If we could only realize that the end is already known. If we could just see that the winning team is known.
Another example of how black and white the Mormon ideal really is.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
It's currently 0.2% to Mormon God, and 99.8% to the whore of all the earth.
And it's the final down...apparently...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
Cylon wrote:I'm a noob here so I don't know all the posters that well. Is the OP ironic or completely sincere? It's so hard to tell sometimes.
zeezrom is a very intelligent, very kind poster who has left the LDS church and is still dealing with some of the struggles that leaving the church entails. I suspect that the title of his OP "Ah, the simplicity of Mormon ideals" is ironic.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Instead of trying to discover which team each person is on, everyone wears blue. Labels get in the way. You would be surprised as to which ones claim to be Mormon and which are not. Remember that it sometimes takes a long time to shed Utahan Mormonish thinking.
Playing with those rules, I have a few anti-Mormons on ignore. Everyone is on his own. However, evening chat usually is populated by the anti's and a few on the outer edge.
Huckelberry said: I see the order and harmony to be the very image of God which smiles upon us each morning as we awake.
Quasimodo wrote:zeezrom is a very intelligent, very kind poster who has left the LDS church and is still dealing with some of the struggles that leaving the church entails. I suspect that the title of his OP "Ah, the simplicity of Mormon ideals" is ironic.
aaaaawwwww! You are too kind, Quas.
I was sincere in mentioning that the Mormon ideal is black and white, however. :)
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
Alright, thanks for the clarification, guys. I think I've been hanging out at MDDB too much. The reality of the true believer over there has begun to be even more extreme than the caricature of one.
Cylon wrote:all right, thanks for the clarification, guys. I think I've been hanging out at MDDB too much. The reality of the true believer over there has begun to be even more extreme than the caricature of one.
No sh@t!
"Jesus gave us the gospel, but Satan invented church. It takes serious evil to formalize faith into something tedious and then pile guilt on anyone who doesn’t participate enthusiastically." - Robert Kirby
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. -- Henry Lawson