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"I Heard You Mormons...."
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I heard you Mormons drink lemonade and milk, and play board games with your families on Friday nights. Weirdos!
board games on Monday nights (Family home evening) movies (G, PG) and pizza on friday
I dont get the argument... Because there is no proof at all for gold plates and they are only accepted on faith they cant be photoshopped and therefore are real?
Im not sure you get what faith means. (Also I deny the holy spirit (Actively) but you might be the one to prove this holy spirit thingy to me)
J Bryson
Well-Known Member
board games on Monday nights (Family home evening) movies (G, PG) and pizza on friday
You've gone up to PG? Wow, the standards sure have gone downhill lately....
RemnanteK
Seeking More Truth
board games on Monday nights (Family home evening) movies (G, PG) and pizza on friday
I like Pictionary, Balderdash, and Apples to Apples, and where is my Pizza!
SoyLeche
meh...
Speaking as someone who, I am fairly certian, has studied the early years of Mormonism more than you have, coupled with personal spiritual experiences, I can say that I am comfortable with the evidence. You may not be, but there's not much I can do about that.
I'm also willing to accept that if someone says they have seen black Mormons then they have seen black Mormons without needing photographic evidence. Of course, I've also seen black Mormons* myself...
Anyway, I'm assuming the whole photographic evidence thing was requested tounge-in-cheek, which is how I meant to respond to it.
*they are under-represented though. I've lived in cities where there are roughly 50% white and black, but the LDS congregations are 90% white. That's not really all that surprising, but will hopefully continue to improve over time. I've also lived in places that are 90% white and had a black people in high leadership positions. I didn't notice that anyone had any problems with that.
Smoke
Done here.
I couldn't give it up, because I was never able to acquire the habit. It would be a nice one to have in some ways, because every now and then you find yourself at some event where nobody has thought to provide any other kind of beverage, but I just hate the taste of it. Oddly enough, I enjoy the smell.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
board games on Monday nights (Family home evening) movies (G, PG) and pizza on friday
Are Mormons in general forbidden or discouraged from seeing "R" rated movies, or just a personal thing?
SoyLeche
meh...
Discouraged, and it's a personal thing.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
Many of my favorite movies are 'R'-rated, but then I'm kind of a renegade, as we all know. I hate movies that contain gratuitous sex and violence or excessive foul language, but I think the Hollywood rating system is such a joke that I prefer to do my own research on the content of a movie and then decide for myself whether it would be something that would be worthwhile for me to see.
No. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying spiritual knowledge and scientific knowledge are learned different ways. The spiritual cannot be learned through the scientific and the scientific cannot be learned through the spiritual.
Personally, I've got more of a problem with the sort of PG movie where a nameless guy gets shot and bloodlessly falls out of frame never to be heard of again than an R-rated movie like Reservoir Dogs, where a character gets shot in the stomach and spends the next 20 minutes of the movie screaming in pain, bleeding all over the back seat of a car. It bothers me when violence is considered more suitable for children because it's detached from its consequences.
... but I think I'm getting off-topic.
DarkMaster24
Active Member
Really? I've never really met anyone who didn't like coffee. I couldn't see my life with out coffee, I drink it in the mornings to wake up, and it helps me with staying up for late night studying. Have you ever tried coffee with Coffee Mate? It tastes heavanly then and you might like it. (that is if you haven't tried it allready)
DarkMaster24
Active Member
Sweetness. I'm hoping to see it something, allthough I may not to seeing as it's hard to get to the theater on the buses where I live and I've got no one to take me. Have fun with the movie.
SoyLeche
meh...
Ultimately - this is probably very closely related to why coffee is forbidden in the Word of Wisdom.
DarkMaster24
Active Member
Oh, please. It's not like coffee's harmful here, it's just a benign addiciton. What's wrong with that?