Should those who excommunicate teenagers be exterminated?

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Re: Should those who excommunicate teenagers be exterminated

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wenglund wrote:
tumult wrote:
moksha wrote:
tumult wrote:or maybe a pink belly, wet willy - or both while being tied down on a red aunt hill in Brazil.


Is there a story behind this question?


just twenty five years of believing I was not a good person because I didn't live the standard - a standard that Joseph Smith never lived. Twenty five years of paranoia, depression ,anxiety and now finally anger.


I see that you CHOOSE disfunctional emotional reactions ...


Define specifically what dysfunction you see in his actions here o this board.

Come on Wade, lets here it.
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Then he said: Listen, O house of David! Is it not enough for you to weary men, must you also weary my God?

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7 Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign: the virgin (hebrew - young woman) shall be with child, and bear a son, and shall name him Immanuel.

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8 He shall be living on curds and honey by the time he learns to reject the bad and choose the good.

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For before the child learns to reject the bad and choose the good, the land of those two kings whom you dread shall be deserted.
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A minor can actually be excommunicated? You are kidding.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who cold not hear the music. ----Nietzche
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Tori wrote:A minor can actually be excommunicated? You are kidding.


Teenagers who are 18 and 19 are still teenagers but they aren't minors.
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harmony wrote:
Tori wrote:A minor can actually be excommunicated? You are kidding.


Teenagers who are 18 and 19 are still teenagers but they aren't minors.


I suppose that is true but it doesn't seem right to me. And they didn't specify that the teenager's being excommunicated were 'adults'.....although, I have a hard time seeing a kid that is 18 an adult. My 18 year. old still needs me to excuse her absences and tardies from school.
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Tori wrote:
harmony wrote:
Tori wrote:A minor can actually be excommunicated? You are kidding.


Teenagers who are 18 and 19 are still teenagers but they aren't minors.


I suppose that is true but it doesn't seem right to me. And they didn't specify that the teenager's being excommunicated were 'adults'.....although, I have a hard time seeing a kid that is 18 an adult. My 18 year. old still needs me to excuse her absences and tardies from school.


19 year old teenagers take out their endowments all the time. If they then do an excommunicatable offense, they are subject to the same punishment as any other adult. Same as with breaking a law. Even as young as 14 can be tried in adult court.
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Moniker wrote:Riiiight, depression is a choice.

I'm marking it on my calendar for next month!


Are you assuming that choice (in the form of cognitions) is not a factor in depression?

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Re: Should those who excommunicate teenagers be exterminated

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Mercury wrote:
wenglund wrote:
tumult wrote:
moksha wrote:
tumult wrote:or maybe a pink belly, wet willy - or both while being tied down on a red aunt hill in Brazil.


Is there a story behind this question?


just twenty five years of believing I was not a good person because I didn't live the standard - a standard that Joseph Smith never lived. Twenty five years of paranoia, depression ,anxiety and now finally anger.


I see that you CHOOSE disfunctional emotional reactions ...


Define specifically what dysfunction you see in his actions here o this board.

Come on Wade, lets here it.


Had I said his actions here on this board were dysfunctional, then your request would make some sense. I didn't, and so it doesn't.

But, if you wish for me to point out where you may have been dysfunctional on this board, then your confused request above should suffice. ;-)

Thanks, -Wade Englund-
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harmony wrote:
Tori wrote:
harmony wrote:
Tori wrote:A minor can actually be excommunicated? You are kidding.


Teenagers who are 18 and 19 are still teenagers but they aren't minors.


I suppose that is true but it doesn't seem right to me. And they didn't specify that the teenager's being excommunicated were 'adults'.....although, I have a hard time seeing a kid that is 18 an adult. My 18 year. old still needs me to excuse her absences and tardies from school.


19 year old teenagers take out their endowments all the time. If they then do an excommunicatable offense, they are subject to the same punishment as any other adult. Same as with breaking a law. Even as young as 14 can be tried in adult court.


There were about ten Mormons at my school in about three or four different wards. One girl who was the year book editor got pregnant at about eighteen or nineteen after graduation. I just heard that she was giving the baby up for adoption. she was from another ward. I had already been excommunicated and was attending a local community college and institute. One day I saw the institute director approach. He asked her how her baptism went and she smiled and said it went well. She had never been on a mission and I'm almost one hundred percent sure she had not gone through the temple. Mercy cannot rob justice and these things will come back to the church.
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tumult wrote:There were about ten Mormons at my school in about three or four different wards. One girl who was the year book editor got pregnant at about eighteen. I just heard that she was giving the baby up for adoption. I had already been excommunicated and was attending a local community college and institute. One day I saw the institute director approach. He asked her how her baptism went and she smiled and said it went well. She had never been on a mission and I'm almost one hundred percent sure she had not gone through the temple. Mercy cannot rob justice and these things will come back to the church.


I'm sorry, but I'm not following you. What are you trying to say?
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