Choke!...sputter...picking self up off floor...Ironic irony of all ironies......hee hee heee...
Posted on 04/15/2010 8:56:50 AM PDT by T Minus Four
Think of the Salt Lake Temple as a designer bottle holding a one-of-a-kind fragrance.
Think of the gardens and buildings of Temple Square as bubble wrap around that container.
Think of the City Creek Center to the south, the Church Plaza to the east, the Conference Center to the north, and the Family History Library and Church History Museum to the west as a firm, sturdy box around all of it.
When something merits that much protection, you have to figure rough bumps and bounces are coming down the road.
I get a feeling the LDS Church sees turbulence ahead -- nasty weather -- and it is making preparations.
It's not about being defensive and keeping things out.
It's about being protective and keeping precious things safe.
When the chilly winds blow, forest creatures gather all that's life-sustaining about them.
Horses in the fields cluster together to stand against the hail.
I feel the LDS Church battening down the hatches for bad weather.
The Tabernacle Choir, which was performing musical versions of Robert Frost poetry and other secular works, now releases CDs filled with songs of faith, assurance and the need to rely on the Divine.
I feel protection is the point behind the long row of sentries -- those Mormon temples -- that stand along the Wasatch -- the new Brigham City temple, new Payson temple, the new remade Ogden temple and all the others.
I feel protect precious things is the point of the new mission statements of LDS businesses, the point for books that are picked for publication and the lessons selected for manuals.
Part of the world would divide and conquer.
The church would gather and protect.
Something uneasy this way comes. Not a vilent clash as in Jerusalem -- where cultures fight openly. We won't be seeing stone throwers in the streets of Salt Lake City.
The battle here won't be about territory.
It will be about choices -- about the advent of a bolder, more self-indulgent popular culture.
The church can see the writing on the wall -- often literally.
And graffiti on the temple will never do.
It's time -- as the old hymn has it -- to "safely gather in, ere the winter storms begin."
The plan is not to force people away.
The plan is to keep what's on the inside safe from harm.
And if that means putting up ramparts and watchtowers, so be it.
Even heaven, if you believe the stories, is a gated community -- not to keep people away, but to safeguard the gentle hearts of those who dwell there.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: jerjohn@desnews.com Jerry Earl Johnston chronicles his take on the Mormon experience in his column “New Harmony,” which appears on MormonTimes.com on Wednesdays and Sundays.
LOL!!!!
YES!
It's in the training manual...
I’m going offline for a couple of days (heading to the ranch) so I will catch up and respond on Monday.
R
mormonic shapeshifter placemarker
Choke!...sputter...picking self up off floor...Ironic irony of all ironies......hee hee heee...
One small correction. This is only true for those in the "lost sheep" file (those that the church has no contact information on). If someone is not attending, but their records are still with their local congregation, and they die, the local congregation can mark the record with the death information. Those people are then not counted as members.
I would suspect that this represents only a small number, but I know from personal experience that it happens.
LOL...love that explanation...if the "sheep is lost" just automatically count him as a member until the age would be 110...logic would be that if there is no contact they should be taken off membership rolls and their records removed from the "active" file after a year or so.
That's what most Christian churches do. 110? LOL!
Resty, you refuse to engage in discussions anyway. You just call names and change the subject.
I don't capitalize the name of the mormon god and the mormon jesus and the father of the mormon god and the infinite number of mormon grandfather gods and the mormon holy spirit because they are frauds and imposters and they are not my gods. It is an insult to my God, The One True God, to honor yours. I won't do it.
I just don’t believe that if someone says that Jesus was victimized that he is going to be too upset about it or take it as an insult
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Did a salamander tell you that ???
You may feel insulted. I am certain that Jesus does not
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Did a salamander tell you that ???
Your mention of sheep reminds me of one of the ways the occultist Joey Smith pretended to find “hidden Spanish gold”
Joey Smith would injure a sheep and make it bleed...then he would make it walk over the fields and hills... bleeding out all the way...until it was exhausted and couldnt go any further...
Then he would declare that the gold was at the spot that all the blood was pouring and then dig pretending to look for the “gold”...
Of course when no gold was found..either it was the sheep’s fault....or the “faith” of the seeker who paid Joey Smith for his “services” was not lacking...or “spirits” had taken the gold “lower”...
It was never the fraud Joey Smith’s fault...
(The sheep would usual die for its “faults”)
a type and shadow of what happened to the later followers of Joey Smith..
Whatever happen to the golden rule?
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Silly Gentiles...
Dont you know that an angel takes golden thingies back to the mormon whereever ???
The golden rule is sitting in a secret sacred vault right next to the golden plates...
hidden from unworthy Gentile eyes...
shapeshifters who are always moving the bar
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Yeah, where does a mormon have to go to get a drink around here ???
shapeshifters who are always moving the bar
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A couple of years ago the mormon corporation moved what they called “the bar” of expectations and rules for mormon missionaries higher...
Ergo, the mormon corporation are “shapeshifters”
Heard that J. Smith had a pretty hopping place
Same for some guy named Young.
biiitttt
“...and the infinite number of mormon grandfather gods”
mormon grandfather gods!
Best post of the day.
I hope lurkers read that.
Christians have one God.
Mormons have:
gods
gods they worship
gods they do not worship
gods of gods
gods of gods of gods
gods of gods of gods of gods
gods of gods of gods of gods of gods
grandfather gods, great grandfather gods, great, great grandfather gods, etc...
... AD INFINITUM! An infinite number of gods, planets, goddesses that are breeding and producing eternally.
It is mind boggling to consider how little resemblance
it has to Christianity or Judaism.
“Hear Oh Israel, The Lord Your God is ONE God.”
Thanks for pointing it out.
ampu
A better explanation found here -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6VgsYgzIdU
If one can call it an explanation.
LOL
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