Hello everyone-Just following the crowd

Post by **_Black Moclips** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:57 am

Well, I thought I would follow the croud and migrate along with everyone else. I've been lurking around for years now (boy the time goes by fast), starting at Fair, then ZLMB, and then back to MADB, now here. Occassional poster, avid lurker, don't have much to say most of the time and others seem to say it better. So this is my same screen name on all those boards should you come across me.

Its kind of funny how things work out. When I was first exposed to online apologetics, I was a classic chapel mormong tooling around on the net and I think I found Dr. Shades board and was disgusted by all the information. In fact, I was one of those goofy TBM's who sent him an email telling him what I really thought (though I don't think it was hardcore enough to make the quote list he posts). Anyway, active doubter now in the LDS church for several years now. I flux between feeling like a Mormon, an atheist, an agnostic, and a new ager. Want to believe in something, hoping there is something to believe in, just don't know what it is and sometimes is seems like there isn't anything. Anyway, I may comment here and there, but we will see. I know some of you out there and enjoy a lot of your posts.

I posted this in Terrestrial because at this point, I think that's the best I can hope for within Mormonism given my lack of testimony.

See ya around.

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:09 am

Welcome to the Village.

Here are your cyber beverages. Welcome to the board :)

Post by **_Who Knows** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:14 am

Hey bro. Good to see you here.

How's the public accounting going?

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:47 am

Hello Black Mo,

I do remember you on FAIR. Welcome!

Jersey Girl

Post by **_Black Moclips** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:54 am

Well I left public accounting a few months ago to try internal audit at an international software company. I decided it was a big mistake but then last week I got a call from one of my previous clients and they offered me a CFO/Controller position at their real estate development company. So I start there is a couple of weeks. I can't complain. Life is good. (even for us closet doubters).

Oh, and I forgot to add one important think about myself.

I'm a dual wielding, level 50 Night Elf Rogue (combat spec). Duskwood server.

Post by **_Roger Morrison** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:39 am

Welcome Black Mo, i do remember your name. Face, i can't quite picture :-) You said, into which i'll be bold:

Want to believe in something, hoping there is something to believe in, There is! just don't know what it is It's YOU Bro!and sometimes is seems like there isn't anything. Down-day...Everone has 'em. Anyway, I may comment here and there, but we will see. I know some of you out there and enjoy a lot of your posts.

I posted this in Terrestrial because at this point, I think that's the best I can hope for within Mormonism given my lack of testimony. You suffer the malaise of Old Time Religion. Mormonism is currently heading the pack. While they profess being Faith-based their understanding of 'faith' is really 'faithless'. Jesus taught us to have faith in ourselves to "move mountains", and faith in "God" to provide the means to live life abundantly, here & now! "Take my yoke...it is light!"

You have NO NEED to feel, "...my lack of testimony" as a negative. I respectfully suggest it could be a sliver of light entering your life as you crack open the closet door of Old Time Religion/Mormonism.

Fear, guilt, shame, and anxiety are not what Jesus taught. They are the stock in trade of misrepresenatives of "God" and Jesus who have used them for evil purposes for 1,000s of years...

A new light shines on the "Two New Commandments"! They are the essence of a New Christianity, of the Spirit... It's in YOU, when you're ready for it... Sounds like you're getting ready???

See ya around. I hope so...

Warm regards, Roger

Post by **_Mercury** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:48 am

Black Moclips wrote:Well I left public accounting a few months ago to try internal audit at an international software company. I decided it was a big mistake but then last week I got a call from one of my previous clients and they offered me a CFO/Controller position at their real estate development company. So I start there is a couple of weeks. I can't complain. Life is good. (even for us closet doubters).

Oh, and I forgot to add one important think about myself.

I'm a dual wielding, level 50 Night Elf Rogue (combat spec). Duskwood server.

I just might have to add a new character to my list

I have three characters, one on each of the following: Chogall, Moonrunner and Draenor

Post by **_Mr. Coffee** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:57 am

Black Moclips wrote:I'm a dual wielding, level 50 Night Elf Rogue (combat spec). Duskwood server.

1. WoW is for weaklings that can';t handle First Person Shooters.

2. FOR THE HORDE! Screw your Night Elf and your fan induced Wank.

3...

If you think you got a pair and own an Xbox360, buy a copy of GRAW2, look up MR COFFEE and prepared to get your ass handed to you.

Oh, and OP person. If following the crowd is your deal, then stay an LDS. They excess that blindly accepting stupid premises. If you want to learn something, then start doing the most forbidden of LDS forbids....

Ask questions and try to think for yourself.

Post by **_gramps** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:18 am

Welcome!

Juliann is going to be mad at you (feels good, doesn't it?). And very jealous, too!

Post by **_Black Moclips** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:26 am

Thanks for the welcome everyone. Nice to meet all of you.

Roger - your comments were very interesting. I have always been "religious" in my life (participating in church, observing the rites and rituals within Mormonism), but I have never been "spiritual" (have a meaning relationship with someone or something divine.) I have always felt that my communication attempts were "one way" (hitting the ceiling and bouncing some other direction). But if such a thing exists as the divine and that something wants to have a relationship with me, by all means I am ready to listen. But such experiences have been absent during my life. I don't have the right genes maybe. But as I think about what a kingdom of God should be, I think its made up of the basic ideas of love and charity, "becoming" something better than you are. I've lost interest in rites, ordinances, and ceremonies, the outward symbols. It seems those things are just meant to bind people together as a group. Its the "inner" that matters. At least that's how I tend to look at it now.

Mr. Coffee - I did play GRAW1 when it came out (great single player, horrible multiplayer) but haven't played GRAW2. Rainbow Six Vegas is definitely a good buy. But my all time favorite is Battlefield 2 on the computer. All around the best ever. So I've done my 1st person shooter time. And I still visit it from time to time. Funny though, I'm in Singapore right now on business and I headed to the arcade, where they have a LAN room with at least 100 computers. And guess what everyone is still playing? Counterstrike. The almost 10 year old mod for Halflife. Funny.

Anyway, didn't mean to start a gamer war. To each his own!