harmony wrote:Y'all assume all the members of the ward knew about the torture thing. Not something I'd assume.
Good point. Why are members asked to vote without first being given sufficient information on which to form a judgment?
The 'vote' is not a vote of approval, it is a vote of agreement to support. I have not seen an example of someone voting against and the person not therefore getting the office they were 'called' to.
The members vote in the affirmative out if relief that they haven't been asked to do it.
“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
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Drifting wrote:The members vote in the affirmative out if relief that they haven't been asked to do it.
Boy, if that ain't the truth!
(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.
I have seen a situation where a vote in the negative was made. My Dad was the Young Men's President, and when the Bishop was reading a list of confirmations for presidencies in the quorum, he got the wrong name of one of the counselors for the Teacher's Quorum.
My Dad knew that the wrong person had been read, and rose his hand to oppose. It was taken care of, and the correct name was presented to the congregation at the next Sacrament Meeting.
it looks like Jessen has resigned from his "calling." Not sure why a new thread was started on this when it seems like it would have made more sense top post it in this thread, but there ya go.
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Equality wrote:it looks like Jessen has resigned from his "calling." Not sure why a new thread was started on this when it seems like it would have made more sense top post it in this thread, but there ya go.
“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
Equality wrote:it looks like Jessen has resigned from his "calling." Not sure why a new thread was started on this when it seems like it would have made more sense top post it in this thread, but there ya go.
"The Church is authoritarian, tribal, provincial, and founded on a loosely biblical racist frontier sex cult."--Juggler Vain "The LDS church is the Amway of religions. Even with all the soap they sell, they still manage to come away smelling dirty."--Some Schmo
Equality wrote:it looks like Jessen has resigned from his "calling." Not sure why a new thread was started on this when it seems like it would have made more sense top post it in this thread, but there ya go.
Well, so much for "discernment" ....
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
son of Ishmael wrote:While I don't generally condone torture, there are ways of telling if a person is telling the truth under intense interrogation. by the way I don't really consider sleep deprivation or water boarding as real torture.
by the way I don't either, after all I was married to my ex-wife for 17 years.
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2 different threads same day 2 hours apart Yohoo Bat 12/1/2015
