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Category Archives: Current issues
What to do if you stop believing and are a student at BYU-Idaho
I know that students fear doubting because the University threatens to take away their diploma and alter their entire future based on their agreement to the honor code. This weekend, I pled (past tense of “plead”) the case of the … Continue reading
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Prayer circles in your home
Local stake and ward prayer circles were organized and conducted until May 3, 1978, when the First Presidency announced that all prayer circles should be discontinued except those performed in a temple as part of an Endowment ceremony (See Spencer … Continue reading
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History of Mormons and Masturbation
Paper about masturbation in mormonism[1] Below are select highlights from the above article with my own commentary. 1920s – 1930s manuals did not forbid masturbation, just over masturbation. From the article: Official church manuals endorsed secular books about sexuality and … Continue reading
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Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at The Leonardo in SLC and what it teaches about God’s nature
Not that they were trying. My phone blipped my picture, but at the exhibit there is a “Wooden Submarine” designed by Leonardo. The man was a mad genius as he also had diving suits, hang gliders, wooden tanks, etc. Now, … Continue reading
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The Heber Valley Girls Camp: or the “Mormon Refugee Camp”
http://www.hebervalleycamp.org/ So I was recently allowed to spend some time at this camp, and thought people would appreciate the rundown. The camp itself It is very nice and reasonably priced, probably because the labor is free. The cabins have power. … Continue reading
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A guide to talking to your family, for those who doubt
Please feel free to add, but here are some of the central things I’ve learned on this journey that have made being surrounded by ultra TBMs livable. Please note, this list is the flip of my “communication to the exmormon” … Continue reading
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Quotes from General Authorities throughout time, that show the church is in apostasy
“Suppose your youth receive their impressions of church history from “pictures and stories,” and build their faith upon these alleged miracles [and] shall someday come face to face with the fact that their belief rests on falsehoods, what then will … Continue reading
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A modest proposal that the apologists are right
It seems, after hours and years of intensive study that the church is, in fact, true. Not just any church either, but in fact the church that the apologists have taught about. All this time their science was far superior … Continue reading
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Feelings of the spirit indiscernible from emotion for most people – Boyd K. Packer
Apostle Boyd K. Packer preaches at seminar for new mission presidents, “The spiritual part of us and the emotional part of us are so closely linked that is possible to mistake an emotional impulse for something spiritual. We occasionally find … Continue reading
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How people at conference more strongly “feel the spirit.” A patented technology known as “Heartsell”
http://www.bonneville.com/?sid=582&nid=32 “We call this uniquely powerful brand of creative “HeartSell”® – strategic emotional advertising that stimulates response.” This includes the organ in the tabernacle that has notes so low you can’t hear them, but you feel them (they used to … Continue reading
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