This has been my biggest turn-off to the board as of late. Some of the posters here view these discussions as a matter of right and wrong, good versus evil, some sort of holy war for god. It's ridiculous.
How so? It's not possible for you or anyone else to pose a question or dilemma that is not black and white. Where some people see shades of grey, I see a lack of information to make a better or the best choice.
Runtu wrote:I think people like bcspace really do see things in terms of good and evil, Mormon and anti-Mormon...
This has been my biggest turn-off to the board as of late. Some of the posters here view these discussions as a matter of right and wrong, good versus evil, some sort of holy war for god. It's ridiculous.
It is a war of good(them) versus evil(everyone else). The LDS leaders teach them this over and over again.
I see it as a holy war of stupid(them) vs smart(us).
Runtu wrote:I think people like bcspace really do see things in terms of good and evil, Mormon and anti-Mormon...
This has been my biggest turn-off to the board as of late. Some of the posters here view these discussions as a matter of right and wrong, good versus evil, some sort of holy war for god. It's ridiculous.
It is a war of good(them) versus evil(everyone else). The LDS leaders teach them this over and over again. I see it as a holy war of stupid(them) vs smart(us).
Yes.
Boyd K. Packer, apostle, prophet, seer and revelator wrote:In the Church we are not neutral. We are one-sided. There is a war going on and we are engaged in it. It is the war between good and evil...
and "some things that are true are not very useful" ...
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
bcspace wrote: I do see your blog (and most of your threads on MADB) as intentionally negative about the Church rather than simply questioning. Sorry, but I calls it like I sees it.
BCspace demonstrates here an unspoken axiom of Mormonism: There is only one correct answer regarding questions about The Church: the one that agrees with The Church.
See, it's okay to question things about The Church, but if you come to any conclusions that go against The Church's official positions, you made the wrong decision and are now an Anti-Mormon clap-trap.
bcspace wrote: I do see your blog (and most of your threads on MADB) as intentionally negative about the Church rather than simply questioning. Sorry, but I calls it like I sees it.
BCspace demonstrates here an unspoken axiom of Mormonism: There is only one correct answer regarding questions about The Church: the one that agrees with The Church.
See, it's okay to question things about The Church, but if you come to any conclusions that go against The Church's official positions, you made the wrong decision and are now an Anti-Mormon clap-trap.
It's a catch-22.
No, you've misstated the axiom. Correctly stated it is: There is only one correct answer regarding questions about The Church: the one that agrees with MY interpretation of The Church.
God . . . "who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, . . . and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him ..."
bcspace wrote: I do see your blog (and most of your threads on MADB) as intentionally negative about the Church rather than simply questioning. Sorry, but I calls it like I sees it.
BCspace demonstrates here an unspoken axiom of Mormonism: There is only one correct answer regarding questions about The Church: the one that agrees with The Church.
See, it's okay to question things about The Church, but if you come to any conclusions that go against The Church's official positions, you made the wrong decision and are now an Anti-Mormon clap-trap.
It's a catch-22.
No, you've misstated the axiom. Correctly stated it is: There is only one correct answer regarding questions about The Church: the one that agrees with MY interpretation of The Church.
The First Rule of Project Mormon is do not ask questions.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
Mercury wrote:The First Rule of Project Mormon is do not ask questions.
Odd then that I begin my Investigator's class every Sunday with a request for questions about what I teach. I answer quite a few. Odd that.
"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
No, you've misstated the axiom. Correctly stated it is: There is only one correct answer regarding questions about The Church: the one that agrees with MY interpretation of The Church.
Misstated again. More correctly stated:
There is only one correct answer regarding questions about The Church: the one that agrees with statements by The Church.
No, you've misstated the axiom. Correctly stated it is: There is only one correct answer regarding questions about The Church: the one that agrees with MY interpretation of The Church.
Misstated again. More correctly stated:
There is only one correct answer regarding questions about The Church: the one that agrees with statements by The Church.
Then you take the latest date accoridng to the principle of continuing revelation. Of course, much of what gets presented as a conflict often turns out to be no conflict at all.