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Mormon churches are also pretty fun to visit, because their architecture is so loving bonkers. It's like opulence and the U.S.'s depraved sense of urban planning put in a blender together.
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God I love the one in San Diego Right by the highway for easy viewing. It's really something to see an alabaster shrine straight out of the end of The Dark Crystal on your way back in from TJ.
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Jul 30, 2014 11:44
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Swan Oat posted:the two belgian restaurants both tout their amazing mussels. are mussels a belgian thing? if so that is a+ in my book because mussels are dope as hell.
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Jul 30, 2014 12:25
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Are you about to make $130 million as the CEO of a company that is struggling because its customer base can't afford anything other than food? Congratulations! You are a titan of capitalism!Matt Phillips posted:The French economist Thomas Piketty could not have dreamed up a better illustration of the problematic and growing income inequality in the US than the Family Dollar-Dollar Tree combination.
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Jul 30, 2014 13:54
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moller posted:Do you know why California is named California? Idaho is a straight up made up word that the lobbyist pushing for statehood invented, claiming it was a Shoshone word for some inspirational bullshit.
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Jul 30, 2014 14:09
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They're kindof disconcerting to be inside of. All the rooms are designed to make one feel a certain way. I got to tour the one in Manhattan before it was consecrated ( or something like that).
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Jul 30, 2014 14:41
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BrandorKP posted:They're kindof disconcerting to be inside of. All the rooms are designed to make one feel a certain way. I got to tour the one in Manhattan before it was consecrated ( or something like that). I went to church with a Mormon friend once and the sanctuary was kinda... off-putting. Couldn't really tell you why, it didn't look much different from any other sanctuary I've been in, it was just uncomfortable to be in somehow. Unrelated: does US law still allow for claiming sanctuary in a church? I imagine not, but typing sanctuary twice made me curious.
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Jul 30, 2014 14:46
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R. Mute posted:it's literally our national dish. mussels and fries. For real? I would eat that every day.
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razorrozar posted:I went to church with a Mormon friend once and the sanctuary was kinda... off-putting. Couldn't really tell you why, it didn't look much different from any other sanctuary I've been in, it was just uncomfortable to be in somehow. Hah, that would be awesome, but no. That was a really, really old-school thing. I'm relatively sure that it went away the same time trial by combat did, if not earlier. Edit: Hah, I'd forgotten about this: quote:Ashford v Thornton (1818) 106 ER 149 is an English law case in the Court of King's Bench that upheld the right of the defendant, on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder, to trial by battle. I suppose you could technically make an argument that in the absence of a specific bill the common-law American states would still preserve this right. Of course that would never work. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Jul 30, 2014 |
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razorrozar posted:Unrelated: does US law still allow for claiming sanctuary in a church? US law never allowed that. English law did.
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Jul 30, 2014 14:55
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What if you are a Highlander?
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That's just the places non-Mormons are allowed to be in too. I'm talking the places you (unless you're Mormon) or I can't go into after the temple really opens. I remember one room was made to appear as if it didn't have walls. There was a lot of white and gold and it was disorienting. A lot of the rooms were smaller than one would think in such a large building, lots of faux sky ceilings too (but really fantastically well done ones). The whole thing was you're supposed to do this and feel this here, before going into the next room where you do that and feel that, etc.
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Jul 30, 2014 15:04
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Churches made to evoke states of mind, how sinister and unprecedented 
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Jul 30, 2014 15:53
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I think I hit bingo on the hick-pop bingo card posted in here after 3 songs of this godawful Pandora station my coworkers are forcing me to listen to please send help I feel my will to live fading away
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SedanChair posted:Churches made to evoke states of mind, how sinister and unprecedented I was forced to go to this church (watch some of their videos if you want to throw up at the unmitigated hatred and bile their self-professed prophet spews) for a while and their sanctuary was less uninviting than the Mormon sanctuary.
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Jul 30, 2014 15:56
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I had Assembly of God relatives growing up, so when we visited I had to go to their church. AoG is just sliiiightly less crazy than Pentecostal and they did the whole "people speaking in tongues in ecstasy while someone else in the congregation is 'moved by the spirit' to translate" and they were always these awful doomsday rapture messages and it used to scare the poo poo out of me 
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Jul 30, 2014 15:58
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The Warszawa posted:Who here loves themselves a michelada? Coming in late for this one, but sweet lord do I love me a Michelada. I've been craving one for weeks.
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i hardly ever went to church as a child, would bet money that i've been to more weddings/funerals in churches than worship services. the first and only time i ever attended a catholic service was in my 25th year when i was trying to get in this catholic lady's pants. gently caress you, god
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Popular Thug Drink posted:i hardly ever went to church as a child, would bet money that i've been to more weddings/funerals in churches than worship services. the first and only time i ever attended a catholic service was in my 25th year when i was trying to get in this catholic lady's pants. gently caress you, god Her name was God? That's weird.
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SedanChair posted:Churches made to evoke states of mind, how sinister and unprecedented But take that and exaggerate it. Then make it a series of smaller rooms that isolate the experience. I know most churches are designed to make me feel a certain way when I go in? Bah whats a good analogy. It's like the difference between St. Peters and the little rooms just for the very rich Italians.
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BrandorKP posted:But take that and exaggerate it. mormonism.txt america.txt
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I didn't go on the internet for an evening so I'm pages behind, but if anyone still cares about Bay Area-chat then there's a pretty cool Pinball Museum in Alameda. You pay some money and there's a ton of pinball machines that are all on freeplay. There's some pop art stuff about pinball too, if you're into that sort of thing. Also if you're a huge nerd there's a computer history museum in Mountain View where you can see a bunch of supercomputers that have less power than your smartphone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4BCniDqD0 edit: After poking around it turns out it probably wasn't worth posting, Poe's law really worked against me on that one. Pythagoras a trois fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Jul 30, 2014 |
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Jul 30, 2014 16:49
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Once my mom let mormons talk to us when we were kids, but we kicked them out because gently caress waking up at 11 am in the summer
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Jul 30, 2014 17:07
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I saw "The Book of Mormon" at the Pantages in LA back in February, and it definitely lives up to the hype. Thought you'd all like to know.
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Jul 30, 2014 17:12
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Where is it that Mormons go door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses? I have never encountered this but according to the Internet it's one of the things they're most known for.
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made of bees posted:Where is it that Mormons go door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses? I have never encountered this but according to the Internet it's one of the things they're most known for. Literally everywhere in the world. If you've ever seen a couple of skinny white nerds in black ties and white shirts on bikes, that's Mormons.
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made of bees posted:Where is it that Mormons go door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses? I have never encountered this but according to the Internet it's one of the things they're most known for. Suddenly I had the image of one family of non-mormons in a Utah neighborhood being completely surrounded by hundreds of squeaky clean white men in black slacks, white button down shirts and black ties, all yammering over each other asking if they can talk to them about Joseph Smith.
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made of bees posted:Where is it that Mormons go door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses? I have never encountered this but according to the Internet it's one of the things they're most known for. I've been visited three times in the past year, but I usually answer the door with a cigarette (politely; I don't blow smoke in their faces or anything) and it makes them go away pretty quick. I'm quitting, though, so before long I'll have to come up with something else 
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I just shut the door in their face; proselytizing door-to-door is about the rudest thing imaginable so I don't see any reason to extend a shred of courtesy back.
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Mormonism isn't Christianity.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Mormonism isn't Christianity. The Untrue Scotsman is on the line for you.
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made of bees posted:Where is it that Mormons go door-to-door like Jehovah's Witnesses? I have never encountered this but according to the Internet it's one of the things they're most known for. Yeah, they're all over the place, but some communities get hit more than others. They didn't tend to stop by many people's houses where I grew up, for example (Napa, CA), but I have friends a couple towns over who have to deal with them every few months. razorrozar posted:The Untrue Scotsman is on the line for you. Well, to be fair, there is a 1700-year old "real Christianity" test that they fail (ie: the Nicene Creed). But yeah, at this point in history it's fair to say they're a "mostly Christian" group.
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Young men who return from their missions are very eligible, so it's always amusing to think of them as fixated on getting some of that sweet demure pusankeh, if only they can convert me 
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Some people don't understand that Joseph Smith didn't just add new chapters to the Bible like he was making his own Bible fanfiction, he went back and did stuff to the already existing Bible based on his whims. This, to me, is what pushes it from "Christianity with some stuff added" to "Separate pagan religion".
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razorrozar posted:I've been visited three times in the past year, but I usually answer the door with a cigarette (politely; I don't blow smoke in their faces or anything) and it makes them go away pretty quick. I'm quitting, though, so before long I'll have to come up with something else Offer them cold water and then politely but firmly decline to take the conversation beyond small, brief plesantries.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Some people don't understand that Joseph Smith didn't just add new chapters to the Bible like he was making his own Bible fanfiction, he went back and did stuff to the already existing Bible based on his whims. This, to me, is what pushes it from "Christianity with some stuff added" to "Separate pagan religion". You're right, but the same is true of everything after the Q source.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Some people don't understand that Joseph Smith didn't just add new chapters to the Bible like he was making his own Bible fanfiction, he went back and did stuff to the already existing Bible based on his whims. This, to me, is what pushes it from "Christianity with some stuff added" to "Separate pagan religion". That's why I've felt that he's more a Muhammad than a Martin Luther. I never got any of them to proselytize me. Maybe my face is too Jewy?
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Talmonis posted:Suddenly I had the image of one family of non-mormons in a Utah neighborhood being completely surrounded by hundreds of squeaky clean white men in black slacks, white button down shirts and black ties, all yammering over each other asking if they can talk to them about Joseph Smith. There's an Assembly of God Church a block from home that apparently has some mid-day meeting where you have to wear slacks, button down shirts and ties and they all walk together to a nearby restaurant for lunch. First time I saw them returning from lunch I thought some Mormon apocalypse was descending upon the neighborhood.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:That's why I've felt that he's more a Muhammad than a Martin Luther. Well, they descend from the lost tribes of Israel, so they're Jews too! Why would they need to convert you? 
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