thestyleguy wrote:Mine was announced at Priesthood meeting, but that was back in 1981 when they did those things. I don't know why they don't do it now. I hear they stopped it. Maybe back then it was part of the frontier common law. Prepare for a new post.
I think I have heard about this. The Church people form a semi-circle, cross their arms in an X and then turn their backs on the shunned while uttering aloud the words "K'plaugh Apos' Takk". I wondered where that custom originated from.
Mercury wrote:Whoop it up dickhead. For his next act Nehor will be making light of the stazi.
No, it's you making light of secret police and horrible oppression by comparing a visit from Church leaders to secret police activity. This guy says that we have a persecution complex.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Mercury wrote:Whoop it up dickhead. For his next act Nehor will be making light of the stazi.
No, it's you making light of secret police and horrible oppression by comparing a visit from Church leaders to secret police activity. This guy says that we have a persecution complex.
Mormons DO have a persecution complex. How many times have we heard the endless comparison between (warranted) early animosity towards Mormons and the holocaust?
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
Mercury wrote:Whoop it up dickhead. For his next act Nehor will be making light of the stazi.
No, it's you making light of secret police and horrible oppression by comparing a visit from Church leaders to secret police activity. This guy says that we have a persecution complex.
Mormons DO have a persecution complex. How many times have we heard the endless comparison between (warranted) early animosity towards Mormons and the holocaust?
If we do it's because of people like you who insist that the 'Mormon cult' must be destroyed by any means necessary.
Which is a closer comparison?
"Mormons persecuted and killed in Missouri" to Holocaust
OR
"Home Teachers knocking on door" to Holocaust
I agree the LDS comparison is overblown....but yours blows more.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Mercury wrote:Whoop it up dickhead. For his next act Nehor will be making light of the stazi.
No, it's you making light of secret police and horrible oppression by comparing a visit from Church leaders to secret police activity. This guy says that we have a persecution complex.
Mormons DO have a persecution complex. How many times have we heard the endless comparison between (warranted) early animosity towards Mormons and the holocaust?
If we do it's because of people like you who insist that the 'Mormon cult' must be destroyed by any means necessary.
Which is a closer comparison?
"Mormons persecuted and killed in Missouri" to Holocaust
OR
"Home Teachers knocking on door" to Holocaust
I agree the LDS comparison is overblown....but yours blows more.
Straw man. When did I compare home teachers to the holocaust?
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
He could attend public meetings if his conduct is orderly, but would be denied giving any talks, offering prayers, partaking of the sacrament or voting.
thestyleguy wrote:well, LDS history will tell you when things start getting bad that they start striking back in wierd ways.
Edit in: sorry, I didn't read the post well. I thought they recently did that but am glad if they stopped it. The real sad thing was that my Dad had left the home and my mom was very depressed. The court was on a tuesday night. I was going to ride my bike to the court but my friend asked me to go home teaching with him first so I did and he dropped me and my bike off at the stake center after. After the excommunication the Stake President didn't want me riding my bike home and pretty much said he was going to take me home. I couldn't tell my mom that night what happened. On Sunday I called the Stake President and asked if he could tell her and he said yes and then my Mom started freaking out about what the Stake President could be wanting to talk to her about and did I do something. When my Mom walked into the building, our nosey-motor-mouth neighbor came up to my mom and said she heard about my excommunication and was sorry to hear it, so that is how my Mom learned. Her husband who was in priesthood meeting must have called her and told her. my Mom basically laid in bed for six months she was so depressed.
So sorry to hear this styleguy. I'm sure that was incredibly painful, even all these years later.
Mercury wrote:Straw man. When did I compare home teachers to the holocaust?
If you want to replace Holocaust with Stazi in both cases that works too.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
It was eye opening to see the pro/cons following the article. I never figured I would know some of the posters personally. Didn't know some of them were no longer members.
I will never quite understand how anyone who is privy to the true history can draw a conclusion so contrary to fundamental principles of logic (and decency) -
Particularly when they have been brought up in a church that has taught them to discern it.