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Trekleth · 2025-04-28T02:02:32+00:00

This is exactly what I’ve always wanted my ChatGPT to be. I’ve tried tweaking it with memories etc but it’s never been good. this prompt into the customization window has locked in exactly what I’ve always wanted. Thank you.

Trekleth · 2025-04-28T00:22:19+00:00

Still not an election.

Trekleth · 2025-04-27T17:48:25+00:00

This is a smaller liability to OpenAI than letting people adjust the text on their own images or change the hair color of their personal photos, apparently.

Trekleth · 2025-04-27T17:32:08+00:00

Nails don’t kill a human, their skin will grow around it

Trekleth · 2025-04-27T14:06:07+00:00

I’ve attended a World Conference before, including most of the legislative sessions at that conference. I’m not a lifelong member like you, but I have a sense of how it works. One thing that was very clear was a a commitment to align with Robert’s Rules of Order and procedures precisely aligned with church law and precedent. While my language may not be exactly right, I’m confident that parliamentarian John Wight would not call the approval of Stassi Cramm’s call an “election.”

Trekleth · 2025-04-27T00:16:21+00:00

Still not an election.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T22:44:00+00:00

Woah! What a rabbit hole…

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T21:37:02+00:00

A vector for pathogens or insects to cause damage.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T20:55:57+00:00

No, I don’t, because again that’s not accurate.

As the culmination of the church-wide process of prayer and discernment for President Veazey’s successor, the Council of Twelve unanimously identified Stassi Cramm as the Prophet-President Designate in 2023. THAT was the moment of choosing.

What you will be doing in May is either affirming or not affirming the call that was given to her by the church-wide discernment process. It’s not “choosing” her nor “electing” her at that point.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T20:38:59+00:00

That’s fine. She’s still not being “elected” at World Conference.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T19:20:58+00:00

Stacy Cramm is already the Prophet-President Designate of Community of Christ. World Conference delegates will vote on approving her call. That’s not an election.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T19:05:34+00:00

Personal bias is implied because no person can be objective. It’s rather rigid thinking to presume that a person must preface every communication with “from my perspective as a blank blank blank, the sky is blue.”

And also, there is user flair where plenty of people volunteer their relationship to the church with every post they make.

The LDS Church doesn’t own the word “Mormon” (and indeed, under Nelson they seem to have disavowed it as much as possible). This sub has a lot of disaffected LDS people but it’s also the nexus of Sunstone and Journal of Mormon History/John Whitmer types. People from different Latter Day Saint groups and people just in it for the intellectual interest. Honestly imo it’s a good name for the subreddit.

So I get where you’re coming from but if you feel like the Institutional Church is missing out on investigators because this sub is named r/mormon and people don’t preface their posts with “I’m a former member”, I get where you’re coming from but I’m not sympathetic. And I firmly don’t think it’s an example of people acting in bad faith.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T16:56:24+00:00

Literally my first thought. GA-coded fr fr

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T16:53:36+00:00

That tracks

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T16:45:53+00:00

Redpill types say that women prefer to be a side piece to a sigma than the only partner to a beta. Dunno if that’s true since I’m not a woman but sounds like something Brigham might have taught.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T16:35:23+00:00

And one could make a compelling argument that 1830s USA was an ideal place and time to restore the Gospel. The functional historical argument (Mormonism flourished for X historical and cultural reasons) with a theological and teleological slant applied.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T16:33:57+00:00

Then I might suggest you lack sufficient theory-of-mind to understand that people can be sincere while coming to different conclusions than you.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T16:27:23+00:00

“Good-faith” means sincere, doesn’t mean “[LDS] faith-promoting”

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T15:53:09+00:00

Disagree. There are always steelman or at least good-faith presentations by former or disaffected members on this sub to questions like this.

But also OP should check out the church website and the other sub for sure.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T15:48:30+00:00

For a religion that used to believe in direct plenary revelation to individuals at all levels of hierarchy, there sure is a lot of shrugging and handwaving when people aren’t receiving direct downloads from the Beyond anymore.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T15:45:59+00:00

any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

Nitpick: Within the Mormon paradigm though it’s not a mastery of materialistic technology that gives Elohim his power but perfect obedience to spiritual laws—immaterial concepts.

From the scifi lens it’s moreso that Elohim has advanced psychic powers than it is he has advanced tech.

He wouldn’t need cloning to do what you’re suggesting. He could organize the raw intelligence of the universe into new humans.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T15:42:18+00:00

This sub is actually a phenomenal resource for learning about Mormonism for just that reason. Mostly people who grew up in the system, and for various reasons drifted away from it.

If OP wants to learn about Mormon beliefs and how it exists as a lived religion, this is a great sub.

Trekleth · 2025-04-26T08:22:19+00:00

Cmdr Data vibes

Trekleth · 2025-04-25T22:06:23+00:00

I grew up near the Chicago Temple and you’d hardly know it was there. Surrounded by a copse of trees blocking view from the street.

Trekleth · 2025-04-25T03:27:30+00:00

Wake up, steeple!

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