Tag: Addiction
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“Don’t Touch” — Addressing Sexual Taboos In The LDS Faith Part 5
Previous Chapter: 4. What Went Wrong? A New Culture Is Born: “Doctrine And Addiction” And Returning To The 1700s In my book, I explore in detail the historical development of how we’ve come to culturally believe masturbation is such a serious sin. Even in this brief summary you can see how the leadership appears to…
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Word of Wisdom: A Modern Interpretation (Full Book)
Word of Wisdom: A Modern Interpretation BY JOHN A. WIDTSOE AND LEAH D. WIDTSOE Published byDESERET BOOK COMPANY 1937 Copyright 1937THE DESERET NEWS PRESSPrinted in the United States of America TO PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT Life-long observer, defender and expounder of the WORD OF WISDOM Whose vigor of body and mind at four score and…
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LDS Women — Overcoming Pornography: The Opposite Of Addiction Is Connection
While reading “LDS Women — Overcoming Pornography: The Opposite Of Addiction Is Connection,” I saw this Ted Talk for the first time, and I had to write about it. It’s called “Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong,” by Johann Hari. Johann Hari discusses how rats that are isolated in a cage with…
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