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Merryvann capy/bara world's largest rodent 1yr ago (text post) 773 thread views #148587

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@Aevann give them the first ping group and they don't even use it at all (it's been like 2 days)

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Stranger help/less Nonrecovering metadrama addict birdenthusiast 1yr ago #3626111

>Lol most Mormons are pretty far from being deviants.

>There are a lot of Mormon porn addicts though.

:#marseywrongthonk:

The rest is fair though, if one is willing to think long term and have enough backups you're a problem that solves itself :marseybow:

Aren't they worried about your immortal soul etc though?

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Stranger 1yr ago #3626150

Mormons don’t actually believe in heck. There’s three levels of heaven. Top tier awesome heaven for the Mormons who did everything right and got married. Mid tier heaven which is for people who were good but didn’t convert fully or didn’t get married, then low tier heaven for whores and assumedly gays. (Gays that choose to be virgins go to mid tier heaven) Low tier heaven is still pretty sweet tho, you just end up being an angel basically and don’t get your own heaven mansion. There’s also an “outer darkness” which is for people who knew God personally and chose to team up with Satan instead.

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Stranger help/less Nonrecovering metadrama addict birdenthusiast 1yr ago #3626189

If everybody gets to be an angel whats the fricking point???

Never knew how funny Mormon lore is. Sounds a lot more pleasant than those southern crazies, suppose that makes some amount sense for gov agents.

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Stranger 1yr ago #3626217

Yeah the reason there’s no heck is cuz people are products of their circumstances. You can be born to shit people and end up being a robber or smth. If you’d had a better family you would have been good. The whole idea behind Mormonism it to teach people the best way to have happy lives while they’re on earth, not just teach them how to avoid heck. If someone also chooses to turn down god after meeting him in the after life they can voluntarily go to outer darkness (I don’t know why they would tho lol)

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Stranger help/less Nonrecovering metadrama addict birdenthusiast 1yr ago #3626324

That sounds rather contrary to the typical "rightwing moralism" in which people who do bad are bad and thus deserve bad yet aren't most mormons republicans?

Again does really add up with the government thing but repubs also kinda hate the government so I guess that still leaves me confused.

Christianity was born as the religion of the poor so I guess this is just a kind of even more extreme variant of the forgiveness thing.

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Stranger 1yr ago #3626371

Yeah the majority are Repubs but it’s usually for the religious freedom and abortion stuff. The bishop (basically equivalent to an elected preacher) of our ward is actually a Dem and gets along well enough with everyone. I know a ton of right wing Mormons that support food stamps and illegal immigrants and stuff that would typically be considered left wing. My own grandparents helped sponsor an illegal immigrant guy to help him get residency. It’s a weird culture that’s hard to categorize. I’m glad you find it interesting tho :marseyfluffy:

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Stranger help/less Nonrecovering metadrama addict birdenthusiast 1yr ago #3626436

I suppose it's the pitfall of your 2 party system, not that a system with more parties like Norway's aren't forced to make compromises but at least there is some more fluidity in coalitions and voting. (For example the two largest parties Høyre("Right" conservative/capitalist) and Arbeiderpartiet (Labour) will sometimes vote the same on a topic despite further left and right leaning parties opposing it)

It's usually interesting to learn things :marseyautism: and I hear a lot of mentions and tidbits of mormons in many context including sci-fi writings but hardly much about them as a whole.

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Stranger 1yr ago #3626535

Yeah I think the Mormons have always kinda done their own thing politically. We were banned from voting for like 100 years so they had an insulated ecosystem to develop politics. I always smile when I see Mormons in sci-fi. The guy in Fallout :marseyburnedman: and the ship in The Expanse :marseyastronaut: are funny. We have a long in-house tradition of sci-fi and fantasy writers too (Ender’s Game, Battlestar Galactica, Dragonlance, Mistborn, Twilight, etc) Brandon Sanderson said we’re a scifi religion :marseyxd: (Canonically God is a super advanced alien from a planet that orbits a star called Kolob. :marseyufo: )

Anyway I’m glad to answer questions about my weird culture :marseyloveyou: :marseyautismpat: I love learning random shit too. I once got really into reading about Zoroastrianism :marseyrise: