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In my experience, religion has nothing to do with it. It's more about how they were raised. I think of the special snowflake thread.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I am still dumb founded when I hear this one still among members, 1) Three Nephite stories and their spinoffs 2) Caffeine -- it is the temperature of your caffeine that makes it bad 3) Everyone is going to run to Missouri 4) It will be a band of Elders/High Priest that will charge toward the white house and take back this country

Do you feel anything? No, Are you sure. Rub harder. Are you sure you don't feel anything? No, Not even a little foolish?

"Samhain: Season of Death and Renewal" by Alexi Kondratiev This one should help answer a lot of the questions about the origin of what would become Halloween.

You might also point out that the slaves who went east (to Moslem countries) died of sexual abuse: the boys died when their captors castrated them without anesthesia or bandages, the girls after being raped repeatedly, during child birth (the children following the same paths), or beatings. There are almost no Blacks in Arabia, although millions were abducted. There are millions of Blacks in the West. The difference is that Blacks in the West reproduced, lived, while those in the East died. No one is advocating slavery, but there is a difference between slavery as practiced in the Americas and that still being practiced in Arabia and other Moslem countries. What also gets forgotten is that there were at least as many White slaves as Blacks in what would become USmerica: the term indentured servant doesn't carry the same weight as slave, but they were, for all intents and purposes, the same. In some ways indentured servitude was worse because the master had no vested interest in keeping the indentured servant alive toward the end of the indenture. A slave was going to be worth something to him in ten years, an indentured servant would not only walk away, but he was required to outfit him and give him some money at the end of the term. So, the indentured servant at the end of his tenure was expendable. And, finally, the first slave owner in what would become USmerica was a Black man who refused to honor the end of the term of an indentured servant he owned. The court ruled that the John Casor had to remain with Anthony Johnson. Both had been captured by Moslems in Africa and sold to slavers who brought them (at different times) to the colonies. Government, in this case, failed to enforce the terms of a contract. Just another indicator. Lehi

These days it seems like taking offense is more often a political maneuver than anything else.

The Church will be reconsidering its position on sin.

A few weeks before General Conference -- A friend of my mailman's niece got a mission call, but the letter did not say where he was going. It simply said to listen to General Conference and he will find out. (Hinting that it will be China). PS He's been waiting for several years now.

Welcome Lance.

The church has said enough about food storage and is going to stop emphasizing it. Comes up every few years, usually just before the church does another blitz on the importance of provident living.

I have unfriended three people and unfollowed many due to unsavory posts. Two of which were my former bishop and his wife and another cringe worthy member that I recently accepted a friend request from....she is living on borrowed time though.

When I read this post, I was reminded of conversion stories, and one in particular, because fame makes it well documented. http://ldsmag.com/article-1-12092/ If you read the story, each person introduced to the church were introduced because they had a light that attracted people to the truth. “Since I joined the Church, I desire to be more and more obedient to God. As I do so, many people say to me, ‘I see a light in you more than ever before. What is it?’…During one performance at Disney world…[a member of the audience asked,] ‘Could you please tell us…how you got that light?’ “the question was direct. so I gave a direct answer: ‘I have become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” I think this is what is meant by letting your light shine.

Terminator Genisys: 3/5

Church Responds to Speculation About Shorter Sunday Block byLDS Living | Nov. 24, 2015 From the ChurchMormon Life Comments Recently, news reports began circulating about a Boston stake that was going to shorten the standard three-hour Church block to two hours and 15 minutes. Shortly after these stories were published, rumors also began cropping up on social media that these shorter meetings were a two-month experiment initiated by the Church. Yesterday, November 24, however, the Church released a statement about the reports: After recognizing it was not within Church guidelines, local Church leadership in the Boston Massachusetts Stake decided to drop plans to shorten the standard Sunday worship meeting schedule. The two-month experiment set to begin in the stake in January was planned locally with good intentions to better observe the Sabbath Day. The Church's three-hour block as we know it today began in 1980 and was initiated to help increase church attendance and ease the burdens of those who had to travel long distances to meeting houses. With the beginning of this new block, the Church published a letter explaining the benefits of this new three-hour block, saying, "the Sabbath day is ‘less pressured’ and ‘more relaxed.’ Gospel-centered family activities such as family councils, family scripture study, and unpressured meal-time discussions were consistently reported." Lead image from Mormon Newsroom.

Rumor has it the church is thinking about shortening the 3 hour block of meetings.....:)

"Mormon" is another word for "Amish" "Mormon" is another word for "Quaker" All Mormons are Freemasons Mormons are banned from being Freemasons Mormon men can have as many wives as they like but cannot drink Coca Cola Mormons believe that God communicates with the saints using tachyons Sir Richard Branson is a Mormon (I actually believed this for some time before I looked into it)

Too many to list ...... Lol

I also liberally unfollow. If someone is regularly posting offensive or annoying things but I legitimately otherwise care for this person, unfollow is handy. I can still look them up.

Back when Oregon had the same sex marriage on it's ballot, I finally had to un-friend several females because of the lesbian flaming they were doing. I really didn't care about their sexual preferences, as long as they didn't make passes at me or flood my email with pro-gay stuff. But when they flamed my FB AND my emails, and wouldn't listen to the truth, then I not only un-friended them, I blocked them.

My thoughts-- I am putting up an evergreen tree in my house to celebrate the birth of Christ. So for me, it is a Christian tradition. If someone else wants to put an evergreen tree in their house to celebrate a Pagan holiday, then it can be a Pagan for them. Nor do I do care whom "invented" the idea of putting trees in houses. I'm still putting mine up to celebrate Christ.

When I think about members today, I mostly think about the Pharisees back in Christs time. It seems to me that now a days we focus sooooo much on the letter of the law, and forget why we have it. The law was made for Man, not the other way around. I, like everyone else is guilty of this, but it seems like we have bought into that we were made for the law. Just my 2 cents.

Scriptures in most major religions (including the Bible, the Qur'an, and LDS scriptures) all teach that if we seek God we will find him. You've sought him through your intellectual inquiry. Though the effort may not have resulted in strongly emotional reactions, your thinking has changed. Something is happening. Just continue in that. Ask God to show himself to you, and reveal what it is he wants of you. Part of what you will hear is that you are accountable to the one who created you and the world. Again, this reality is taught in all the major monotheistic religions. When you accept the need to be reconciled to God, then the real dilemma comes. Will your desire to embrace ultimate truth trump your desire (we all have it) to run your own life? Blessings as you walk this often quiet, but definitely momentous journey.