Just because there are exceptions doesn't invalidate the envious motive behind most gossip. When the emotion of envy turns into action it becomes malice. Gossip is a passive-agressive form of malice favored by women. Envy wears many disguises.
Obviously you feel a competitive threat from Mormonism and wish to damage it, and not religions like Islam or Judaism which you apparently don't envy. Envy is a deadly sin.
Can you show us some proof of this “gossip” of which you speak or are you just attempting to build some lame strawmen?
What a pathetic attempt to derail this topic and make it about the individual posters, but then again, that’s about the only tactic amateur mormon apologists are familiar with.
How many loaves of bread could $4 billion buy? How many mormons could keep their gold fillings if that $4 billion was spent on building temples vs. taking a man’s teeth?
The cult of mormonism is a threat, it is a threat to the soul. The rest of your red herrings are pointless.
It is “OBVIOUS” that some on this thread don’t get that. Nor do they understand the rules of the RF in regards to mind reading.
Bearing false witness (slander) is a sin as well sport.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
Obviously you feel a competitive threat from Mormonism and wish to damage it, and not religions like Islam or Judaism which you apparently don't envy. Envy is a deadly sin.
It appears that some folks have malice towards women, as well as towards those who dispute the fallacies of mormonism.
The original thread began THIS way....
Do we really believe that just because one is rich one is blessed by God? According to a study published in 2004 which researched the Mormon Wealth Attribution (MWA), we do. The MWA can be defined as the tendency of LDS individuals to perceive those who are wealthy as more righteous or pious than their less wealthy neighbors. The randomized empirical study reported that “Church members are more likely to attribute righteousness to a wealthy church member than to a poor one” and that (in general) wealthy members of the church are seen as being better people, both secularly and spiritually than poor people.
I have seen many LDS individuals (including priesthood leaders) apply negative attributions and stereotypes toward those who are poor or lacking resources. They implied that these poor individuals need to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” and either work harder or be more righteous. To me, making these kinds of attributions based on wealth alone (or at all) seems to be dangerous and hurtful.
Time to get this thread back on the subject and not buy in to the attempt to derail it.
One example of gossip.
I really think what is going on here is that you may have envy envy.
Gossip is a passive-agressive form of malice favored by women. Envy wears many disguises.
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Is this something that the mormon guys are taught in their pesthood meetings ???
That when men do it its called “discernment”
But when woman do it is called “gossip” ???
Good thing we now know that men do it disguised as women...
That was what you meant right ???