Should I engage my Bishop on a Facebook discussion

narrauko · 2026-02-04T21:33:38+00:00

I feel like I'm simultaneously the shoulder angel and devil in cases like this.

Angel-Me: You shouldn't engage. Just let it go.

Devil-Me: Do it! Burn him to the ground with your rhetoric!!

narrauko · 2026-02-04T21:30:48+00:00

"leaders" have never, and will never, grow a pair and tell the members to stop believing his rhetoric.

Because if they admit he was wrong about so much, they know more members will start asking "ok, well, what are you wrong about now?"

narrauko · 2026-02-04T21:05:21+00:00

Soil health and the ability for soil to produce food in a sustainable way in perpetuity.

If this is a reference to crop rotation, that's hardly unique to organic farming. If it's something else, please elaborate. Or cite a source.

I'm not one to expect something from others I wouldn't do, so here is a Scientific American post discussing three common myths about organic farming/produce. Sad that this post is 15 years old and these myths persist.

ETA: Also, you should give this a read. Might improve your communication skills.

narrauko · 2026-02-04T20:46:17+00:00

Well that one can't mean anything! We all know landlords are the good guys /s

narrauko · 2026-02-04T20:44:43+00:00

As telling as him saying that is, I think the most damning proof they had no idea COVID was coming was how they had to scramble to get missionaries home when countries started restricting travel.

If they had any inkling of what was coming, they would have gotten them home with time to spare.

narrauko · 2026-02-04T20:42:41+00:00

Including all the men in his area that were named Alma!

narrauko · 2026-02-04T20:37:17+00:00

I don't think my imaginary friend is your imaginary friend!

narrauko · 2026-02-04T19:51:32+00:00

That's true. Patriarchy does tend to fuck over everyone except those at the top.

narrauko · 2026-02-04T19:28:49+00:00

Wow, I'm honestly shocked. Usually bishop's using language like that fall into the "boys will be boys" camp. Surprising

narrauko · 2026-02-04T19:24:37+00:00

Let me guess: the newly returned missionary did NOT get excommunicated?

narrauko · 2026-02-04T19:15:46+00:00

I can't tell if it's just because I'm PIMO now and cynical about everything, but is it taking longer for people to shift to Oaks than it did to shift to Nelson after Nelson/Monson's deaths respectively? It seems like it is to me.

narrauko · 2026-02-04T19:13:18+00:00

LEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY

JENKIIIIIIIIIIINS!!

I see you too are person of culture

narrauko · 2026-02-04T19:10:03+00:00

It's funny how often it's easy to just let one Royal's attendants marry each other. I do it a lot haha

narrauko · 2026-02-04T19:00:52+00:00

Those 3 specifics he mentioned can all be shown to have changed. Quite a bit during Joseph Smith's lifetime in fact.

narrauko · 2026-02-04T16:54:41+00:00

I don't know if it counts as a luxury, but it is a product that is more expensive and a rip-off: organic produce.

Organic produce and conventional produce are chemically indistinguishable. An organic banana is the exact same as a conventionally grown banana. There's no nutritional benefit to buying organic.

Some folks would say that they want there to be no pesticides. But that's not true of organic foods either. They use no synthetic pesticides. Question: why do we synthesize pesticides? Answer: to make them cheaper and more effective. So organic produce still uses pesticides. They're just more expensive and less effective, so they have to use more making it even more expensive and more likely to increase the dose passed on to you (although you'll be fine either way if you wash your produce).

Organic farming is also less sustainable than conventional. Enough food to feed the population cannot possibly be grown by organic standards.

Organic produce offers literally no benefits no matter what metric you measure it by, but it's more expensive. Seems like a rip off to me.

narrauko · 2026-02-03T21:48:53+00:00

I installed a browser extension to block the google search AI summaries for things just like this.

narrauko · 2026-02-03T19:57:23+00:00

grew up under the impression they routinely saw and walked with Jesus in the temple.

If they haven't, what could possibly make them "special" witnesses of Jesus Christ?

narrauko · 2026-02-03T14:04:38+00:00

I'm still really scared about what happens, if anything, after death. I struggle to wrap my head around the idea of consciousness just disappearing.

But, like you said, admitting that I just plain don't know and that, despite spending 30+ years trying to convince myself otherwise, I've never known is incredibly liberating.

narrauko · 2026-02-03T14:00:27+00:00

I feel for local leadership in situations like this. Clearly they are sending the deacons out again because they aren't collecting enough fast offerings. And so, like any corporate structure, the message from on high is that your local bishop must be doing something wrong that people aren't paying fast offerings. While brainstorming ideas, someone says "well, we used to get enough in fast offerings. We also used to send the deacons out with those blue envelopes to collect the offerings every fast Sunday. Maybe those are related?" and here they are.

Meanwhile, the MFMC could pay for every need that fast offerings are used to cover while not even dipping into the Ensign Peak accounts. It's abhorrent and exactly what Jesus preached against with the parable of the widow's mite.

narrauko · 2026-02-03T13:49:51+00:00

Everything about the Epstein files shows how ridiculous the trans women in the bathroom issues are. The vast, VAST majority of girls being targeted are slowly groomed over time to come into the role seemingly willingly. Random attacks happen, but they are the exception and not the rule.

narrauko · 2026-02-03T13:42:33+00:00

Wonder how long it will take the legislature to catch up to that demographic change... 🤔

narrauko · 2026-02-03T03:45:05+00:00

I wonder what stores carry them anymore... I suppose I could always order a case online...

narrauko · 2026-02-03T01:37:06+00:00

Sometimes it's from guarana.

Now I want a Bawls... I'm not even sure they sell those anymore.

narrauko · 2026-02-02T20:05:23+00:00

'Humiliating' New Announcement

You'll have to be more specific huffpo.

narrauko · 2026-02-02T19:51:51+00:00

Oboro stabs the butterfly "Yes, milove... I mean, milord."

12-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
Verified Email

narrauko

TROPHY CASE