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Wait, Are We Mormons???
We explore surprising commonalities between our synth religion's beliefs and early Mormon/LDS theology around eternal progression, pre-life, becoming gods, and more. We discuss apparent biblical contradictions, diversity of beliefs among Mormons, the role of prophets overriding canon, attempts to conform as mainstream Christians, and accelerated collapse via the genetic vortex. We cover concepts like multiple mortal probations, the basilisk, Saturday Warriors film, killing potential kids, and whether Mormons would consider us Mormon.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] This really shocked me because it was the more conservative Mormons, the ones who would be considered more extremist, who thought that we were more similar to Mormonism in our beliefs, And it was the less conservative Mormons who thought that our beliefs were more distant from Mormons. If you look across the Mormon tradition, when I started like talking to more Mormons and more conservative Mormons about the way they think, like the metaphysics of the universe actually works, right. There is more diversity within Mormon beliefs than there is. Within any other religion that I'm aware of, like what's, what's
Simone Collins: extra interesting is there's both that diversity, but also this like quiet, like, we don't talk about this diversity.
Malcolm Collins: Yeah, we don't talk about this. We don't talk about it. So, so let's, let's talk about one here, right? Like multiple mortal prohibitions,
Simone Collins: right?
Malcolm Collins: This was fascinating to me because it has shown that I fundamentally misunderstood Mormonism in our previous videos on Mormonism
Would you like to know more?
Malcolm Collins: Well, this is [00:01:00] very exciting. I get to use my new fancy
Speaker. Although, like, because it's
Simone Collins: because it's metal, like, it right now I feel like I'm holding a frozen rod of ice right now.
It is so cold. Is this
Malcolm Collins: your new camera? Okay, well, I am really excited for this episode, and I am always so disappointed when there's an episode that, like, I absolutely love, but like We don't get a bunch of watches on it or something. No one's going to
Simone Collins: watch this. Yeah. I don't know. I'll tell you in terms of watching something that I thought I didn't want to watch.
I watched all of Saturday Warriors per your request and it was cheesy and it was, but oh my gosh, I cried. I cried.
Malcolm Collins: So people who aren't familiar with Saturday Warriors, it was recommended to us because we've been talking a lot with a Mormon fan of the show to try to understand the religion better.
And he suggested that we check out this movie. And it is really interesting because he said that, like, it gives a good example of why a lot of Mormons had a lot of kids. So you can see it from their perspective. And throughout the [00:02:00] entire movie, you're having your heart strings pulled by this little girl.
Who's stuck in heaven because her parents haven't had a kid yet and they haven't had all their kids. They haven't had the seventh kid that they were supposed to have. No, eighth, eighth kid. Eighth kid,
Emily, what's wrong? I'm the last kid to be born. What if by that time mom and dad don't want me? No way. But I've seen lots of families make promises.
And then break them. Not us. Emily, I will see to it personally that you're not forgotten. You promise, Jimmy? I promise.
Malcolm Collins: yeah. And then the other, another one of their kids, the, the bad guys in this. You want to talk about getting us on board with you?
Bad guys in this. We're called Population Zero, and they were a rock band that had seduced one of the son
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