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| wry catcher wrote: | | Are we certain this is not a parody? |
That's my vote.
A good one at that! |
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Terrestrial God
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| truly confused wrote: | | Terrestrial God wrote: |
Please . . . I'm not staring in the mirror. I'm sitting in my cubicle at work . . . admiring photos of myself.
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Admit it. You are just waiting for me to e-mail you back! |
Shhhh . . . no, no . . . it's all about me!!
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Terrestrial God
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:18 am Post subject: |
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| nathankennard wrote: | I joined ...
Although I thought the religious choices "Jedi" and "Sith Lord" were amusing, here is what I put:
Are You...?
Atheist
About Me:
After a LDS Mission in Texas, temple marriage, many mormon 'callings' and lastly, attending BYU, I resigned from the mormon church with my family. I am opposed to the mischaracterization of sincere differences of opinion as "anti-mormon". I think as responsible humans, opposing this type polarizing polemics, will help preserve family relationships and help avoid being perceived as intolerant and mean. |
Very well stated, Nathan . . . good for you for taking the civil high road. I think your statement makes them look that much more petty and small.
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truly confused
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OK, so I created an account and posted the question of what the difference between an "anti" and someone who just disagrees with mormonism. Someone responded with a link to an article about the subject.
Anti's are the same an the National Organization of Women, Planned Parenthood, Peta and Westboro church (the church that protests at funerals of gays and lesbians). So, women fighing for equal rights are the same as protesting at someone's funeral because "God hates fags". Hmmm....
| Quote: | | Anti-Mormons have no interest in civil dialogue or any sort of rapprochement. They seek to destroy, to vilify, defame, and bring calumny upon the Latter-day Saints, their doctrines, practices, and their leaders. Those intellectuals and academics who criticize the Church for its doctrines and practices should always be aware that their efforts, though sincere, will be immediately seized upon by those who don't care about academic honesty or proper scientific methods. Their words will ultimately be used as a weapon by anti-Mormons, who will prize using the name of a legitimate scholar as a footnote or in the bibliography in an anti-Mormon book or on a web site. |
So, those damn intellectuals better stop studying just in case in anti uses the information in a way that is not positive for the mormons.
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Witch Hazel
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Merry Prankster wrote: | | Vahn wrote: | | You'd think the Mormons would be the LAST people to be afraid of looking outside of their own box. |
Actually, Mormons like this guy are afraid to look inside their own box and they label anyone else who does look inside "anti-Mormon" or a liar, sinner, etc.
M.P. |
DING! DING! DING!
I looked over the site and I am left with the mental image of someone in a white shirt, slacks and a tie with their ass carefully placed on their head as a hat. Does that still qualify as looking inward?
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notpotable
Fear will keep the local systems in line.
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| Quote: | | those who don't care about academic honesty or proper scientific methods. |
Says a member of an organization that wouldn't recognize a scientific fact if it bit them in their collective gluteus maximus.
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wry catcher
Holier than thou...yes, this means thou
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| Quote: | | They seek to destroy, to vilify, defame, and bring calumny upon the Latter-day Saints, their doctrines, practices, and their leaders. |
I guess your church is even more true if you use archaic, affected language.  |
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Aspie
Not for prophet
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Wow! All of a sudden they have got more new members joining at one time than they ever had before. Anybody know where they came from? Be careful, please everybody. It sounds obvious, but do not use the same password for that site as you use for your e-mail address. Do you really want them to own your box?
New posts appear now to be moderated before they can appear on the site, so it may be that Greg is on to us.
Edited for typos.
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Autumn
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| wry catcher wrote: | | Quote: | | They seek to destroy, to vilify, defame, and bring calumny upon the Latter-day Saints, their doctrines, practices, and their leaders. |
I guess your church is even more true if you use archaic, affected language. |
Ha! That's what I was thinking. Calumny? I never hear that word used except by mormons. Also what the hell is rapprochement?
ETA: Just answered my own question. I like the snooty french pronunciation.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rapprochement
Okay, enough about the price of tea in china, sorry.... |
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Iron Lung
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Location: Utah County Ugh!
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Here's a good one:
| Quote: | | A common anti-Mormon tactic is to bias the minds of a sincere, curious individual by using emotionally charged arguments. The purpose is to bypass reason and cause the person to react on the basis of superstition, peer pressure, or avoidance of potential embarrassment. |
I thought that's how mormons were made.
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tolworthy
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| Iron Lung wrote: | | Here's a good one: ... I thought that's how mormons were made. |
These things need footnotes, like the scriptures.
| Quote: | A common anti-Mormon(a) tactic(b) is to bias(c) the minds of a(d) sincere, curious individual(e) by using emotionally charged arguments(f). The purpose(g) is to bypass reason(h) and cause the person to react(h) on the basis of superstition(i), peer pressure(j), or avoidance of potential embarrassment(k).
a: GR pro-Mormon (cf Alma 23:17)
b: TG Commitment Pattern
c: TG Commitment Pattern: prepare
d: (plural 'minds') James 1:8
e: TG investigators
f: TG feeling the spirit
g: see "some truths are not useful"
h: TG faith
i: Latin superstitio, "literally 'standing over'; derived perhaps from standing in awe;[1] used in Latin as an unreasonable or excessive belief in fear or magic, especially foreign or fantastical ideas, and thus came to mean a 'cult' in the Roman empire" (Wikipedia)
j: TG fellowship
k: dictionary.com "embarrass": "to cause confusion and shame to; make uncomfortably self-conscious; make difficult or intricate, as a question or problem; complicate; to put obstacles or difficulties in the way of; impede; to beset with financial difficulties; burden with debt." See also Gospel Teachings, Tithing.
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tolworthy
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Aspie
Not for prophet
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Anybody else been banned from there?
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junesu
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Location: Utah County
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| RicoBabalu wrote: | More.
1..Use of non-authoritative sources and out-of-context quotations
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I used to think anti-mormon quotations were taken out of context. More often than not, when I'd look up the context it only got worse, not better (from the TBM view).
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2. Attack the story of the Book of Mormon's origin, not its contents
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What? I think we do a pretty good job attacking the contents also.
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junesu
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Merry Prankster wrote: |
I noticed that one of the religion preferences listed was "Negro Christian". |
Ok, I'm calling bullshit. This site has got to be a joke. Even TBMs aren't dumb enough to do this.
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