Question for Mormons

[Duck Rodgers]

Well, I wasn't exactly advocating going to hell and playing with the devil, to strip clubs and showing your buddies that you have self control by not touching, or saying you should spend a week at Octoberfest in Germany if you have had drinking issues in the past. Obviously there is individual discretion there. And since there isn't such thing as collective salvation, that individual discretion is of the utmost importance. There are certainly situations that I could be in that might easily trigger an old bad habit, whereas somebody else could think it was no big deal to be in that situation. And vice versa. Christianity forces you to look in the mirror though and learn your limits, so I was kind of assuming that those people would already be well versed in self.

The point was simply that people limit the amount of lives they can touch by discarding entire people and places that they find some element of to be undesirable, when in reality it wouldn't take a Herculean effort to be able to experience 95% of whatever those people and places offer and perhaps even do some good in those lives/communities and never be in spiritual jeopardy.


But back on topic, the standard Mormon male 25 and under crowd would answer this question like this..... Would I only marry Mormon? Yes, if she was hot enough. Would I marry a non-Mormon? Yes, if she was hot enough. The old dudes on Jazzfanz are ruining the poll.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Another good post, Duck.

 

[CONAN]

I here to speak a word of praise for "fire-breathing christianity" and every damned fool who has come to recognize himself as such, and decided to just stay the @#!*% away from situations that will bring him down.

Perhaps some of you really can walk that high wire blindfolded, but for everyone who can there's ten derelicts like me who can't, and who need to be told so.

This

 

[CONAN]

The point was simply that people limit the amount of lives they can touch by discarding entire people and places that they find some element of to be undesirable, when in reality it wouldn't take a Herculean effort to be able to experience 95% of whatever those people and places offer and perhaps even do some good in those lives/communities and never be in spiritual jeopardy.

Both my sons have more non-LDS friends than LDS friends. It's good and bad. But it can be all good as long as they're careful.

But I also think everyone has a breaking point. I don't think you can go hang out at a bar with your buddies every weekend and think you won't start drinking at some point.

 

[NAOS]

Both my sons have more non-LDS friends than LDS friends. It's good and bad. But it can be all good as long as they're careful.

But I also think everyone has a breaking point. I don't think you can go hang out at a bar with your buddies every weekend and think you won't start drinking at some point.

humans are, by nature, weak. So, we must always be cautious.

This is, plain and simple, lame philosophy.

 

[JazzyD]

I am not Mormon however, my wife is. So me voting no was for her i guess. She grew up in a very LDS family and has now seen the light.

 

[CONAN]

humans are, by nature, weak. So, we must always be cautious.

This is, plain and simple, lame philosophy.

 

[Jazz Spazz]

humans are, by nature, weak. So, we must always be cautious.

This is, plain and simple, lame philosophy.

+ rep for the expert in lame philosophy.


Yes, I'm back to making bad jokes.

 

[NAOS]

lemme break it down.

Humans are not weak by nature.
Humans needn't be cautious first and foremost, but should love one another in self-sacrificing ways.

^this is creative and radical.

the other **** is paranoid, restrictive, and serves a coterie of paranoid power mongers.

Questions?

 

[YB85]

Both my sons have more non-LDS friends than LDS friends. It's good and bad. But it can be all good as long as they're careful.

Are they current on their vaccines? That non-LDS thing is going around and if they're not practicing safe friending, they might catch it. God forbid.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Are they current on their vaccines? That non-LDS thing is going around and if they're not practicing safe friending, they might catch it. God forbid.

This. Holy ****.

I understand what he's trying to say .. but yikes.

 

[CONAN]

Are they current on their vaccines? That non-LDS thing is going around and if they're not practicing safe friending, they might catch it. God forbid.

I wish there was a vaccine for that. Would make it easy.