December Ensign on tithing
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_just me
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All I know is that I have more money than I have ever had in my life...now that I haven't paid tithing in over a year.
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_Bob Loblaw
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Re: December Ensign on tithing
just me wrote:All I know is that I have more money than I have ever had in my life...now that I haven't paid tithing in over a year.
I would quit paying tithing but I think they wouldn't let me do patriarchal blessings anymore. Without that amusement, I have no reason to go to church.
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Re: December Ensign on tithing
Bob Loblaw wrote:just me wrote:All I know is that I have more money than I have ever had in my life...now that I haven't paid tithing in over a year.
I would quit paying tithing but I think they wouldn't let me do patriarchal blessings anymore. Without that amusement, I have no reason to go to church.
Is it really worth $800 a month (or whatever you pay)??? I mean, you could travel the world, pay off the house yearly, etc.
They don't know how much you make. Start paying on your "increase." Pay like a business. After all expenses of running the household.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden
~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
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Re: December Ensign on tithing
just me wrote:Is it really worth $800 a month (or whatever you pay)??? I mean, you could travel the world, pay off the house yearly, etc.
They don't know how much you make. Start paying on your "increase." Pay like a business. After all expenses of running the household.
But then I wouldn't get the blessings.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
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Re: December Ensign on tithing
Bob Loblaw wrote:just me wrote:Is it really worth $800 a month (or whatever you pay)??? I mean, you could travel the world, pay off the house yearly, etc.
They don't know how much you make. Start paying on your "increase." Pay like a business. After all expenses of running the household.
But then I wouldn't get the blessings.
You're getting blessings?!? You must be on an elite plan.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden
~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
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just me wrote:You're getting blessings?!? You must be on an elite plan.
I get a discount at Sam's Club.
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Re: December Ensign on tithing
[quote="Bob Loblaw] I would quit paying tithing but I think they wouldn't let me do patriarchal blessings anymore. Without that amusement, I have no reason to go to church.[/quote]
You are a patriarch?
You are a patriarch?
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Black Moclips wrote:
You are a patriarch?
Don't tell anyone.
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Re: December Ensign on tithing
just me wrote:All I know is that I have more money than I have ever had in my life...now that I haven't paid tithing in over a year.
Same here. If I had kept all of the money I paid in tithing for 30 years, I would be in a whole different world financially speaking.
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Re: December Ensign on tithing
Has anyone noticed the unilateral nature of these sacrifices for tithing?
Maybe the Church could have spent a few million dollars less on genetically-engineered fish for City Creek Center, for example, and used that money for ecclesiastical expenses instead, so these starving widows and low-income families could pay a little less tithing and have a little more dinner.
Maybe the Bretheren could take a pay cut so these people can stop going without food to pay their salaries.
Maybe the Church could have spent a few million dollars less on genetically-engineered fish for City Creek Center, for example, and used that money for ecclesiastical expenses instead, so these starving widows and low-income families could pay a little less tithing and have a little more dinner.
Maybe the Bretheren could take a pay cut so these people can stop going without food to pay their salaries.