The masonsThe Nehor wrote:Mercury wrote:I am the opposite. I have left Mormonism and picked up another form of ritual eerily similar to Mormonisms more secret ritual.
You joined the Republicans?
Regarding rituals in religious ceremonies
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Mercury wrote:The masonsThe Nehor wrote:Mercury wrote:I am the opposite. I have left Mormonism and picked up another form of ritual eerily similar to Mormonisms more secret ritual.
You joined the Republicans?
So you left one boys club that like to dress up in costumes and do secret handshakes and secret passwords, and joined another one?
WK: "Joseph Smith asserted that the Book of Mormon peoples were the original inhabitants of the americas"
Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
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Will Schryver: "No, he didn’t." 3/19/08
Still waiting for Will to back this up...
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You mock and still mock the Temple ceremonies.....yet when you leave you seek out the next closest thing......you confuse me.
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The Nehor wrote:Mercury wrote:The masons
You mock and still mock the Temple ceremonies.....yet when you leave you seek out the next closest thing......you confuse me.
Huh? The masons are the pure form of masonry. The temple ceremonies are a bastardized version of them. I do not see your point.
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Who Knows wrote:Mercury wrote:The masonsThe Nehor wrote:Mercury wrote:I am the opposite. I have left Mormonism and picked up another form of ritual eerily similar to Mormonisms more secret ritual.
You joined the Republicans?
So you left one boys club that like to dress up in costumes and do secret handshakes and secret passwords, and joined another one?
Indeed. It gives my life meaning but at the same time I am not a serf indebted to the kolobian space god.
Maybe its just a phase, my "demerol" used to get off of the hard drugs of Mormonism.
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Mercury wrote:Huh? The masons are the pure form of masonry. The temple ceremonies are a bastardized version of them. I do not see your point.
Perhaps but you have stated and implied many times that the Temple ceremonies are completely ridiculous and submitted them to intense ridicule. Is the 'pure' version somehow completely sane?
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I don't mind rituals, I just want beautiful and meaningful ones. I would expect something truly otherwordly rather than rehashed Bible stories and masonic initiation codes. Something that signified the apotheosis of the creative as well: definitely not white suits and ties on men and polyester matron wear on women. Everything about the temple ceremony strikes me as far, far too worldly and redolent of a middlebrow world at that.
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The Nehor wrote:Mercury wrote:Huh? The masons are the pure form of masonry. The temple ceremonies are a bastardized version of them. I do not see your point.
Perhaps but you have stated and implied many times that the Temple ceremonies are completely ridiculous and submitted them to intense ridicule. Is the 'pure' version somehow completely sane?
The temple ceremonies are stupid. Masonry is totally different. I am speaking from experience and I would appreciate it if you treat masonic information with respect instead of the flippant way you handle it now.
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MishMagnet wrote:Blixa, you are using a lot of large SAT words today. Dumb it down for those of us who imbibed last night. Thanks, love.
Ha.
She said it was too much white polyester for her taste to seem sublime. I think.
And far more eloquently.
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