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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Gemli explains...
- Replies: 243
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Re: Gemli explains...
I believe things that are not implied by any incontrovertible evidence, that's true, but I don't think I believe anything that is inconsistent with any incontrovertible evidence. This is where theists plant their flag. I believe because I believe but there are zero methodologies that can dispute me...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: I Can't Eye-Roll Hard Enough Over DCP's Latest
- Replies: 48
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Re: I Can't Eye-Roll Hard Enough Over DCP's Latest
So early Mormons did not know how to celebrate Holy Week. I find myself with sympathy as I have always found it difficult to figure out how to celebrate Easter. How do you celebrate a cruel execution? Reading the Gospels, I find people encountering the resurrection with confusion, fear, and uncerta...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Gemli explains...
- Replies: 243
- Views: 6722
Re: Gemli explains...
I disagree with gemli that every religion requires belief in things with incontrovertible evidence against them. My own personal religion seems to me to be a counterexample. I believe things that are not implied by any incontrovertible evidence, that's true, but I don't think I believe anything tha...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: I Can't Eye-Roll Hard Enough Over DCP's Latest
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1623
Re: I Can't Eye-Roll Hard Enough Over DCP's Latest
Why have Latter-day Saints, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, not historically celebrated “Holy Week”? For one thing, Easter simply hasn’t received as much emphasis in American and Western culture as Christmas has. Sometimes, in my experience, Easter has passed with scarcely a me...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Gemli explains...
- Replies: 243
- Views: 6722
Re: Gemli explains...
so I was mistaken. I thought I was to pray to get closer to realizing the truth. I did not realize I was supposed to be exercising my sincere desire to believe. That is tricky as my desire to believe wavered sometimes due to a variety of reasons. Perhaps my mistaken desire led me out of the church....
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Polygamy, Prostitution, Sex Politics in By's Salt Lake City (BYP LIVE!)
- Replies: 5
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Re: Polygamy, Prostitution, Sex Politics in By's Salt Lake City (BYP LIVE!)
Kerry while your audio garbled I got distracted by your chess board wondering how black messed up in what appears to be an inexcusable way. bishop on first rank blocking the rook? It is probably chance but in my sheltered life the only place I have seen prostitutes looking for customers was in Salt ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Gemli explains...
- Replies: 243
- Views: 6722
Re: Gemli explains...
It is explicitly written in Moroni's promise. Then comes Moroni's promise: “If ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all thin...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:56 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Gemli explains...
- Replies: 243
- Views: 6722
Re: Gemli explains...
Mormons are taught to seek that sensation--AND to trust it as proof, and are told if they don't find it, it is their fault, and to seek it again. Fake it til you make it is pushed, hard. No, it's not a logical position, but, that is the Mormon dogma for many. That sensation, called 'promptings of t...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Gemli explains...
- Replies: 243
- Views: 6722
Re: Gemli explains...
The Mormon testimony bearing is all about the sincerity of their beliefs as a justification to others and themselves. Afterall Packer did say “A testimony is to be found in the bearing of it!”. Packer betrayed basic LDS teaching and the belief of many regular believers who think they are following ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Gemli explains...
- Replies: 243
- Views: 6722
Re: Gemli explains...
No, I've never been to one of those. I've read quite a few arguments by most if not all of the kinds of believers gemli mentioned, though, and none of them has ever mentioned their own sincerity as a justification for their belief. That's just not at all a common reason for believing things, even a...