Blixa wrote: Your dad didn't make that up, I heard both of these things from a seminary teacher in High School.
Wait...was your Dad extremely tall and thin, with red hair and slightly bugged out blue eyes? Does your last name begin with the letter A? Because Brother A was a fount of sketchy Mormon folklore...
Nope, not the same guy at all. Not sure which answer would have been better.
Lol. I thought it was long shot, but I would've loved it to be true!
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
My scary moment seems lame now after the camping stories (which made me cry), and it was already lame, but here goes anyway.
This happened after I left the church. I really wanted to be out, but still worried "what if it's really true." Some of you might have gone through a transition like that.
So one day I came across a small headline on, like, page 6 of the newspaper about an archealogical discovery in South America. My heart almost stopped. I was so terrified that the article would prove the church to be true, and I would be in really lots of trouble! It took quite a while to get the courage to read the story, and of course it had absolutely nothing to do with anything that could possibly be evidence for the Book of Mormon.* That fright was a blessing in disguise, though, because after that I never worried again that the church might be true.
The person who is certain and who claims divine warrant for his certainty belongs now to the infancy of our species. Christopher Hitchens
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. Frater
MrStakhanovite wrote:#1 Having someone explain casually explain to you that the lost ten tribes of Israel are, in fact, hiding underneath the earth’s crust via an entrance at the North Pole and doing so in such a way that made it seem like they were telling you the obvious.
For all the scoop on ten tribes and other fun folklore, entertainingly told, see the book referenced in my signature line.
The person who is certain and who claims divine warrant for his certainty belongs now to the infancy of our species. Christopher Hitchens
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. Frater
When I went through the SLC Temple before my mission is was sexually molested by one of the initiatory workers. It wasn't enough that I was told get naked in a strange place (something my parents constantly warned me against), but then after being put into a situation where I was naked and alone with an older man, he proceeded to touch me VERY INAPPROPRIATELY not once but TWICE.