JohnnyRudick
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Jersey Boys.
I love these types of movies. :-)
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I have a sensitivity to heat problem.
Sometimes it is just too hot, esp. in the winter with the wood stove going.
I will live in my home in just my garments (you can only take off so much).
I find it comfortable and they breath very well so I do not have to take off more.
But putting something over them would just heat me up to the point where I want to climb the walls or run outside. (which I have done a time or two.)
I Love my garments and I think they are the best underware made.
I would not trade them for anyting I have worn before my endowments. :-)
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I like Billy Swans version of Hank Williams' Wedding Bells.
And I prefer just about all of Ronnie McDowell's covers of Elvis Presley songs.
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lulz what's with all the hate on Imagine? MJK's version is one of my favorite songs
Not sure about the others but for me,
much of what John Lennon seemed to be espousing most of his life of notoriety is
Against most of what the Church stands for.
This song is an anthem of that philosophy.
This is NOT one of my favorite set of lyrics.
The music, I love it.
But the song, not so much.
The starting point of what I am talking about is in bold.
You can jump in to it from there.
(John Lennon's philosophy. He was named correctly by his parents for sure.)
Imagine
John Lennon
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You, you may say
I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You, you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will live as one
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Huh:confused:
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, OK:D
I'm slow, but i get there.
You mean people like me who are to the right of Attila the Hun.
Actually, I believe he was a "left" winger.
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You fit in fine. It's those of us who are moderate to liberal that are on the outside.
Huh:confused:
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If one is a member of a group (party, church,or what also always); one can be disappointed. Not so much of the rules in the groups most however of people. One leaves the group out of disappointed love. And love turns into hate.
The former members of the church who had left the church; hate the church. They hate the church for their own disappointed hopes and wishes. And whoever hates is more ready to spread lies about the object of his or her hate.
Therefore all of us can assume that most, what these people spread about the church, is a lie.
Well,there has been a couple of times I have been away from the Church.
Yet, I have always Loved the Church.
Well, most of you know what I mean.
Can't Love His Church without loving Him can you?
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It's always surprising to me how small the SLC Temple looks in the midst of the tall buildings around it.
Things have really changed over the years:eek:
Yup, they have:cool:
I remember when. . .
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Well Johnny, I've encountered many, many former mormons. They've told a wide range of stories, but similar themes to this guy. I've heard similar stories firsthand from many believing saints as well. (My buddy lost his virginity at a mutual swimming activity, for example.) And finally, I know a handful of very screwed-up LDS families with similar stories or worse. Surely, he could have made other choices, found and accepted better council. As I said earlier, I find some similarities between my upbringing and his.
I don't see any reason to believe he was lying, or even exagerating.
Yeah, I went off with a few LDS kids on a drunk in a pickup truck instead of attending a youth conference when I was young and it was the ground breaker from then on to worse situations.
After that one excursion, all the rest were with non-Mormons though.
Can't blame the people of the Church though. It was all me.
Took me almost three years to get back.
That is a long time when you are a kid.
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You equate shooting someone with setting a box of cereal on fire?
May I laugh here?
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I would not say Father rescinded it, I would say that further revelation clarified and provided greater enlightenment on the subject:
Yes, and with the comment by "norah63", we have all these otherwise worthy people just waiting for God's "only true Church" to complete Temple work for then so that they may move on to their Celestial reward in the kingdom built for them by our Savior.
God's plan is wondrous to say the least.
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Living in Southern California, we often road trip to Salt Lake. One year, we took the side roads so we could hit the St. George Temple, the Manti Temple, then to Salt Lake, and we even took the extra couple hours to go to the Logan Temple. These are the first four (after Kirkland and Nauvoo) and are unique, and the last temples built by the pioneers. They have a definite style and feel not found in the other temples today. The Salt Lake Temple is really a sister of these other temples and they are all worth visiting.
Very true.
And they are my favorites.
I could not place an order of preference.
I guess Manti would have to be number one.
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OK, I finished the article.
It ended much better then I supposed it was going to.
Still feels fictional but a good story but i do not believe so much negativism in one boys life - and the impossible legends mixed with truth that he seemed to be aware of at crucial times in his life.
Seems contrived.
I guess I am paranoid.
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Well, looks like my intuition seems to be somewhat right.
He is a professional writer and he has (it seems to me) written hit pieces against the church buried in short stories about Mormons.
I still do not like this article.
It is distasteful and does not feel genuine.
Could be i am just paranoid.
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For me, the most cringe-worthy parts were those where he described young LDS men and women fornicating, smoking pot, and otherwise acting in a most unSaintly manner. Having seen examples of exactly that behavior, I cannot deny that it happens. I only wish he had given equal time to the many young men and women in the Church who don't fornicate or smoke pot -- who actually take their covenants seriously and strive to live by them.
I was also entertained and a bit chagrined at his short description of a "Flight to Eternity", one of my Church-facing pet peeves.
Seems to me so far in this article that he took the worst and gathered them all together and inserted them into his story.
I hope this gets better.
So far I DO NOT LIKE IT but some of you do so I will keep on reading, and hoping for the best.
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I liked this article a great deal better than I thought I would. Needless to say, I disagree with a whole lot of what the guy says, but he writes from the heart and seems to get some important things right. On the whole, a rather touching article.
Excuse me as i struggle to get my feelings put out so that I can be under stood.
I haven't read the rest of the comments yet but reading over this piece I get the impression of a professionally written "hit" piece.
Are we sure this guy is what he seems to be pretending to be?
I hear in the undertone sarcasm carefully woven into his story an attack - a sleek and calculated attack against the church to me seems to be his agenda.
Maybe I will try to go back and finish the article.
I am now reading about the little strumpet friend of his youth, and her 19 year old marijuana smoking brother.
Seems like he is trying to make the Church a lie by trying to build a case for a so-called crude reality behind a projected false front.
I do not think he is real.
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That is just really hard for me to buy into. What evidence do we have that our Church is any better than any other Church? If you compare the fruits...are not other churches producing just as good of fruit as our church? Is not our church producing just as many sour fruits as those in the Bible belt that attack our religion, or other churches?
Is God really going to restrict the CK to Mormons only? . . .
We have God's word on it.
Doctrine and Covenants 1:30 And also those whom these
commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation
of this church, and to bring it out of obscurity and out of
darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the
whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased, speaking
unto the church collectively and not individually--
I do not have record of Our Father resending this declaration, do you?.
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You can probably ask your question here: LDSFF - LDS Freedom Forum -
This is an LDS forum with very conservative/libertarian views.
I am some sort of hybrid.
hope I fit in.
I really thank you.
That is what I was asking.
hoping that LDS.net had a forum that would allow a question like that but. . .
Again, Thanks.:-)
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No, there is no place on this forum that you can ask that question.
I think - what I meant was:confused: - is there another forum of my peers?.
And
Could someone please direct me there.
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Your question mentioned and referenced current political candidates and was deleted.
Is there a place where I can ask it?
If you remember it had to do with Chick-fil-a as well.
Thanks;-)
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I recently asked a question here somewhere between page 11 and here and I no longer see it. Did it get deleted for a reason anyone know?
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Well I was able to get employment...Thanks for all the advice!
Yer Welcome.
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To the contrary. All of the examples that I gave were the result of years of successful court litigation and legislative action, to remove the state from the morality business and the defence of the common good and put in it's place the evil idea that they state aught to just stick to arbitrating "rights". Hence, if I want to produce pornography, kill my unborn child, use drugs, or harass people on the sidewalk for money to pay for it, it is my "right" to do so as the State no longer has any business telling me how to live.
The state has decided it is moral to kill your unborn child and maybe even your young child if that is your desire and it is "right" for you. (after all a young child cannot make it without extra help), to view child pornography (as long as you do not possess it) etc. as long as it is "right" for you it is moral for you. We now have morality that fits all as long as you wear blinders. (You see what is moral for one may not be for another.)
It is moral to tolerate and even embrace everyone except those who will not tolerate or embrace everyone. To do that would be immoral.
That is what happens when we have the state deciding what is moral and what is not.
We are having a party and the mad hatter is serving.
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I would argue that it has gone berserk when it doesn't. As when the government decides pornography is free speech, killing unborn children is a right of privacy, and living homeless and meth addicted is individual freedom.
I think you have supported my point.
When the State tries to legislate morality it decides what is moral and what is not.
What’s the last movie you watched?
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I have watched that movie and you did not miss anything.
I hated it. (and vey few things do I hate.)
Many movies you have to play close attention to- I have found.
It is so easy to miss important clues as to what the movie is even about, let alone enjoy it. ;-)