Today I volunteered at a charity fundraising event for three small children who had open heart surgery. I volunteered at this event as Snow White. I own my own Snow White at your party business. I spent the day posing for pictures with starry eyed little girls (and some parents) and holding babies and helping raise money for a good cause. No it wasnt church. It was work. But I truly believe God was more with me in those moments today than he ever was with me in a sacrement meeting on Sunday.

I posted pictures on FB and none of my 500 LDS friends liked any of the pictures. Guess they showed me huh? How sad that they do not see that doing nothing is worse than helping/working on a sunday.

I'll give you major props for doing that. I think it's wonderful. I was one of those kids a long time ago. Way back then, nobody did anything like that for us. I'm sure you made their day and brought smiles to their faces.

Wow... amazing what you can do when you're not worried about getting into heaven.

It sounds like you had a fun and productive day. Making well children happy while you help children who are ill sounds like a blessed day indeed. Your FB friends should be ashamed.

You weren't doing it for a mormon activity - why would you expect them to like it? Non-mormon activities do not have The Spirit (tm) and must be viewed with suspicion.

They believe that anything other than being at church and sitting home doing nothing after that on a Sunday, is evil.

That's how extreme and brainwashed TBMs tend to be.

Even if you did that on another day of the week, they tend to think that good acts by anybody other than TBMs don't matter.

Hey, another party princess!

SA and RFM are basically my forums these days. You (and everyone else) may appreciate this:

http://theprincessforhire.com/

(or if you're an SA goon, http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3502448&pagenumber=1 )



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You did amazing job! Thank you.
Perhaps you should think about deactivating your fb account?
I did it and now Mormons can`t impact me with their judgmental, cult, sick attitude.

I wanted to add that many Mormons are good, caring people and I love them, but some can be very, very judgmental.

Too bad this is a public forum. I am curious as to who you are. I noticed that an old friend of mine with a similar name recently deleted their FB account. Hmmmmm?

jm1chevere Wrote:
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> Too bad this is a public forum. I am curious as to
> who you are. I noticed that an old friend of mine
> with a similar name recently deleted their FB
> account. Hmmmmm?



I haven't deleted my account. My Name is Corinne

I am from eastern Europe. My name is Krisjanis.

"I posted pictures on FB and none of my 500 LDS friends liked any of the pictures. Guess they showed me huh? How sad that they do not see that doing nothing is worse than helping/working on a sunday."

Might this be a god time to rethink who your real friends are??

It's hard to care when Mormons don't "like" what you're doing. :)

When you do something out of love, you think only of the giving. This is when you receive so much more than you give. I never had that kind of experience in Mormonism, because I always served because I was forced to. I never wanted to do things that were unnecessary and unrewarding, for people who were unappreciative.
There was a lot more love outside the cult.

I'm glad I never joined Fakebook, because it saved me the trouble of un-friending all those Mormons.

Good for you! I would have "liked" your post for sure! You need more ex-mo FB friends ;) I've purged a lot of my TBM friends.

Yeah, I've been in healthcare for years, shown up at church in scrubs after pulling an all nighter, and gotten dirty looks. Better to be sitting around patting yourself on the back for being more righteous than the rest of the world, than trying to help the rest of the world.

"and none of my 500 LDS friends"

Well, there's your problem right there. Get better friends.

We have a new college-aged girl in our UU church. She is from a very TBM family and went to BYU. She was very nervous the first Sunday, her first time at any other church, but someone had recommended she try it. After meeting the first three people who, when she said she was raised Mormon, said "Oh, you have to meet NormaRae," she asked someone to point me out to her. I think she was shocked to find out that I had been as TBM, maybe more, as her and of course, we hit it off right away.

So this past Sunday was our turn to work at the downtown (very inner city) soup kitchen. We do it every few months on a Sunday afternoon. I told her she'd love the experience and she said that helping in a soup kitchen was on her bucket list. So she did. It really feels like a labor of love and you come away from it feeling like "there but for the grace of God go I." (not that I believe in Grace). We always work with another church and there are many churches that participate. She asked me if I thought any Mormon churches ever participate. I looked at her and said, "It's always on Sunday." She smiled and we both just shook our heads. Not that the Mormons would get involved in any kind of community service, they have their own "service." But you would NEVER see them "working" to feed people, many of whom it's the only real meal they have all week, on a Sunday. They're home playing video games and keeping it holy.

Thank you for serving. No, really. I know people say that mechanically to military people all the time, and it has become rote and sucked dry of a lot of meaning. But taking time to actually serve people without pay or rank or expectations is another thing entirely. The LDS church goes on all the time about giving people "the opportunity to serve," but that is just bullshit, as we all know. "The opportunity to serve" is code-speak for "becoming a slavey of the Mormon church." I feel that as a Mormon, I was cheated, in short, of any meaningful service to others. It's pleasant to see people doing some sort of actual service. And thanks for taking this person under your wing. I'd be anxious to hear how things go in future.

They may not, but I would like to.

I firmly believe that charity in the service of others who are in need and not able to serve themselves is one of the most noble things we can do.

If you and I were Facebook friends, I would "like" your photos, then I would unlike them so that I could click "like" twice!

Thank you!

You did a wonderful thing not only did you help a lot of people but you made them forget their worries at least for awhile. This is what is important what isn't important is what a bunch of closed minded people think. Show them what you think of them and block them off your facebook page and if the have the nerve to ask why tell them to figure it out for themselves