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LDS general conference - Fall 2013
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LogGrad98
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everytime someone calls for me this way, I come running. babe the elder, sitting in my secluded mountain cave, appreciating the call to comment. . . .
In the Moron Culture there are several types. . . active, and inactive, with subsets of each. orthodox, and liberal. I'm an oxymoron, somewhat different and incomprehensible. . . .
Well, I like your humor. Nice to hear humor about Mormons, done nicely, by regular folks. Maybe we could become normal someday, instead of peculiar, if everyone could just laugh.
Well, and if we could laugh with them?????
(babe the oxymoron)
Someone was asking for a thousand-word treatise on this subject. . . . I take it as a calling. . . . .
I know how you can get out of this mess. . . . . say "yes" to the wife team idea. . . . and let the ladies manage things.
talk about outta the frying pan and into the fire. . . . .
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you might be missing a few neighbors. Those who showed up at Conference saw Jesus and were taken to Heaven. Seven Years of "bad luck" for those who missed the boat.
j/k
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Male Y chromosomes have 78-86 genes, which code for only 23 proteins. The X chromosome, on the other hand, has ~2000. 2 of the genes on the Y chromosomes are merely isoforms of X chromosome genes. Of the 21 others, most of (if not all) directly, or indirectly play a role in sperm development. That's it.
All of these are essentially rooted in estrogen v. testosterone.
This has been largely overblown. Almost every scientific study that has appraised the male brain as larger, or the female limbic system as being prone to receiving more blood flow, has more or less inferred that the variation within a gender is much larger than between them.
Men having one X chromosome, thus making them more prone to X-linked diseases (in this case red-green colour-blindness specifically, because they don't have another potentially wild type X) doesn't make for a very compelling case as to why men and women are different. There are numerous men out there with two X chromosomes, and a Y. They don't suffer from the higher rates of X-linked diseases-- so does that mean they aren't men?
Depends what 'this' is. Are men and women different? Well no ****. But are the differences between the two genders absolutely overblown? From a genetic standpoint, ABSOLUTELY.
jimmy eat jazz
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A 2008 religious self identification survey in the US found that only 3.2 million people self-reported as Mormon, compared to 5.9 million on the LDS church membership rolls. Of these, 77% report attending church regularly, so that equals about 43% activity rate.
It's much, much worse outside of North America, however. Religious self-identification surveys in Chile, Mexico, and Brazil found that fewer than 25% of people on LDS membership rolls actually self-reported as being Mormon. So, if we assume that of these, again 77% are active (as in the US, probably a generous assumption), this translates roughly into 19% activity rates. My assumption is that it is roughly the same in other countries, particularly in the developing world where the LDS church finds a good share of its converts.
Plus, the oft heard statement that the LDS Church is one of fastest growing religions in the world (one of the things members say to convince themselves that this is indeed God's work--what we call a 'social proof') is not true either. Membership rates are stagnating, and the numbers leaving the church are approaching those joining the church. It's especially true among young men who are leaving the church at higher rates than young women, which begs the question, if temple marriage is still the ideal, just who are all these women going to marry?
I'd say curiosity. Same reason non members and inactive members care.
Archie Moses
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Can you be more specific?
jimmy eat jazz
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Maybe, but maybe not. See, for example, https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/5611/mormon_numbers_not_adding_up/
It also depends on your definition of 'global religion.' The world population is currently around 7 billion. IF we assume 15 million Mormons (a big IF, given what we're seeing in religious self-identification surveys--the number is actually less than half of this, if we count activity at all), then we are looking at about .002, or 2/10 of 1% of the world's population. And remember, this is using assumptions very generous to the LDS church. Is that global?
One thing's for sure, it's not the stone cut from the mountain without hand rolling forth to fill the world.