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ute4ever · 05-08-2008, 09:43 PM

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RC Vikings · 05-09-2008, 03:22 AM

Never all the religious knowledge I need is right here on CG.

Tex · 05-09-2008, 03:57 AM

This poll could be most telling, were the results reliable.

danimal · 05-09-2008, 04:30 AM

My reading ebbs and flows. I can go for weeks without reading, then get on a roll and read a half hour a day for a while.

Sleeping in EQ · 05-09-2008, 03:20 PM

Daily.

I haven't missed a day in years.

If, however, I relied on mindless LDS "commentaries," I'd probably be bored, offended, or just generally unmotivated.

With the rare exception, LDS manuals and scriptural "commentaries" are an offense to sunny spring days, puppies, and children playing in the tide pool.

Archaea · 05-09-2008, 03:23 PM

Rare is the day I miss, unless I'm in transit. The oxford commentaries are worthwhile but most LDS commentaries outside of something such as Gileadi's Isaiah commnetaries are NOT worthwhile.

It almost seems as if most LDS manuals were written by Sister seminary who's trying to motivate Johnny not in attendance to crack open the scriptures.

Tex · 05-09-2008, 04:18 PM

Maybe we should revise the poll to say, "How often do you read the scriptures for non-academic purposes?"

Archaea · 05-09-2008, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Tex

Maybe we should revise the poll to say, "How often do you read the scriptures for non-academic purposes?"

So now the mullahs wish to grade our righteousness not only frequency of reading scripture, but on the approved purposes for reading scripture?

That should be an interesting temple question.

Indy Coug · 05-09-2008, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Archaea

So now the mullahs wish to grade our righteousness not only frequency of reading scripture, but on the approved purposes for reading scripture?

That should be an interesting temple question.

Paranoids see this question as an inquiry about righteousness, others see it as a pertinent question about method.

Tex · 05-09-2008, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Archaea

So now the mullahs wish to grade our righteousness not only frequency of reading scripture, but on the approved purposes for reading scripture?

That should be an interesting temple question.

*shrug* Just curious.

View Poll Results: How often do you read the scriptures?
One chapter from the BOM every day	3	12.00%
Some of the BOM every day, but not a full chapter	1	4.00%
Some of the BOM a few times a week	3	12.00%
I read from the Bible every day	3	12.00%
I do topic study and skip around; maybe it amounts to a chapter a day	3	12.00%
I skip around, but not every day	3	12.00%
I rarely if never read them	12	48.00%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 25. You may not vote on this poll

05-08-2008, 09:43 PM	#1
ute4ever I must not tell lies Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5,103	How often do you read the scriptures? eom Last edited by ute4ever; 05-08-2008 at 09:47 PM.

05-09-2008, 03:22 AM	#2
RC Vikings Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Rexburg, Idaho Posts: 2,236	Never all the religious knowledge I need is right here on CG. __________________ "I always rode to my limit. If I won by three minutes, that's because I couldn't make four." Eddy Merckx

05-09-2008, 03:57 AM	#3
Tex Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 8,596	This poll could be most telling, were the results reliable. __________________ "Have we been commanded not to call a prophet an insular racist? Link?" "And yes, [2010] is a very good year to be a Democrat. Perhaps the best year in decades ..." - Cali Coug "Oh dear, granny, what a long tail our puss has got." - Brigham Young

05-09-2008, 04:30 AM	#4
danimal Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Your mom's house Posts: 588	My reading ebbs and flows. I can go for weeks without reading, then get on a roll and read a half hour a day for a while. __________________ Tobias: You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed, but free to explore extra-marital encounters. Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people? Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...but it might work for us.

05-09-2008, 03:20 PM	#5
Sleeping in EQ Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: The People's Republic of Monsanto Posts: 3,085	Daily. I haven't missed a day in years. If, however, I relied on mindless LDS "commentaries," I'd probably be bored, offended, or just generally unmotivated. With the rare exception, LDS manuals and scriptural "commentaries" are an offense to sunny spring days, puppies, and children playing in the tide pool. __________________ "Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV) We all trust our own unorthodoxies. Last edited by Sleeping in EQ; 05-09-2008 at 03:24 PM.

05-09-2008, 03:23 PM	#6
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	Rare is the day I miss, unless I'm in transit. The oxford commentaries are worthwhile but most LDS commentaries outside of something such as Gileadi's Isaiah commnetaries are NOT worthwhile. It almost seems as if most LDS manuals were written by Sister seminary who's trying to motivate Johnny not in attendance to crack open the scriptures. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

05-09-2008, 04:18 PM	#7
Tex Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 8,596	Maybe we should revise the poll to say, "How often do you read the scriptures for non-academic purposes?" __________________ "Have we been commanded not to call a prophet an insular racist? Link?" "And yes, [2010] is a very good year to be a Democrat. Perhaps the best year in decades ..." - Cali Coug "Oh dear, granny, what a long tail our puss has got." - Brigham Young