ajax18 wrote:I know this seems like a separate issue but Paul I was once told in the MTC that I had put my salvation in jeopardy for not coloring in the yellow threads around my doc martens with a black magic marker. Unfortunately my companion, the selfish, prideful, manipulative, future leader he was, refused to allow me the chance to buy a marker at the bookstore. Hence I got bawled out for not having them colored in. Geez that was a bad experience. No I don't trust church leadership.
Don't you just hate it when they value form more than substance?
There will a fully stocked bar in Hell....trust me because I will be waiting for my friends to come....but there will aslo be what
ever your heart desires there as well
All are welcome
When I wake up I will be hungry....but this feels so good right now aaahhhhhh........
Dr. Shades wrote:When Paul Osborne first showed up here, he started a thread titled "[Jerald] Tanner is Burning in Hell." This prompted lots of people to label him a fanatic and state that if people like him represented hardcore Mormonism, they were glad to be out of it.
I have a slightly different take on it. I like Paul Osborne quite a bit since he represents, in my opinion, true Mormonism, the kind of Chapel Mormonism I grew up with. The kind of Mormon who boldly declares what he believes to be the truth, consequences and political correctness be damned. None of this watered-down, wishy-washy reactive Internet Mormonism stuff.
Early on in his FAIRboards career, he called FARMS to repentance for rejecting the words of the prophets. This, of course, put him on the wrong side of the FAIR moderators who, as we know, love to coddle their FARMS participants. But let's face it--how can you not like a guy with the guts to call FARMS to repentance, of all things?
Often people complain that figuring out Mormon doctrine is like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. Not with Paul Osborne. You always know exactly where he stands with things, none of that "it was only his opinion" crap.
What do y'all think of this and, by extension, Paul Osborne? Am I up in the night, or do I have a point?
Times sure have changed, Shades. What a blast from the past. I think I'll bump this just for the hell of it and see if anyone clicks it. I'm embarrassed to actually read it.
The tanner thread now has over 30,000 reads. Jesus -- I was a nut.
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Dr. Shades wrote:When Paul Osborne first showed up here, he started a thread titled "[Jerald] Tanner is Burning in Hell." This prompted lots of people to label him a fanatic and state that if people like him represented hardcore Mormonism, they were glad to be out of it.
I have a slightly different take on it. I like Paul Osborne quite a bit since he represents, in my opinion, true Mormonism, the kind of Chapel Mormonism I grew up with. The kind of Mormon who boldly declares what he believes to be the truth, consequences and political correctness be damned. None of this watered-down, wishy-washy reactive Internet Mormonism stuff.
Early on in his FAIRboards career, he called FARMS to repentance for rejecting the words of the prophets. This, of course, put him on the wrong side of the FAIR moderators who, as we know, love to coddle their FARMS participants. But let's face it--how can you not like a guy with the guts to call FARMS to repentance, of all things?
Often people complain that figuring out Mormon doctrine is like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. Not with Paul Osborne. You always know exactly where he stands with things, none of that "it was only his opinion" crap.
What do y'all think of this and, by extension, Paul Osborne? Am I up in the night, or do I have a point?
Times sure have changed, Shades. What a blast from the past. I think I'll bump this just for the hell of it and see if anyone clicks it. I'm embarrassed to actually read it.
The tanner thread now has over 30,000 reads. Jesus -- I was a nut.
haha Paul, this is awesome! I arrived on this site with the same Mormon zeal. Times have certainly changed. I am totally embarrassed to read my older posts. I give myself a pass for being young and stupid. I can't believe how much I supported that F@cking BS Church.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Shulem wrote:Times sure have changed, Shades. What a blast from the past. I think I'll bump this just for the hell of it and see if anyone clicks it. I'm embarrassed to actually read it. :
OMG. That is unbelievable stuff.
"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
