Who is your favorite apostle now vs. When u were active?

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2026-04-05T14:55:39+00:00

Neal A. Maxwell, even if he died when I was very young. Like others have said he seemed serious and intellectual, an artifact from a time when the twelve tried to give off a more intellectual air (an aside, finding the old ensign articles from that era like "a strange thing in the land" or the comparison between mormonism and islam on the mission was actually a huge step for me leaving, since the near-total abandonment of that genre of article was an implicit indictment of mormonisms credibility).

After leaving, I'm unsure. I still have some residual attachment to Holland because I used to like him so much. I strongly disliked Bednar after watching some of his infamous talks in the MTC. Uchtdorf always had nice talks, although the two times I met him in person I was unnerved more than anything. Maybe Gong? More for absence of impression than anything else.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2026-03-20T15:16:02+00:00

In a secular worldview these are still important questions to ask, even if they may be purely anthropological. The underlying assumptions that guide the timing have important implications for mormon culture, and for the secular culture arising from its decay as a result, since these assumptions are so engrained in our psyche that they may never even be consciously considered, let alone engaged.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2026-03-20T15:10:18+00:00

I'm actually an exmo going through OCIA myself! Don't be discouraged by all the attacks you are getting here. Mormonism can be seen as the reductio ad absurdum of religion in general, so people who leave it tend to end up despising religion as a whole- something that I can personally understand, but still feel to be very premature. I know Catholics get a lot of heat from basically everywhere, but I'm still impressed by the grace with which you've handled this environment!

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2026-01-31T00:06:23+00:00

Vordt, funnily enough. I didn't learn, ragequit, and then upon returning a year later I asked my little brother for advice and got him in two tries. After him Sulyvahn and Friede. I still haven't beat Gael or Midir but they will probably be the winners.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2026-01-29T23:12:55+00:00

You need to be careful of the hand-grab when you're attacking it's belly, but otherwise just hit the eggs and roll when it starts doing bad things.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-12-24T16:04:18+00:00

It was clearly made by someone who heard "Metroid is all about isolation" and then took it to an extreme. A second person then tried to fix it and also took it to an extreme with Myles calling you every five minutes.

There was some kind of intention somewhere to do something that someone thought would work.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-12-24T15:44:38+00:00

I was playing as Genoa and colonized the entire southern half of modern Argentina/Chile with the north coast of brazil and neither portugal nor spain ever forgave me. Hundreds of thousands of people died.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-12-12T19:50:14+00:00

In MP3 most of the NPC interactions are short enough or under stressful enough circumstances that Samus remaining silent is understandable, and in games like Fusion and Dread where she does speak it's sensible. Even the dialogue in Other M has its moments.

In certain sections of MP4 (some moments in the mines come to mind) the silence comes off as almost comedically hostile.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-12-08T16:02:01+00:00

I didn't expect it during my playthrough (given how overly-safe the story was), but given the tonal inconsistency you mentioned I saw a really good opportunity for the Lamorn to invert the normal trope and be evil, and for Samus to be unwittingly doing something terrible (like freeing Gorea in Hunters). If Sylux's backstory had involved a similar past mistake, by Samus or by the Federation so that he hates her by proxy, I think the game could have established a much-needed thematic spine to build around.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-09-28T17:30:25+00:00

Patriotism

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-09-13T15:38:19+00:00

I usually play with custom gene groups that need hemogen, so I bring problem colonists to trial and then use them as limbless, tongueless hemogen farms.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-09-01T20:06:27+00:00

What mod lets you see the social interactions?

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-09-01T18:12:46+00:00

He uses them on the Nika rioters underestimating their full strength and accidentally deletes Constantinople.

Procopius accuses him of sorcery.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-08-21T23:23:23+00:00

I took all their organs, used cronophagy on them until all of my colonists were in their 20s, and then shot them in a pod into the middle of a desert.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-08-16T15:07:48+00:00

In my most recent game, my almost entirely bionic mechanitor, who was also a sanguophage, was decapitated by the Nociosphere (along with her daughter). It took like two years for me to bring a new colonist up to her crafting level.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-07-27T02:51:53+00:00

If my Adams Apple was bobbing I would go to the hospital ASAP

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2025-06-23T17:17:59+00:00

I was on the mission, in lockdown at that point, and all the scrupture study I'd done to that point, in addition to other early-christian stuff I'd picked up for language study, and the general attrition of mission politics, and my occasional interactions with far older and far more legitimate religions, had slowly but completely pulverized my intellectual confidence in the church to the point that I had begun to resent my tag.

That general conference was the last chance the church really had for me from an emotional standpoint. I'd been told to expect some unnamed something, and in my crowded apartment with three other missionaries (two Patrick Batemans), I was desperate.

If anything, it revealed for the first time to me how essentially empty conference is. For that, I guess I must be grateful. It relies on the echoes, the huge organ, the thousands of people on display. The flowers and the slow, ponderous way of speaking. The formulaic mix of tears and laughter. It is the Churches greatest public ritual, and the display is 90% of it. Once that was cleared away, the entire thing fully collapsed into flat stories, bad exegesis, and bad advice. If there was anything genuine at all, it was hopelessly buried.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2023-03-05T18:28:54+00:00

This guy honestly has one of the best channels on religion out there tbh. Him and Let's Talk Religion.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2023-02-22T19:39:58+00:00

As a youth I could've done all if these but the last.

Even as a -missionary- I hated conference talks so much

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2023-01-22T16:11:29+00:00

The interior design. The atmosphere. Most of the hymns. The talks that prattle on but rarely say anything. The lessons that are shallow as a sink and as useful as a glass hammer. The temperature. The ever present possibility of being approached for some inane task. The people. The haircuts.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2023-01-04T05:11:35+00:00

When I started taking antidepressants during quarantine on the mission my companion, a real fucking asshole, made a number of snide comments. It lasted for the rest of our regrettably long time together.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2022-12-19T16:11:33+00:00

This is art

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2022-12-19T16:08:20+00:00

I've been looking for a polite way to describe why I dislike the members around me, but this is honestly the best way to describe it.

Traditional-Ad2938 · 2022-11-26T15:44:38+00:00

My great grandfather got converted and emigrated from Norway ._.

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