John Larsen wrote:It was always troubling to me just how much handling Mormonism requires. I can't think of hardly anything else that requires so many asterisked principles: all of the words that have special or unconventional definitions, doctrines that can't be readily understood, things that shouldn't be talked about, unwritten rules, lines that have been replaced by the lines upon other lines. For being plain and simple, the Mormon universe has to be the most complicated thing in the world.
Yeah, I always laugh when someone says that the gospel is so simple.
I suppose LDS have redefined the word "order" as well? If God's house is a house of order, then they must have a COMPLETELY different meaning for the word.
If there's one thing I've learned from this board, it's that consensual sex with multiple partners is okay unless God commands it. - Abman
I find this place to be hostile toward all brands of stupidity. That's why I like it. - Some Schmo
We just had a thread where several LDS Missionaries on this board were given pamphlets to pass out teaching that ancient Mesoamerican Gods were, in fact, Jesus. This idea has been disproven and it is now be demoted to "opinion".
So don't try and tell me that Missionary are taught to ONLY teach doctrine.
GoodK wrote:I thought it to be an odd instruction. I wonder what complicated details the manual's writer had in mind.
Perhaps the writer was thinking of the Adam/Eve story as depicted in the temple endowment, which most mishies first learned about just before leaving on a mission. This is just a guess.
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
The Nehor wrote: Believe it or not I have never masturbated while trying to figure out the lives of people dead thousands of years ago or when thinking about the afterlife.
If you do, get help.
You remind me of clinton arguing over what IS is instead of confronting the argument presented to him. In effect you once again are masturbating all over shady acres.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
The Nehor wrote: Believe it or not I have never masturbated while trying to figure out the lives of people dead thousands of years ago or when thinking about the afterlife.
If you do, get help.
OK. This made me literally laugh out loud.
You have to admit, Merc, he got you good on this one.
solomarineris wrote:How did u get hold on to this, I'd be interested looking atit myself
I got it from my bishop when I was preparing to go on a mission. I'm not sure where the public can get it, but I'm sure it is somewhere.
Rollo Tomasi wrote:Perhaps the writer was thinking of the Adam/Eve story as depicted in the temple endowment
Having never been to the the temple - beyond BFD's and the opening of the San Diego temple, do you mind telling me how the Adam/Eve story goes according to the temple endowment?
Some Schmo wrote:This reminds me of the way they (at least, used to, if not still) market Amway. I still remember in my late teens going to this meeting about some "sales opportunity" where I didn't find out it was Amway until about half-way though.
Clearly, when it's too good to be true (and there's so much baggage associated with the product), they have to slowly ease you into the sale before asking for your money. Some people have to actually live it a while before realizing it's a scam, depending on the naïveté of the person and the skill of the salespeople.
LOL, this reminded me of that door to door knife selling nonsense that was advertised in the classifieds as a 12 dollar an hour paying gig. You didn't find out that you had to buy the knife kit with your own money, set your own appointments, and 12 bucks an hour was an estimate and your pay was 100% commission until well after the "interview" was over.
Ironically, I had more than one Mormon friend take part in the door to door knife selling venture.
