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_Abinadi's Fire
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barrelomonkeys wrote:Oh! Wait! Is that what the Church does? We're special cause we have these experiences and others need to join to have them too? Eep!
These nice, sincere young men would not lie about such a thing, would they?
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Ten Bear wrote:
The Nehor wrote:Why are you slowly backing away?

:)
No, I thought that was rather abrupt.

Seriously, I wasn't sure what you were trying to say. I don't believe you're gut (as it were) doesn't tell you anything. I just think you're being nice to the guy as if he were here .... or you know him. Do you know him?
No, I don't know him. My initial gut feeling when I read the thread over there was, "He really shouldn't be talking about that if it happened."
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No, I don't know him. My initial gut feeling when I read the thread over there was, "He really shouldn't be talking about that if it happened."
Why?

Have you read the Course in Miracles? Conversations with God? The Abraham material? Paul's writings? (For a few examples).

There are plenty of folks who believe they have communed with the Divine and have answers from Source to help humankind.

Why not share one's awarness, knowledge, and insights with the world?

Others do and I'm guessing they have helped millions of people!

I really do not understand this LDS mindset ....

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The Nehor wrote:
Ten Bear wrote: No, I thought that was rather abrupt.

Seriously, I wasn't sure what you were trying to say. I don't believe you're gut (as it were) doesn't tell you anything. I just think you're being nice to the guy as if he were here .... or you know him. Do you know him?
No, I don't know him. My initial gut feeling when I read the thread over there was, "He really shouldn't be talking about that if it happened."
And isn't that telling?

Actually, I kind of see your point. Weirder things have happened to me (not on a spiritual or religious level). But still, ... my gut feeling says he's not all there and Joseph Smith hasn't appeared to anybody. And I can live with that.
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Sorry I really didn't mean to just blurt something this sacred to me out like 'stuff' you know. But I hate it when others think they had what I have and then just threw it away. I could never do that, coming from where I am.

And yes I have.
I just want to know if he was holding a flaming sword.
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beastie wrote:
Sorry I really didn't mean to just blurt something this sacred to me out like 'stuff' you know. But I hate it when others think they had what I have and then just threw it away. I could never do that, coming from where I am.

And yes I have.
I just want to know if he was holding a flaming sword.
Or if he was holding his own flaming sword. Joseph Smith that is. Not Hammer. I'm so not going there...
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truth dancer wrote:
No, I don't know him. My initial gut feeling when I read the thread over there was, "He really shouldn't be talking about that if it happened."
Why?

Have you read the Course in Miracles? Conversations with God? The Abraham material? Paul's writings? (For a few examples).

There are plenty of folks who believe they have communed with the Divine and have answers from Source to help humankind.

Why not share one's awarness, knowledge, and insights with the world?

Others do and I'm guessing they have helped millions of people!

I really do not understand this LDS mindset ....

~dancer~
D&C 10:35-37

35 Marvel not that I said unto you: Here is wisdom, show it not unto the world—for I said, show it not unto the world, that you may be preserved.
36 Behold, I do not say that you shall not show it unto the righteous;
37 But as you cannot always judge the righteous, or as you cannot always tell the wicked from the righteous, therefore I say unto you, hold your peace until I shall see fit to make all things known unto the world concerning the matter.

Sometimes these things should be shared but they should be shared to aid and edify others, not to prove points or to defend yourself. . . though I have slipped before as well.
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The Nehor wrote:No, I don't know him. My initial gut feeling when I read the thread over there was, "He really shouldn't be talking about that if it happened."
Why not?

Heck, if that happened to me I'd be knocking on President Hinckley's door to let him know what Joseph said.
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Abinadi's Fire wrote:
The Nehor wrote:No, I don't know him. My initial gut feeling when I read the thread over there was, "He really shouldn't be talking about that if it happened."
Why not?

Heck, if that happened to me I'd be knocking on President Hinckley's door to let him know what Joseph said.
Why? Couldn't Joseph go knock on President Hinckley's door?
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics
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The Nehor wrote: Why? Couldn't Joseph go knock on President Hinckley's door?
I suppose so, but the only one I've heard talking about Joseph talking to him is Hammer.
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