For 40 years, Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer's advice to teenage boys about their "little factories" was widely distributed inside the LDS Church and widely mocked outside it.
Now the pamphlet "To Young Men Only" — which addressed the issue of masturbation to help boys as they navigate puberty — has been removed from the faith's website and store.lds.org for ecclesiastical leaders to obtain printed copies.
Apostles words are easier to disavow when they are dead.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
For 40 years, Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer's advice to teenage boys about their "little factories" was widely distributed inside the LDS Church and widely mocked outside it.
Now the pamphlet "To Young Men Only" — which addressed the issue of masturbation to help boys as they navigate puberty — has been removed from the faith's website and store.lds.org for ecclesiastical leaders to obtain printed copies.
Apostles words are easier to disavow when they are dead.
I believe it's still on the church website, though. So it hasn't been disavowed, has it? It's just another exercise in plausible deniability: "I don't know that we teach that..." etc.
Man, that pamphlet “F” ed me up as a kid. I made the mistake of actually believing what I was taught by my parents, and then I made the mistake of believing the material provided to me by the Church was from God.
It took a fews years, but I got over it. Heh. I'm glad I never passed that garbage onto my own kids. Saved them from a bunch of crap they would needlessly have to endure.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
"Jesus gave us the gospel, but Satan invented church. It takes serious evil to formalize faith into something tedious and then pile guilt on anyone who doesn’t participate enthusiastically." - Robert Kirby
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. -- Henry Lawson
"Jesus gave us the gospel, but Satan invented church. It takes serious evil to formalize faith into something tedious and then pile guilt on anyone who doesn’t participate enthusiastically." - Robert Kirby
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. -- Henry Lawson
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Man, that pamphlet “F” ed me up as a kid. ...I made the mistake of believing the material provided to me by the Church was from God.
It took a fews years, but I got over it.* * *
- Doc
Packer did more evil during his life than 10 other apostles combined have done any good. One of Packer's chief 'contributions' was that pamphlet. A just reward for Packer would be eternity with a 14 year old boy's sex drive, but unable in any way to relieve it.
sock puppet wrote:A just reward for Packer would be eternity with a 14 year old boy's sex drive, but unable in any way to relieve it.
and he is attracted to 14 year old boys.
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