I have had bought the CD "The Book of Mormon" for myself. A song is contained in it; which one fatally reminded me of my experiences in the church. The song is named "turn it off"". Here one short part from this song text:
When you start to get confused because of thoughts in your head, Don\'t feel those feelings! Hold them in instead
Turn it off, like a light switch just go click! It\'s a cool little Mormon trick! We do it all the time When your feeling certain feels that just don\'t feel right Treat those pesky feelings like a reading light and turn em off, Like a light switch just go bap! Really whats so hard about that? Turn it off! (Turn it off!) (Source: http://www.themusicallyrics.com/b/225-t ... t-off.html
Have you made similar experiences in the church? As handled that if criticism of the church arose into you? If somebody criticized the church from the family or circle of friends? Or, if you were homosexual or transsexual? How do you handle it? Is this song partly true?
“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.” --- G.K. Chesterton
I personally know there is a God. So, if someone wants to come in and tell me that there is no God, they are simply wrong as far as I'm concerned. And I believe in Mormonism because God tells me it is true. Now what is necessarily true about it is something I'm fully up to discuss. However, I'm not going to put up with critics that are going to attack me and what I believe though. What I've experienced clearly tells me there is truth here. If they want to do that, I'm perfectly happy to ignore them in person or otherwise.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
Tobin wrote:I personally know there is a God. So, if someone wants to come in and tell me that there is no God, they are simply wrong as far as I'm concerned. And I believe in Mormonism because God tells me it is true. Now what is necessarily true about it is something I'm fully up to discuss. However, I'm not going to put up with critics that are going to attack me and what I believe though. What I've experienced clearly tells me there is truth here. If they want to do that, I'm perfectly happy to ignore them in person or otherwise.
But you don't believe the current Prophets and Apostles are listening to God, do you?
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)
Tobin wrote:I personally know there is a God. So, if someone wants to come in and tell me that there is no God, they are simply wrong as far as I'm concerned. And I believe in Mormonism because God tells me it is true. Now what is necessarily true about it is something I'm fully up to discuss. However, I'm not going to put up with critics that are going to attack me and what I believe though. What I've experienced clearly tells me there is truth here. If they want to do that, I'm perfectly happy to ignore them in person or otherwise.
But you don't believe the current Prophets and Apostles are listening to God, do you?
No, let's listen to "Bazooka" instead...
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
But you don't believe the current Prophets and Apostles are listening to God, do you?
No, let's listen to "Bazooka" instead...
Let's not. I like having him on ignore.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
Tobin wrote:Let's not. I like having him on ignore.
I'm right though aren't I Tobin, about your view on the current Church Leadership?
(somebody quote me so Tobin reads this)
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)
Droopy wrote: No, let's listen to "Bazooka" instead...
I think it's important that we look within when determining who or who not to listen to. If Baxooka or anyone else provides valuable insights then naturally he should be listened to. Each of us has to decide for ourselves whose comments have value. I don't think that anyone should be listened to merely because they claim to be God's special mouthpiece. That would be priestcraft.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Tobin wrote:I personally know there is a God. So, if someone wants to come in and tell me that there is no God, they are simply wrong as far as I'm concerned. And I believe in Mormonism because God tells me it is true. Now what is necessarily true about it is something I'm fully up to discuss. However, I'm not going to put up with critics that are going to attack me and what I believe though. What I've experienced clearly tells me there is truth here. If they want to do that, I'm perfectly happy to ignore them in person or otherwise.
