'd like to spend a day with, and not for any other reason than the fact that he seems (from most things I've read about him) to be a fascinating person. I have no idea whether or not he was a total douchenozzle or if he was more or less good but let the power go to his head, but you can't command the kind of loyalty he got without giving your followers
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I'm a fairly spiritual person, but I've been known to make and laugh at jokes that most would consider blasphemy. It certainly has no place whatsoever at work, but I'd say take it in stride. If she is a typical know it all, any complaint would just re-enforce her stereotype of the butthurt uber Christian.
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Mormons like to claim that any time there is a major disaster, the affected areas are being punished for their wickedness...what will their response be when they are the ones affected? Will the church open its wallet when the disaster is in its back yard? Or will their emergency response be closer to what it is when it's out here "in the mission field"?
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I wonder if it is going to be addressed at some future GC...the exodus seems to be gathering steam, so they can't ignore it much longer...
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To be fair, it's really the extremely vocal, butthurt minority that screams persecution when they can't require Bible class in public schools. As a semi-religious person, I can honestly say that I don't want religion of any sort in the public schools - teachers are not theologians. Add in the fact that with such a wide variety of Christian denominations alone, people would still be pissed off a
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I could only stomach one Easter service in the Morg - after that I went to either Catholic or Episcopal mass and have never regretted it. Hearing Jesus Christ is Risen Today in that slow death march Morg style was bad enough but hearing all the talks about Joseph Smith made my stomach curl.
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Christ is risen indeed and hath appeared to Simon!
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In my experience, women in the church do absolutely nothing to prevent this kind of thing from happening. I had a TBM friend (female) who was probably one of the smartest, most gifted people I know. When I say that she was/is capable of absolutely ANYTHING, I'm not exaggerating. About a year or so after she got married and started having kids, I met up with her and her family for dinner one n
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I giggle-farted...
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Quoth the Raven Nevermo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Love the dedication- > > This video represents 4 months of hard work from > 301 youth, 8 committee members, the Stake > Presidency, and countless support from family > members and other individuals. We express our deep > gratitude to everyone involved. > --------------- >
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