@MattTestifies Always funny when they fall back to "hE's PrObAbLy GeTtInG pAiD bY tHe ChUrCh tO pOsT". 🤣🤣🤣
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Good Old Bill Door
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Good Old Bill Door
@ReaperManBill
Jesus Christ is my King! Child of God ∙ Child of the Covenant ∙ Disciple of Jesus Christ
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If you’re not photographing yourself taking photographs, are you even photographing?
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@Manhattva @tvheidihatch Weird how all the leftist heroes are pedos.
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@tvheidihatch Serious question.
Why are these guys mad about Ceasar Chavez, when Harvey milk is just as degenerate if not worse?
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SLC Council on Cesar Chavez
“We are aware of recent reports regarding Cesar Chavez, a civil rights advocate, and recognize the gravity of the concerns being raised. Any type of violence contradicts the values of our city, and we stand with survivors of sexual assault while respecting their voices. We will continue to monitor developments and consider next steps as more information becomes available.
Victims of sexual abuse may contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline for free and confidential help: 1- 800-656-HOPE (4673).”
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@NoblestCalling Our chapels and temples are always packed, and we can't build new ones fast enough. But that's probably just that we're using the wrong methodology for measuring retention.
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People love to write you a novel like this when you bring up our baptism numbers, meanwhile they have no understanding of the significance of the unit number graph also going up
Byzantine, TX@byzantinetx
Pew Research Center surveys, including the most recent iterations of the Religious Landscape Study (2023–2024 data), address retention differently. They report that 54 percent of individuals raised in the church continue to identify as Latter-day Saints into adulthood (indicating a 46 percent disaffiliation rate for birth members). Pew analyses do not isolate converts as a distinct cohort in public releases, but cross-study comparisons indicate that convert retention and activity rates are lower than those for individuals raised in the faith. No comprehensive, peer-reviewed global update superseding the Mauss-era and Religious Studies Center frameworks has emerged in post-2020 scholarship, though anecdotal and regional missionary reports continue to reference the same order of magnitude. Measurement caveats apply uniformly across sources: “leaving” encompasses inactivity (the predominant outcome) rather than formal resignation or excommunication, and self-reported affiliation in censuses often undercounts official rolls. The church has acknowledged retention challenges in internal training materials and has implemented programs to improve new-member integration, yet quantitative outcomes remain unreleased. In summary, scholarly consensus holds that 70 to 75 percent of individuals who join the church as converts ultimately leave active participation, with United States figures nearer 50 percent and international figures higher. Active long-term retention stands at approximately 25 to 30 percent churchwide.
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@MattTestifies How satan wanted to destroy agency.
2 Nephi chapter 2 lays it out pretty clearly that you destroy agency by having no law.
But we still constantly hear people talk about how satan would have somehow forced everyone to be good.
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@RykerJackson97 So I guess now I have to go count my books.
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@jmbrim3 Former toddler here—
I have very few clear memories from that time of my life. And none of them are about what food I did or didn’t like to eat.
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Parents of toddlers, or former toddlers 😅
How do you get your kid to eat?
Or what helps them try new things?
My son only wants to eat fruits and grains (which it’s a blessing he loves these so much) but I can’t get him to eat much of anything protein outside of cashews!
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@1000HolyPlaces I've never liked it.
The only good John Hughes movies have John Candy in them.
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I'm probably gonna get some hate here, but I have just never understood the appeal of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
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@VVenerabilis Jenny Wilson is, hands down, the dumbest person I’ve ever encountered in public office.
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@SLCoMayor Why do you care more about illegals that actual Utahns?
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My response to a warehouse purchase by the federal government for an ICE Detention Facility near Salt Lake City Airport.
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@Grownded This is actually how the first Terminator movie came about.
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@TaylorWAnderson I was meaning that a certain vocal group won’t like what the church will build.
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@ReaperManBill I do think a certain vocal group will loudly protest removal of parking. But development has largely been welcomed in downtown SLC, I think because of a desire for more vibrancy more hours on more days of the week.
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The LDS Church owns over 40 acres of parking in Downtown Salt Lake City, much of it surface parking.
The value of that D-1 land alone is likely worth over $400 million based on other recent sales in the D-1 zone.
Todd Weiler@gopTODD
@rowanfornow It’s almost like they’re planning on hosting 5 million people for an open house next year. Go figure.
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@Hashboz Median for a 1200 sq ft home in US is ~$275k.
$60k in 81 adjusted for inflation is ~$225k today.
1981 also has the record high for mortgage rates at over 18%.
So that’s like a $3500 monthly payment on a 30 year mortgage in 2026. Which would be about right for a $550k home today.
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This is a lie. It’s ruining millennials. Stop spreading the lie.
Cobalt-60@Drop_N_Run
“You damn kids are so entitled! Houses aren’t too expensive, you all just think you need a mansion! Just go buy a 1200 sq. ft. house for $60,000, like I did in 1981! And I’m actually selling it right now, if you’re interested.” “Really? For how much?” “$860,000.”
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@GHHILL1911 I never understood this one. Shouldn’t the sound of firing the shotgun, which necessitated racking it, scare them away?
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@kariwarburton Elder Holland punched me in the shoulder.
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@NoblestCalling The Sandy location on state street is the only one I've ever seen that is halfway reasonable. Most are more like this
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@ReaperManBill Woah interesting, ours is by far the best run parking lot and drive-thru in town
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Downloading an app for a specific fast food place is one of those things that should be a wakeup call
You should not be going often enough that that's necessary
Justin Credible@GravySauceCream
WELCOME TO MCDONALDS WILL YOU BE USING YOUR MOBILE APP TODAY
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@NoblestCalling I would eat at chick-fil-a 5000 percent more often if their parking lot/drive-through design weren't always an unmitigated disaster.
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@allie__voss NGL I have the Chick-fil-A app but that's more optimism about how often I would like to eat there
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If you feel discouraged in your efforts to hold family prayer or study the scriptures together, remember this: Power comes through consistency—not perfection.
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