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Cake day: January 8th, 2024

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  • Heh nice call, did grow up in Idaho, but didn’t start doing temple stuff until I was in California.

    Anywho, sorry never heard anything about changing any historical facts about anyone. (Not even sure where that came up in the thread, but forgive me, it’s almost 4 am 🤣). The past is the past. Just offering them the “atonement” or whatever. They could still decide whether or not to accept.

    Anywho, it’s a sucky religion, and I’ve used up my quota of energy on it for the quarter.

    I hope you have an excellent rest of your life, free from the special Mormon flavor of religion!


  • Not really sure what you mean. Me and everyone I knew absolutely believed we were offering salvation for each person we were doing this for. If you didn’t, then you weren’t a good mormon (honestly, good for you, I wish I wasn’t so in the coolaid)

    They have kids, 12+ do this all the time, and they use other submitted names, with literally no relationship to any of the names the kid is baptized for. There’s no “supposed to be related” they just encourage it to make you feel more personally attached to the work.

    Also if you were in it more recently than I, perhaps they changed it. It’s been about a decade, and despite what they say, they change their story all the time.










  • Yeah 100% most people with trucks are for vanity. It makes them feel cool. It’s also a status symbol, because right now the price of trucks like that start at $70k. We have an O2 model Ford f350, and if we wanted to replace it with an “equivalent” model of this year we’d be out $95k.

    We use our truck almost 100% for hauling horses. I occasionally have to drive it just to the doctor or something because my wife usually has the car at work. (I work from home).

    Honestly, the price and overall size of these trucks is insane, and it bugs us to no end. The only reason the price is this high is because the manufacturers know these idiots need to show their “status”.


  • The only thing I can say in favor of the one on the right is carrying capacity (weight). I associate with equestrians, and hauling a horse (1000-1500 lbs each) in a trailer (4-13k lbs, depending) (I know the truck isn’t holding it all, but it has to pull and stop it). The truck needs the engine power and torque to do that, while at the same time have enough weight and tire contact to stop with all that extra weight.

    Working construction type things, and picking up builder materials? Hands down the one on the left. Hauling anything beyond the bed of the truck? Absolutely the one on the right.


  • Yes, some of it. Have you read it? Or read the scholars direct translations? I have read parts to contrast how the modern translations differ from the original intent. And they are often quite significant. For instance, the idea of Hell does not exist in the original texts. When you die, and you don’t go to paradise, you just end. You go to oblivion, not endless torment. The idea of torturous hell was Dante’s doing, and religions ran with it. Satan isn’t even really a thing in the original Bible, but interpretations could be made.

    I added those in to the conversation because apparently the only thing that makes the Bible legitimate is it’s oldness. Both those mythologies predate Christianity and the Bible.

    In fact it’s not too difficult to see where the Bible mythos stole many ideas from existing religions.

    Side notes:

    Due to how much of an asshole the Bible God is, I like the interpretation that the Bible God is actually Loki, and had the book made so people thought he was the good guy.

    The god of the Bible is a tantrum throwing, overreacting, jealous, hypocritical, and genocidal prick, who doesn’t deserve any adulation or worship.