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| | | (...) <mucho snippage> (...) Zealot. :) I don't really have any significant beefs with the LDS - at least, no more than I have with any other organized religion(1), including my own. I have beefs with some individuals, but I make a distinction (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) "My Life for Aiur!" :) Somehow, I don't think that's the sort of Zealot you meant... (...) As a historian, one truly marvelous thing about the LDS church is the recordkeeping. It's stunning, and with good doctrinal reason. It's the only place (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Matthew Wilkins
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| | | | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: <ka-schnip!> (...) of real estate, in any case! The local LDS haunt near my office is right off of the freeway; a large white marble fantasy-castle looking building sitting by itself in the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | (...) Actually, at least one large room, the chapel, is required for Sunday services. In this room (which can vary in size depending upon the local membership) the Sacrament meeting is performed, and typically there are a small handful of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Joseph Gonzalez
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| | | | | | | | (...) total laugh out loud!! my kids have practically memorized the script for all three of the wallace and gromit vids. ..joseph g (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Karim Nassar
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| | | | | | (...) There is a Temple that was recently dedicated in the Triangle Area in NC, and I visited and toured it before the dedications (after the dedication, only "recommended" members are allowed to enter, I believe... Jeremey, you can correct me if (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | (...) white (...) Oh. Thanks, Karim. :-, That building near Matthew's office is probably a temple. (...) Yah, that's basically it. Our temples are our most holy and sacred places, so one much be deemed worthy of entering the temple before doing so. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) :-, (...) Yes, it was this more than anything else that got my goat. (...) Same here. There's a cliche for a Utah Mormon; e.g. "the Church is true, but even more so in Utah". I know a few induhviduals who have earnestly earned that title, but (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) I've heard that as well... I suspect it's an urban legend (or whatever the SF equivalent is?), but only they know for sure, and I don't think they're telling. (...) The Church of $cientology, as Hubbard set it up, is (also IMHO) seriously (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | L. Ron Hubbard urban legend (was: Mormon bashing again) —John J. Ladasky, Jr.
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| | | | | | | (...) I have to agree with James Brown's guess. I've heard the same story, except that the two writers were L. Ron Hubbard and Frank Herbert. Herbert, of course, wrote _Dune_, the SF classic with generous helpings of Islam. When you have multiple (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) I've heard a version of this attributed to RAH himself, in a book that he at least had some control over, so I'd tend to give it some credence but who knows. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | (...) Larry, could you at least mention the book's name? (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) I can't remember it just at the mo... all my SF is still packed. Might be _Grumbles from the Grave_. Or not. I could also be all wet, it WAS 1:30 AM when I posted that. (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | (...) OK, fair enough, maybe I'll read my copy. I have made a fair start into learning the background of science fiction authors. I don't think RAH or anyone else in that tier ever competed with LRH for the distinction of starting a religion. Having (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Mormon bashing again —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Yep, that's the one. I've never thought about it as near Harrod's, but I guess it is! (...) You're not kidding! I suppose they figure that if you come rolling down the hill, you oughta be able to just aim and shoot up the ramp. Nice to think (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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