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by huckelberry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:51 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: I Can't Eye-Roll Hard Enough Over DCP's Latest
Replies: 43
Views: 1527

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...
by huckelberry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:40 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6597

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...
by huckelberry
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:40 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: I Can't Eye-Roll Hard Enough Over DCP's Latest
Replies: 43
Views: 1527

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...
by huckelberry
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:52 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6597

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....
by huckelberry
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
Views: 291

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 ...
by huckelberry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6597

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...
by huckelberry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:56 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6597

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...
by huckelberry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:30 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6597

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 ...
by huckelberry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:55 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Gemli explains...
Replies: 240
Views: 6597

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...
by huckelberry
Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:16 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Philo sophee
Replies: 3
Views: 241

Re: Philo sophee

I checked wikapedia and an amazon sale for pieces. It seems one can make variations as you choose. Select special pieces to substitute which have special abilities. You could choose a Trump piece. It could move one step forward and one space to the side a bit like a knight . Well that is a little li...