http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093241/Mitt-Romneys-family-baptized-Ann-Romneys-atheist-father-Mormon-church-year-AFTER-death.html
Ouch.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Mormonism Promises much, gives so little
Mormonism promises so much and gives so little. Or so it seems to me.
The strange thing about Mormonism is that it seems to vary so much from one ward to another, from one branch to another and from one stake to another and one district to another.
In general in most churches everyone knows what the theology is and if you do not like the theology, well, in theory, you can attend a different church. If a Baptist becomes a Methodist, if a Methodist decides to join the Church of England, nobody seems to mind so much.
But if a Mormon decides he or she wants to become a Methodist -for example- on, dear! It's Mormon Church Court time!
Why? Is it the loss of tithing receipts from that member that bothers the Mormon church so much?
The strange thing about Mormonism is that it seems to vary so much from one ward to another, from one branch to another and from one stake to another and one district to another.
In general in most churches everyone knows what the theology is and if you do not like the theology, well, in theory, you can attend a different church. If a Baptist becomes a Methodist, if a Methodist decides to join the Church of England, nobody seems to mind so much.
But if a Mormon decides he or she wants to become a Methodist -for example- on, dear! It's Mormon Church Court time!
Why? Is it the loss of tithing receipts from that member that bothers the Mormon church so much?
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Update
There's been a very unusual winter here. We have had no snow at all here, where I live.
Hardly any frosts, either. The rose trees are still blooming with last year's roses, bulbs are coming up two months early.
Is it global warming or a natural variation? Who knows? Who can say?
The Met Office is predicting a bout of colder weather over the next several days and the next couple of weeks.
We shall see what happens.
Hardly any frosts, either. The rose trees are still blooming with last year's roses, bulbs are coming up two months early.
Is it global warming or a natural variation? Who knows? Who can say?
The Met Office is predicting a bout of colder weather over the next several days and the next couple of weeks.
We shall see what happens.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Happy New Year, Everyone!
I know there has been some pretty nasty s**t going down for some people who read this blog.
I just hope everyone has a better 2012 than they could have hoped for!
I just hope everyone has a better 2012 than they could have hoped for!
Monday, December 26, 2011
Oh, dear! Some presents did not arrive, thanks to Yodel!
The Yodel delivery company has caused much angst and heartache by managing to not deliver many presents and food orders for Christmas!
This story tells you all about it and what you can do about it if it has impacted upon you:
http://thatschristmas.blogspot.com/2011/12/dont-yell-for-yodel.html
This story tells you all about it and what you can do about it if it has impacted upon you:
http://thatschristmas.blogspot.com/2011/12/dont-yell-for-yodel.html
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Notamormon!
Have a fantastic, Mormonism free Christmas, New Year and 2012, in so far as you can!
This will take you to a rather nice online Christmas greeting card
http://thatschristmas.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.html
Good bye for 2011. See you in 2012!
This will take you to a rather nice online Christmas greeting card
http://thatschristmas.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year.html
Good bye for 2011. See you in 2012!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Hard to believe, but Christmas is nearly here, again!
Yes, Christmas is nearly here, again!
I have got most of the presents sorted out -need to buy some wrapping paper, however- and we will need some Vodka for our Lithuanian neighbour/friend, plus some cards and one or two other items.
Got to get the turkey and the vegetables, some beer and table wine, some Champagne and that's about it!
We have had a problem with some items being stolen before they could be delivered
http://thats-business.blogspot.com/2011/12/unknown-number-of-christmas-parcels.html
Too late to deal with that now, though.
But all sorts of fun is going on here!
http://thatschristmas.blogspot.com
and here!
http://thatsfoodanddrink.blogspot.com
Hope you all have a great Christmas and a good New Year!
I have got most of the presents sorted out -need to buy some wrapping paper, however- and we will need some Vodka for our Lithuanian neighbour/friend, plus some cards and one or two other items.
Got to get the turkey and the vegetables, some beer and table wine, some Champagne and that's about it!
We have had a problem with some items being stolen before they could be delivered
http://thats-business.blogspot.com/2011/12/unknown-number-of-christmas-parcels.html
Too late to deal with that now, though.
But all sorts of fun is going on here!
http://thatschristmas.blogspot.com
and here!
http://thatsfoodanddrink.blogspot.com
Hope you all have a great Christmas and a good New Year!
Monday, December 12, 2011
Are Mormons Christians? Is Mormonism Christian?
Are Mormons Christian? The answer to that questions is in most cases, yes, they are.
But is Mormonism Christian? That is an entirely different matter.
When is a secret agent a secret agent?
This might not seem connected, but it is.
Not many years ago a case came to court that seemed like the worst kind of fictional plot for a pot-boiler of a novel.
A man approached a group of college friends and he wheedled his way into their confidences.
Eventually he was able to produce evidence that he was an officer in MI6 and that he was spying on a fellow student who was Irish and, he told them, a member of the Provisional IRA and in charge of a local IRA cell. He pointed out to some perceived inconsistencies in the Irish student's behaviour and he was able to convince them that what he told them was the truth.
The man even became the lover of one of the group and, I seem to recall, fathered a child by her.
He recruited them into MI6 as agents and had them undertake missions.
Eventually he told them that they had somehow had their covers blown and he made them flee for their lives.
They spent several years fleeing from place to place, taking up whatever lowly paid job they could, always fearful for their lives. He made them get money from their families whenever they could.
This carried on until, one day, the police arrested the MI6 agent. Who, of course, turned out not to have been an MI6 agent at all.
So although the people who he recruited had been convinced that they were MI6 agents, who even had documents prepared by the alleged MI6 agent to prove that they were MI6 agents, they were, in reality, not MI6 agents at all. They were, instead, victims of a wicked, calculated fraud by a man who was an amoral fantasist.
There is a very strong parallel with Mormonism, here.
Mormons have written, documentary evidence that they are Christians. They are members of record of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their Elders have their written Lines of Authority.
But they are like the poor souls who were deluded into thinking that they were MI6 agents. All of the documentary evidence that shows they are members of the Christian Church are false papers based on a long-term fraud invented and perpetrated by a group of men, including Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
But is Mormonism Christian? That is an entirely different matter.
When is a secret agent a secret agent?
This might not seem connected, but it is.
Not many years ago a case came to court that seemed like the worst kind of fictional plot for a pot-boiler of a novel.
A man approached a group of college friends and he wheedled his way into their confidences.
Eventually he was able to produce evidence that he was an officer in MI6 and that he was spying on a fellow student who was Irish and, he told them, a member of the Provisional IRA and in charge of a local IRA cell. He pointed out to some perceived inconsistencies in the Irish student's behaviour and he was able to convince them that what he told them was the truth.
The man even became the lover of one of the group and, I seem to recall, fathered a child by her.
He recruited them into MI6 as agents and had them undertake missions.
Eventually he told them that they had somehow had their covers blown and he made them flee for their lives.
They spent several years fleeing from place to place, taking up whatever lowly paid job they could, always fearful for their lives. He made them get money from their families whenever they could.
This carried on until, one day, the police arrested the MI6 agent. Who, of course, turned out not to have been an MI6 agent at all.
So although the people who he recruited had been convinced that they were MI6 agents, who even had documents prepared by the alleged MI6 agent to prove that they were MI6 agents, they were, in reality, not MI6 agents at all. They were, instead, victims of a wicked, calculated fraud by a man who was an amoral fantasist.
There is a very strong parallel with Mormonism, here.
Mormons have written, documentary evidence that they are Christians. They are members of record of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their Elders have their written Lines of Authority.
But they are like the poor souls who were deluded into thinking that they were MI6 agents. All of the documentary evidence that shows they are members of the Christian Church are false papers based on a long-term fraud invented and perpetrated by a group of men, including Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Happy Thanks Giving and Good evening, followers!
I just thought I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all of my American readers/followers a Happy Thanks Giving.
I hope that all is going well and that you are all enjoying yourselves as much as you can.
I hope that all is going well and that you are all enjoying yourselves as much as you can.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Whinefest
I have a job. The department I work in is chronically understaffed. There should ideally be 3 or 4 people in it, but there's just me.
This means that arranging holidays is a nightmare and if I have a cold although I'd love to remain at home and coddle it I have to battle on and work.
Some of my colleagues have whined and say: "You shouldn't come to work with a cold! You should stay at home!"
My reply was: "You do realise that if I stayed at home, you would be in difficulties?"
"How?" was the truculent reply.
"Because if I do not come into work then you will not be able to do your jobs and you will lose your commission for the month!"
The worst offender actually becomes very offensive. Forgetting that she regularly brings colds into work!
This means that arranging holidays is a nightmare and if I have a cold although I'd love to remain at home and coddle it I have to battle on and work.
Some of my colleagues have whined and say: "You shouldn't come to work with a cold! You should stay at home!"
My reply was: "You do realise that if I stayed at home, you would be in difficulties?"
"How?" was the truculent reply.
"Because if I do not come into work then you will not be able to do your jobs and you will lose your commission for the month!"
The worst offender actually becomes very offensive. Forgetting that she regularly brings colds into work!
Sunday, November 06, 2011
Two new blogs added to the Notamormon exmo blog list
Notamormon would like to thank the latest two additions to the list of exmormon blogs.
You can find it at the link on the Link section to the right of the site, or here http://notamormon.blogspot.com/2006/04/ex-mormon-websites.html
You can find it at the link on the Link section to the right of the site, or here http://notamormon.blogspot.com/2006/04/ex-mormon-websites.html
"Well, what harm can Mormonism do?" Let me explain
If the last time you attended the Mormon Church was before the Three Hour Block Programme was introduced, I doubt you would recognise it as the same Mormon Church.
Regular ward or branch socials? Theatrical presentations and the like? Things of the past, mainly. Rummage or jumble sales, bring and buys? Banned by edict from Salt Lake City.
Remember Sunday School in the morning, with Sacrament meeting in the evening? All gone! All absorbed into the mad, frantic and spiritually sapping Three Hour Block Programme.
Why? Consolidation. All must be the same. You will be assimilated, Borg-style.
This happened because the Mormon Church is run by its civil service, by managers, not by the clergy. Because, of course, the Mormon Church has no clergy.
"Well, what harm can Mormonism do?" An interesting and fair question. Let me direct you to www.exmormon.org. Read the blogs there, read the posts, then read the heart-wrenching stories about how people struggled when they became aware that the Mormon Church was not what they thought it was. When they realised that it was part MLM, part Ponzi scheme and part corporate behemoth, without any real spirit, or soul or religion, when they realised that the name Jesus Christ over the door was a hollow mockery of Jesus Christ.
Read how families are split apart by the Mormon Church, how it sucks money, time, spirit, heart and even the last vestiges of hope from the membership, from the poor, from the downtrodden, from the needy. The very people that it should be helping, it is actually crushing and trampling underfoot.
Sometimes good people within the Mormon Church do good for others. But please do not be deluded! That is against the backdrop of the whole evil edifice that is Mormonism! The great building, the whited sepulchre built by Joseph Smith, a 19th century con artist that made Charles Ponzi seem like a no-account dilettante piker of a confidence man, when compared to Smith whose claim to fame is that his con is still operating over 180 years later!
Regular ward or branch socials? Theatrical presentations and the like? Things of the past, mainly. Rummage or jumble sales, bring and buys? Banned by edict from Salt Lake City.
Remember Sunday School in the morning, with Sacrament meeting in the evening? All gone! All absorbed into the mad, frantic and spiritually sapping Three Hour Block Programme.
Why? Consolidation. All must be the same. You will be assimilated, Borg-style.
This happened because the Mormon Church is run by its civil service, by managers, not by the clergy. Because, of course, the Mormon Church has no clergy.
"Well, what harm can Mormonism do?" An interesting and fair question. Let me direct you to www.exmormon.org. Read the blogs there, read the posts, then read the heart-wrenching stories about how people struggled when they became aware that the Mormon Church was not what they thought it was. When they realised that it was part MLM, part Ponzi scheme and part corporate behemoth, without any real spirit, or soul or religion, when they realised that the name Jesus Christ over the door was a hollow mockery of Jesus Christ.
Read how families are split apart by the Mormon Church, how it sucks money, time, spirit, heart and even the last vestiges of hope from the membership, from the poor, from the downtrodden, from the needy. The very people that it should be helping, it is actually crushing and trampling underfoot.
Sometimes good people within the Mormon Church do good for others. But please do not be deluded! That is against the backdrop of the whole evil edifice that is Mormonism! The great building, the whited sepulchre built by Joseph Smith, a 19th century con artist that made Charles Ponzi seem like a no-account dilettante piker of a confidence man, when compared to Smith whose claim to fame is that his con is still operating over 180 years later!
Friday, November 04, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Halloween
My first experiences of Halloween was courtesy of the Mormon Church. Until we were introduced to the idea of Trick or Treat and the Halloween Party, Halloween had been nothing but some apple bobbing and very little else.
But the Mormon Church, being an almost exclusively American institution, changed all that and, in its own way, helped pave the way for a revival of Halloween activities that, until fairly recent times, been a largely forgotten and moribund festival, with only a few small pockets of places in Britain where the old ways had held sway, still marking Halloween and the older native religious festivities that had taken place before the first Christian missionaries had found their way to the British Isles.
Still, happy Halloween, All Saints Eve, Samhain to everyone, believers or otherwise!
But the Mormon Church, being an almost exclusively American institution, changed all that and, in its own way, helped pave the way for a revival of Halloween activities that, until fairly recent times, been a largely forgotten and moribund festival, with only a few small pockets of places in Britain where the old ways had held sway, still marking Halloween and the older native religious festivities that had taken place before the first Christian missionaries had found their way to the British Isles.
Still, happy Halloween, All Saints Eve, Samhain to everyone, believers or otherwise!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Heading toward Christmas
It's late October and as we head toward the festival of Christmas it seems strange to look back on the year behind us.
Last Christmas I missed my company Chirstmas party because I fell ill with the flu. Colleagues who had not had the flu shot were much worse off than me and spent the entire Christmas and New Year ill in bed.
The year seemed to go very quickly and in September I found myself in California. Something I'd always wanted to do but never thought I would achieve.
California is a very beautiful country / state and I would like to visit it again. Will I be able to do so? Maybe not, but we shall see.
Last Christmas I missed my company Chirstmas party because I fell ill with the flu. Colleagues who had not had the flu shot were much worse off than me and spent the entire Christmas and New Year ill in bed.
The year seemed to go very quickly and in September I found myself in California. Something I'd always wanted to do but never thought I would achieve.
California is a very beautiful country / state and I would like to visit it again. Will I be able to do so? Maybe not, but we shall see.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Finally got the antibiotics
After a week of coughing and keeping Mrs Matt awake at nights, and having work colleagues complain about his terrible cough, Matt finally went to the doctor where he was diagnosed with a nasty chest infection.
It happens every October, a viral cold leads to a secondary bacterial infection which causes a nasty, productive cough. And I finally have to get the antibiotics. It's so regular you could almost set your clock by it.
My wife works at the hospital in which my doctor rents space in the grounds so I waited for my wife to finish work and we were going to the late duty chemist's shop when we found someone collapsed at the side of the road on the pavement/sidewalk.
He was on his side and snoring. Of course, there was the possibility that he was drunk, but the last time we found someone collapsed like that he had gone into a diabetic coma, so no point in making judgements on people and someone who is drunk could choke to death. We had some problems getting the emergency operator to understand the location but eventually an ambulance, a police car and a police can turned up.
We then left to continue our journey home. Too late to get my prescription filled, so I'll get that done this morning in the chemist that is round the corner from my office.
It happens every October, a viral cold leads to a secondary bacterial infection which causes a nasty, productive cough. And I finally have to get the antibiotics. It's so regular you could almost set your clock by it.
My wife works at the hospital in which my doctor rents space in the grounds so I waited for my wife to finish work and we were going to the late duty chemist's shop when we found someone collapsed at the side of the road on the pavement/sidewalk.
He was on his side and snoring. Of course, there was the possibility that he was drunk, but the last time we found someone collapsed like that he had gone into a diabetic coma, so no point in making judgements on people and someone who is drunk could choke to death. We had some problems getting the emergency operator to understand the location but eventually an ambulance, a police car and a police can turned up.
We then left to continue our journey home. Too late to get my prescription filled, so I'll get that done this morning in the chemist that is round the corner from my office.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Oops! Memory loss of computer at work!
My computer at work has an 8.5Gb hard drive. It suddenly flashed up a "low memory on C Drive" warning. Lucky, really, as the IT engineer happened to be on site.
Apparently being down to only 23Mb of available memory from 8.5Gb is NOT a good thing.
He cleaned 1.5Gg of crap off it (mainly Windows error reports and bits of random Microsoft bloatware, I think) but we are looking at a second drive, internal or external for storing images, etc.
Apparently being down to only 23Mb of available memory from 8.5Gb is NOT a good thing.
He cleaned 1.5Gg of crap off it (mainly Windows error reports and bits of random Microsoft bloatware, I think) but we are looking at a second drive, internal or external for storing images, etc.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Arm news
My arm was just badly bruised, it seems.
The lump is a haematoma which will, they hope, go down, eventually.
It is a tiny bit smaller, but I fear it will remain as a nasty lump for some time to come, if not for good.
Oh well. We shall just have to wait and see.
The lump is a haematoma which will, they hope, go down, eventually.
It is a tiny bit smaller, but I fear it will remain as a nasty lump for some time to come, if not for good.
Oh well. We shall just have to wait and see.
More guilt, my dears?
Doubtless in the days and weeks after the Mormon Church General Conference the faithful and less-than-faithful members of the Mormon Church are feeling guilty or, probably, even more guilty than they did before.
They will have been convinced that they should have given the Mormon Church more of their time, more of their money, have done more to spread the word of the Gospel according to Joseph Smith to their friends, neighbours and, indeed, the rest of the world.
They will have been convinced, too, that they should "lengthen their stride", "attend the temple more", "put their shoulder to the wheel", "magnify their calling", "strengthen their testimony", "close their cover before striking" or some other such meaningless platitude.
The General Conference of the Mormon Church: A place where elderly executives of what can be described as the world's oldest MLM pyramid selling scheme or, more accurately, the world's oldest and most successful Ponzi scheme gather to shake down their victims one more time.
They will have been convinced that they should have given the Mormon Church more of their time, more of their money, have done more to spread the word of the Gospel according to Joseph Smith to their friends, neighbours and, indeed, the rest of the world.
They will have been convinced, too, that they should "lengthen their stride", "attend the temple more", "put their shoulder to the wheel", "magnify their calling", "strengthen their testimony", "close their cover before striking" or some other such meaningless platitude.
The General Conference of the Mormon Church: A place where elderly executives of what can be described as the world's oldest MLM pyramid selling scheme or, more accurately, the world's oldest and most successful Ponzi scheme gather to shake down their victims one more time.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Trip to the doctor is indicated
Last week I slipped on some mud and badly hurt my arm.
There was a hell of a lump on my arm just above my elbow, so I visited A&E, had an X-Ray and was told it was not broken, but badly bruised. I was given some powerful NSAI tablets and sent on my way.
A week later the lump has not shown any significant decrease in size, so I am going to visit my doctor and have them take a look at it.
There was a hell of a lump on my arm just above my elbow, so I visited A&E, had an X-Ray and was told it was not broken, but badly bruised. I was given some powerful NSAI tablets and sent on my way.
A week later the lump has not shown any significant decrease in size, so I am going to visit my doctor and have them take a look at it.
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