Unrighteous Feelings and Emotions

[_Hoops]

Every emotion can have a different cure.

Emotions require a cure? Interesting.

anger/bitterness for over 25 years toward his wife's family

See this is what I mean. Is there a better depository for one's anger?

His emotions were not positive by any means and they ruined his life.

No, his emotions did NOT ruin his life. Even stipulating that we can agree on terms, it wasn't the emotions that did this, it was what he did with the, how they controlled him, that did this.

[_MCB]

It is not the emotions that are the problem. It is how one expresses them. I long ago learned that the best way to forgive people is to understand why they do what they do. That led me to explore LDS culture, literature, and beliefs. I think the aha moment for me was D&C 121. A whole culture can harbor intergenerational hatred for 160+ years. Very pathological expression of anger.

[_karl61]

MCB: can you expand on your last two posts as they kind of went over my head.

[Ahoody]

MCB: can you expand on your last two posts as they kind of went over my head.

I suspect you're asking for a multi-volume study there, karl!

[_karl61]

MCB: can you expand on your last two posts as they kind of went over my head.

I suspect you're asking for a multi-volume study, there, karl!

Just the Cliff Notes would be cool.

[_MCB]

Since I am posting by cellphone, it can't be even Cliff's notes. Check out the writer's workshop forum for my thread "First chapter of my book." Then google on Stockholm Syndrome or the psychological defense mechanism identification with the aggressor.

Blixa, you are right. It will probably end up broken up into several books. Many sub-topics.

[_why me]

I think the aha moment for me was D&C 121. A whole culture can harbor intergenerational hatred for 160+ years. Very pathological expression of anger.

I see no hatred or pathological hatred from the lds for 160 years. And what is the problem with D&C 121? I see some wonderful verses there. And I see no hatred or anger.

[_why me]

Emotions require a cure? Interesting.
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Well, some say prayer works well. In the catholic faith, prayer is an important ingredient in overcoming negative emotions. What do you think about prayer?

[_Hoops]

Emotions require a cure? Interesting.
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Well, some say prayer works well. In the catholic faith, prayer is an important ingredient in overcoming negative emotions. What do you think about prayer?

That's not what I found interesting. What I found interesting is that you think emotions require a cure. They do not.

[_Yoda]

I have no idea where people got the notion that I never attend church. This is not true at all. I do attend church depending on where I am at that moment.

What, exactly, does this mean?

When you first started posting with us, you stated that you were an inactive member of the Church...that you preferred to attend your Catholic parish. You stated that even though you admired many things about the LDS Church, you had decided that you weren't comfortable living an LDS life, and preferred attending your Catholic Church, the church you were raised in.

You also stated that you felt that many here give the LDS Church an "unfair rap", and because of that, you felt it necessary to be a defender of the LDS faith on this board.

I respect both of these stances.

However, as you know, there is a HUGE difference in attending an LDS meeting occasionally, and immersing ones' self in the LDS lifestyle, complete with home teaching, visiting teaching, holding callings, paying tithing, etc.

Therefore, I find it very disingenuous of you to dismiss someone who has selected the LDS lifestyle, and saying that they don't know what they're talking about, when you are the one who has been on the outside of the fence for a number of years.

Please correct me if I have misinterpreted your standing with the Church. Are you saying that you are now an active LDS member, in good standing?

Re-quoting in hopes that Why Me will answer my questions.