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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:11 pm 
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Work colleague's status, accompanied by smiling child pic:

"[Five-year-old daughter]'s big news: she accepted Christ as her savior tonight!"

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:50 am 
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wry catcher wrote:
Work colleague's status, accompanied by smiling child pic:

"[Five-year-old daughter]'s big news: she accepted Christ as her savior tonight!"

:rolleyes:


Did the thought ever occur to these zealots that if the same child would have been taught that Popeye was god that they would accept him as their savior as well?

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:11 pm 
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Another great Facebook status update:

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The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want you to think about that. We shouldn't be concerned about why He said something, or whether or not it can be made so. Just trust the Lord. We don't try to find the answers or explanations. We shouldn't try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn't see fit to explain.


I just can't believe a quote like this is being posted by someone as though it were an approach to life that should be praised.

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:25 am 
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The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who . . . try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn't see fit to explain.

Maybe it's a defensive wall because if they actually begin to see what is being hidden, their lives would suddenly have no meaning or understanding - coping mechanisms would shatter, they would have an insatiable and uncontrollable appetite for frequently committing heinous sinful practices.














You know, like maybe watching an R-rated movie or thinking about voting for Obama or something.

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:39 pm 
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What is wrong with people? Why are we even having this discussion? We know this is wrong!

(Regarding the article on Glenn Beck's online magazine "The Blaze" entitled Ethicists Argue in Favor of ‘After-Birth Abortions‘ as Newborns ’Are Not Persons’) Link: http://tblz.us/9k1WX

Best comment, posted by another friend, apparently quoting the friend's husband:
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"____ said we should do "after birth abortion" on the 2 scientists."


We have a spirited discussion ongoing at Postmormon if anyone's interested.


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:38 pm 
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I was eating something when I read this status from a TBM former young-man of mine (in his early 20s now) and nearly choked on it.

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Church was great today, but I wish they had a sunday school class for smart adults...


Fat chance of that.

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:58 pm 
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I deleted my facebook account a couple weeks ago, and the outpouring of anger, hurt, resentment, and judgment heaped upon me for doing so were stunning.

FB has definitely become a social surrogate of some kind. I really hurt people deeply when they showed up on FB and I wasn't there any more. And the anger that I got through emails and phone calls from long time friends was shocking.

I'm still trying to figure it out.

But I have to say that I feel FREE and easy now. I still use twitter to share interesting stuff with my students, and I have a G+ account that from time to time gets some good conversations with friends going. But I have to say that it feels great to cut FB out of my life. I may still reopen my account in April after my "lenten" period. But more and more I'm thinking that I probably won't.


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:08 am 
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cumom wrote:
I deleted my facebook account a couple weeks ago, and the outpouring of anger, hurt, resentment, and judgment heaped upon me for doing so were stunning.

FB has definitely become a social surrogate of some kind. I really hurt people deeply when they showed up on FB and I wasn't there any more. And the anger that I got through emails and phone calls from long time friends was shocking.

I'm still trying to figure it out.

But I have to say that I feel FREE and easy now. I still use twitter to share interesting stuff with my students, and I have a G+ account that from time to time gets some good conversations with friends going. But I have to say that it feels great to cut FB out of my life. I may still reopen my account in April after my "lenten" period. But more and more I'm thinking that I probably won't.


Good for you.

I actually can't do that. I can delete my CV Rick account I suppose, but I have a business page and use it as a marketing tool to keep in contact with clients, along with a twitter account for that purpose. It's a new century and these things matter to an entrepreneur.

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 4:54 am 
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CV Rick wrote:
Good for you.

I actually can't do that. I can delete my CV Rick account I suppose, but I have a business page and use it as a marketing tool to keep in contact with clients, along with a twitter account for that purpose. It's a new century and these things matter to an entrepreneur.

My main reason for re-opening my account will be because of people I love who live far away from me (old college friends, cousins, etc.). If I do reopen it, I will greatly scale back my friends list, which had grown huge and unwieldy, and I will post a lot less, if at all.


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 1:24 pm 
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I deleted my facebook account a year ago, and it was strangely similar to quitting the LDS organization. Interestingly, I got similar responses from people that I probably would have gotten had I been active up until my resignation from church. There were people wanting to know whether THEY were the cause of my leaving (WTF!?) There were people who assumed that I was going through some personal crisis and demanded details, in order to know that I was 'okay'.

I left facebook for the same reasons I left the church. I stopped believing that it was useful to me and I didn't really like who I had become while using it. I seemed to take a great interest in details of other people's lives that should have been their business, alone, and I worried that I wasn't ever going to have anything relevant to say to people. Strange thoughts go through my mind sometimes.

Anyway, welcome to the former Facebookers contingency, cumom!


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:59 pm 
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cumom wrote:
CV Rick wrote:
Good for you.

I actually can't do that. I can delete my CV Rick account I suppose, but I have a business page and use it as a marketing tool to keep in contact with clients, along with a twitter account for that purpose. It's a new century and these things matter to an entrepreneur.

My main reason for re-opening my account will be because of people I love who live far away from me (old college friends, cousins, etc.). If I do reopen it, I will greatly scale back my friends list, which had grown huge and unwieldy, and I will post a lot less, if at all.


I miss you. :(

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:07 pm 
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I deleted my facebook account almost two years ago. I was more put off by the site's privacy and security issues than any direct impact it was having on my life. It was nice to be able to let go of maintaining an online facade for people I haven't seen in years, though.

I also hit the gym in the past year. Now I just need to lawyer up to hit the trifecta.


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:20 pm 
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This isn't a FB update, but is a picture from Pinterest. It's a game for kids to play to celebrate Nephi killing Laban and putting on his clothes. Look how it explains that the Holy Ghost told him to kill Laban. That still small voice sure can tell you to do violent things.

FUN! GENIUS!

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:30 pm 
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SIMS wrote:
This isn't a FB update, but is a picture from Pinterest. It's a game for kids to play to celebrate Nephi killing Laban and putting on his clothes. Look how it explains that the Holy Ghost told him to kill Laban. That still small voice sure can tell you to do violent things.

FUN! GENIUS!

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Donnie Darko, anyone?

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook "Status"
PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:35 pm 
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Another graphic that is making the rounds on FB.
The very first statement is a lie: "Percentage of sacramental worship services that focus on Jesus Christ: 100%"
My experience was that it was more like 20% on a good day. Typically talks and lessons were about modesty, word of wisdom, temple attendance, LDS prophets, etc. Rarely about Jesus Christ, and certainly not focused on him. Who can forget the recent year that Easter fell on General Conference Sunday and maybe 2 talks even mentioned Easter? Maybe they are counting the fact that each prayer and talk ends with the name Jesus Christ.

The other part of this that burns me is that they say it is "A giving faith". But does it say where THE CHURCH gives money to poor and to other charities? Does it divulge that the church actually does not give ANY accounting for all that money receives, but instead makes investments in malls, hunting ranges, and who knows what else? In fact, the church spends SO much of the tithing on investments and maintaining empty temples that they ask their members for MORE money when there is an emergency situation somewhere. Yes, the poor suckers in the religion may have a 'giving faith', but the church sure doesn't.

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