Senator

I'm writing this post outside of the forum just in case the bot check wants to check me and blow my post away. This discussion has been extremely instructional to me. I thank the several articulate female voices here that have demonstrated to me what they are trying to say when such phrases as "all men are potential rapists" are used. You have flipped a switch, as it were, in my thinking. Like Smac, I too, retracted into a defensive position. “That's a provocative, unfair and prejudicial statement!” Yes, it is! That’s the point! I think it is meant, among other things, to get our attention. It got Smac’s attention. It got my attention. The thought came to my mind that a woman’s collective default mentality to exercise caution towards all men stems from the trauma of generations of abuse and harm suffered at the hands of men. It’s a function of an evolutional necessity for survival. It’s written into their DNA! And so, I feel absolutely no want nor justification to push back against it. In fact, it’s just the opposite. I have had an overwhelming sense of collective guilt, if you will, for the suffering that my gender has inflicted on women through out the ages. Scars that are so deep that only the actions of infinite loving God can heal and rectify.

Why did you inject their religious classification into the discussion. It is neither relevant nor appropriate. It is as if in order to discredit their argument, you needed to discredit them personally by showing their betrayal to the good name of "Latter-day Saint women in 2026"? Really?

!@#& I am so sick of this Bot crap. Just wrote a response only to be greeted with a picture quiz to find the motorcycles... and blew my post away. 😤 I'm done

I do not take offense. I am not a victim. But I could certainly understand how a victim could take offense at your generalized statement.

Are you also directing this at the women victimized?

It happens numerous times during the same visit, and always when I move from thread to thread. It's really frustrating

Is anyone else being driven bonkers with this Bot protection. I am constantly having to identify crosswalks, bikes, busses, bridges. I can't count how many time I have lost a response post due a bot check. Unless I just doing something wrong, this will likely drive me from this forum. (no clapping)🫵

And ultimately all of the LDS claims to truth and authority boil down to someone's personal spiritual experience. Namely, Joseph Smith. So, yes it is authoritative, to those who believe it.

You don't think Navidad's "non-covenant authority" spiritual experience is authentic? Yet, that's the way it is. What are you going to do about it? Tell them their spiritual experiences can't possibly be true because they don't all align and don't have the correct authority? Ok?! Meanwhile Navidad and scores of other go about their spiritually rich and abiding walk in Christ.

But not necessarily. And I think that is what Navidad is getting at.

If I had to choose between "experience[ing] real influence from the Holy Spirit" or a claim to priesthood authority, I would choose the former any day.

Then I'll file that away in the ol rumor bin

Can you provide any references for these claims?

I dunno. Jesus said that there would be few that find it. I would add that "there would be few that find it beautiful. Why? As you say, "humans"

For what its worth, I appreciate that you have taken the personal initiative to change the dynamic of the discussion. How refreshing it is to observe a discussion and come away actually informed and my understanding broadened. Kudos!