Question prompted by a FairWiki page

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_Jason Bourne
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Re: Question prompted by a FairWiki page

Post by _Jason Bourne »

Bond...James Bond wrote:http://www.fairwiki.org/index.php/Penalties_in_the_endowment

I've stopped posting my Fairwiki reviews on the board because they are getting longer (the series continues on my blog). But I have a quick question for those of you who went through the Temple pre-1990 (No Specifics so this can stay terrestrial!) Do you remember the "penalties" from the endowment ceremony? I ask this because of the quote from the Fairwiki article below (particularly the bolded part).

Critics misrepresent this part of the temple ceremony, which is relatively easy to do since members endowed since April 1990 will have had no direct experience with the penalties mentioned. Likewise, with the passage of time many members have only a vague recollection of of the endowment ceremony before the changes were made.


Replies much appreciated.


Shades:
I tried to make this as terrestrial as possible, but if you need to take it down a notch go for it. :)


I absolutly remember them and still here them and once or twice almost did them as well. I also remember all the other parts dropped to including changes to the event related to Adam and Eve.
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Post by _Jersey Girl »

Bond...James Bond wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:
Who in the world authored that quote? Sounds good "on paper" means next to nothing when analyzed.

Jersey Girl


The FAIR sources for the article were Michael R. Ash and W. John Walsh (isn't that the "America's Most Wanted" guy). Here are their papers.

http://www.mormonfortress.com/changet1.html

http://www.lightplanet.com/Mormons/resp ... hanges.htm

I'll read the papers and see if I find the material for that quote.


Would it be too rude of me to say that based on the incoherency of the quote you supplied, I have no interest at all in reading the "work" of Ash or Walsh further?

Jersey Girl
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