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Monday, April 5, 2010 - 6:47amSanction this postReply
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Le tu spray?  No, wait; the Vikings weren't French.  Never mind!

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Monday, April 5, 2010 - 1:49pmSanction this postReply
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No the Vikings were definitely not French. The Vikings didn't have this as their flag.



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Monday, April 5, 2010 - 5:12pmSanction this postReply
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In fact the Vikings/Norsemen/Normans had a presence in Normandy, whence they launched their conquest of England.

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 6:05pmSanction this postReply
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Voted for "missed the friendships" -- LDS are generally very nice and pleasant people, if you can keep them off the topic of their batshit insane religious beliefs.

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Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 7:25pmSanction this postReply
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I assume you've seen the South Park Episode.

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Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 8:32amSanction this postReply
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Yes, Jim, I miss the Lutherans for the same reasons -- but not enough to re-join them.

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Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 10:05amSanction this postReply
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I learned decades later that a church I attended as a child was by Irving Gill, legendary early-20th century California architect.  Fortunately I had no appreciation for this at the time.

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Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 1:16pmSanction this postReply
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Hah!

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Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 11:06pmSanction this postReply
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Luke -- I will give the Mormons points for persistence. In a 24 hour period a few weeks ago, I had three different sets of Mormons stop by my house -- the local missionary pair, followed by my home teachers an hour or so later, and then next day the really big guns, both the ward's bishop and the stake president.

I suppose I could sic my dog on them, but the dog is a good-natured poodle whose affections can be bought for the price of half of a peanut. And, the Mormons kind of remind me of the poodle, pleasant and eager to please and disinclined to drink beer or coffee, not to mention worshipful of a godlike figure who really doesn't deserve the good press he's gotten, given his well-documented misdeeds. ;)

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Friday, April 9, 2010 - 4:45amSanction this postReply
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Mormons came to my brother's house years ago while he was lifting weights. He invited them inside to lift weights with him while they preached. They declined his generous offer.

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Friday, April 9, 2010 - 6:10amSanction this postReply
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how do they get past the 'god delusion' phase?

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Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 12:43amSanction this postReply
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Luke: The missionaries might have some prohibition against doing weightlifting. They are forbidden, for example, from setting even one foot in any decent-sized body of water (such as the ocean) unless they are baptizing someone.

When you have 50,000 young pups wandering in every corner of the world, and your religion has been proselytizing for 180 years, nearly every conceivable bad thing that could happen to one of them (such as drowning in the ocean) will have happened at least once -- hence the strict rules.

Because, if they thought weightlifting would get them a foot in the door to preach, I suspect most Mormon missionaries would have a go at it, unless otherwise commanded by The Prophet TM.

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Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 12:47amSanction this postReply
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how do they get past the 'god delusion' phase?

Hot non-Mormon women are one of the more common culprits for those who stray.

Likewise, a lot of people who are "gentiles" get baptized into the faith because they fall for some attractive LDS person, and, well, you do what you gotta do.


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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7:46amSanction this postReply
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How can one miss something when one thinks that church is nothing?


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