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by Markk
Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:34 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Want to throw up!
Replies: 10
Views: 463

Re: Want to throw up!

Personal question, is your name still on the rolls? And if you care to say, and I get it if you don't.... why ? I suppose if it were like having personal information on the Dark Web that could possibly lead to real problems I might consider removing it. But otherwise, insisting that they remove it,...
by Markk
Fri Apr 12, 2024 6:10 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Have you ever met a Mormon General Authority…
Replies: 14
Views: 558

Re: Have you ever met a Mormon General Authority…

Russel M. Ballard sent me a personal signed letter saying that he would make sure my name was removed from the records. And that normally they do not do those sorts of things. The back story is my SP wouldn't do it, so I sent a letter to the 12 saying if it was not done I would write a letter to my ...
by Markk
Fri Apr 12, 2024 5:27 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Want to throw up!
Replies: 10
Views: 463

Re: Want to throw up!

Sorry Markk, I'll have to let others take this one. One of the great things about not being an active member is that I never have to listen to conference again. I might listen to a snippet here and there to follow a discussion, but I will unlikely ever listen to an entire talk again. Few things in ...
by Markk
Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:34 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Want to throw up!
Replies: 10
Views: 463

Want to throw up!

Maybe this is just me....I don't know. For the first time in maybe 40 years I watched and/or listened to all the sessions at GC last weekend as a challenge from a TBM friend. I did not know who this guy was so I searched for his bio and found him speaking outside the church. Apart from his talk and ...
by Markk
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:57 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Prophets can't explain the Book of Mormon, they ask the experts to, scholars!
Replies: 9
Views: 448

Re: Prophets can't explain the Book of Mormon, they ask the experts to, scholars!

Markk What bugged me more was Brant's almost caviler assertion that they are the experts. They are experts at attempts to make the prophets sound accurate, which is virtually impossible. They have to change the meanings of words to do so, and it obviously flops. Their recontexting a miscontexted qu...
by Markk
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:17 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Prophets can't explain the Book of Mormon, they ask the experts to, scholars!
Replies: 9
Views: 448

Re: Prophets can't explain the Book of Mormon, they ask the experts to, scholars!

I listened to this podcast today while commuting. Start at 48:00 minutes to about 54:10. 'Prophet's ask the experts (scholars) instead of trying to become experts themselves.' When I got home I had to listen to this part again to make sure I heard him correctly. I am having a little trouble putting...
by Markk
Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:24 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Prophets can't explain the Book of Mormon, they ask the experts to, scholars!
Replies: 9
Views: 448

Re: Prophets can't explain the Book of Mormon, they ask the experts to, scholars!

He says the prophets are "declarers" not "explainers." But that is a modern change in order to add plausible deniability. They were "explainers" plenty of times before the last decade or so. They just realize now that their explanations are easily criticized with the Internet and not just taken at ...
by Markk
Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:34 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Prophets can't explain the Book of Mormon, they ask the experts to, scholars!
Replies: 9
Views: 448

Prophets can't explain the Book of Mormon, they ask the experts to, scholars!

I listened to this podcast today while commuting. Start at 48:00 minutes to about 54:10. 'Prophet's ask the experts (scholars) instead of trying to become experts themselves.' When I got home I had to listen to this part again to make sure I heard him correctly. I am having a little trouble putting ...
by Markk
Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:52 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Lds church is wrongly attacked for giving too little to charity....
Replies: 12
Views: 1127

Re: Lds church is wrongly attacked for giving too little to charity....

I agree the church shouldn't be attacked for not doing enough charity. It should be attacked for having hundreds of billions of dollars while putting the screws to well-meaning members. Riding the backs of members for every spare cent and then turning it over to charity isn't admirable either. Mayb...
by Markk
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Bokovoy on Mormon Stories
Replies: 8
Views: 379

Re: Bokovoy on Mormon Stories

The pod cast is a edited re-run from the 2018 series. I believe John is combining 7 or 8 episodes into 3. David is a good person for sure, brilliant mind. In the 1st interview, in my opinion, he is all over the place. He had just stopped attending church but still has a great love for it. Again in ...