10 Observations:1.) They're easily amused.2.) They sunburn easily.3.) They get extremely pissed off but do the clench-jaw tsk-tsk deal and just live.4.) They think all souls on earth came from some collective pre-body place and get born on earth at predetermined times (wtf)5.) No caffeine (or nicotine or alcohol, naturally)6.) Very proud of their missions7.) They get married fast and become baby-machines8.) Short term memory is kaputt (at least for this person)9.) Strong protective shield against the world10.) Salt Lake City is like Meccah
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11) They think having black skin is a punishment from God12) They think American Indians are really lost tribe of Israel13) They think Jesus will return to New Jerusalem, AKA Independence, Missouri
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GROUNDBREAKING!
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She's actually a nice lady, just weirded out easily by talking about religion ironically. I'm used to pretty forward religious banter but I guess some aren't.
3/7/2009 9:00:12 AM
Ive got a mormon bible that a Major in the US Army gave me years ago. I need to dig it out of whatever box it's in. He wrote a long inscription on the inside cover but I've forgotten what he wrote.
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1.) They're easily amused.That probably varies from person to person.2.) They sunburn easily.Yeah. When I was on my mission I sunburned. Of course being relatively fair skinned, just below the tropic of cancer (in my case), and most importantly - in the sun all day had a lot to do with that.3.) They get extremely pissed off but do the clench-jaw tsk-tsk deal and just live.Ha. I'd hope that that would vary from person to person as well. I don't remember clenching my jaw all that often, but it's been some time. Plus you don't really notice things you do as easily as you notice things others do, so maybe I did.4.) They think all souls on earth came from some collective pre-body place and get born on earth at predetermined times (wtf)Yeah. The "preexistence". Everyone is a spirit there that waits to be born so they can receive a body.5.) No caffeine (or nicotine or alcohol, naturally)Yup. No coffee, alcohol, tea (black), drugs, tobacco.6.) Very proud of their missionsYeah. I can understand that. If they weren't I don't see why they'd be on a mission, as they go at their own expense.7.) They get married fast and become baby-machinesA lot do/are. I know a one or two families with 12+ kids. I got married at 23 and I've only got one at this point. Would like to have more.8.) Short term memory is kaputt (at least for this person)Kinda like #3 I guess. Mormons are people too. Being a Mormon doesn't preclude you from traits that any other person would have. Positive or negative. You just try to work on the negative traits to hopefully make them positive. Not sure where short term memory falls in that category.9.) Strong protective shield against the worldYeah. There's something I hear all the time. "Be in the world, not of the world"10.) Salt Lake City is like MeccahUhhhh. Not for me at least. That's just where the headquarters of the church is located. I don't feel the need to make a pilgrimage there or pray toward it or anything. No disrespect to the Muslim faith of course.11) They think having black skin is a punishment from GodMaybe a bit of clarification here. I'd venture to say that we believe that a group of people were marked with dark skin. You can probably safely construe that as a punishment because it wouldn't have happened had it not been for that group's disobedience. That was just one group at one point in time, it doesn't speak to their descendants at all. In fact much later the darker skinned peoples were more righteous than their lighter skinned counterparts. This all coming from Mormon scripture.I'd be hard pressed to make a leap from that to making the claim that all people with dark skin are dark skinned because of a punishment from God. Some Mormons may believe this, but again, Mormons are people too, subject to the same prejudices as any other person. I really wouldn't want to venture into the territory of assigning any prejudices I may have (as someone that isn't perfect) to God. 12) They think American Indians are really lost tribe of IsraelAnother bit of clarification. We believe that a group of Israelites came to the Americas. The land was already populated with peoples when they got there. Other groups may have come from other places while they were there. That said, I'd say that American Indians, by the time America was rediscovered, would probably represent a mixture of all those groups, no pure-blood Israelites left.13) They think Jesus will return to New Jerusalem, AKA Independence, MissouriYeah. He'll probably go to a lot of other places as well.[Edited on March 7, 2009 at 10:14 AM. Reason : -]
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Don't forget the special mormon underwear
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The group I was referring to was part of the group of Isrealites that came to America. They split into two factions because one group wanted to follow God and the other wanted to kill them for it.They got 'marked' to keep them separated. Probably 600 BC. Doesn't speak to the righteousness of dark skinned people at all nowadays. Just that group.
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^ well, from what I've read, most moderate mormons have taken a page out of the Christian book and now say "yeah, well..... not all of that stuff actually happened. A lot of it is allegorical."
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allegorical indian jews.
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http://www.mormonsexposed.com/meet.php
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URL highly misleading
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jbtilley - do you wear protective underwear
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obligatory DUM DUM DUM DUM....DUM
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