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Conceivably there might be some subsequent bitterness that my existence is nothing more than mortality and hence is rendered somewhat meaningless, but my bitterness, if I was being honest with myself, wouldn't be misdirected at the LDS church. |
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Isn't this just a variation of finding out that your father isn't as smart as he seemed when you were younger? What do you do about it? DO you wallow in bitterness and take jabs at your fmaily or do you live and let live and move on with your life? If you still see it as your family, then you are stuck with it and so sometimes the bitterness omces out and you really can't help it becaseu you don't want to stay but you also can't leave. But if it is a church that you now think is false, then wouldnt' you leave and go elsewhere rather than dwell in your bitterness? Unless you are now re-directing your zeal towards conversion to your new world view, which then leads down a whole new path of specualtion. SU is going to LOVE this thread.
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No. After all of the things I've experienced and witnessed, if I found that it was all for naught, there's no way I could conceivably be convinced something else out there was more on target than Mormonism.
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I really do think if Satan were to sign up on this forum, he would be not much different from SU.
SU isn't hated 100%, per se. He's not pariah. He's good enough to keep around, but evil enough to do his darnedest to damage your faith. He walks that line. |
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I will be the first one to admit it publicly...
If I ever left the Church.......Sex-o-Rama! It would be a freakazoid of epic proportions. Even Caligula would blush.
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I disagree. I think satatn would work more from the inside, leading you away with comfort, never making you feel like you were making a break. Su is what he is. We all know it. If you are seduced by his pitch it is because you want to be.
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So, if Mormonism were to be completely false, it means there is nothing. If I lost faith in Mormonism altogether, I would lose complete faith in religion, though I wouldn't lose interest in it.
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