NeedleinA

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    NeedleinA reacted to zil in Why was Muhammad Wrong?   
    @Steve Noel, in addition: you say you judge truthfulness by whether it agrees with the Bible.  (So presumably this is why you don't believe in the prophet Muhammad.)  But why do you believe in the Bible?  How do you know it's the right standard to use?
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    NeedleinA reacted to bytebear in Why was Muhammad Wrong?   
    I found this article.  Might be an interesting read to get started on the topic.

    https://www.lds.org/ensign/2000/08/a-latter-day-saint-perspective-on-muhammad?lang=eng
     
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    NeedleinA reacted to Sumiko 410 in torn...   
    Okay. Almost one year later and I went to lds church today! This ward is nothing like my hometown ward was. I'm too embarrassed to go to that ward though, yet anyway... plus it's an hour further from my current  house than this new ward is. The bishop asked my address, name, birthday, and baptismal ward so he can "transfer records", I told him that may be hard as I resigned about ten years ago. We'll see what happens I guess... 
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Budget in New Historical Claim Re: Eliza Snow   
    In conjunction with what LP said, here is another source on that by the Church: Our Heritage pg. 50
    The Prophet and the others were first taken to Independence, and then sent to Richmond, Ray County, where they were jailed awaiting trial. Parley P. Pratt was one of those with the Prophet.  He said that one evening the guards were taunting the prisoners by telling of their deeds of rape, murder, and robbery among the Latter-day Saints.
    Book of Mormon shares:
    Moroni 9:9 And notwithstanding this great abomination of the Lamanites,... For behold, many of the daughters of the Lamanites have they taken prisoners; and after depriving them of that which was most dear and precious above all things, which is chastity and virtue—
     10 And after they had done this thing, they did murder them in a most cruel manner, torturing their bodies even unto death; ...
     
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    NeedleinA reacted to clwnuke in Pornography and Affair in an LDS Marriage   
    AMom31,
    You are not alone when it comes to those who didn't or don't feel that therapy and counseling was moving them forward. Elder Craig A. Cardon gave a talk recently where he outlined the difference between "programmatic" and "heart changing" approaches to problems. He mentioned that most of the time we (you, me, the church, etc.,) default to ineffective programmatic solutions because they are simple. We avoid the hard "heart changing" approaches to problems because they are less certain, much more difficult, and it takes far more time.
    For example, when we have problems keeping our God-given opposite-sex attractions within the bounds the Lord has set (that's my description of pornography) leaders and well-meaning friends will almost all suggest the programmatic approach - "Stop now, attend a twelve-step program and counseling, recognize how much your spouse and family feels betrayed, pray for strength, read your scriptures every day and then everything should work out." They do that because it's easy to measure if you've done those things. But as Elder Cardon pointed out, it rarely ever changes the heart and the person who is struggling doesn't overcome the problem internally despite doing all those things and ends up feeling even more "lost and abandoned by God and the Gospel."
    It sounds to me like the two of you have started the "heart" changing process by talking a lot and being 100% honest with each other. Add being non-judgmental, caring, and helpful to each other with a firm commitment to stand by each other in your trials and you have a firm foundation for developing a long-term plan to slowly walk away from Satan's lies that true happiness can be found in sexual imagery or extra-marital relations.
    We will never lose our natural desires to see the human body. But we can examine our impulses and separate truth from reality in a step-by-step fashion over time. Gradually we can bring more and more of our daily behaviors in line with the bounds the Lord has set and that will bring more joy into our life and marriage as our heart will have changed in the process. I sincerely hope you can find some wonderful people to help you both as you progress on that journey. People you can trust to love and help you both no matter how long it takes. People who see you as the sons and daughters of God that we are in a world full of challenges.
    The analogy that I like to use is that you can't bring a plane that's going the wrong way home by turning the engines off in flight. You have to work to turn it in the right direction and then gradually descend to the ground. Along the way there will be numerous course corrections, each one helping a little bit. Turbulence is a given, but don't let it stop your progress.
    Again, we are all praying for you!
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    NeedleinA reacted to Anddenex in Actors/Producers/Directors of negative "Mormon" shows...   
    Television is one of our many avenues of human interaction. Human interaction centers around our belief (ideological/theological) system, personal intent and motivation, collective intent and motivation, and our desire to be entertained. Producers have intent, their intent determines the main emphasis of each episode or full movie. Producers and actors are able to also have a combined intent. In light of this, actors are able to be neutral parties (less invested), and they are able to also be active participants, not indifferent, not neutral. Producers, on the other hand, appear to be very much enticers. 
    The producers of Mountain Meadow Massacre movie (and its timed released), I believe, were not neutral (nor indifferent) pertaining to the Church and its members. How many movies have been made, by an outside source (i.e. MMM), pertaining to the rape, murder (even of children), and pillage of Mormon settlements from our Pioneer history? I will admit, the lead characters in this movie, whether they were indifferent or neutral, lost credibility in mine eyes. Proper portrayal of historic event should be accurate; unfortunately, they are not and people have a tendency to accept false portrayals of actual events. 
    Media, popular episodes, are often liberal leaning (i.e. fornication is celebrated, selfishness is celebrated), and one of the most popular TV shows during my time celebrated both during college years. As my knowledge increased in gospel light, I now understand why Mom and Dad would turn off certain shows, or invite us to turn them off as they weren't praise worthy, good, or of good report (in light of gospel standards), and yet....we unshamefully watch them and praise them. 
    In the same light of this OP, one might ask the same questions for book authors.
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Sunday21 in Food Storage - diminished emphasis?   
    We have a brother in our ward that passes out lollipops each Sunday to all the kids. We got home after church and I went into the room where my kids were at. It smelled horrible in there. I said, "Why does this room smell like dog food?". They all looked at me and said, "We don't know". I asked what they were eating. They said, "Oh, just bacon flavored lollipops". 
    B-a-r-f. I love bacon, but n-a-s-t-y! 
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from EarlJibbs in Captain America or Iron Man?   
    For everyone...

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    NeedleinA reacted to Stumblinginthemists in Cause to Pause   
    Thank you Zil for those talks, I've pondered them overnight (I'm in the UK!) 

    I've got in touch with my bishop. On further contemplation on what you've all kindly said, I think you're all probably right. To begin, I will only be able to go for sacrament meeting due to circumstances at home (husband is recovering from cancer). I think all your responses have been the push I needed. 

    xxxxxxxx
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Backroads in Captain America or Iron Man?   
    @Carborendum The Psych guy psyched you out, it is him...didn't you know?
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Backroads in Captain America or Iron Man?   
    For everyone...

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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Backroads in Captain America or Iron Man?   
    Come on ladies, how old are you, teenagers?? This is your hunky captain?

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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Jane_Doe in Captain America or Iron Man?   
    For everyone...

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    NeedleinA got a reaction from tesuji in Cause to Pause   
    Hi Axxx,
    1. You are not the first, you won't be the last... it happens sometimes. It is not a requirement of life's journey, but it does happen. 
    2. One falsehood that the Adversary tries to instill in us is that "we are alone", "no one will ever understand us", "our situation is unique"... this is flat out false. You would be surprised what some of us have gone through on here before.
    3. My two cents... anti-mormons are those people who were "unsuccessful" in finding the answers they needed or "unsuccessful" in simply holding to the iron rod. I would suggest turning to faithful members who had your similar doubts, BUT despite those doubts, found the answers they needed and remained solid in the faith. 
    4. WONDERFUL for you! Sometimes all you can do is muster a step here or there. After a while those single steps turn into walking again, and so forth. Hang in there... you are not alone!!
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    NeedleinA reacted to Stumblinginthemists in Cause to Pause   
    Needle - you are absolutely right at your point 3. I've spent a lot of time reading anti-mormon stuff, in fact my original conversion happened as a direct result of anti-mormon lies! But that's a story for another day. All too often I read of people saying that they've never had a revelation, never heard the still small voice, never experienced what I know to be a reality. In my journey, I never once met an ex-mormon who had those experiences. xxx
     
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    NeedleinA reacted to Blackmarch in Actors/Producers/Directors of negative "Mormon" shows...   
    I don't know everything, but I would not want their karma.

    Also there's an old saying or something about being warned of meeting the person you idolize, the car you've always wanted, or whatever thing you've put up on a pedestal.
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Vort in Captain America or Iron Man?   
    For everyone...

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    NeedleinA reacted to unixknight in Captain America or Iron Man?   
    There's also the part where Captain America has this discussion, in the first Avengers movie:
    Black Widow:"Are you sure you want to do that? They're prettymuch gods."
    Cap: "There's only one God, ma'am.  And I'm pretty sure He doesn't dress like that."

    That panel sends a shiver down my spine, and why I LOVE Captain America.
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Jane_Doe in Disfellowshipment and future callings   
    Here is a response given by askgramps.org
    http://askgramps.org/long-disciplinary-actions-stay-church-record/
    "While church discipline is designed to help an individual repent, it is also in place “to protect the innocent, and safeguard the Church’s purity, integrity, and good name.” Certain sins that can directly harm a local ward, including members (such as embezzlement or predatory conduct), receive a permanent annotation that remains even after blessings are reinstated. This annotation is automatically permanent unless the First Presidency of the Church authorizes its removal. As a result of this permanent annotation, certain potential callings may no longer be available to specific individuals in the future, for example: Primary, Boy Scouts, Finance Clerk, Bishop, etc."
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    NeedleinA reacted to Vort in Disfellowshipment and future callings   
    I cannot answer your question, because I don't know. Here are two things I do know:
    Many good, decent, righteous men who will rise in the first resurrection and gain eternal life will never hold a leadership calling such as bishop. If I had been disfellowshipped, my primary -- probably only -- Church-related concern would be to restore my full fellowship with the Saints. Whether I may or may not be allowed to serve as bishop in a future day would not even be on the docket. I have never been disfellowshipped or put on probation, yet I have never served as bishop or even a quorum president or group leader (except as a deacon). I have served as a counselor in elders quorum presidencies and as an assistant in a high priest group leadership. These are the "highest" ecclesiastical callings I have ever received, or expect ever to receive. It appears that I'm just not the leadership type. But my hope in Christ is strong. I happily sustain the great and good men who are called to be my bishop and other leaders, and I spend -- let's see, I would say, oh, more or less -- zero time worrying about what positions of leadership I might be called to, or whether I might ever possibly be the bishop. I would accept such a call, of course; but just between us, I rather enjoy spending my Sundays at home with my family and not having to work an extra 30-to-40-hour-per-week job on top of my regular employment, with a third of the ward resenting my boorish ways and lack of decent bedside manner.
    EDIT: P.S. I am a middle-aged man. Ignore my avatar. It is a shameless lie.
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Sunday21 in Fight for Your Marriage   
    Honestly thought blogs were dead a while ago, so I was surprised to see one up and active. Read several of you posts. Didn't find anything disagreeable, and many things very interesting related to intimacy. Keep up the good work.
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Sunday21 in Actors/Producers/Directors of negative "Mormon" shows...   
    Why am I the last one to realize this, ugh!
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    NeedleinA reacted to Vort in Angels   
    Just like we are.
    Just like we are supposed to be.
    Just like we are charged to do.
    From where do you derive the doctrine that angels lack a physical body? Do you infer that, because they are spirits, they must not have bodies? This is not a well-considered point. We have spirits, but also bodies. So does God; even you believe that.
    True enough. Marriage is to be performed in mortality, and post-mortal or resurrected beings do not die, unless you mean the second death.
    As far as I can tell, this verse does not substantiate your point in any way.
    How do you think this differs from the LDS understanding?
    I understand that this is a huge point for many Christians. I think it's utterly irrelevant, but whatever.
    No, that is not the implication at all. Rather, it is your inference. Huge difference.
    Were you under the impression that Latter-day Saints worship angels?
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    NeedleinA got a reaction from Aish HaTorah in Woman as Heart   
    Without getting too deep and writing a novel. Speaking as a son to my mother and husband to my wife, I always see the "heart" as the person that radiates the most selfless love, care, empathy, concern for their family, especially if there are children involved. 
    1. Which parent do our kids want when it is time for bed? Mom. Dad simply puts them to bed. Mom gives endless hugs and sings songs to them.
    2. Which parent do our kids want when they get hurt? Mom. Dad tells them to suck it up. Mom kisses the hurt spot, gets out the Neosporin and band-aids. Then hugs them and sings them a song
    3. Which parent do you go to when you are trouble? Mom. Dad is going to give you your punishment. Mom is going to repeat all the steps from item #2.
    I realize in many households, roles might be reversed, so this is simply a reflection of what I have seen growing up and now married to a super loving wife. 
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    NeedleinA reacted to Vort in Actors/Producers/Directors of negative "Mormon" shows...   
    I hopped off the Tom Hanks bandwagon long ago for this very reason -- his involvement in what I see as anti-Mormon propaganda. It disgusts me. I do not know that there is a more talented actor in Hollywood than Tom Hanks, and I understand he is a friendly and even principled individual. Doesn't matter much. His anti-Mormonism cinches the deal for me.
    Besides, I thought Big was one of the most insidiously immoral movies I have ever had the misfortune to watch, an almost perfect example of a heaping, aromatic, tasty plate of fresh dog poop. And people gobbled it right on down. A twelve-year-old boy entering into an extended sexual relationship with an adult woman? Hilarious!