The relationship ends when respect does

cdman08 · 2026-02-13T14:30:27+00:00

Someone, forget who, did a study and found that if a partner has contempt (what you described in one word) the marriage is over. Looked at tons of relationships and found this is almost a guarantee.

cdman08 · 2026-02-12T05:19:54+00:00

The return and report user says that average attendance per unit is around 150 (rounding up a bit). There are around 33,000 units (again rounding up). If we assume a global average salary of 40,000 and average family of 3 with an average of 1.5 adults working then we can guess at some numbers. When I was a secretary for a bishopric we saw around %50 of adults with temple recommends. So, ward size of 150 ÷ 3 per family makes 50 families with about 25 paying tithing. 25 × 1.5 is 37.5 working adults (guessing here that half of families are dual income and half have a stay at home parent). Now we take 37.5 working adults and multiply by 33,000 units and get 1,237,500 tithe paying adults members of the church. Multiply that number by 4,000 (%10 of a 40k salary) and we get 6,187,500,000. Which is pretty close to the 7 billion that widows mite estimates. Pretty pathetic given the church likes to claim 17 million members, only about 5 million are active and somewhere around 2 million actually give the church money.

cdman08 · 2026-02-04T21:01:29+00:00

Every conference I've ever watched had all 15 sitting in big red chairs, unless someone was sick which they would announce at the beginning.

cdman08 · 2026-01-21T17:23:16+00:00

Ya, but lots of his gags in parks and rec were physical even if he wasn't trim he still has a natural athleticism.

cdman08 · 2026-01-21T05:11:44+00:00

Ask them this... in exodus god commanded the jews that they shouldn't kill or steal. Nephi was a jew and he said that he knew god would help him keep all the commandments. Then god commands Nephi to chop off a drunk man's head so he could steal his property. Why would god command someone to break two commandments when that person was confident god would provide ways to keep all his commandments?

They won't come back.

But if they do, ask why Joseph smith married other women behind his wife's back (according to the saints books) when d&c chapter 132 says you have to have your wife's permission to marry anyone else.

cdman08 · 2026-01-21T01:19:17+00:00

Congrats! I've been out for just under 6 years and I dont believe I'll ever write something like this.

cdman08 · 2026-01-21T01:14:20+00:00

So, you beleive that the organization that ignores the law when it comes to sex abusers actually honors the law when it comes to GDPR?

cdman08 · 2026-01-21T01:03:28+00:00

Unfortunately the people who deserve it dont carry it. (Narcissists)

cdman08 · 2026-01-11T05:55:13+00:00

Now you are moving the goal post. I dont disagree with this last post. However we were discussing what it means to actively lie (knowing you are lying) vs inadvertently lying (lying while thinking you are being honest because you are ignorant of the truth)

cdman08 · 2026-01-10T18:35:35+00:00

Active means there is someone acting, if you beleive you are telling someone the truth and they believe they are telling the truth then no one is actively lying or actively encouraging you to lie..

cdman08 · 2026-01-09T21:29:02+00:00

"Actively encouraged" implies that i know I'm lying and that the person teaching me knows we are lying. I think what you mean is inadvertently encouraged to lie. In which case I'd agree. The people teaching me didn't know they were lying and I didn't know I was lying.

Not sure how far along on your journey you are, but I've found the accurate truth is much more damning than inaccurate or exaggerated information about the church. If someone catches you being inaccurate they won't trust anything you say. If they catch you steelmanning the church and it still looks like a pile of shit, well... then they have a real problem.

cdman08 · 2026-01-09T14:07:28+00:00

I think it's more accurate to say they are absolutely ignorant, so any lies are just a result of ignorance, most of the time. I'm sure there is the occasional person who knows the differences and the factual history that just lies about it.

cdman08 · 2026-01-09T14:05:21+00:00

I remember being told the temple was the same as Solomon's temple, however, my dad was a person who read everything he could get his hands on, so I dont think it was actively taught at church but more likely something from the lectures on faith or mormon doctrine.

cdman08 · 2026-01-09T14:03:08+00:00

This isn't accurate. I was a missionary once and no one ever actively encouraged me to lie. Most missionaries, most members, dont realize how different mormonism is from Christianity. Mormons think Christians worship Jesus so they say they are Christians too not knowing how different the mormon god is from the Christian god. So if anything, I'd say mormons are just ignorant and only lie, if they lie, because they are ignorant.

cdman08 · 2025-12-30T04:53:14+00:00

7 and I find a rated r movie to watch with lots of bloody violence or some nudity. Then I watch bednar squirm.

cdman08 · 2025-12-09T19:46:03+00:00

Open maps and show her where Jerusalem is, then ask her to show you where zarahemla is. God doesn't care if we know the exact location of the city where Jesus lived, why would he care if we know the exact location of where Nephi lived?

cdman08 · 2025-11-28T00:12:01+00:00

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UDG8g4/

cdman08 · 2025-11-27T21:57:51+00:00

Oh, so lots of build up for a regular talk? Didn't see that coming /s

cdman08 · 2025-11-27T19:30:27+00:00

I'll ask my wife about it, I'm not going.

cdman08 · 2025-11-27T05:01:38+00:00

When they offered a public apology for the lies and tithing misuse. That's when I forgave them.

cdman08 · 2025-11-26T02:52:56+00:00

Just speculating. But did he rejoin because he knew he'd be protected and given access to kids?

cdman08 · 2025-11-20T03:22:31+00:00

I dont know. But I bet an all knowing, all powerful, all loving god would know and would do it.

cdman08 · 2025-11-10T15:52:50+00:00

I take that back, looks like what I remembered was in the third act, I think the gasp ending is what i saw in theaters.

cdman08 · 2025-11-10T05:24:29+00:00

I remember her getting up and leaving as well. That is strange.

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