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Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:14
AM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Courtesy of My
Nephew Jeff
I am very interested to know the answer to this. Did you GENTILE
TTers know you were considered "ridiculous" before or did you just find this
out?
Blaine: Who called anyone
rediculous, Kevin? Did you imagine this? Are you
going paranoid psycho on us? Maybe I missed something--DaveH and I are
the only two Mormons I know of, and I know neither of us has said anything
about anyone being rediculous.
LDS Modus Operandi: Pretend to be loving and sincere, but when among your
own, Mock and Sneer. Image is everything.
School spokesman Duff Tittle told the Salt Lake Tribune the photo had
been altered because tattoos (along with smoking, drinking and premarital sex)
violate the Mormon school's rules. "We have touched up photos for years -- as
far as removing tattoos, covering up bellybuttons, just things like that,"
Tittle says.
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jan/01142004/utah/128942.asp
Blaine: Mr.
Tittle offers a perfectly good reason for covering up the tatoos and
etc. He says, "it's easier to doctor
photos than deal with irate callers demanding to know why athletes are being
immodest or wearing tattoos that many Latter-day Saints deem offensive or a
violation of church standards."
Having been a teacher, I know if a
standard is set for a certain behavior, and a popular person models the
breaking of the standard, others are more likely to follow. In
Psychology, it is called "imitative learning," sometimes referred to as
"social learning,"and is a major source of learned behaviors in students of
all ages. Summed up, it says, "Monkey see, monkey do." Generally,
the more popular the person, the more likely others will follow his/her
lead. Athletes, of course, are popular almost by default.
Mayor outlines program to repair the rift among Mormons and others living
in Salt Lake
"This is what happens when you leave the church" and "You're a traitor to
your religion."
Devotional addresses the disturbing comments and reactions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Dave:
I find it interesting that your nephew is stuck on the same
question
as you and what does the _expression_ "tracted into"
mean?
The apathy does not surprise me; nor does the confusion
concerning
"truth" because there is massive Bible illiteracy out there
even among
those in leadership positions in nominal Churches. Have you
seen any
Barna polls on this?
How is your nephew so certain he is
not being led by the blind? Has
he been born again by the Spirit of God
and is he a follower of the
resurrected Christ? One who walks after the
Spirit daily or is he just
another follower of Joseph Smith and his
BofM?
How sad and what a shame that Christians are so
lethargic.
Grace and Peace,
Judy
From: Dave
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
DAVEH: Note to some of the old TTers........Jeff has
been gone from TT
some 20 ! months now, but he still refers to TT in some
of his posts to
his Mom (who transcribes them for email distribution).
Here is an
excerpt from his latest letter home that I thought some of you
might
find
interesting........
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I
have tracted through the area a couple times since I got here. And
it is
tough. A lot of apathy. Everybody is
Catholic or Baptist. We tracted into
a Baptist preacher last week. He
liked us, but of course we are a cult.
Well anyway he
invited us to this Bible study. We watched him preach,
then went into
the (illegible word), and he tried to bash with us. I
have
come to new conclusions. The things he was saying were more than
ANYTHING I ever heard on Truth Talk. I am so
grateful that we are not
being led by the blind. This is one thing he
said.
I asked him,
"Why would God create somebody to send them to Hell?
Did he know
that?
Him: Of course. God is Holy, He is ! just. He knows everything.
That
person was CREATED to give Him glory by going to Hell.
me:
How's that???
Him: By proving that God is just. . .
Send that
to Dave. . . See what he thinks. Well I am out of room. I
gotta
go.
love,
Jeff
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"Let
your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how
you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6)
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