question for a mormon

[Anonymous]

I've been curious about this:
Do ya'll judge us non-LDSers when we drink coffee or alcohol in front of you in a professional setting? Not a lot, just one serving. please explain your answer.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

and whats up with the magical underpants?

and do you REALLY believe Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon by wearing magical glasses while looking down a well?

[Anonymous]

Could we try to be respectful?

I have one too. What's the really big church used for off the beltway. Do you have really really big church services there every Sunday or only for some occasions? If some occasions, what are they besides weddings and bonding...sealing..."supermarriage"?

[hedgehog]

Anonymous wrote:I've been curious about this:
Do ya'll judge us non-LDSers when we drink coffee or alcohol in front of you in a professional setting? Not a lot, just one serving. please explain your answer.

Thanks!

Why would they, if you are not LDS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been curious about this:
Do ya'll judge us non-LDSers when we drink coffee or alcohol in front of you in a professional setting? Not a lot, just one serving. please explain your answer.

Thanks!

Do you also wonder if Jewish folk jusge you for eating bacon or shrimp? No? Why is this any different?

[Anonymous]

DO Jewish people judge non-Jews for eating bacon and shrimp? What about bacon-wrapped shrimp in a cream sauce?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DO Jewish people judge non-Jews for eating bacon and shrimp? What about bacon-wrapped shrimp in a cream sauce?

Followed by a soda while wearing a thong in a non professional setting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DO Jewish people judge non-Jews for eating bacon and shrimp? What about bacon-wrapped shrimp in a cream sauce?

No because only Jewish people are supposed to keep kosher

[Anonymous]

Considering most every mormon I have ever met has been extremely nice and refreshingly positive, I highly doubt they read these boards.

[Anonymous]

The temple is used for several major events in a persons life. The first time you go to temple is before your mission or before you get married in the temple. You have to receive permission to go to the temple from your local church officials to go. They have several rooms that explain the meaning of life. You get a secret name, you get your protective underwear. They show you a movie, tell you how to get to Heaven - watch Big Love if you have more questions.

You also get married in the temple if you are allowed. You wear special temple clothes when inside. Only people allowed in the temple can attend your wedding if this is the case so they tend to be smaller affairs. The ceremony is different than your traditional Christian or Jewish wedding. The non-Mormons and the less active Mormons hang out outside and then you all take pictures outside. Some couples have a ring ceremony at their ward church (the local, every Sunday place) where everyone, even non-LDS people, is welcome. Men may marry in the temple any time he gets married. Women can only have a temple wedding the first time. Some LDS don't have temple wedding for whatever reason, many don't live as close to a temple as we do for example or have parents who are not LDS. They just have regular weddings at the ward/church. These weddings do not seal for eternity as temple weddings do. They also baptise dead people at the temple.

[Anonymous]

The Mormon religion doesn't seem any more bizarre to me than any other religion. I'm a direct descendent of Brigham Young so I come from Mormons but my parents were atheist. My mom had been raised strictly Mormon but she rejected the whole thing. The only thing I think is a bit weirder about Mormons is that they can convert family members after they are dead. My grandmother did this to my grandfather who was an atheist. Not really fair.

[Anonymous]

Magic underwear?? Explain.

Can someone please explain 'keeping kosher' to me, as well?

[Anonymous]

You don't think that the whole thing about becoming a god of your own planet (for men only) is a little weirder than most religions? You also don't think the thing about translating a book made out of gold wearing magic glasses made from rocks touched by the hand of god is a little weirder than most religions?

[Anonymous]

Women can only have a temple wedding the first time.

I don't believe that this is true. What IS true is that a man can be "sealed" (married forever and ever after death and so on) to lots and lots of women, but that a woman can be sealed to only one man. If a woman gets a temple divorce, she can be sealed to a different man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Mormon religion doesn't seem any more bizarre to me than any other religion. I'm a direct descendent of Brigham Young so I come from Mormons but my parents were atheist. My mom had been raised strictly Mormon but she rejected the whole thing. The only thing I think is a bit weirder about Mormons is that they can convert family members after they are dead. My grandmother did this to my grandfather who was an atheist. Not really fair.

As an atheist, I can say definitively that it wouldn't bother me. In fact, the idea that you can "convert family members after they are dead" is pretty nonsensical. If someone claims to have a magical healing potato, and I think they're nuts, I'm probably not going to care if--after I'm dead--they put in a good word for me with their supernatural spud.