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Listening to RFM and Bill Reel’s latest episode of Mormonism Live…

I was thinking about a show idea. Where the hosts start off as TBM and in working through an issue, they end up disproving it …

The Priest in Amadeus, starts off listening to confession and ages horribly during the course of the show.

Just an idea…

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Sure glad Moroni cleaned everything up, after that eager by the hill comorah

They bishopric member who was conducting today opened with his testimony. A long-time friend of his recently left the church. That bothered him, but he listened to a podcast (the guest was Don Bradley?) and he’s comforted to know that there are good answers to the difficult questions. My wife murmured her agreement. She doesn’t want to know what the tough questions are, much less the answers, she’s just glad to know that there are answers.

The worst quote: “Everyone who leaves the church and is honestly seeking the truth, eventually returns.” It starts from the assumption that the church is true and arrives at the judgement that anyone who doesn’t accept the teachings of the church must not be sincerely seeking truth.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/heretic

You can’t convince anyone by explaining the facts. Psychologist Adam MASTROIANNI wrote an insightful and entertaining piece about why that’s the case.

We can’t de-convert our family and friends, just like they can’t re-convert us. Missionary work is a waste of time, except for the experience of the missionary. And hypocrisy in leaders is what will destroy the Church.

Our deeply-held beliefs, in the castle’s keep (in the author’s analogy) remind me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/ represented by the “random package” near the bottom.

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This is the message my missionary brother in law chose to share with his family and my fiancé during his weekly call home. Good reminder to all of us who were just beginning to feel like a person again, we’re just numbers to Mormon Corp. and their salespeople.

For context he was quoting his MP who was talking to them about getting more baptisms in their mission 🤨

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@exmormon Any bets most of his “patients” were from the ward and stake?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/utah-man-posing-as-doctor-selling-fake-covid-19-cure-arrested-gordon-pedersen/

Definitely not brain washing.

Nemo the Mormon lays out several people/families who are LDS and profit by more temples and chapels being built. These same families notoriously are involved with the general authority level in the church. Pay to play in every since. The church announces new temples. Famous church families build them and make more money, which in turn drives the value of their family name up even more. This causes them higher clout in the church and the cycle continues forever. Disgusting.

I’ll be teaching elders quorum today. The GC talk is boring and participation is always the same handful of people. But I don’t mind standing in front to guide the conversation. I mentioned to my wife that there probably won’t be many families in attendance because it’s summer.

She said: even less during second hour. She had to go out to the car last week and the parking lot was almost empty. A lot of families are leaving after sacrement.

I don’t know if it means anything. It’s anecdotal, but church is boring and when the weather is nice, even the believers know there are better ways to spend a Sunday.

Two of my kids went to FSY this past week. Overall, it was a mixed bag with some fun games and good food, but too much church stuff (according to them).

Before they went, they asked me: what if we don’t want to do some of the stuff? I told them to use the phrase: I have my agency. And if someone insists, to say: that sounds like Satan’s plan.

Today I picked them up. With his humour, my boy told me: they taught us about agency. They said: sometimes your parents don’t give you agency, but they still love you. Then they didn’t give us agency for the rest of the week.

It highlights in my mind how un-self-aware Mormons are, and how deep down we know that this stuff is boring and annoying and very few people would choose to do it. If it weren’t, we could just invite people without applying huge pressure. But everything in the church is accompanied by social pressure.