Does LDS Serve Up a Swanson Frozen Dinner?

[_MCB]

I thought it would be your digestive tract, not your brain, that would explode if you ate that 'whole enchilada'.

Perhaps I overstated my case.

There is plenty of fiber in that recipe. My gut would explode on a diet of pancakes.

I always regarded books as brain food, given my hearing loss and the environment in which I was raised. Once I got into studying Mormonism, I can understand why radical Mormons are so troubled, especially when people express beliefs that add to the cognitive dissonance.


I was looking around for images last night. How about this one?

[_zeezrom]

Teacher, leave those kids alone!" I'd estimate no less than four score of us were chanting away. It was quite the irony for a BYU graduation procession

Nice.

And did you, by chance, yell "Teacher!" just like Pink Floyd so aptly does?

-- no offence to the teachers out there?

[_MCB]

-- no offence to the teachers out there?

You think there is no intellectual oppression of teachers in a Mormon-dominated environment?

[_Racer]

NOMs beware! Holland says you're going to come up short in your eternal reward unless you buy 'the whole enchilada'.

Isn't this just a given? Do NOMs actually expect to receive a full eternal reward by skirting major beliefs and requirements? That God will just beat them with a few stripes etc. and then they can just waltz in?

What you, Holland, and FAIR don't seem to understand is most NOMs don't believe in the eternal reward the way orthodox LDS view it. So no, they are not expecting to be "slackers" who will get beat with a few stripes and enter the CK. They just don't believe in it. Personally, I fit NOMs into 2 categories.

1. People who may have grown up LDS, are spiritual, but no longer buy the LDS doctrine. They don't believe it. They view it more like a philosophy. However, they draw strength and comfort from the culture and some of the concepts and doctrines. They view the Book of Mormon as man made, but find it as an uplifting book of allegories. They enjoy the hymns and rituals, but again don't take them literally. The church is their security blanket even though they don't take an orthodox approach.

2. People that no longer believe in the LDS faith and would leave in a heart beat, but can't due to extreme social upheaval i.e spouse leaves them, family disowns them, or their career is negatively effected. These NOMs are there to keep the peace and maintain their quality of life. They may begrudgingly pay tithing and attend meetings every week because the alternative isn't worth it for them.

Either way, NOMs should be allowed to participate and Should be left alone since they harm no one. They are hardly the wolves in sheep's clothing the Mopologist clowns try to paint them as.

[_Yoda]

Awww, the memories that Pink Floyd quote gave me. :)

Ah, the double entendre too.

My dad listened to "Comfortably Numb" on The Wall at the CD store in the mall with my bother and me. He liked the song so much, he bought the set. Later, he put the CDs in and started listening from the beginning and soon realized he didn't like it at all. I was able to take possession soon after. :)

Quite the fortuitous windfall!

At one of my BYU graduations, in my vicinity among the procession line of graduates entering the Marriott Center, there broke out an acapella version of The Wall: "We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. Teacher, leave those kids alone!" I'd estimate no less than four score of us were chanting away. It was quite the irony for a BYU graduation procession.

Oh yes, I am that much older than you (damn it).

Join me in my age box, Sock. It's reallly OK. We age like fine wine, buddy!

[_MCB]

Either way, NOMs should be allowed to participate and should be left alone since they harm no one. They are hardly the wolves in sheep's clothing the Mopologist clowns try to paint them as.

Similarly, those who practice other faiths and studiously ignore Mormonism should not be interfered with.

But, somehow, that is beyond the understanding of the Mopologists. It is the persecution complex inherent to the culture.

[_Yoda]

Mormonism has a strong stripe of Mosaic law type requirements as compared to mainstream Christianity, that's for sure.

That has always been my impression. That is one of my fundamental beefs with "plural marriage". If you study the elements of what marriage is supposed to be like, you can really see a spiritual transition. Polygamy was an Old Testament custom. It was marriage in a superficial form. Then, when Christ came and fulfilled the law, a mongomous marriage involves partnership, and a deeper kind of love and commitment.

[_Harold Lee]

TV dinners are so bad for you, don't eat that $hit.

Analogy works.