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LDS.NET is a puke fest!
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:01 am
by _Boaz & Lidia
I'd like to start a thread and invite everyone to share their story on how they came to know the Book of Mormon is true.
http://www.LDS.net/forums/prayers-testi ... story.html
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:05 am
by _The Nehor
You are a sad, unhappy little man if that makes you sick.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:11 am
by _Boaz & Lidia
The Nehor wrote:You are a sad, unhappy little man if that makes you sick.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:04 am
by _Boaz & Lidia
I did not say that it makes me sick, I said it makes me PUKE.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:47 am
by _moksha
Boaz & Lidia wrote:
It was time that Lidia added something....
Re: LDS.NET is a puke fest!
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:53 am
by _Chap
It is very sad to see how many people glory in having made a decision about a matter of fact on the basis of feelings alone.
Fortunately, it seems that the number of people who get warm fuzzies after reading the Book of Mormon is quite a small proportion of those to whom it is presented: some missionaries work for two years without finding any response at all. Indeed to judge from the thread referenced (as well as from other evidence) it seems that even some baptised LDS have never 'got a testimony' of the Book of Mormon despite being active in the church for some time.
It is good to know that there are people out there who manage to retain their critical faculties in the face of temptations to go with their gut feelings. With people like that you can have a discussion, and maybe reach a compromise or even an agreement based on looking at the evidence together. But if it's just your gut feeling against mine, at best we are unable to understand each other, and at worst we may have to settle things by seeing who can deal out the hardest punch on the nose. Not good.
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:57 am
by _Pokatator
It seems too that those feelings are transferable from mother to son, and I am sure many other endless combinations. I am sure that is why TBMs always want you to rely on someone else's testi-feelings-mony if you don't have one of your own. It never worked for me, I couldn't rely on anyone else's testi-feelings and I never got any of my own. Herd mentally must work.
That site didn't make me sick but I do understand the connection to the gag response.