Telling my old mission comp...

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There is no difference between the confirmation you and those women received and that of millions of other people about thier faith and other girls and women about thier abusers.
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just me wrote:There is no difference between the confirmation you and those women received and that of millions of other people about thier faith and other girls and women about thier abusers.


And there is no difference to what Hitler did and to what the US did in vietnam with its carpet bombings and agent orange attacks. Both attempted to extinguish a race. Likewise to the british fire bombing of Hamburg and Dresdan where hundreds of thousands of germans were burned to death and vaporized from the heat in WWII and to what Hitler did to the jews. Right?
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why me wrote:
just me wrote:There is no difference between the confirmation you and those women received and that of millions of other people about thier faith and other girls and women about thier abusers.


And there is no difference to what Hitler did and to what the US did in vietnam with its carpet bombings and agent orange attacks. Both attempted to extinguish a race. Likewise to the british fire bombing of Hamburg and Dresdan where hundreds of thousands of germans were burned to death and vaporized from the heat in WWII and to what Hitler did to the jews. Right?


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Actually, I really don't see the difference. Murdering innocent people is pretty awful no matter their skin tone. Doncha think?

Are you trying to say that the spiritual confirmation of a Buddhist/Catholic/Evangelical/Jew/Heavens Gater/Baptist/Jehovah's Witness/etc is not the same as the spiritual confirmation of a Mormon? Care to explain the difference to me?
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Hey why me,

why me wrote:
But...I experienced the confirmation just as these women did. And that made all the difference.



Wait, I'm confused.

Are you saying that you are also sealed to Joseph Smith and will be another one of his wives for all eternity?

You are a guy, yes?

Peace,
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Ceeboo wrote:Hey why me,

why me wrote:
But...I experienced the confirmation just as these women did. And that made all the difference.



Wait, I'm confused.

Are you saying that you are also sealed to Joseph Smith and will be another one of his wives for all eternity?

You are a guy, yes?

Peace,
Ceeboo


Ceeboo, Joseph Smith actually had a bunch of men sealed to him. Take from that what you will.
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Hey just you :)

just me wrote:
Ceeboo, Joseph Smith actually had a bunch of men sealed to him. Take from that what you will.



Really? (I am being 100% serious)

Can you elaborate on this a little? (I would appreciate it)

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Ceeboo wrote:Hey just you :)

just me wrote:
Ceeboo, Joseph Smith actually had a bunch of men sealed to him. Take from that what you will.



Really? (I am being 100% serious)

Can you elaborate on this a little? (I would appreciate it)

Peace,
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Yes, sweetie, it is totally true. I must admit that I am not well read on the topic. I will have to refer you to another page. The book "Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example" by D. Michael Quinn explores this topic in great detail.

Go here to read some highlights: http://www.exmormon.org/Mormon/mormon628.htm

Hehe, I actually hadn't read that entire link when I posted it. I was more interested in showing that sealing men to men was done. I don't necessarily agree with any or all conclusions drawn in the post. But it is interesting reading.
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Ceeboo wrote:Hey why me,

why me wrote:
But...I experienced the confirmation just as these women did. And that made all the difference.



Wait, I'm confused.

Are you saying that you are also sealed to Joseph Smith and will be another one of his wives for all eternity?

You are a guy, yes?

Peace,
Ceeboo


just me wrote:Ceeboo, Joseph Smith actually had a bunch of men sealed to him. Take from that what you will.

It's all just part of his "Joseph fantasy" along with the but kicking frontier women.
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Ceeboo wrote:Hey why me,

why me wrote:
But...I experienced the confirmation just as these women did. And that made all the difference.



Wait, I'm confused.

Are you saying that you are also sealed to Joseph Smith and will be another one of his wives for all eternity?

You are a guy, yes?

Peace,
Ceeboo


I was referring to a general confirmation from the holy ghost. My confirmation that the Book of Mormon was true did not come from a 'cultish' experience as some posters here are claiming for these women. These women experienced something very powerful to get them to change their minds in being sealed to Joseph Smith and that was a powerful witness that the principle was true.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world.
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just me wrote:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Actually, I really don't see the difference. Murdering innocent people is pretty awful no matter their skin tone. Doncha think?



And yet no allied general or politician were ever tried for war crimes as the Germans were. You are right, it was murder.

But very few today know the agony of the germans who were experiencing such fire bombings. Thousands and thousands of innocent people ( children, the elderly, the young, men and women) were instantly engulfed in fire infernos. No war crime was charged to the american and british armies.

Comparisons can always be made. The world is full of comparisons. But in the end, they don't disprove the other side. For for critics like yourself, you never tire of them.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world.
Joseph Smith


We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…”
Joseph Smith
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