When will Mormonism disappear?

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96

Natives of the Conejo Valley are never cute. Occasionaly overrated ugly ass redheads unable to recognize a blitz, other times doped up sprinters and occassionally Depeche Mode lovin' homerun hitters but never cute. Now if you take into consideration that DDD is a 37 year old man who looks like a 14 year old girl, I could understand you sentiment, but wouldn't that be kinda growse and unnatural?

MARK MONESTINE IS MY PRESIDENT!

You forget that Gina Severn lived in the Conejo Valley.

Mark "Steam" Monestine was a celebrity at TOHS......esp amongst the white women. I think plenty of local girls lent him a hand when he needed it...

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by LA Ute

Seattle, my question remains unanswered. You're talking about my quote, not my question. Why the unquenched anger toward the Church and the desire to attack it at every opportunity?

People could have asked a similar same question about Ayn Rand's attitude toward totalitarianism.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

People could have asked a similar same question about Ayn Rand's attitude toward totalitarianism.

Nice lofty thinking of yourself. You play a great role, and thanks for the laughter on that one.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Nice lofty thinking of yourself. You play a great role, and thanks for the laughter on that one.

I think metaphysical control including enforced ignorance, such as conditional love and apologetics, can be as profound as the Stasi, barbed wire, or book burnings. My experience is as valid as Ayn Rand's. Don't devalue my experience, you POS. I'm not alone. Hundreds of millions feel the same way I do about religion. In fact, I give little credit to American religious extremism for not burning books and the like, as our secular ethos makes such physical manifestations of extremism impossible. Yet the impulse toward it is no less real, among the hard core leaders. In Mormonism, excummunication of intellectuals is a metaphysical version of burning at the stake.

[Tex]

http://cougarguard.com/forum/showpos...9&postcount=31

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I think metaphysical control including enforced ignorance, such as conditional love and apologetics, can be as profound as the Stasi, barbed wire, or book burnings. My experience is as valid as Ayn Rand's. Don't devalue my experience, you POS. I'm not alone. Hundreds of millions feel the same way I do about religion. In fact, I give little credit to American religious extremism for not burning books and the like, as our secular ethos makes such physical manifestations of extremism impossible. Yet the impulse toward it is no less real, among the hard core leaders. In Mormonism, excummunication of intellectuals is a metaphysical version of burning at the stake.

Given your feelings about turds, that must be a lofty praise coming for you. Thank you again for the laughs. Keep them coming. Keep the love, brother.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by Tex

http://cougarguard.com/forum/showpos...9&postcount=31

you all need to come up with new/digs jokes.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I think metaphysical control including enforced ignorance, such as conditional love and apologetics, can be as profound as the Stasi, barbed wire, or book burnings. My experience is as valid as Ayn Rand's. Don't devalue my experience, you POS. I'm not alone. Hundreds of millions feel the same way I do about religion. In fact, I give little credit to American religious extremism for not burning books and the like, as our secular ethos makes such physical manifestations of extremism impossible. Yet the impulse toward it is no less real, among the hard core leaders. In Mormonism, excummunication of intellectuals is a metaphysical version of burning at the stake.

But metaphysically, I believe what is occurring is not really metaphysical control but a function of modal developmental level functioning, and the leaders being unaware how one facilitates membership towards a more universalizing faith. To me, that's the pivotal question which most of us, probably myself included, don't understand, and if we don't understand the question, how are we to fashion an answer.

You do a delightful ascot, dear friend. Identifying yourself with a self-appointed philosophical lightweight fighting against totalitarianism, thereby analogizing yourself in her relative status, in a even more lightweight arena, Mormonism and your battle against ephemeral enemies, windmills and unimportant people.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by Archaea

But metaphysically, I believe what is occurring is not really metaphysical control but a function of modal developmental level functioning, and the leaders being unaware how one facilitates membership towards a more universalizing faith. To me, that's the pivotal question which most of us, probably myself included, don't understand, and if we don't understand the question, how are we to fashion an answer.

You do a delightful ascot, dear friend. Identifying yourself with a self-appointed philosophical lightweight fighting against totalitarianism, thereby analogizing yourself in her relative status, in a even more lightweight arena, Mormonism and your battle against ephemeral enemies, windmills and unimportant people.

Your first paragraph is gobbledygook, so far as I can tell. Your second paragraph among your best work.

[PaloAltoCougar]

This thread brings up a pet peeve left over from my days as ward czar. I don't get people who declare they don't want to be bothered by the church, and become incredibly agitated if a well-meaning missionary, HT or bishop didn't see the DNC memo and dares darken the apostate's doorstep. Actually, that part I sort of get, but where I become confused is when said apostate declines an invitation to have his name removed from the records of the Church. I wouldn't even mention "excommunication;" I'd present the offer as enticingly as possible (I even considered financial incentives), and still they'd decline. I was never sure if they were simply hedging their bets, or if deep down they enjoyed ripping on the occasional LDS visitor.

I would have loved to have purged the rolls of the SU wannabes, but they refused, and I never had the time or inclination to ex them through a disciplinary council. And thus the biannual visits by the unwitting to an outraged apostate continue. The Circle of Strife.