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Color me apostate

Check out this audio recording from an LDS mission conference. I can only link to it because “Embedding as been disabled by request.” We’ll see how long it stays up.
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It must be a sure sign that I have fallen from the true faith that I think this mission president is completely full of post-processed bio-matter. [...]

Because on-line quizes hold the keys to Truth and Knowledge.

You scored as Existentialist, Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.

Existentialist

 

75%

Cultural Creative

 

69%

Postmodernist

 

63%

Idealist

 

56%

Romanticist

 

38%

Materialist

 

38%

Modernist

 

31%

Fundamentalist

 

31%

What is [...]

Pass it on.

Still another story to add to the growing list. My friends Jim and Fernando were returning from a vacation in Puerto Rico when Fernando was detained in customs because his visa has expired. Jim has returned to Utah, but Fernando is stuck in Puerto Rico seeking legal representation to set up a bond that will [...]

Ouch.

According to my informal observations, most people who are attracted to being psychotherapists like closeness, dislike separation, fear rejection, and suffer guilt readily. They tend to be self-critical, to be overly responsible, and to put other people’s needs before their own. They feel more unentitled than deserving. They try to avoid feeling greed, anger and [...]