RayAgostini wrote:. . . some have been as steady as the North Star in proclaiming their convictions.
Gordon B. Hinckley was steady as the North Star in proclaiming his convictions? Well, I don't know that we teach that. I don't know that we practice it. I know the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't know that others know a lot about it.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
RayAgostini wrote:. . . some have been as steady as the North Star in proclaiming their convictions.
Gordon B. Hinckley was steady as the North Star in proclaiming his convictions? Well, I don't know that we teach that. I don't know that we practice it. I know the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't know that others know a lot about it.
Don’t Drop the Ball Gordon B. Hinckley
First Counselor in the First Presidency October 1994
"On the other hand, the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon (see Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 342–62; and emphasized by President Lorenzo Snow. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become! (See The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, comp. Clyde J. Williams, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1984, p. 1.)
Our enemies have criticized us for believing in this."
Nightlion wrote:All Hinckley ever did was scold people with a holier than thou pretense.
At least he scolded! Too often conference talks are just pablum, or worse... redigested horse manure. I liked him. I miss him. And if Pres Monson dies or is incapacitated, I'm going to miss him even more.
We know that he did not hold to his convictions. What are you saying?
What do you mean?
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
Darth J wrote:Yep. And whenever the Salt Lake City Police Department had a murder investigation going on, they knew they could count on honest, frank answers from people like Gordon B. Hinckley.
His lies to the police shocked and severely disappointed me. Is it an attack to say so?
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
Dr. Shades wrote:Gordon B. Hinckley was steady as the North Star in proclaiming his convictions? Well, I don't know that we teach that. I don't know that we practice it. I know the philosophical background behind it, but I don't know a lot about it, and I don't know that others know a lot about it.
Don’t Drop the Ball Gordon B. Hinckley
First Counselor in the First Presidency October 1994
"On the other hand, the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon (see Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 342–62; and emphasized by President Lorenzo Snow. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become! (See The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, comp. Clyde J. Williams, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1984, p. 1.)
Our enemies have criticized us for believing in this."
Paul O
For a Prophet of God and the President of the Church to demonstrate publicly that he was too embarassed about a teaching of his Church is a bit of a disgrace. However, we all make mistakes. The bigger disgrace was when he stood up at Conference a, in the style of a wink and a nudge, proclaimed that actually he knew rather more than he was letting on. That he didn't apologise unreservedly is where the shame is.
“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
Shulem wrote:Hinckleybutt was a Goddamn liar. I have no respect for him. I'm glad he's dead. To hell with him. The videos offered by the church concerning him are on par with Grape Nut cereal commercials. Blah!
Did he ever stand up for the so-called inspired Explanations of Facsimile No. 3? No, he did not! His ability to act as a seer/revelator or translator was just as stupid as Joseph Smith's who botched up the papyrus in lying in the name of the Lord.
Let the bastard rot in his grave and the worms eat him. I hate him.
There.
Paul O
I like Grape Nuts. Fanny and I often share a bowl.
Isn't it marvelous?
"This is why I am a big fan of the Mormon lay. It is important that two people know that they are somewhat compatible in bed. After a couple of Mormon lays, one can know a lot about the other person's sexuality."
RayAgostini wrote:I hope that those of like mind here will feel the same appreciation, that in a world full of turmoil and uncertainty and disruption - some have been as steady as the North Star in proclaiming their convictions.
Following the North Star will only cost you 10% of your total income and no masturbation.
