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Cool, I live in Eagle Mountain where its pretty much Lifted Trucks, confederate flags, and super mormon followers.
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Edgar posted:Cool, I live in Eagle Mountain where its pretty much Lifted Trucks, confederate flags, and super mormon followers. You got a decent city manager at least. Met him a few times at work conferences. Sucky commute though if you have to come into SLC at all. I'll hit ya up when I'm in town, bucket o crawfish is the bomb.
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RocktheCaulk posted:Yeah poo poo place to be a gentile, you pretty much got Park City or SLC to feel semi normal. They're even building that new temple out this way  Edgar posted:Cool, I live in Eagle Mountain where its pretty much Lifted Trucks, confederate flags, and super mormon followers. Yeah, I know your pain, that's where we're at too. Can count like 7 church spires from my doorstep.
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Dec 27, 2019 05:13
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Yeah Zakutambah u gotta GTFO Utah County. like Rock the Caulk says you'll be first against the wall when they rise up. I'm down for a Utah goon meet, maybe there are breweries on the south side of Salt Lake County? I live in Holladay myself.
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Dec 27, 2019 05:15
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There were some really good resources that had been compiled with the help of ex-mormons I referenced for a bit, and now I can't find the fuckin' things. This was an interesting site though as well. The history of the wives of Joseph Smith. http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/ I mean, when the whole thing is looked at in the context of the time Joseph Smith lived, it's beyond reasonable he made the whole thing up.
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Dec 27, 2019 05:17
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Lots of good places in Southern SLC County we can all meet. Holladay goons buying though  To actually suggest places though a lot of good Korean BBQ places have opened, and Bohemian is pretty legit as well. Could get us free sportspuck tickets for the Grizzlies as well but that's a big drive for the Eagle Mountain guys. Derpies fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Dec 27, 2019 |
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Dec 27, 2019 05:18
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Some food and talk poo poo about the Church? Sign me up.
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Lil Peeler posted:Yeah Zakutambah u gotta GTFO Utah County. like Rock the Caulk says you'll be first against the wall when they rise up. I'm down for a Utah goon meet, maybe there are breweries on the south side of Salt Lake County? I live in Holladay myself. Bohemian has been pretty great the few times we've gone. Red Rock over at Fashion Place doesn't disappoint either. Strap Tank just finished their new brewery/restaurant over at Thanksgiving Point; that they got their license approved is just another testament that the faithful will fold as soon as there's enough money on the table. Probably born out of necessity, but Utah has a pretty lively craft brew scene lol. The annual Brewfest has been a pretty good time the last couple years. And home brewing stores round here are -really- well stocked.
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Zakutambah posted:Bohemian has been pretty great the few times we've gone. Yeah the Brew scene ain't bad, I got friends from all around that know the power of Hop Rising getting you loving obliterated
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Dec 27, 2019 05:23
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Also in Oakland right now where my mom bought her retirement home you can see the new Mormon temple they built on top of the hill and it's like a shining beacon of exploited LDS membership fees
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Their temples are honestly some of the most hideous poo poo. First time I saw the big one down in SLC, I thought it was like a Disney Land prop or something. It's this terrible mis-match of styles; like it's trying to ape classic Gothic architecture, but then they decided to through some medieval and Roman touches in there, finishing it with the gaudiest white and gold accents possible. I need to con one of my architecture nerd mates to come see it, get a proper list of all the styles they've blended together. Almost like some sort of alien was copying human religion.... 
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Dec 27, 2019 05:32
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Zakutambah posted:Their temples are honestly some of the most hideous poo poo. I grew up in the DC area and thought the temple they had in Maryland as a kid was Disneyworld, because it was so huge and gaudy.
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Heh I got married in the Manti Temple I remember the bats that fly around it at night.
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Edgar posted:Heh I got married in the Manti Temple What was it like growing up in a Speed trap?
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I only went to school at Snow for my generals while dating my now-ex during that time. She wanted to get married there so meh. Speed traps though I dunno about that since there is like 3 cops in Sanpete county.
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peanut posted:Mormons also get "patriarchal blessings" that's like Tag yourself. I am Zebulon-Issacharite.
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Edgar posted:Heh I got married in the Manti Temple Holy poo poo, I love it. What level space priest to you need to be to get into where the Master Sword is kept?
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Zakutambah posted:And troublesome things like "black people are black because they are cursed by God" end up getting removed by convenient 'visions' of the current prophet. How do prophets get chosen? Is it something you can achieve by hitting the sweet spot of practicality and manic religiosity or is it more a political thing among competing bloodlines, ie a handful of prominent families have been running the show since the early days and if you're not part of that and not groomed for it from day one, you may as well go back to the herd
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Zakutambah posted:Holy poo poo, I love it. A member of the 70 I believe to see where the seer stone is.
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Zakutambah posted:Holy poo poo, I love it. Air Force Officer
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Bumped the goon meet thread for Utah I made a while back. Let's complain about being minorities while drinking beer together.
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I believe it's chosen from the leadership council thing they have... I can't remember what it's called, something about the apostles? And it's always the most senior member, or something to that effect by tradition. It's why they're always in their 80s or 90s, there's absolutely no risk of someone even slightly sympathetic to non-LDS views getting close to the position. So yeah, it's sounded political. The various groups that form the leadership of the Church. Funny how noone else ever seems to glean these "revelations" from God  That also reminded me of that moment earlier this year where they announce they don't want to be referred to as Mormons anymore. Or LDS. It's to be the full name "The Church of the Latter Day Saints". Good luck with that.
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I was born and raised Mormon in San Jose California and felt like a minority here. And in my early 20s my parents sold their home and went to Utah. My father's health wasn't the best(and I couldn't survive on my own) so I moved with them. I was married to my wife, who I converted, for almost a year and we struggled out there hard. We moved to Highland Utah and then we were quickly given the duty of working the library checkout. Being just a lighter brown color skin and from CA made us immediate outcasts. Eventually the wife and I find jobs at eBay and they require you to work Sundays so we just stop going. And then my wife got a tattoo apprentice job at a place called Happy Valley Tattoo. At this point if felt we were basically blacklisted in the ward we lived in. But working that tattoo shop you would get a lot of wavering mormons wanting a tattoo. Usually they were Provo students but, they always wanted a tattoo under the garments so they would be covered. There was also a flash art wall that had a bunch of "CTR" art that half the time they would choose from. I also remember a club I would frequent near SLC called Area 51(I think) that had two floors. Bottom floor had industrial music and heavy fog machine with at most 3 people at any given time on the floor. The second floor played somewhat pop songs from 8 years prior. This would have been in '08 Now I'm back in California exiled from Zion.
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GreenaBoy posted:I was born and raised Mormon in San Jose California and felt like a minority here. And in my early 20s my parents sold their home and went to Utah. My father's health wasn't the best(and I couldn't survive on my own) so I moved with them. I was married to my wife, who I converted, for almost a year and we struggled out there hard. We moved to Highland Utah and then we were quickly given the duty of working the library checkout. Being just a lighter brown color skin and from CA made us immediate outcasts. 1. I'm from Mtn View let's meet up and talk trash the next time I'm in California. 2. Lmao CTR tattoos 3. I would attend that club
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I remember a lot of CTR rings growing up around mormon kids
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CTR rings are what you get when you are 8 usually after you get baptized. Stands for "Choose The Right" and is supposed to help remind you to be good. All it ever did was turn your finger green from the cheap metal. They do make fancy ones. When I would wear it as a kid, it was often mistaken for the Warner Brothers logo growing up in California.peanut posted:1. I'm from Mtn View let's meet up and talk trash the next time I'm in California. If you got PMs send me a message next time you're in town.
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"Choose the Right" is a compass for adhering to conservative, white-beneficial politics.
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Wait, cheap rings have lead That's how they get the Boomer values, they have the signature Boomer ailment
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Wait, cheap rings have lead If it turns your hand green, then its cheap copper. There's a big copper plant in Louisville that makes all of the distilling equipment for almost all of the bourbon distillery in the country. The workers there always have green flecks in their hair.
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5er posted:"Choose the Right" is a compass for adhering to conservative, white-beneficial politics. Also having your father make you go to youth John Birch Society meetings to try and pound in the right wing ways as well. I don't remember much from it other than some glares. My father finally gave up on it for some reason probably because we aren't white enough.
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just talked with some missionaries for 75 minutes I wanted to send them away after a very short conversation outside but it snowed last night and I didn't want to just have an awkward conversation at the doorway in the cold, so instead I apparently opted to have an even more awkward conversation inside the house for an inordinately longer amount of time. I'm so loving bad at this.  to be fair I think my ultra-christian mom preached more to them than they did to us
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The Grimace posted:to be fair I think my ultra-christian mom preached more to them than they did to us That is so great and makes me cackle. You are still awkward though. Do what my GF did the last time these folks showed up: Violently swing the front door all the way open while nude, scream WHAT?, pause, scream I THOUGHT SO, and slam the door. I feel we haven't seen them in a while
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GreenaBoy posted:CTR rings are what you get when you are 8 usually after you get baptized. Stands for "Choose The Right" and is supposed to help remind you to be good. All it ever did was turn your finger green from the cheap metal. They do make fancy ones. When I would wear it as a kid, it was often mistaken for the Warner Brothers logo growing up in California. I'm gonn a PM you now so it's in my history. We won't be back until Dec 2020… My dad got me this non-toxic advanced CTR ring when I was in college. It's like a veteran memento from the most uneventful deployment. goon_keys.jpg
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RocktheCaulk posted:Or just offer them a beer I tried that once. They (two younger guys) said, "No, thank you. Hey, but is that Halo you're playing? Can we drop in?" gently caress it, yeah. As a rule, I don't invite cultists into my house. Exceptions can always be made for gold-bricking. They came by two more times just to play video games with my roommate and I, not a word about religion.
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Does each mission have like, a target number of converts to be considered a success? Or is it all about the long game and they aren't chasing numbers?
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Missionaries get transfered to new areas/ neighborhoods every few months, so one team of missionaries could find someone, their replacements will teach them, then a third team will baptise them. Expectations are hopeful, but obligations are realistic.
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