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You guys search for a FEELING to see if what you've been told is true.

Your implication here was clearly highlighted in my reply, of only asking no study., so I said " This is not true, Joseph smith in D&C 9:5-9

5 And, behold, it is because that you did not continue as you commenced, when you began to translate, that I have taken away this privilege from you.
6 Do not murmur, my son, for it is wisdom in me that I have dealt with you after this manner.
7 Behold, you have not understood; you have supposed that I would give it unto you, when you took no thought save it was to ask me.
8 But, behold, I say unto you, that you must study it out in your mind; then you must ask me if it be right, and if it is right I will cause that your bosom shall burn within you; therefore, you shall feel that it is right.
9 But if it be not right you shall have no such feelings, but you shall have a stupor of thought that shall cause you to forget the thing which is wrong; therefore, you cannot write that which is sacred save it be given you from me.

HUH? How do you mange to SKIP right over what your own Living Prophet® had written??

I did not, but you are only seeing what you want to see. You want to see an emotional, illogical unreasoning and unreasoned methodology which cannot be proven wrong, for that fits the template.

What is there is a Think, then Pray then:
A) will happen if you are right and
B) will happen if you are wrong.

totally provable On or Off, True or False, Right or Wrong.

From my post, I think I made clear what I thought you were saying when I said: We are commanded to Study before we ask, not just ask unthinking as you are saying here.

I am not Skipping over anything Joseph said, I am however reading it in context, for that is my reality, or my perspective. Reality Is.

You guys search for a FEELING to see if what you've been told is true.

You want to quibble over words?

Ok then.

Do you like this any better?

You guys search for a FEELING to see if what you've STUDIED is true.

Whether you STUDY or are TOLD; it's a FACT that neither are true (IYHO) unless you get 'The Feeling'!

... you shall have a stupor of thought ...

I wouldn't want this curse on me; either!

A) will happen if you are right and
B) will happen if you are wrong.

totally provable On or Off, True or False, Right or Wrong.

ONLY if one assumes that there are merely TWO possibilities: A or B

"It's better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."
--Josh Billings