The study using primary school children reminds me of an experience I had 4-5 years ago. I'd been going with the full-time missionaries to teach a single mum over the coruse of several weeks, and she had two lovely, well-behaved daughters. On a particular day, however, they were bouncing off the walls and out of control. She said she had no idea what had got into them. Then she proceeded to tell us how a promotional van from one of the local radio stations had come through their neighbourhood earlier in the day giving out free energy drinks, including to her daughters. She never even picked up on the connection.
LOL!!! The weird, weird, weird, world of Mormonism. This is making Scientology look rational!
Come to think of it, I notice that all of my friends who drink Pepsi or Coke do strange dances and get out of control. Positively sociopaths in the making.
If your speaking of the new show "Lonestar" caught it on Hulu, a difference (a really big humongous difference) is that the wives don't know he is married to someone else. I find it appalling that it desensitizes and venerate such deceitful behavior.
For years, my IP address was banned over at MADB, but I've been able to get in over there the last couple days (must be a miracle sent from the FSM himself), so forgive me if I am sharing too much of the hilarity I am discovering over there; it's been so long since I visited Bedlam.
From Ahab:
Most of the 12 in our Lord's day were not the "superstar" variety, you know, just as most of the 12 in all ages aren't either, with a superstar only coming out in rare occasions.
Still, though, we do have people like President Uchtdorf, who is one of my all time favorites, and someone I'm always pleased to hear from. President Monson and President Eyring are pretty good, too, even though I'm not quite ready to award either of them "superstar" status, in my book.
Anyway, my point is, ALL of the 12 and ALL of the 3 are prophets, seers, and revelators, and they act like it just as all others have acted like it in the past, even though not all of them are what I would call "superstars", and apparently you wouldn't either. You're just messing up by not realizing that they do what they're supposedly able to do, and they do it about as well as most ever did.
"The Church is authoritarian, tribal, provincial, and founded on a loosely biblical racist frontier sex cult."--Juggler Vain "The LDS church is the Amway of religions. Even with all the soap they sell, they still manage to come away smelling dirty."--Some Schmo
If your speaking of the new show "Lonestar" caught it on Hulu, a difference (a really big humongous difference) is that the wives don't know he is married to someone else. I find it appalling that it desensitizes and venerate such deceitful behavior.
Rob Osborn wrote:We accept our beliefs by faith, and if the scriptures say Adam and Eve literally lived 6000 years ago, then we believe that no matter what science says. I believe Satan can use anything to plant doubts in people's minds, including science. If God can create the world, he can also flood the world, split the continents, change the earth's magnetic poles, laws of science, etc.
While I think we should learn about what science is saying, whether they are evolutionist or creationist, I think ultimately we should believe what we believe and let nothing change it. We can either believe God is all-powerful, or we can place limits on God based on the so-called "discoveries" of fallible humans.
These are the folks we try to have rational conversations with, people for whom no amount of evidence or reason can sway them from their beliefs. The bolded part explains why it so often feels like we are talking to a brick wall.
"The Church is authoritarian, tribal, provincial, and founded on a loosely biblical racist frontier sex cult."--Juggler Vain "The LDS church is the Amway of religions. Even with all the soap they sell, they still manage to come away smelling dirty."--Some Schmo
Now when your [sic] speaking Hawaiian to Japanese to Spanish and back to English such as I do in setting up official visits for the Makali'i in it's world tour 2012. Can you imagine the complexity of doing such at such meetings and conveying sensitive matters in alleviating customs requirements? You want to criticize my proper grammar some more?
Do you even realize what a jerk you are sometimes? At least I know I'm often overly aggressive. I just wonder if you know how condescending and belittling you are? At least to me....if I am allowed to speak for myself.
Some people think that spiritual experiences are an indication that you are insane, but mental illnesses cannot warn you about traffic jams, or the spider in your shoe...
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
In the end, if the probability of 0.000...0001% * infinite tries = an infinite probability, then the probability is > 1. And if the probability of an occurrence is > 1 * infinite tries, the occurrences are also infinite.
Caeli enarrant gloriam Dei
(I lost access to my Milesius account, so I had to retrieve this one from the mothballs.)
