What is your opinion of FARMS?

[Taq Man]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Just like one can predict the opinions of those who've already made up their minds, namely those of the disaffected of SU and Taq Man. Neither of you are any better than they, you're just the opposite side of the coin, that is all.

Blindness in any variety is ugly.

It is insulting to the extreme to say that my opinions are blind and that I have already made up my mind. I remember well sitting in the MTC and feeling like it was us against the world. I remember the hourly testimony meetings. I remember wanting very badly to have the burning bush experience. It never came. I suppose I am not wired that way. Things simply must make sense on a factual level for me to put any stock in them. Still, I remember believing that Joseph was a Prophet and the Book of Mormon was the word of God so on and so forth. I believed it whole heartedly. I was very shocked and surprised to read about the unsanitized version of History. Particularly as it relates to the early practices of polygamy. The lies that were told bothered me a great deal. I have since done a lot of reading and I am convinced that the church is not what it claims to be. The effort it makes in trying to cover up the warts and the outright deception it practices in its Gospel Doctrine programs is enough to tell any reasonable person that something stinks.

My mind is more open than it has ever been. I don't need the church to be true. I also don't need it to be false. Truth be told I would love nothing more than to have complete faith in the LDS church, it would make life much simpler. But I will have reason and order. Not feelings and herd mentality.