Boilerplate Patriarchal Blessings?

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_Gazelam
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Post by _Gazelam »

Pokatator wrote:What's the difference between a PB and a:

Tarot card reading?

Crystal ball reading?

Fortune telling?

Quija board?

Seance?

etc?



The Holy Ghost
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
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_Inconceivable
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Post by _Inconceivable »

Gazelam wrote:There is nothing wrong with asking for a new patriarchal blessing. If the Patriarch you saw was not in tune with the spirit when he blessed your sons, then get a visit set up with a new one who is.

Bruce said ..the speaker comes.. with a cup.. they get.. their jugs.. dribble... power of the Holy.. jug..

All you need to see that is to compare yours with your sons.



Gaz, you wanna ask the SP for me, buddy? (I would suggest wearing your purple flameproof suit with the asbestos orange buttons, you know, the one with the big yellow floppy shoes).

The old patriarch is one of the previous SP's. He gave over 2000 jugs of dribble. BIG, BIG prominent Mormon family. A few sons are bishops/have stake positions, eagle scouts, RM's, MITs, all live in town. No way in hell anyone is going to dis him by questioning his spirituality (and the stake president that called him). Imagine the great family embarrassment of even one RECALL. You are on the high road to apostacy when you criticize your leaders.

What the problem is, Gaz?

Getting a second one for my mum was difficult and humiliating for her. It took several years of angry objections by several of her leaders before they finally got tired of her badgering and caved. Her argument was that she was given a new life after her divorce and remarriage in the temple.
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_Polygamy Porter
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Post by _Polygamy Porter »

moksha wrote:Whenever I have questioned my fellow Mormons about the similarity between Patriarchal Blessings and fortune telling, they get irate. They say fortune telling is bogus. I am still fascinated by how this variation of fortune telling became part of Church procedure.

by the way, since I rejoined the Church, no one has ever mentioned that I should get one of these done.


That explains a lot.

Let me guess you were ex'd for sex?
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_Polygamy Porter
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Post by _Polygamy Porter »

Gazelam wrote:
Pokatator wrote:What's the difference between a PB and a:

Tarot card reading?

Crystal ball reading?

Fortune telling?

Quija board?

Seance?

etc?



The Holy Ghost

Nice addition to the list!

All require belief in magic.
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