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Molok wrote:I like writing music. Unfortunately,, there don't seem to be very many aspiring musicians on this board. Well, except for Will, but he probably wouldn't converse with an inglorious heathen such as myself.

Me too - and I'm an inglorious heathen.

I liked it. I'm very comfortable with Religion being the way people interpret their lives and experiences, and I think that’s a worthwhile endeavor. Where I take issue is when people use their tribal deity to stamp over secular issues, for example, Simon's Church and its vulgar attempt to deny Homo...

David could make a big splash by going. Shawn Bradley was highly effective as a PR missionary for the church precisely for having delayed his career to go. It actually helped that the world had not yet seen how ineffectual he would be in the NBA. But, I suppose, there is a "fame" out after...

No mission for this money making kid. Unless you count his paid appearance with the Mo'Tab: m And how, pray tell, do you expect a thread like this to generate interesting conversation? This thread could generate quite a lot of interesting conversation, actually. I recall going to firesides as a kid...

If he had spoken up and reported on that, the mopologetic reaction would have been that Sunday School class is not the appropriate forum for discussing such "meat-y" matters.

Belief in the potential for a higher power as the explanation for what we do not and cannot explain is not delusional, IMHO. Unwavering acceptance of a particular construction of the unknowable is, if not delusional, closed minded. Edited to add: Dogmatically rejecting the possibility of a higher po...

Good thing he told us that we should love homosexuals. I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to hate them or not.

The vast majority of my LDS friends were not materially different behaviorally than their non-LDS counterparts, they just felt more guilt about the things they did. How do you know they felt more guilt? I grew up in Toronto. We, LDS, were few in number and looked forward to dances, youth conference...

The vast majority of my LDS friends were not materially different behaviorally than their non-LDS counterparts, they just felt more guilt about the things they did.

Phew - thought this was going to be another petting/masturbation thread.