Easy: Church is boring, football isn't.
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Easy: Church is boring, football isn't.
It's not that simple, either. I'm impressed if you did quit all those things all at once. Must have had a good reason.
My interpretation of the disclosed personal information leads to an opinion that you may have a low "addictive index", a term I just invented to describe a personal biochemistry phenonema that might be associated with perhaps a less "focused" sort of psychology. I on the other hand, can get hopelessly addicted to cinnamon, or almost any flavor of candy or chips. . . . . I believe if I used those things, I'd end up living under a freeway overpass trying to haul in the $1000 dollars a day I'd need for both the "right" to the spot from the gang/mafia plus the stuff I'd need to "use" to stay functional enough to hold up the cardboard sign.
What do you expect a Church to say when every bishop has ten derelicts in the ward who are just as bad off as all that? It's normal administrative reaction, bro.
Interesting. I saw the article after some of the numbers had been removed, and wondered what had actually been removed.
Anyway, assuming the 36% is correct, that's a bit higher than the 30% number you and one or two others were throwing around (and I was disputing for lack of evidence) in this thread: https://jazzfanz.com/showthread.php...ence-Fall-2013&p=668832&viewfull=1#post668832, and a little less than the 40% that was my very rough estimate a couple of days later, here: https://jazzfanz.com/showthread.php?19964-LDS-church-membership-statistics
Seems plausible. Would be very interesting to see a country-by-country breakdown.
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Here is where I stand. I love the Book of Mormon. I think it's fantastic. Lots to learn, lots of good teachings, lots of fantasticness.
Joseph Smith was kind of a scum bag.
Brigham Young was the opposite of Joseph Smith, but still scum.
When you look at the early Church, it went through a lot of growing pains, ala a new business. A lot of revelation was received that was wrong, and the leaders learned, adapted and progressed. Some sketchy was done as well, with the destroying of Nauvoo Expositor and all the polyandry going on by Smith.
Brigham Young was a little too willing to share the Church's donated funds with his family and completely did away with what little "separation of Church and State" there was left.
Then you throw in all the bigotry/racism/etc found throughout a church led by revelation...well. It gets tough.
So, I pray multiple times a day, read my Book of Mormon every day, and my Bible almost as much. I don't delve into the Pearl of Great Price or Doctrine and Covenants too often. I listen to conference, go to Church most Sundays, keep my mouth shut in class, learn something good every week, do my callings, pay my tithing, remember that the Church is run by men, and know that I am putting forth an honest effort.
If you look at my actions, I am a very, very devout Mormon. If you read my words, you'd think I was an apostate. Ha ha.
I'm giving it my best, and I try to improve every day, and I know that when it all ends, God will know my intentions and it will all sort itself out.
Joseph Smith was kind of a scum bag.
Brigham Young was the opposite of Joseph Smith, but still scum.
When you look at the early Church, it went through a lot of growing pains, ala a new business. A lot of revelation was received that was wrong, and the leaders learned, adapted and progressed. Some sketchy was done as well, with the destroying of Nauvoo Expositor and all the polyandry going on by Smith.
Brigham Young was a little too willing to share the Church's donated funds with his family and completely did away with what little "separation of Church and State" there was left.
Then you throw in all the bigotry/racism/etc found throughout a church led by revelation...well. It gets tough.
So, I pray multiple times a day, read my Book of Mormon every day, and my Bible almost as much. I don't delve into the Pearl of Great Price or Doctrine and Covenants too often. I listen to conference, go to Church most Sundays, keep my mouth shut in class, learn something good every week, do my callings, pay my tithing, remember that the Church is run by men, and know that I am putting forth an honest effort.
If you look at my actions, I am a very, very devout Mormon. If you read my words, you'd think I was an apostate. Ha ha.
I'm giving it my best, and I try to improve every day, and I know that when it all ends, God will know my intentions and it will all sort itself out.
This is a serious question:
Are people reunited with their pets in the afterlife? Just wondering if there's anyone who thinks that might be possible. Because you know, for some people, their dog (or cat, or horse or whatever) is their best friend and truly is like family for them.
Are people reunited with their pets in the afterlife? Just wondering if there's anyone who thinks that might be possible. Because you know, for some people, their dog (or cat, or horse or whatever) is their best friend and truly is like family for them.
No. Each pet experiences a distinctive afterlife. What point would the afterlife us humans dream about be to a different creature? You think they care about the same ****?
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But which pets? My family dog when I was a kid, who was my best friend, or my dog now who is probably the best dog we ever had? Or the dog we had in between who was so smart and fun and got ran over when he jumped a 10 foot fence and ran into the street trying to get to the school bus my kids were on? For some people they would have a regular kennel going on. It would be madness and chaos!!
Most LDS pet owners probably believe this. Not sure if there's any official doctrine on it.
And Doner Kebabs.
I think our primary dispute was on growth rates, although I'm glad to see you accept the 36% number. Obviously that's not a number the church really wants to get out there.
The other part of that I found fascinating was the wide disparity between adult members and members 18 and under. I've suspected for some time that the church is struggling with youth retention and I think we can infer that this is accurate from those demographic numbers combined with low real growth rates over the last 15 years.
Full disclosure: I've spent more time in LDS churches in the last year than I did the previous ten combined due to a very large spike in the number funerals and wedding receptions I've attended. That being said, I officially resigned church membership this year over the church's treatment of Kate Kelly.