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One-talent 🪙 recruit in God’s kingdom. Trying daily to remove more dirt than I add. #MakeItTwo 🪙🪙 Wannabe rhetorical Ali; float like a🦋; sting like a 🐝

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Follow me, don't follow me
I've got my spine
I've got my Drunch Punk
Collar me, don't collar me
I've got my spine
I've got my Drunch Punk
—Adapted from R.E.M

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@PrudentThinquer Convince me the witnesses didn’t “see” the plates like the king’s ministers “saw” his fine new robes in HC Andersen’s ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes.’

W1: “You see them, too, right?”
W2: “Yeah, I totally see them!
“Look how bright and shiny they are!”
W3: “I know!
“And so golden!”

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@Sam_Fidler @Thatbrian Imagine having to believe correcting all the stuff your first two “prophets” got wrong is petty much the best God’s had to say the last 150 years.

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@MCrobison @RigdonNancy3 @RestoredTruth8 It’s “already happened to some degree?”
To what degree?
It’s been 200 years since BoM came forth.
Do you think it’s a greater or lesser degree than expected?
Has it gotten easier or harder for the church and BoM to convince the Jews with time, in your opinion?

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@MCrobison @RigdonNancy3 @RestoredTruth8 Doesn’t the Book of Mormon state that its goal is the convincing of the Jews that Jesus is the Christ?
So if they didn’t have faith he was the Christ in the first place, now they need even MORE faith?
Seems rather indirect and illogical, no?

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@TribeRuffner Then there’s this:
With primitive tech, the ancient church converted ~1% of the Roman Empire w/in 200yrs, mainly pagans.
LDS are about 0.2% globally at the same benchmark w/ modern tech, “converting” mainly Christians…
But “Great Apostasy” and “Restoration” or whatever.

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@TribeRuffner Esp. when one considers what their idea of “success” looks like, by comparison?
Racism.
Polygamy.
Dishonesty (about the polygamy, in particular).
Lawlessness (arson).
Etc.
🤷‍♂️

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@ayeeSybau @RykerJackson97 Bad Mormon doctrine.
Do you not love your God?
Want to tell Him?
Praise Him?

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@K10original @RykerJackson97 Maybe you would wear the square and/or compass around your neck?

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@K10original @RykerJackson97 Why would I ever put Masonic symbols on my underclothes

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@skyomedy @RykerJackson97 Doctrine according to @skyomedy.
Try addressing a prayer to Jesus in a Sacrament meeting?

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@RykerJackson97 Deep dissatisfaction with not being able to pray to Jesus is a big reason I am exiting Mormonism.
I never even felt like there is a good reason given in the Mormon canon why you can’t?
Just bc?
That’s what the God Jos. allegedly spoke with directly is quoted saying in BoM?

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Some say “if life gives you 🍋🍋, make lemonade.”
How cute.
I say “if life gives you coffee cherries, strip away the flesh.
Roast the hell out of the remaining seeds.
Grind them down to bits.
Drown them in scalding hot water.
Filter out what remains.
And enjoy the ☕️.
Black.

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@crapolavich @Thatbrian Just one example of the soft underbelly of Mormons’ embrace of the outward appearances of material wealth and “success”:
https://t.co/D6sdPYEmcC

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@mormons_speak @Ch_JesusChrist Apologists will say, “there are bad actors in any population; doesn’t reflect on the church.”

What they willfully ignore is that members’ tendency to idolize those who achieve material wealth creates fertile ground for this kind of behavior.

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@crapolavich @Thatbrian The more millionaire members the church can produce, the more those members are trapped by their own wealth and other members’ adulation and the belief that it is a reward for “righteousness,”
Most seem oblivious to how contrary it is to Jesus’s actual NT teachings.

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@Eddie1968K @BenBird53920553 Word salad.
With gobbledygook dressing.

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@justin_hart Indeed.
It’s the global franchise business of a very wealthy & profitable Amer. conglomerate.
It depends on the BoM for its point of difference, but its claims of “continuing revelation“ give sr. leadership enough flexibility to modernize the product lto maximize revs./profits.

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@teneb888 @fr_faulkner Yes, the “gold-ish plates lay hidden…” 🎶

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@Kintsugijin How do you worship Him if you don’t pray to Him?

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@YourMomSMorris @ThoughtfulSaint Did it occur to Jos.—or God—that if polygamy were “restored,” men might, you know, abuse it if there weren’t more than “hypothetical” limits placed on it?
Was that not one of the lessons of its ancient, OT practice?
Maybe they’ll get it right next time?
https://t.co/bY9nYLLB1K

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With fewer, later marriages in the Church and declining birthrates, Could the prophet reveal it’s ok again BUT
Bc Eve came from Adam’s rib in Gen 2:21-22,
God clearly never wanted men to have >= 24 wives?
25-26 max?
That JS and BY’s
30+ and 50+, respectively, were too many?
2/3

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@YourMomSMorris @ThoughtfulSaint Source for 10 being hypothetical?
Sounds like “Gospel according to ‘Your Mom,’” like something you just made up now.
Source for allusion to the 10-virgins parable?
It’s not even footnoted in the LDS canon!