MishMagnet wrote:Blixa, you are using a lot of large SAT words today. Dumb it down for those of us who imbibed last night. Thanks, love.
temple clothes fugly. ditto ceremony.
Sorry Mishie, I think I've started drifting into an elevated style in my posts as a way to distance myself emotionally from some of the content here---I'm trying to prevent the depression I can easily fall into after reading and thinking about contemporary Mormonism.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
Mercury wrote:Huh? The masons are the pure form of masonry. The temple ceremonies are a bastardized version of them. I do not see your point.
Perhaps but you have stated and implied many times that the Temple ceremonies are completely ridiculous and submitted them to intense ridicule. Is the 'pure' version somehow completely sane?
The temple ceremonies are stupid. Masonry is totally different. I am speaking from experience and I would appreciate it if you treat masonic information with respect instead of the flippant way you handle it now.
Okay.....THAT made me laugh. You treat nothing I appreciate with respect. Why are you expecting different treatment?
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Mercury wrote:Huh? The masons are the pure form of masonry. The temple ceremonies are a bastardized version of them. I do not see your point.
Perhaps but you have stated and implied many times that the Temple ceremonies are completely ridiculous and submitted them to intense ridicule. Is the 'pure' version somehow completely sane?
The temple ceremonies are stupid. Masonry is totally different. I am speaking from experience and I would appreciate it if you treat masonic information with respect instead of the flippant way you handle it now.
Okay.....THAT made me laugh. You treat nothing I appreciate with respect. Why are you expecting different treatment?
It was tongue in cheek. I expected your reaction and hope you got a feel for the silliness when Mormons try to act aghast when the temple is discussed.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
Mercury wrote:It was tongue in cheek. I expected your reaction and hope you got a feel for the silliness when Mormons try to act aghast when the temple is discussed.
No, I didn't think it was silly. Just a horrible double-standard.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo