How The Church Can Stop Hemorrhaging Members

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Re: How The Church Can Stop Hemorrhaging Members

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Buffalo wrote: "How about just show a more honest picture of the church history, instead of the whitewashed version?"


Neho wrote: "The picture we share is honest."

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boy, if it was honest those of us who asked initially and got no answers or were told to quit asking would not have had that experience. We would not have been surprised to find the reality that what we were taught and what really happened were very different. Not small things, but major problems.

lds-inc is a lie. That is the truth many of us have found. It is not what is taught and that is the main reason leadership continues in its lying.
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The Nehor wrote:The picture we share is honest.

That and a cup of coffee should get me a temple recommend.
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just me wrote:
The Nehor wrote:No, I mean real devils and real internal mental argument.


Huh. I'm not sure that is a "normal" LDS faith experience.

I'm with Just Me on this one. Sure, I've always talked to myself but never talked to devils. I imagined devils were tempting me though...
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The Nehor wrote:Guesswork.

Normal in the LDS faith.

Yes, it's called prayer.

Lie.

Wait....what?

Ah, the fun of this. If I don't get one critic a week telling me my own life story incorrectly it just hasn't been a good week.


Lol - did you think this post somehow helped your situation? Then lets clarify...Are you still a 30+ year old virgin? Have you spoken with demons? Have you "met" elohim? Have you tried to use seer stones? Like I have said many times, I am just sad for you...In the same way I pity people who devote their lives to scientology...Its like you aspire to replace wade as he descends further into idiocy/lunacy...
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The Nehor wrote:They probably wouldn't describe it in those words but yes, it is a "normal" LDS (and everyone else) experience.


You and homer seem to have the same experiences...:

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"your reasoning that children should be experimented upon to justify a political agenda..is tantamount to the Nazi justification for experimenting on human beings."-SUBgenius on gay parents
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schreech wrote:Lol - did you think this post somehow helped your situation? Then lets clarify...Are you still a 30+ year old virgin? Have you spoken with demons? Have you "met" elohim? Have you tried to use seer stones? Like I have said many times, I am just sad for you...In the same way I pity people who devote their lives to scientology...Its like you aspire to replace wade as he descends further into idiocy/lunacy...


Now wait a minute schreechy, aren't you yourself a middle-aged virgin? I mean, what woman would have you? You're a bigot, and you enjoy mocking and belittling other people because they haven't found the right person yet. How noble. You know nothing of Mormonism, yet you feel that the mantle is upon you to hate it and its people with the fervor only a true bigot would display. You cannot make a coherent argument to save your own life, exhibit poor grammar and general understanding of the English language. How many times do I have to mop the floor with you to show you what a pathetic, little man you are?

Do you have any redeeming qualities?

Edit: You're probably going to post a picture of Barney from the Simpsons. Predictable.
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Simon Belmont wrote:Now wait a minute schreechy, aren't you yourself a middle-aged virgin? I mean, what woman would have you? You're a bigot, and you enjoy mocking and belittling other people because they haven't found the right person yet. How noble. You know nothing of Mormonism, yet you feel that the mantle is upon you to hate it and its people with the fervor only a true bigot would display. You cannot make a coherent argument to save your own life, exhibit poor grammar and general understanding of the English language. How many times do I have to mop the floor with you to show you what a pathetic, little man you are?

Do you have any redeeming qualities?

Edit: You're probably going to post a picture of Barney from the Simpsons. Predictable.


Aww...I must have hurt the fatties feelings...sorry you took my post to the nehor so personally even though i wasn't talking to you...You are a sad, sad (not so little) insecure "man"...
"your reasoning that children should be experimented upon to justify a political agenda..is tantamount to the Nazi justification for experimenting on human beings."-SUBgenius on gay parents
"I've stated over and over again on this forum and fully accept that I'm a bigot..." - ldsfaqs
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schreech wrote:Aww...I must have hurt the fatties feelings...sorry you took my post to the nehor so personally even though i wasn't talking to you...You are a sad, sad (not so little) insecure "man"...


No. You don't get to go around insulting and belittling people.


That's reserved for me, asshole.
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Simon Belmont wrote:No. You don't get to go around insulting and belittling people.


That's reserved for me, asshole.


Ahh...the fruits of Mormonism...gluttony, swearing, insecurity, pathetic need to respond to any criticism of the LDS social club and its "defenders", unhealthy obsession with anonymous posters on LDS centric websites, lying, whining and general douchebagginess...what a wonderful "religion" you have devoted your life to....
"your reasoning that children should be experimented upon to justify a political agenda..is tantamount to the Nazi justification for experimenting on human beings."-SUBgenius on gay parents
"I've stated over and over again on this forum and fully accept that I'm a bigot..." - ldsfaqs
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jon wrote:
The Nehor wrote:No, I mean real devils and real internal mental argument.


Can you describe what these real devils that most normal LDS people see, including you, look like?


I did not say I saw them.

But they wore polka-dot clown costumes.
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