http://www.sexyhealthywealthy.net/2009/03/26/1-does-the-mormon-church-push-for-quick-involvement/ Find yourself, Be yourself Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:17:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.sexyhealthywealthy.net/2009/03/26/1-does-the-mormon-church-push-for-quick-involvement/comment-page-1/#comment-19 This is what I call “The Spirit” Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:39:55 +0000 http://www.sexyhealthywealthy.net/?p=343#comment-19 [...] a comic genius and a great Mormon with a rare world-view…..anyway, this is his comment to this post and I really like it so I’m displaying it here:   “Yes missionaries can be quite [...] [...] a comic genius and a great Mormon with a rare world-view…..anyway, this is his comment to this post and I really like it so I’m displaying it here:   “Yes missionaries can be quite [...]

]]> http://www.sexyhealthywealthy.net/2009/03/26/1-does-the-mormon-church-push-for-quick-involvement/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Jason Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:22:31 +0000 http://www.sexyhealthywealthy.net/?p=343#comment-15 Yes missionaries can be quite manipulative, and down right evil, you have no idea what I mean by evil until you've been a COMPANION to some of these guys. But I must say a word about the nature of what Mormons call the Spirit. You're right, it is what makes you cry at a good movie like Dead Poet's Society, it is the name they give to that collective self that trancends conciousness, that superhumanity that is in us connecting us together. So when we see something that approximates perfection made by a fellow human approaching an ultimate potential of enlightenment such as the cinemetography in Nacho Libre, we feel something, C.S. Lewis calls it JOY, that which reminds us that we are not orignially from here, that our destiny is beyond. The guy who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance calls it QUALITY or that which allows every human to understand objectively if something is quality or not. It is what Victor Frankle calls something I can't remember in his extremely boring book Man's Search For Meaning. It is what the Mormons, and exclusively the Mormons call the SPIRIT. Interestingly other Christians similarly revile Mormons for using this feeling as a barometer for truth. Yet it is what leads us to the ultimate truth of all things, and it, or rather HE has guided me throughout my life in even small desisions. But I agree, using emotions that may or may not be the actual SPIRIT to manipulate people is unethical, especially when they come home from their missions and use this same pattern to sell multilevel marketing stuff like satelite dishes and home security systems. BYU Idaho is a hotbed for recruiting new RM's for this sort of wickedness. Yes missionaries can be quite manipulative, and down right evil, you have no idea what I mean by evil until you’ve been a COMPANION to some of these guys. But I must say a word about the nature of what Mormons call the Spirit. You’re right, it is what makes you cry at a good movie like Dead Poet’s Society, it is the name they give to that collective self that trancends conciousness, that superhumanity that is in us connecting us together. So when we see something that approximates perfection made by a fellow human approaching an ultimate potential of enlightenment such as the cinemetography in Nacho Libre, we feel something, C.S. Lewis calls it JOY, that which reminds us that we are not orignially from here, that our destiny is beyond. The guy who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance calls it QUALITY or that which allows every human to understand objectively if something is quality or not. It is what Victor Frankle calls something I can’t remember in his extremely boring book Man’s Search For Meaning. It is what the Mormons, and exclusively the Mormons call the SPIRIT. Interestingly other Christians similarly revile Mormons for using this feeling as a barometer for truth. Yet it is what leads us to the ultimate truth of all things, and it, or rather HE has guided me throughout my life in even small desisions. But I agree, using emotions that may or may not be the actual SPIRIT to manipulate people is unethical, especially when they come home from their missions and use this same pattern to sell multilevel marketing stuff like satelite dishes and home security systems. BYU Idaho is a hotbed for recruiting new RM’s for this sort of wickedness.

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