Loquacious Lurker wrote:My mom, in Provo, in the eighties, was not allowed to have her temple recommend renewed because she DRANK PEPSI. She was told, lay off the Pepsi, and you can get signed off.
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Imapiratewasher wrote:How do I prepare? Just incase I do decide to go in.
Make sure your pirate is very, very clean. My mother-in-law was stopped at the temple gates because she forgot to brush her pirate's teeth and they could smell his bad breath. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
"And yet another little spot is smoothed out of the echo chamber wall..." Bond
Imapiratewasher wrote:How do I prepare? Just incase I do decide to go in.
Make sure your pirate is very, very clean. My mother-in-law was stopped at the temple gates because she forgot to brush her pirate's teeth and they could smell his bad breath. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Haha... Sick.
coca cola wrote:Unless you still have a firm testimony and believe -- be prepared to lie your ass off.
I have never lied in testimony interviews, yet I have never had a firm testimony or belief. I am just very good at manipulating the question and giving an answer that can mean anything and letting them judge me, they think I am a great person so I have never had a problem. I have a new bishop though and he appears to be more familiar with such things and knows a lot about me via the university. I would say when back home I was more worhty than the majority of the people I went to the temple with.
Imapiratewasher wrote:I have never lied in testimony interviews, yet I have never had a firm testimony or belief. I am just very good at manipulating the question and giving an answer that can mean anything and letting them judge me, they think I am a great person so I have never had a problem. I have a new bishop though and he appears to be more familiar with such things and knows a lot about me via the university. I would say when back home I was more worhty than the majority of the people I went to the temple with.
..And you've only gotten drunk a few times (I kinda envy you - I've never been..yet).
Sounds like you will fit right in.
Aarrgh Pirate, you know somehow that you can be a better person than this, right (regardless of religeon)?
How can you expect to get a discernable answer from any God (let alone, the Mormon one) if you're not true to yourself and those that think they have His authority?
You need to either poop or get off the potty chair :/
Imapiratewasher wrote:I have never lied in testimony interviews, yet I have never had a firm testimony or belief. I am just very good at manipulating the question and giving an answer that can mean anything and letting them judge me, they think I am a great person so I have never had a problem. I have a new bishop though and he appears to be more familiar with such things and knows a lot about me via the university. I would say when back home I was more worhty than the majority of the people I went to the temple with.
..And you've only gotten drunk a few times (I kinda envy you - I've never been..yet).
Sounds like you will fit right in.
Fit right into where? Church?
Aarrgh Pirate, you know somehow that you can be a better person than this, right (regardless of religeon)?
I feel I am a better person whithout religion. Like when I am in nature and it inspires me to be at peace and calm. How can you expect to get a discernable answer from any God (let alone, the Mormon one) if you're not true to yourself and those that think they have His authority?
It's not about being untrue it's about interpretation.
Most of the questions I tell the truth but the ones I don't know I am following, I ask a question back, which makes them think I know the answer and the answer is good.
How can you be true to an authority that believes in a religion you can't accept as entirely true, but can accept it as good? You need to either poop or get off the potty chair :/
I don't think I will get a recommend this time, because although I doubted and wasn't sure before, I wanted to believe and tried to believe. I went to church all the time. But here in Hull, I kinda give up on looking because I have been looking for about 4 years and not found it yet. I have been in a right state pleading with God, he never told me the church is true.
My bishop here doesn't understand why things happen in my life. He just thinks I am off my head, pretty much like everyone else here. I can't act as though I don't know what half the questions mean to see what answer they are looking for anymore, because I have been in the temple so many times. I don't lie, I just manipulate it.
For example:
The law of chastity:
I asked what do you mean by the law of chastity.
I have never broken the law of chastity, but some people will understand why I would be concerned as to what he meant.
The bishop explained it in a way that I could accept that I hadn't done any of the things that he said.
When asked if I sustain the prophets, I said "I put my hand up" and I made the action. I wasn't answering the question, but I was still telling the truth. I don't understand what it means to sustain the prophet, but I do know that so people don't ask questions I put my hand up.
My mom, in Provo, in the eighties, was not allowed to have her temple recommend renewed because she DRANK PEPSI. She was told, lay off the Pepsi, and you can get signed off.
Don't worry, though. I imagine things have changed since then.
I don't believe you because that has never been the case.
However, I do know of some cases where a person was so badly addicted to the caffeine and sugar in the drink they would get a severe case of the shakes if they went more than an hour without their fix. In those cases, TRs are not issued and missionaries are sent home.
That's entirely different than someone simply drinking Pepsi or Coke or Jolt.
Inconceivable wrote:You are holding everyone and yourself up by just sitting without enough urge to either poop or get on your way.
Why would it hold everyone else up? Is it wrong to sit on the fence, (or potty in your analogy)? Is it not better to be on the fence than on the wrong team?
Har her, I don't drink fizzy cans often and all this talk about Pepsi got me thirsty so I got a can of Coke and shook it before opening it. LOL, it was force of habit.