( Flying Inmen are EVERYWHERE! )Posted on 01/24/2012 6:55:11 AM PST by mitchell001
Yes, I am still say the story is suspect.
eh...
we all watch out for each other...
What can't they stand about MORMONs?
MORMON
ATTITUDES OF SUPERIORITY
1. I’m Superior; I have a special gift of the holy Ghost -- you don’t!
2. I’m Superior; I have God’s true priesthood power -- you don’t! 3. I’m Superior; I can go in God’s secret Temple -- you can’t! 4. I’m Superior; I’ve been Endowed with special Gifts and Knowledge -- you’re just normal! 5. I’m Superior; I’ll have my family with me in heaven -- you’ll be with strangers! 6. I’m Superior; I’m becoming a God -- you aren’t! 7. I’m Superior; My women know their place as servants of man and yours don’t. 8. I’m Superior; YOUR creeds are wrong because they come from man - mine comes from God (you can find each one printed in our Scriptures). 9. I’m Superior; I don’t HAVE a creed - I’ve got 13 Articles of Faith. 10. I'm Superior; I have 4 "Bibles"-- the standard works (5 if you count the JST) -- you've only got one: in as far as it is translated correctly. 11. I’m Superior; I can lie with impunity about such things as church membership, church growth, church doctrine, church history, church influence, etc. — -- You can’t. 12. I’m Superior; I am right (everybody knows) when I say 'evangelical' Christians are lunatics -- -- You’re a hideous narrow-minded bigot, who is persecuting me by practicing discrimination by saying I'm not a Christian.
13. I'm Superior; I have a testimony about a prophet -- you don't. 14. I'm Superior; I have a Scripture-producing Amos 3:7 prophet -- you don't 15. I’m Superior; I have a Living Prophet who talks to god every day -- you have a dim-witted hireling of Satan who only talks to himself. 16. I'm Superior; I have my calling & election made sure -- you don't. 17. I’m Superior; I have magic underwear to protect me from the bogey man -- you don’t. 18. I’m Superior; I have secret clasps and grips to give the angel so I get admitted to the celestial kingdom -- you don’t ;so you can’t. 19. I'm Superior; I know secret handshake codes for afterlife entrances-- you don't. 20. I’m Superior; I will see Joseph Smith setting on the right hand of GOD, when I get to Mormon heaven, and he will recognize me and judge me favorably -- You’re on your own; when you get to wherever you’re going! 21. I’m Superior; I’m going to hie to Kolob -- you’re going to who knows where. 22. I’m Superior; I get to have a harem and act like a celestial stud for time and all eternity -- you don’t. 23. I’m Superior; I have sun stones, moon stones, sky stones, cloud stones, Saturn stones, and the evil eye of Osirus guarding my temple -- You have nothing but a stupid cross.
24. I’m Superior; My church has billions in assets stashed away -- yours has taken a stupid vow of poverty. 25. I'm Superior; Last - we have the power to keep a whole race out of our priesthood if we wanted to reinsert our 148-year legacy (we ARE still keeping an entire GENDER at bay!) 26. I'm superior; I have the "higher law" -- everyone else "lives under the "lesser law' because I say so...(over and over). Revision 46.5
Semi-Official creed of the EXclusive club of Freeper Flying Inmans.
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R, trying to figure out your approach here.
You are comfortable with a milk toast kind of approach to “the Good News”and appear to condemn people who are more bold.
Yet, you say that God uses different people in different ways. while appearing to condemn the different ways.
You appear to say that your Salvation is secure at the same time saying you are working towards it.
It also appears that you fail to realize that people will use different approaches for different people groups.
There are people who one can meet that are already so hungry for God’s Word you could be an instrument in that event just by sitting and having a coffee with them.
There are those that have to be hog tied and confronted with strength and boldness.
One way is not better than any other, they are just different.
You be mild that is your style.
I will be bold that is mine.
I really don’t care what anyone has to say for or against Mormonism, I just like reading what is said here on FR and asking my obviously agenda-driven questions.
“One way is not better than any other, they are just different.
You be mild that is your style.
I will be bold that is mine.”
If you reread my posts, you’ll find this is my very point. I’m confortable and effective with my approach, simply because there is a ‘market’ for it. I can get parents back to church. I’ve tried the 2x4 and it wasn’t as effective - for me - in most of the situations I find myself in.
You understand me completely, though ‘milquetoast’ wouldn’t be my label for it, LOL.
It’s been my experience that guiding people through questioning in such a way that they discover truth for themselves tends to result in something that sticks. I’ve found you can seldom ‘tell’ people the truth. They have to trip over it, in such a way that the result is:
“The answer has been staring me in the face for years, decades. I’ve known this all along within me.”
Yup. And without the 2x4 crowd hammering that message in from an early age, perhaps that answer would NOT have been within them to discover in the first place.
Ego is a pain in the ass, and I’d rather they leave with, “I finally figured it out for myself” than “Thank God that guy came around and saved me.” The latter isn’t true anyway. It’s like thanking the ladder, when it was the firefighter that actually brought the thing in the first place.
And the trick is listening to the voice inside of you telling you whether to be bold and move in, or to hang back and let the guy with the right tool do the job. Sometimes an asskicker is what’s called for.
I have read your posts.
One way is not better than the other, you appear to make that point and then spend lots of words saying why it is not so.
You do what you are called to and I will do the same.
I'll try to keep this in mind when responding.
There may be some reading that DO care.
( Flying Inmen are EVERYWHERE! )We need a Wiki article. :D
Of course there are. I just said that because you said I should learn more. By the way, I understand the italics, but why the bold? Are you agenda-driven too?
Of COURSE!!
If I can keep someone from falling into a pit, or am able to snatch one from the fire - well; that just makes my day.
It’s good to have things in common with other freepers.
It’s good to have things in common with other freepers.
bttt
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