A poll for everybody but Mormons

Katzpur · Dec 4, 2005

This is just to satisfy my personal curiousity and nothing more. I don't want LDS posters to respond because it would more or less invalidate the results. I'm not looking for a debate or even a discussion, though if you would like to comment, that's fine. I'm mostly just curious about the numbers. This is one of those polls where you can vote more than once, so keep that in mind as you read through the options.

Edit: Darn! I messed up and only set up the poll to allow you to vote once. My mistake. Sorry.

michel · Dec 4, 2005

Blast! I made a mistake;"To the best of my knowledge, I've never ever met a Mormon. ".

That is wrong, because I have met you, and the other mormons here........or did you mean in our own personal lives, face to face ? (Thinkinbg about it that must be what you meant)

Terrywoodenpic · Dec 4, 2005

There was a mormon in one of the companies I worked for,
but I never met him,he was in a section about a mile away and kept him self to him self.

Terry________________
Amen! Truly I say to you: Gather in my name. I am with you.

Katzpur · Dec 4, 2005

michel said:
Blast! I made a mistake;"To the best of my knowledge, I've never ever met a Mormon. ".

That is wrong, because I have met you, and the other mormons here........or did you mean in our own personal lives, face to face ? (Thinkinbg about it that must be what you meant)

I meant face to face, michel. So you didn't make a mistake after all.

Bangbang · Dec 4, 2005

I have had debates with them decades ago. I was just thinking that if I converted I would move to Utah get another wife then my current wife would leave :biglaugh: me and I would be happy again.

Katzpur · Dec 4, 2005

Bangbang said:
I have had debates with them decades ago. I was just thinking that if I converted I would move to Utah get another wife then my current wife would leave :biglaugh: me and I would be happy again.

Yeah, I guess you could go about it that way. Or you could just ask her for a divorce and save yourself the trouble of a move. By the way, we don't practice polygamy so if you were to move to Utah, you couldn't be a member of our Church anyway. Sorry to disappoint you.

Bangbang · Dec 4, 2005

Katzpur said:
Yeah, I guess you could go about it that way. Or you could just ask her for a divorce and save yourself the trouble of a move. By the way, we don't practice polygamy so if you were to move to Utah, you couldn't be a member of our Church anyway. Sorry to disappoint you.

OK...I did some research. Thankyou for correcting me. So I need to become a Fundamentalist Mormon to carry on my plan. :biglaugh:

The polygamist groups in Utah have been called fundamentalist Mormons ever since the church abandoned the practice of polygamy. I never met an honest person yet who didn't understand that Fundamentalist Mormons are those members of the Mormon faith that still advocate the practice of polygamy and other similar teachings of the early church.

http://www.absalom.com/mormon/apostasy/polygamy.html

SoyLeche · Dec 4, 2005

Katz -

Just a few ideas for next time:

Is it possible to make a poll in which you can give multiple responses? Your options don't seem to be mutually exclusive

It would be nice if there were an option of "I am a Mormon" - just so that we could feel like we are participating in some way or another.

FFH · Dec 4, 2005

I think it is a great poll. I have learned a lot from this poll.

glasgowchick · Dec 4, 2005

Hi Katz, I studied with the Mormons oh about 7 years ago who came around to my house once a week for about maybe three months or so..Two lovely young men, one was called Elder Alm or something and the other was Elder adams..I used to cook them their supper, maybe some spaggetti bolognese. we had a LDS church down the street from were I lived but for some reason it was shut down, I used to see quite a few mormons going around but not as much now although I still see them here and there.

Katzpur · Dec 4, 2005

Bangbang said:
The polygamist groups in Utah have been called fundamentalist Mormons ever since the church abandoned the practice of polygamy. I never met an honest person yet who didn't understand that Fundamentalist Mormons are those members of the Mormon faith that still advocate the practice of polygamy and other similar teachings of the early church.

Bangbang,

This thread is not about polygamy. If you want to talk about polygamy, start a thread about polygamy. We are talking about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are not talking about "Fundamentalist Mormons." There is actually no such thing as "The Mormon Church." Polygamists in Utah or elsewhere may call themselves "Fundamentalist Mormons" if they wish. They aren't members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, though. If they ever were, they have since been excommunicated.

Solon · Dec 4, 2005

Yep, one of my friends in our Road is a morman, strangely her husband is not. She's a very pleasant and ernest lady. She once give me the Book of Mormen. I didn't read it, but to her credit, she never tried to convert me or anything like that. We still have interesting discussions when I see her. If anything, I think she's rather naive, but well meaning.

S

Suzy · Dec 4, 2005

Hello Katzpur

I remember about 18 years ago now,2 Mormon gentlemen came to my door. I remember it well because it was around the same time that I had started studying the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses. I had a short discussion with them and I asked them if they could come back again when my husband would be at home too. I didnt feel comfortable asking them indoors without him being there. They never did come back though. I am not criticising them for not returning,I know my self that sometimes it is difficult to find someone home again after you have spoken with them once.

I have just remembered somthing else. I am not sure but I think a lady that I worked with in a factory,over 25 years ago now. May have said she was a Mormon. I think she was but I cant remember for sure.

Ardent Listener · Dec 4, 2005

This is an interesting topic, but the poll should have allowed us to pick more than one choice, which is an option while setting it up. (I just read that we can, but it did not work for me when I tried to vote twice.)

I have had co-workers and still have friends who are members of the LDS church. I have also talked to their mission workers. They were nice guys who could be seen walking around our town for weeks. They must have walked 10 or 15 miles per day.

robtex · Dec 4, 2005

Katzpur said:
This is just to satisfy my personal curiousity and nothing more. I don't want LDS posters to respond because it would more or less invalidate the results. I'm not looking for a debate or even a discussion, though if you would like to comment, that's fine. I'm mostly just curious about the numbers. This is one of those polls where you can vote more than once, so keep that in mind as you read through the options.

Katz, one could not vote multiple times. I voted been visited by mormons but I also know a deconverted Mormon. He still believed in God last time I spoke to him, which was 10 years ago, but rejecting the teachings of your church. He lost his way in your faith while doing missionary work in NY state I believe.

In northern Cali I talked to two mormon men who wore name tags. They came by about once a week and tried to convince me to come to their church. I politely declined but as persistant as they were as long as I wasn't threating or mean (which I wasn't ) they came back again and again. I figure all in all I talked to those two about 10-15 times and than I moved which broke our contact.

The Black Whirlwind · Dec 4, 2005

i've never met a mormon, i don't think there is even a mormon church around here.

Yerda · Dec 4, 2005

I've spoken to Mormon people on quite a few occasions. They've all been nice people.

Katzpur · Dec 4, 2005

robtex said:
Katz, one could not vote multiple times.

Darn! I know. I blew it. It was my intention to set it up so that people could vote multiple times, but I was in a hurry and spaced it. Sorry.

Aqualung · Dec 4, 2005

CAn I vote for what it was before I joined?

Popeyesays · Dec 4, 2005

Katzpur said:
This is just to satisfy my personal curiousity and nothing more. I don't want LDS posters to respond because it would more or less invalidate the results. I'm not looking for a debate or even a discussion, though if you would like to comment, that's fine. I'm mostly just curious about the numbers. This is one of those polls where you can vote more than once, so keep that in mind as you read through the options.

But it only lets you pick one. I have talked with mormon missionaries on many occasions. Heck, I lived for nearly three years in Pocatello, Idaho which has a higher concentration of LDS members than Salt Lake City.

I have also known individuals who were ex-Mormons.

So put me down for two and three above.

Regards,
Scott:149:

A poll for everybody but Mormons

What has your interaction with Mormons been?

I have family members, friends, neighbors or co-workers who are LDS.

I have spoken to Mormon missionaries on the street or when they came to my door.

I know ex-Mormons or baptized Mormons who no longer practice their religion.

To the best of my knowledge, I've never ever met a Mormon.

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