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Comment on Penn & Teller, vaccines, and the reason for language by J to the P

J to the P — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:19:20 +0000

Penn talks about how cursing helps to greatly improve his show:

http://revision3.com/pennpoint/bullshitcensored

Comment on America and Freedom of Religion when it suits you by Main Street Plaza » Sunday in Outer Blogness: Funny Stories Edition!

Main Street Plaza » Sunday in Outer Blogness: Funny Stories Edition! — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:53:52 +0000

[...] Mosque” and its implications for freedom of religion. John Stewart has two funny segments about it. Kent discusses the obvious parallel with neighborhood complaints about new Mormon [...]

Comment on LDS Baptism: Get ‘em while young! by Annie

Annie — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:04:46 +0000

Lol you guys are acting like 8 year olds are little retards! They are not and they defiantly know wrong from right. 18 years is way to old to give them the choice, because they have already had it for years!!
I find it very funny that you used this picture of the baby in water, you don’t see that as a type of brainwash. They use that in marketing, showing a outrageous picture to make people react in either a positive or negative way… and you my friend picked the perfect one to jump start the negativity you feel about the church. Maybe you should not be questioning what we do, but question yourself.

Comment on Mormon Funeral: good times and Funeral Potatoes, but not my cup of tea by admin

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:11:13 +0000

Notolaf,

Thanks for sharing “Bud’s” story. I’m sure there would have been some good tales during that one! And thanks for the comment.

Comment on Mormon Funeral: good times and Funeral Potatoes, but not my cup of tea by notolaf

notolaf — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:24:48 +0000

I do get your point about LDS funerals pretty much always including a sermon. But in all fairness, I must point out that we’re not the only ones who do that. It’s meant to celebrate our hope for this person in the afterlife, not to make anyone feel preached to, but I can see how it would come across wrong.

Funniest funeral I ever went was for my parents’ best friend, an atheist fugitive (he’d embezzled a lot of money) whose business partner got his own Baptist preacher to conduct the funeral. He didn’t even get Bud’s name right (which was really okay in retrospect, since it turned out he was using a stolen identity anyway), and went on and on about how Bud was saved…Luckily, we were sitting in back and were able to put our heads down on the back of the pew in front of us and shake with laughter.

I’m sure wherever he was, Bud got a huge kick out of the whole thing!

Oh, and what kind of person doesn’t like funeral potatoes? What’s next? Watermelon? Chocolate?

Comment on Oh, the hypocrisy!!! by Mountain Moderate

Mountain Moderate — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:49:03 +0000

@GB
I suspect LWM will leave the self-screwage to an expert, such as you.

Come next year, Hyrum will be back to normal, with Bishop SwensonJensenMonson intoning a verbal sleeping pill, and the rest of us will just have to live with it. After all, no one’s making us attend this hootenanny. Just pay for it.

Comment on Oh, the hypocrisy!!! by GB

GB — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:16:13 +0000

Screw yourself punk.

Comment on Mormon Funeral: good times and Funeral Potatoes, but not my cup of tea by admin

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:41:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing your story and I’m sorry about your loss. It will be a great day when we can detach the sadness of a funeral or the beauty of a wedding from religious dogma.

Cheers.

Comment on Mormon Funeral: good times and Funeral Potatoes, but not my cup of tea by anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:08:52 +0000

I just came from a Mormon funeral for a close friend…I felt compelled to search for similar experiences, and apparently found one, which I related to and appreciated.

A good friend ended his own life, and it was hard. What was even worse was that the building was filled with people who didn’t know who he was as a person at all. They were all friends of the family there for support, which is entirely respectable in and of itself. However, the ceremony was reprehensibly focused on preaching and religion, which is so far from the person he was. He was only spoken about as he was as a child, but very little attention was given to the person who he’s been for the last…decade almost. It was appalling to see this tragedy turned into a pulpit for people paying a little lip service to someone they didn’t know, but who were eager to talk about their nonsensical philosophical beliefs. I left the chapel when someone began a speech with “Elder so-and-so said that an LDS Funerals should focus on doctrine. D&C Chapter blah-blah-blah says…” I was glad to see all the people who actually knew him were outside the chapel as well, discussing how reprehensible the services were. Honestly, Mormons, you get your Sundays, your mid-week meetings, and your bi-annual and annual meetings, can’t you leave funerals for the actual person we’re honoring? Can’t you leave it for the people who are there to mourn, not those who are there for a morbid social call? Atrocious.

Not naming names, but the services were in Mt. Green, UT.

Comment on LDS Baptism: Get ‘em while young! by Carnival of the Godless « The atheist, polyamorous, skeptic

Carnival of the Godless « The atheist, polyamorous, skeptic — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:02:12 +0000

[...] “give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man,” but perhaps ol’ Joe Smith was indeed onto something with making them wait for it until they’re eight, as Living With Mormons argues. He ends [...]