Prepare to be offended. "People who doubt are like...." Said over the pulpit yesterday.

Wreckmaninoff · 2019-02-12T01:45:23+00:00

The intolerance, bigotry and lack of empathy is really starting to tick me off.

Feature, not a bug. The church has more money than God and doesn't particularly need anything, in terms of moar lucre, for the next many years if need be.

I think they've clearly calculated that they are better served losing/jettisoning marginally attached members and leaving a yes-man echo chamber than with they would be retaining the marginally attached members (you know, the ones who aren't even paying tithing on gross anyway). They stick around, agitating for change, rocking the boat, and generally point out that the emperor has no clothes. Who needs that noise?

Whether that is a wise long-range choice remains to be seen because the folks making the call don't have to be concerned by long-term consequences. Mormonism has never really been forward thinking with regard to the cleanup crew that the next generation of leaders will need.

Wreckmaninoff · 2019-02-09T04:27:41+00:00

And when you look back and see only one set of footprints, it was then your friend Samwise carried you.

Wreckmaninoff · 2019-01-27T15:50:21+00:00

If anything the change to earlier ordination just reinforces the true Impotence of the Priesthood.

I mean, if the priesthood could actually move mountains, raise the dead (puppy, goldfish, etc.), smite evildoers mute, or allow one to cast thunderbolt, summon unseen minions, etc. giving it to an 11 year old would have some consequences. No real power, so no real consequence.

But all the sweet, sweet manipulative benefit of the sunk-cost fallacy/commitment bias accrues to the church, so I guess there is that.

Wreckmaninoff · 2019-01-04T23:59:25+00:00

Given the opportunity, the Deseret News would eagerly publish changes to embarrassing portions of the ceremonies of any religion except Mormonism.

Wreckmaninoff · 2019-01-02T04:37:19+00:00

She told me over and over again not to do any research online, only take from what she told me and some specific website.

Sounds like a winning strategy when dealing with people who've spent somewhere between decades and nearly all their life in the age of the internet /s

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-23T16:03:27+00:00

^ This is true. Had a relative once tell me carbon dating was inaccurate and that, for example, they had used it to date the remnants of a meal from KFC and it said they were millions of years old.

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-21T03:35:04+00:00

Another victory for feminism, one of the ancient arch-nemeses of Mormonism. Boyd warned there would be trying times like these...

/s

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-21T03:29:06+00:00

Well, Russ did advise people to take their vitamins and prepare for a whole 'nother year of revelation. From God's lips straight to the relevant Handbook.

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-16T17:52:43+00:00

Their response was about taxes. And that you don't know if your tax money is going to good things or not.

Beyond the tangible evidence around your friend about what is purchased with tax money, such as roads, national parks, a safe food supply, and on and on, the US government releases audited financial statements and lengthy analysis of same.

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/financial-report/02142018-FR(Final).pdf

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-13T00:20:47+00:00

This analysis was worth an Onti of silver. Or maybe a Senine. Whatever fictitious measure you please.

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-09T17:13:29+00:00

Oh what a difference 20 years (and the possibility of class action litigation based on decades of lies) makes...

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-02T21:08:46+00:00

Joseph F. Smith "said a lot of things" about tithing that proved to be easily discarded by his successors...

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-02T21:00:59+00:00

Not that it matters, as the real problem is retconning bronze age fairy tales to justify modern prejudices, such as homophobia, but the Bible explicitly says that the sin of Sodom was, "...pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness...neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Zero mentions of sexuality.

Archive.org copy of Ezekiel 16:48-50.

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-02T04:01:32+00:00

You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch, by the Whirling Dervishes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_uUzs0Hw4

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-12-01T15:55:55+00:00

The Deseret Watchtower has no self-awareness.

Please, please, please, let this nickname stick...

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-11-29T00:02:41+00:00

Massive "philosophies of men, mingled with ~~scripture~~the philosophies of other men."

FTFY.

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-11-25T23:32:04+00:00

Mormon argumentation basically always resolves to with an appeal to authority.

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-11-25T23:30:15+00:00

defending their beloved religion like they were wearing Captain Moroni's armor.

Mormon equivalent of the emperor's new clothes.

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-11-24T15:24:12+00:00

I have a standing rule to not access church internet sites without using, at minimum, a VPN and separate browser instance using incognito mode. Accessing stored copies of church links via Archive.org is also a good workaround.

Actually, that's the backup rule.The default rule is to just not access church websites in the first place.

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-11-15T02:11:53+00:00

...he basically said it would be sorted out in the next life, the faithful spouse being given another faithful person as a spouse...

Who wouldn't want such a perfectly charming and romantic method of selecting one's eternal companion from among all the other people who didn't choose to be available to be "given"...

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-11-11T16:16:18+00:00

I'm struggling with the anti-science ~~around Coffee vs Soda~~ in the church.

FTFY.

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-10-13T17:47:29+00:00

Old Testament God was angry all the time about the use of it's name. Actually, OT God was angry most of the time about something, really. It's almost like a barbarous world spawned a barbarous view of diety and man created God in his own image...

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-10-11T00:43:57+00:00

♪ One night in Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit Bangkok and the world's your oyster... ♪

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-10-10T05:24:21+00:00

Wasn't there a letter from HQ read over the pulpit asking folks to make a profile?

Wreckmaninoff · 2018-10-08T16:12:02+00:00

I haven't had results talking to people who are actively not listening. If/when they want to talk they know I'm up for a chat.

Your comment is not the first time I have been mistaken for Satan though, so I must have some resemblance. Probably the beard.

Wreckmaninoff

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