Plus the new mormonic gods drink that tea all the time... I think I have a picture...
Posted on 03/15/2013 9:39:58 PM PDT by Colofornian
Most religious traditions begin with or develop a mystical tradition—a tradition given to the study and direct encounter with the divine, the ineffable, or the transcendent. Somewhat surprisingly, the theme of the mystical has in recent centuries been as prevalent outside of the religious sphere as inside, suggesting that it may be fundamental to the human experience generally. Mysticism leaves its traces in the arts and cultures studied by the humanities.
We also might ask what role mysticism plays in Mormonism. Is there a mystical tradition per se in Mormonism? Are mystical texts present in Mormon scripture? Are there mystical elements in Mormon ritual practice? Is anything constitutively mystical about the Mormon experience of the divine? What place remains for mysticism in a tradition that conflates the heavenly and the earthly? How might aspects of Mormonism compare with more explicitly mystical traditions? What role does the "secular mystical" play in Mormonism?
We are seeking papers on the mystical, whether in literature and art, or the relationship of mysticism to Mormonism. Some topics that might be considered are:
• The psychology of mysticism
• Meditation and mysticism
• Mysticism and conversion experiences (including secular conversions)
• Visions and higher states of consciousness
• Embodiment and out-of-body experiences
• Divinization/deification
• Emptying out and Pure Conscious Events
• Epistemology and the mystic
• Mysticism and nature
• Neuroscience and mysticism
We are interested in the work of all scholars (LDS or those whose work touches on Mormonism) whose research and writing engages the humanities, so the topics aren’t limited to those taking up the conference theme.
Conference Location
The 2013 conference will be held in Provo, Utah at Brigham Young University. Submission Guidelines We encourage scholars in the humanities, arts, history, and social sciences to submit paper proposals or panels. Creative submissions on the theme in story, verse, drama, or performance are also encouraged. Submit your proposal, including a 200-word abstract, through the on-line form at mormonscholars.net. Submission deadline: January 5, 2013.
Submit proposals to agoff@devry.edu
Questions can also be sent to Alan Goff at the email address listed above.
Full details available at the organizer's web site.
and this will be MOST of them!
In reading the questions asked before a mormon can receive a temple recommend, I noticed THIS:
Temple Recommend question #7: "Do you support, affiliate with, or agree with any group or individual whose teachings or practices are contrary to or oppose those accepted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
This is an official command for mormon to shun anyone whose "teachings or practices are contrary to or oppose those accepted" by the mormon church.
I wonder how that command fits with sending out 100,000 mormon missionaries to all those who disbelieve mormon dogma? Mishies have to "affiliate" with these sinners!
Plus the new mormonic gods drink that tea all the time... I think I have a picture...
I also have a picture of one of the goddess wives who breed non-stop in the heavens as the mormonic horndog gods come out to rut...
Same old rhetoric aimed at condemning all Mormons and all who do not believe exactly as you straight to hell - do not pass go - do not collect $100.
Recently, I read that you guys/gals also believe that Seventh Day Adventists are going straight to hell along with us Mormons and all other Christian denominations you loathe.
Thank you for your concern for my eternal soul but that job rightly belongs to my Savior Jesus Christ and He is ready, willing, and able to save my soul. He is my Advocate with the Father.
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Amen.
“Recently, I read that you guys/gals also believe that Seventh Day Adventists are going straight to hell along with us Mormons and all other Christian denominations you loathe.”
When you posted this personal attack on Colofornian, I’m guessing you had in mind a specific place he “condemned a Mormon to hell” or “loathed anyone”?
If so, please post an example. I’ve never seen either.
“Same old rhetoric...”
... of a Mormon blinded of the truth. It be nice if you would address the scripture, or even your own teachings on the matter. But you won’t, because there is nothing you can say contrary to it.
Instead, you seem to think that telling us we believe you’re going to hell is supposed to make us silent or something.
If you die as a Mormon, hell is the only place you can go. Because there is no forgiveness for your sins in the LDS, where your polygamous prophet with 30+ wives, 12 of whom still married to other men, lied to you and claimed that you could work out your own salvation through your self-righteousness and even become a god.
If you knew what you are, and what we are, you would know that you are worthy of hell, and certainly never godhood.
Rom_3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Man, without God, is nothing. Salvation is by the grace of God, not of ourselves, but by the mercy of God only. It is the easiest thing in the world... but you make it distant by your own insistence on works-righteousness and the denial of His word.
Turning it around on us, and attacking us as if your fake Mormon Jesus is sufficient, is simply a diversion.
Your man-made religion and the Word of God are utterly incompatible, and your Mormon Jesus is as worthless as the Jehovah’s Witness Jesus, or the Baha’i Jesus.
There is only ONE God. If the LORD is God, follow him. If Belial is God, follow him. But I’d recommend you’d at least attempt to reconcile your religion with the scripture, before running after Belial.
“Thank you for your concern for my eternal soul but that job rightly belongs to my Savior Jesus Christ and He is ready, willing, and able to save my soul. He is my Advocate with the Father.”
Interesting, so is Jesus simply an advocate or does he hold any divine characteristics for you. If so then being a god himself, separate from the father is he just another in you Polytheistic blend of gods.
Also it is interesting that you claim Christ yet miss out on the very core of his teaching, that we do look out for each other, do minister and if needed snatch from the fire the lost.
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Sadly there are those in the LDS who know exactly what they are doing and the deception they hold over others, Whether you are the victim or an operator matters little in that regard.
As for those of us Christians who fight to expose the LDS, we too know exactly what we are doing, it was laid out very clearly for us in the Bible.
District; you are paTHETic!
It's YOUR Living Prophet® that has condemned you; yet you ignore it all together.
How stupid ARE you?
And which Deseret publication was it found in?
This Sunday must have been a busy bday in MORMONland; as none came out to play on FR...
How you ever noticed that once you ask for fact, any facts, mormons react like vampires sprayed with holy water...?
Why do mormons dislike facts so much? Hmmmmmmmm.
Why do mormons specialize in sharing their feelings so much - especially feelings of victimhood and lashing out in anger when facts are presented. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Because they are in the process of LEAVING MormonISM and becoming a Christian!
(NASB)
28 When He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two men who were demon-possessed met Him as they were coming out of the tombs.
They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way.
29 And they cried out, saying, “What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”
Mark 5:5-7
Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.
6 Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him; 7 and shouting with a loud voice, he said,
“What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!”
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