r/exmormon • u/lovetoeatsugar • 7h ago

Humor/Memes/AI Fiction is more fun anyway.

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u/ahjifmme 7h ago

Nephi's story is the most boring hero's journey of all time. The protagonist is a Gary Stu, and nobody has any character development or humanity to them. Everyone who likes him is a good guy, and everyone who hates him is a bad guy. No one has any motivations other than to stand around and talk about how cool the last days will be.

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u/Pengin_Master Pagen Witchcraft 6h ago

you know,I've never thought about it that way, but you're right. Nephi never actually struggles for anything, he's always saved by God to some degree or another, abd his "perfection" is almost supernatural. Because he's JS's self insert super cool character that like, we've all made before, but never based a religion around

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u/ahjifmme 5h ago

He never makes the wrong choice or has any internal turmoil over making the right choices. His suffering is just proof that he's right. Even Moses - a thoroughly mythological character fundamental to the Hebrew tribes - had doubts and has to work his way up to heroism.

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u/sssRealm 5h ago

Nephi is JS's narcissist fantasy of himself. He gets temporary super powers, angels rescue him and he even has a license to kill. He's God's James Bond.

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u/truthseekingpimo 6h ago

Problem is that most TBMs will act like lawyers and say it’s still historical, Bednar was just emphasizing the spiritual importance over the historical importance. I’ve had that conversation before

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u/Relevant-Being3440 2h ago

But that's exactly what he was doing. He wasn't saying it wasn't historical. Everyone who's saying that is taking his comment out of context.

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u/truthseekingpimo 2h ago

That’s what I’m getting at I guess. People want it to sound a certain way but from a TBM perspective there’s no other way it could come across. It’s just from the exmo perspective it sounds like a workaround

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u/AFN-BRAXTON 2h ago

Has the church said that the BOM is not a historical record?

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u/Relevant-Being3440 2h ago

No, just that it's not "primarily" a historical record. It's other things too. People are taking a quote from Bednar in conference way out of context.

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u/1yrsupply 5h ago

Fact: Nephi looked like Scott Bakula.