mocnarf wrote:I'm sorry, it's just that.... well, for an outside observer these beliefs are......rrr.... silly. No offense intended, and Mormons are not alone in having silly beliefs. However, that just goes with the territory, some people will look at those beliefs and just can't help but chuckle. You just got to shrugg it off and tell yourself "my beliefs are not silly and those people who think they are are just ill informed nincompoops".
It does help that God told us that our beliefs would be viewed that way.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
mocnarf wrote:I'm sorry, it's just that.... well, for an outside observer these beliefs are......rrr.... silly. No offense intended, and Mormons are not alone in having silly beliefs. However, that just goes with the territory, some people will look at those beliefs and just can't help but chuckle. You just got to shrugg it off and tell yourself "my beliefs are not silly and those people who think they are are just ill informed nincompoops".
Most of the time I crack up about it. I had a friend who sent me a link to that vid about a year ago, and it made me “chuckle” a bit. I guess sometimes though (such as last week), I have trouble seeing the "silly" side and dismissing these types of things with a giggle and shrugg.
I just had me a case of hyper-sensitivity last week. Went swimming, had some good recording sessions, ate some pie, and I think I’m better now.
Sorry that you were the target of my hyper-sensitivity.
-Stu
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." ~Charles Bukowski
mocnarf wrote:I'm sorry, it's just that.... well, for an outside observer these beliefs are......rrr.... silly. No offense intended, and Mormons are not alone in having silly beliefs. However, that just goes with the territory, some people will look at those beliefs and just can't help but chuckle. You just got to shrugg it off and tell yourself "my beliefs are not silly and those people who think they are are just ill informed nincompoops".
It does help that God told us that our beliefs would be viewed that way.
Nehor, your LDS beliefs are not the only silly religious beliefs in the world. I hope God warned those people of other religions that their beliefs would also be looked apon by many people as silly. There are lots of silly religious beliefs silliness is not unique to the LDS religion.
mocnarf wrote:Nehor, your LDS beliefs are not the only silly religious beliefs in the world. I hope God warned those people of other religions that their beliefs would also be looked apon by many people as silly. There are lots of silly religious beliefs silliness is not unique to the LDS religion.
I didn't say they were silly; I said others would see them that way.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Not fair, they got a cooler one. We didn't get comets hitting the Earth and Armageddon style floods and earthquakes.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo