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Anyone ever have any regrets after walking away from the church?

Ah yes, and critics can be as cynical and smug as they want to be for morals don't apply to them. Plus they can't take any of their own medicine. You've already stumbled over the block of your own making. Nelson dinged you again in the second session by the way. There is NO way that you are for rea...

Ugh! "understand your roles and responsibilities"??? Oh, I know these are fully drilled into the young women right now too. My daughter-in-law is a young women's president and I hear her talking about the "wonderful, new lessons" and explaining what they are....it makes me ill! ...

Themis wrote:I like them to, but as information is more available, and a increasingly secular society, they will remain being seen as good people with weird beliefs.

+1

That is horrible. My heart is SICK for this young man! I've not heard a story like this that is from a one-on-one experience, just group talks about making sure there are locks and passwords on phones. That poor kid has to be so guilt ridden 24/7 when he should be enjoying this time of his life.

Bob Loblaw wrote:Hmmm. He seems to have had trouble remembering who appeared to him in the grove.

It was a long time ago when professional sports were not nearly as lucrative and popular as they are now so his decision then was not nearly as unusual as it would be today. He was not the only player in his draft that elected not to play, there were several others. I have never heard him express a...

Did the Osmonds perform on Sundays? I don't know but if they did they would have had a free pass--all of the Mormon poster children seem to get those. My father decided against a career in professional sports (he was a first round draft pick) partly because of the required Sunday play. While I resp...

I watched or listened to most of General Conference a few weeks ago. I was kind of surprised to hear at least two instances where no sports on Sunday was mentioned. With all that young people are facing these days, they are still focusing on this? A historic example of commitment to be strong and im...

Hades wrote:

luc wrote:Hi Hades-
I watched it and it made me laugh--not as much as the Brad Pitt ads but I enjoyed it.

Good to see ya, luc. Hope all is well with you and yours.

You too, Hades.