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Xanidu · Post by **Xanidu** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:06 pm

Hello everyone. I, Xanidu, am going on a two year mission for my church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, (otherwise know as mormons). Now, I have noticed that there are/were a lot of misconceptions about LDS's(Latter Day Saints). I would simply like to set things straight, so if any of you have questions about our religion I would happy to answer them.

Lady Dragonfly · Post by **Lady Dragonfly** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:17 pm

Hello, Xanidu. Can you tell us please what kind of mission you are embarking on?

wing · Post by **wing** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:39 pm

i think its a mission to tell everyone about the LDS's

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:40 pm

my friend was a mormon and there were these sports night things at the church held by the missionaries there were 4 really cool ones, they were like 20ish so they were near our age so it wasnt like being with parents or refs or anything, and if you had problems you could talk to them...and no one was like excluded from the games, if i actually had to choose a church to go to it would be theres for sure. but the sports nights ended because the missionaries left town and no other missonary wanted to do it anymore...

Lady Dragonfly · Post by **Lady Dragonfly** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:54 pm

wing wrote:i think its a mission to tell everyone about the LDS's

I suppose, but it would be nice to hear from Xanidu about this 2 years mission.

I am all ears.

wing · Post by **wing** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:58 pm

ok. heres a question. how are you guys different from.. say... a baptist church?

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:01 pm

Why do Mormons block the traffic on route 21 in NY during your Hill Cumorah festival? I almost ran a group of those crazy bastards down going 60 mph two years ago. Tell them to stop that before someones car gets ruined. NY people don't brake for religious nuts. They only do that down south. :laugh:

wing · Post by **wing** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:08 pm

Magrus wrote:Why do Mormons block the traffic on route 21 in NY during your Hill Cumorah festival? I almost ran a group of those crazy bastards down going 60 mph two years ago. Tell them to stop that before someones car gets ruined. NY people don't brake for religious nuts. They only do that down south. :laugh:

LOL i duno why but that made my day

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:12 pm

Magrus wrote:Why do Mormons block the traffic on route 21 in NY during your Hill Cumorah festival? I almost ran a group of those crazy bastards down going 60 mph two years ago. Tell them to stop that before someones car gets ruined. NY people don't brake for religious nuts. They only do that down south. :laugh:

umm isnt the part i bolded kind of...you know, a bad joke against a religion that some people could take offensively?

wing · Post by **wing** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:14 pm

i guess...

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:18 pm

Spam lightly, he said. If you can't do that, guys, don't spam at all.

Lady Dragonfly · Post by **Lady Dragonfly** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:18 pm

Where is Xanidy anyway?
I visited Saltlake City several years ago and admired the Temple (from outside) and horse carriages. The next day after we left there was a tornado that damaged the hotel we stayed in.

Xanidu · Post by **Xanidu** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:37 am

whoops sorry it took so long to get back. I went to bed

lol anyway, a mission is when any person from our church desires to serve the lord. They must submit some paper work, then they will receive their call a few weeks later. On the mission, (most missionaries are young men, ages 19-23)the missionary will just go about talking to people and helping out if he can. They will share a message about jesus christ and about the gospel being restored on earth. If the person does not want to listen or they simply dont like what they hear, thats there choice, noone is going to force them to do anything.

Xanidu · Post by **Xanidu** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:43 am

wing wrote:ok. heres a question. how are you guys different from.. say... a baptist church?

Im not sure about what baptists believe but i think they accept jesus christ as their personal saviour(correct me if im wrong). LDS's believe that faith without works is dead. One simply can't get into heaven by believeing that they are going to heaven. They must give of themselves in service. Small and large acts of kindness such as helping someone out with homework when you could be doing something else or helping someone move on a saturday morning instead of sleeping in. Just things that help make peoples lives easier. There are many other things that baptist dont have such as the priesthood, word of wisdom, etc. but i have to go to work right now so ill answer more questions later.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:34 am

My understanding was that Mormons once believed they could only reach a very high level of their heaven if they practiced polygamy--which they did, in considerable numbers at one time. Is this true, and if so, what's the current Mormon theology on this point? And what's your personal opinion of the stated position of your Church?

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:54 am

Xanidu wrote:If the person does not want to listen or they simply dont like what they hear, thats there choice, noone is going to force them to do anything.

Ah... that makes a great deal of sense.
One way in which I have always respected Mormons when they've knocked at the door is that when we've politely stated we have our own beliefs, they have unquestioningly left.
This is something I've always appreciated

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:55 am

fable wrote:Spam lightly, he said. If you can't do that, guys, don't spam at all.

That was an entirely serious question. Even if it was full of my own brand of amusement at the end of it. I really do want to know why police have to drag Mormons off of the main highway of the county they hold their major religious festival every year. I really did almost run over a group of them who got directly in the way of my 1989 Lesabre when I was going 60 mph two years ago while waving signs and shouting at me.

@ Sean, Perhaps. Regardless, if someone steps in front of your car on a highway, they really should be aware they are risking their life and forfeit any right to be offended if someone truly doesn't care what happens one way or the other about it, right? If I stood in front of a line of cars flying towards me, I would fully expect to be hit.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:02 am

Magrus wrote:That was an entirely serious question. Even if it was full of my own brand of amusement at the end of it.

I wasn't addressing your post, Mags. I was referring to Wing's pair of responses. Thought it was pretty obvious, just tried to avoid naming names. Next time, I'll be more direct.

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:54 am

Heh, there was a time the mormons would knock at your door. Now they leave internet messages!

My family had two mormons once, for a week, at my home. They were nice, and I practiced English, but they couldnt move me to become religious.

Let me ask, then:

Why the white shirt and tie even on tropical places at 35 degrees celcius?

Xanidu · Post by **Xanidu** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:53 pm

fable wrote:My understanding was that Mormons once believed they could only reach a very high level of their heaven if they practiced polygamy--which they did, in considerable numbers at one time. Is this true, and if so, what's the current Mormon theology on this point? And what's your personal opinion of the stated position of your Church?

Mormons did practice polygamy at one point in the 1800's but not for the reason you state above. My understanding as I have been taught is that when the saints were moving from the east to the west, there were being constantly persecuted. Many people did not like the fact that Joseph Smith said he saw the God the Father and the Son. So, when mobs and angry people of states such as Missouri came to kick the saints out, many of the men tried to persaude the mobs to not run them out or they created small militias of their own and were either killed or imprisoned. Some men were also killed during the extream conditions as the crossed the plains trying to get to Utah.

Many of the people at this time were either women or small children, all without husbands and fathers. So, to take care of the women and children, men who had not died took on more wifes to take care of them as commanded by the Lord. It was not a sexual marriage as you or I would think of a marriage today. It was a way to make sure that people who did not have a whole family were provided for and taken care of. When the Lord saw that their were enough men to provide for the women, he commanded that the Saints stop the polygamy. This is the way it has been ever since to the current date. My opinion is that it was necessary at the time. I myself do not really like the idea of more than one wife because I would feel unfaithful to the one married for love.