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For a people so keen to eschew the Arm Of Flesh™, Mormons sure seem smitten by Harvard Girl's ivy league credentials.

Ivy League does not necessarily equal smart. George W. Bush demonstrated that you can go ivy league and still make some phenomenally stupid choices.
Let me be clear--I'm not dissing her intelligence--in fact, someday she might use it to "think herself out of the church," just as many of us have. I would venture to say that she is more likely to someday leave the church, than her peers who went to the Lard's Universities, by mere virtue of having been exposed to real academe.

You never can tell, though.

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The Internet didn't kill the church. The church killed the church. The internet just read the last rites and published the obituary. -- Tolworthy

There might be more here that I'm not getting, but I don't know from reading those updates that I would think they were directed at me personally. Now, if there was a "you know who you are King M", then it would be obvious.

But sometimes people just like to spontaneously profess their belief and gratitude for that belief. Without thinking of how anyone else would feel - unless someone wanted to give them props about it. (Your updates are so spiritual, you help me think of the lord every day!!!)

I could be missing something. FB is fascinating.

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The new facebook [*spit* *spit*] has a little X that comes up when you mouse over that person's status in your newsfeed. Click it, and her updates will be hidden from your newsfeed. Out of sight, out of mind. Given your predicament, this new feature may actually make you love the new facebook interface, but I doubt it.

Sometimes I make my status say, "tibber's pledging allegiance to satan." I think my next one will be "tibber wishes satan sold Schwetty Balls. Everybody loves Schwetty Balls."



Shit. I need to turn this damn thing off. Cardiovascular system test tomorrow and I'm doing this instead of studying.

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I'm not sorry, I like to get laid. --Mercury

I took roughly 1/3 of my available vacation for the year to chase 12- and 13-year old boys through the woods. --Mcarp

I skipped through a bit, but at one point she was asked if there was a place she differed in her belief with mainstream mormonism, and she said it was the idea that if the Mormon church is true, then all other churches must be false. She said she didn't believe that anymore as she has been mixing with lots of people from other religions.

Watch out girl, that is the first step![/quote]

Some of the comments on this are interesting, to say the least. More than one person is visibly smitten with this girl, and seem to think that being cute and articulate are somehow helpful to her supernatural claims.

Here's another one that is instructive of the believer mindset:



In other words, the moderator was secular in viewpoint. Horrors!

Very few non-faith promoting comments, except for mine at the bottom and if the person who owns this clip is LDS, they'll probably be cut sooner, rather than later.

Nicely put. When they get cut you should post them here.

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The Internet didn't kill the church. The church killed the church. The internet just read the last rites and published the obituary. -- Tolworthy

All right. I wasn't going to click the link, but all this talk of her being good-looking has changed my mind. But first, I'm turning the volume down.

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"As cucumbers now are, pickles once were. As pickles now are, cucumbers may become."
2 Moby Joe 7:29

It feels much like this around my in-laws. But to them, I am nothing more than a child-molesting, sex addicted, spouse abusing, bitter anti-Mormon who was enslaved by the very grasp of Satan himself.

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"To those seaching for truth - not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." - Thomas Edison

Isn't it wonderful? Isn't it marvelous?

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The Internet didn't kill the church. The church killed the church. The internet just read the last rites and published the obituary. -- Tolworthy

Maybe it's more of a "She's real smart, AND she still believes the church is true. See, all you so-called intellectuals?"

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I reject your reality and substitute a Star Trek episode of my own choosing.

I've had one cousin drop me so far based on articles I've linked and comments I've made on Facebook. She had to concern troll me first and then bare her testimony before dropping me though.

I'm sure my entire family titters and thinks the worst about me behind my back but you know what? I don't give a fuck, I'll still go on posting blasphemous status updates and linking articles that show the latest scientific evidence against religion. They're the ones believing in a fairytale, not me, and I won't be quiet about it.

I posted the Big Love temple clip and surprisingly nobody dropped me, even after a heated discussion with one of my believing friends.

(Edit: I do want to say I don't go looking for fights, usually. If someone posts something church related on their own page I'll let it be. The exception to that is some completely wacky comment my brother made about the Obama presidency ushering in end times)

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My FB status today is:

"Every speed on our knees is crawling." --Emily Haines

It's a lyric in a Metric song I was listening to on my commute this morning. I didn't think it was *that* profound until I took the time to tweet it. Then it occurred to me that it might mean that time spent praying to an imaginary being is lost time, akin to crawling instead of walking, running, climbing, etc.

And now in the context of this thread, I hope some FB friends think that I have some cryptic atheistic agenda to advance through my facebook statuses, or that I'm talking specifically to them.

Hey, if I can cause someone to be ashamed--even only slightly and for a brief moment, for praying to an imaginary being to ask for help finding their keys, then I am satisfied.

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The Internet didn't kill the church. The church killed the church. The internet just read the last rites and published the obituary. -- Tolworthy

Anyone else getting a deluge of Facebook status reports from their TBM FB friends?

Here is my SIL's most recent (she's posted a bunch since GC started):



Here are some others:

"Priesthood session was GREAT!!!"

"After going to the conference center yesterday for General Conference all my kids agreed . . . "Conference goes faster when you go to it." "

"Loves Conference!"

"The prophet is speaking today. You'll want to stay posted so I can give you the heads up. "

"is listening to the prophet speak"

"is watching conference."

No, but I did change my religious preference to "New Order Mormon" a couple of days ago.

Appearently I left my nut sack back in my room, and deleted the comment that notifies everyone else. So I'm just waiting to see if anyone notices.

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"We perpetuate the lie that the church's needs are greater, more profound, more virtuous, and more accurate than our own."
Lola-Cola 04/07/2009