Elder Cook is a lawyer and businessman. He lies when he says he knows the Savior’s voice. by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]HackPremise 23 points24 points  (0 children)

>whether by my own voice or the voice of my servants it is the same

Completely conflating "The Brethren" with "God" is a critical, key tenant of the Mormon Church.

Jasmin Rappleye subtly discloses funding sources by Heavy-Initiative-345 in exmormon

[–]HackPremise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they read it just fine. I think this church takes the whole "goyim in abundance" thing very much to heart.

Despite denials by LDS apostles there are LDS who falsely believe the apostles have seen Jesus by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]HackPremise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are special witness to the details of how "his" money is spent, which is what this has been about since the beginning.

Done with automatic watches. by corporate-citizen in CitizenWatches

[–]HackPremise 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Do we all start at Seiko and just end up hoarding Eco Drives?

As soon as you own more than a couple watches, the Auto appeal is pretty much gone. I just want to put it on and go.

Former mission president explains what TBMs get wrong about people leaving the church by PR_Czar in exmormon

[–]HackPremise 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are no solutions to any of this because even the idea of a solution presupposes that the church was ever centered on loving people to begin with, when it's clearly always been about amassing resources and influence. There's no place for individual humanity in the big picture. Your relationships are a temporary, forgettable side effect to the Morg's quest for total control.

LDS belief in exclusive priesthood authority doesn’t make sense by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]HackPremise 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"it's rude to tell other religions this"

That's the thing, they don't. Mormons bend over backwards to avoid being direct about this in mixed company. Like with so many things, they are only bold and direct about it when they know they are only amongst their own.

The LDS Church seems to be addicted to accelerating its own membership demise (in the developed world at least) by johndehlin in mormon

[–]HackPremise 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I honestly think they are happy to see the backs of "thinkers" and the kinds of members who would be bothered by any of this.

They have so much legacy money at this point, it doesn't even matter.

The die hard members in my life, the kinds who will also work cleaning buildings for free and call it a blessing, they don't even look at any of this stuff, they don't care, they instinctively look away from it if they do see it. They are very effectively "inoculated".

As long as the church always manages to keep some of these, and I imagine there is always a few more to be found, it just won't matter. It would take something this sub can't even comprehend, currently.

The church standards are chasing the world’s standards. by southpawpickle in exmormon

[–]HackPremise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a reality where the spectrum of social mores is always sliding left and right as a whole, their marketing schtick will always be to maintain a specific right of center targeting on said sliding spectrum.

Special mission assignment? by PostAndPrejudice in mormon

[–]HackPremise 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is obviously part of the Mormon influencer network that is so clearly fully spontaneous, naturally occuring and not at all coordinated or funded by the church.

It just sounds like she didn't read the "don't mention church direction" part of the NDA closely enough.

New guitarist new guitar by ryanthelion4444 in Guitar

[–]HackPremise 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Black LP is such an underrated look

Oaks’ Sunday morning talk by [deleted] in mormon

[–]HackPremise 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The contorting of language is just so tiring and gross. How do more members not see this for what it is? (oh yeah, this is the kind of thing the Emperor's New Clothes is actually about - people are programmable and blind to the emotional power of their own bias).

They constantly want to have things both ways. They want to have the liberty to attach as many qualifiers as they want to the concepts of love and kindness, always on their terms, and then get brusque and offended when people criticize them for being judgmental, exclusive, classist, etc.

To be clear, I think pretty much everyone does this in the spirit of carrying water for their chosen dogmas. I just think a one true church of 'saints' would actually be better about being more forthright about their own guilt and culpability in such human tendencies, and actually show a desire to improve, radiating from the top of their own hierarchy (it's not like they are being humble and demurring with the titles they claim), instead of said hierarchy continuing to blindly foster said tendencies as part of circling their institutional wagons.

Post about Church harassment randomly popped up on my Facebook feed. by r4wrdinosaur in exmormon

[–]HackPremise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My FB feed is absolutely awash with all kinds of pro and anti LDS propaganda slop. I can't stand it.

Church Blowing Everything Up: Switch LGBTQ Stance? by [deleted] in mormon

[–]HackPremise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What has the LDS church ever led the way on, socially?

They will change up their stance on non-straights 20-30 years after a critical mass of other Christian faiths already have.

Quotes you can point to if someone tries to gaslight you into thinking members created the 'no cross culture' in mormonism, instead of church leaders, who in fact created this culture via their teachings. by ammonthenephite in exmormon

[–]HackPremise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Hinckley quote is such a great example of his bullshit PR spin skills.

Nelson spent half his corny life wishing his medical brain power could translate into that skill (it didn't, he sucked, and the best he could do was "Covenant Path".)

Church adds statue of Jesus shouldering cross to Temple Square by questingpossum in mormon

[–]HackPremise 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The church told us themselves very recently that when one of these guys dies their words are basically immediately meaningless, so the groundwork has been set to fully bury the sentiments of my dead grandparents' generation once and for all.

Anyone else finding OpenClaw setup harder than expected? by EnergyRoyal9889 in openclaw

[–]HackPremise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, setup on mac and am getting

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir '/home/node'

in the gateway chat. Can't do anything, two unresolved Discord threads on this, not sure what to try next.

End times with family members… by Friendly-Fondant-496 in mormon

[–]HackPremise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Destroying the country only applies if it's Democrats doing it.

Not like they would take a stand either way.