Good to know. Thanks Hie
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When I told my wife that I no longer believed in God it did not go well. It was also on a Friday the 13th and she just started her period. Triple whammy. 2 Years later she is still believing but our marriage is still intact but it was a long hard road. I wish you luck. It can be done. Just be patient and super honest with her and your relationship can survive.
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I have been drinking 2-3 cups of coffee daily for the past 6 months. I am healthy and have normal blood pressure but whenever I drink coffee, the systolic number (upper blood pressure measurement) spikes about 22 points for a few hours after I drink my coffee. The lower number remains the same. I don't know what to think of these results given the other health benefits of coffee,
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Olive trees are not native to the Americas. For how essential olive oil is to the temple initiatory and the priesthood, it's unfortunate that God neglected to tell the Jaredites and the Nephites to remember to bring olive trees with them to the new world.
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I like a good conspiracy as much as the next guy but there is one piece of conclusive evidence for me that we did land on the moon. 1. The reflecting mirrors left on the surface of the moon. Anyone with a couple of telescopes and a laser pointer can shoot the laser through one telescope, bounce it off the mirror on the surface of the moon and detect it using a 2nd telescope. Without t
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I went swimming on a Sunday and I didn't drown or even have a close call. Apparently Stan's powers and priesthoods only apply to those who believe in him. I want my money back.
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Boner, I have been trying to abstain from posting but after so long I couldn't constrain myself and it just erupted involuntarily onto the computer keyboard.
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Though highly frowned upon by our zone leader, while on my mission, my companion and I chose to attend the branch lake party. I took my shoes/socks off and waded into the lake knee deep and later that night, ended up getting bad chigger bites on my exposed legs. I considered that God's curse to me for being disobedient. God's a dickhead.
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"Since the rules state that people are not allowed to be raptured with their clothing, I shall be looking for a banana next to a pile of clothing." Banana? Wait does that mean people will go up only wearing a banana hammock. If that is the case then meeting all my dead ancestors is going to be awkward.
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I didn't consider God cleansing the ice cores too. Damn he is thorough. What a jerk to not leave a single artifact except for the Charles Anthon Transcript with a couple of lines of deformed Egyptian. I blame it all on Satan and his scientists for deceiving me.
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Ice cores record the pollution from mining and smelting operations in the early Americas. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/ice-core-suggests-humans-damaged-atmosphere-long-industrial-revolution This for me is the biggest nail in the coffin for the validity of the Book of Mormon. Taken from a comment about this article from another website: "You would think all that Book of
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That was my original intent a couple years back. But being intellectually honest with myself was a more powerful force and I quickly came clean.
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So a planet that was not discovered until 1781, (after the invention of the telescope), and can only be viewed by the naked eye in ultra dark, clear skies when you know ahead of time, exactly where to look, was used by many cultures for millennia as a timepiece to measure back 7000 years to the beginning of the Earth? My brain just pulled a muscle trying to do the required mental gymnastics t
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Let us go down.. (On each other).
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I remember mocking people who call in and give to TV evangelists and I thought they were so foolish. Now I see that paying tithing to the opaque LDS church is the exact same thing if not worse. I now donate to organizations of my own choosing instead of outsourcing my charity to the LDS corporation where at best the money goes to the maintenance of a bunch of crumbling Mctemples. I estimate
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"We do not dress to attract attention to ourselves, thus distracting others and causing the Spirit to depart." Every time I wear my dark purple dress shirt the Holy Ghost pees his pants and runs out of the room screaming. The spirit must be really sheltered. He should probably get out more.
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Pure genius. Thanks for the good laugh this morning.
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"Eloheim the Kolobian can't stand the site of coffee" I read that in another forum and laughed and laughed.
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I can't wear a shirt without an undershirt. I just like the feel of a cotton tee against my skin and it makes my nice shirts go longer between washings and last longer. I recently told a member friend my exit story and she, seeing my white shirt poking out of my top shirt said, "but you are still wearing garments". I said, "No I wear Haynes T-Shirts on top and whatever I want on
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You can take my religion and my belief in God but I'm still a huge fan of taking hard beans and bottling them into quart jars. It only takes a few minutes of my time filling 7 jars with a cup of beans in each, filling them up with water, some salt and getting the pressure canner going. Come back 2 hours later, take them out. On a Saturday, I can do 4 batches of beans. That's like 28 quarts.
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I was a dancin' fool in the mid-late 1990's. I got a schedule of every regional LDS single adult dance along the Wasatch front and went to every one. There was at least one every weekend. I don't recall them banning any song that didn't have obviously explicit lyrics. In fact I recall thinking on more than one occasion, "Wow I can't they believe they are playing this song at a church dance
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I feel bad for these missionaries. Yeah they were acting inappropriately for being supposed servants of the Lord but to be fair they did think there were alone and out of earshot at the time. I was once a dumb 19 year old kid full of hormones and sexual frustration too. Tracting is the worst of the worst activities for a missionary and I would have probably something similar. I'm glad I served
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The word “witch” means a wise person. That’s not offensive at all. It was the Puritans through ignorance and fear that demonized witches. As an atheist, I now understand that casting a spell is basically just a declaration statement for what you want to happen. When it comes down to it, spelling is basically just praying. So pray, cast spells or say positive declaration statements. Whate
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There was a high counselor who gave a talk in church a few months back. He said that if the husband leaves the church the wife is sure to follow. Because like women can't think and make decisions for themselves. Bleeeehh! My mostly TBM wife was expressing her frustration over this talk. I think this sentiment is probably on of the reasons why she is still hanging on to the church. Because if she
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Toward the end of my mission I was given the opportunity to either extend 1 month or go home 2 months early. It took me 2 seconds to decide. Bye. At my homecoming, (they still did those then), I couldn’t stop talking about how good it was to be home again. Before I left, some area authority pulled me aside and said that Satan works overtime getting return missionaries to fall away. I made it
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Whenever someone says Merry Christmas to me, I find myself wanting to return the sentiment but with a more correct verbiage as revealed by cousin Eddie. "Merry Christmas! The Shitter's full"
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I really enjoyed singing in ward and stake choirs. After my awakening and conversion to atheism (if you can call it that), I still felt the need to keep my commitment that I made to sing at stake conference in the stake choir. I am an excellent tenor if I do say so myself. I decided that if I can play a fictional character or sing songs about Santa clause and flying reindeer then I can wholehea
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After several minutes, I gave the hardly filled cup back to my nurse. I told her that if they want an accurate sperm count, then they need to provide something more enticing than People magazine in the 'donation' room. My nurse quipped back, "sir we only needed urine".
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You are correct Cheryl, And nobody back then gave it a second thought that a 27-33 year old artist is singing about how a 16 year old girl belongs to him. If an adult musician wrote/performed an original song with lyrics like that today they would be labeled a pedophile and booted off the record label.
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Then write a song about how beautiful she is, how the sex is great and you are having fun and whatnot. There is no fiscal reason why you should have to mention that she's only 16, unless most adult males in that demographic are into dating girls who are barely 16. But that would then mean that it is culturally acceptable for an adult male to date a 16 year old.
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