I have never been prompted to sacrifice my eldest son.

Or separate a drunk man from his head.

Or save families with small children by knocking down national monuments.

I have been prompted to correct over priced items at DI. But I am pretty sure that is an impulse.

I had a mission companion who was very "in tune with the spirit". He would get impressions to knock on doors at night in the ghetto (white kids in the war zone between the black and the Mexican gangs? Yeah, I'll pass.) or to accept rides from a couple of random guys who pulled up to us (again, in the ghetto, where we would see gang members regularly), etc. I was terrified of what he would try and get us to do next.

Share a false gospel.

wash my hands a lot....oh no, wait that's OCD talking. Very confusing, those 2

Actually being prompted to be honest with leadership when it came to interviews.

I always thought honesty and integrity within the TSCC was what progression was all about . Boy was I wrong there!

I assume the practice of lying is still part of this culture. Over the years at times it was just unbearable to watch this bunch of yahoos in action. I put up with that crap for years until I had enough of their BS.

Its a joke to think they actually believe they have cornered the market on righteousness. It was the overall sitting on the fence attitude that was laid in front of me that "Your either for us or against us" Nothing in between so I said Bye Bye.

The great thing is when you leave you continue to progress still believing in a higher being or power just not the Mormon one.

I love this post. It's too damn funny.

I think this is a great question to be asking mormons right now.

"Hey, did you hear about the mormon scout leaders who were 'prompted' to push over the old rock formation?"

"Yes, I did."

"Hmmm. What's the craziest thing the holy ghost ever prompted you to do?"

Up

To adopt 5 children and have 3 more of my own.

That I needed to go through the temple and supress/ignore every doubt and urge to run the hell out of there to preserve my "salvation"

Not exactly crazy, but as a mishie We would pray over a large map of the area to find where the Lard would have us tract. We were directed to a particular street by the Spirit. When we got there it was entirely empty lots! Not a single home!
Obviously it was a test of out faith, and clearly when homes were built every family would be golden!!

I am embarrassed about how stupid I was!

Hmm,sounds like he was trying to tell you to go only to empty lots to share your message. You weren't listening. lol

How many mistakes did you make believing It was the holy ghost and did your bishop ever excuse you from it because you thought it was the holy ghost.

Marriage has to be my biggest mistake prompting by the spirit.

Marry the wrong person, marry too young.

When I was eight I lost a marble while playing with another boy. I accused him of stealing it, and my sister's boyfriend chased him home crying. When I found the marble, I felt terrible and told my father. He said it was the Holy Ghost inside of me making me feel that way. I didn't like having a ghost in me, and I asked Dad how to get rid of the feeling. He told me to make amends with the falsely accused boy. I gave that kid my entire marble collection and sure enough, that ghostly feeling slipped away. I never wanted to have that damned ghost in me again, and I never did.

nothing more than emotional response, and horniness, and guilt for thinking that I was "Supposed" to be married by the time I was 26.

Freakin Cult!

I felt prompted once to hide under a desk at work. How embarrassing ;)

Brahahahahahaha! I was having a gloomy morning and this made me lol! Thank you:)

I was prompted to marry Nancy by the HG during a visit to the celestial room. Went there for an answer to my prayers.

Luckily I ultimately ignored the HG. We got engaged, but never tied the knot, praise Stan!

Later when confiding to a TBM buddy that I didn't want to marry Nancy, but felt compelled by the Holy Ghost, this TBM came up with a scenario where HF was testing me by having the HG give me bad advise.

Luckily I bought it, and never went through with it.

I came out a year or so later.

The dumbest thing, actually, was to break up with a hot boyfriend because he was still of mission age, even though he didn't want to go serve one, and we were tremendously attracted to each other, it was too much temptation. Oh, how I wish I could go back. =)

And the so many times the HG prompted me to call people to see how they were doing and being stuck in a very long personal conversations that were uncomfotable. but I'm glad I was a listening and discreet ear to those who were lonely.



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Joined TSCC. Go on a mission.

GET MARRIED to 'the one' I prayed and prayed and fasted and prayed some more about!! What crok, he was REALLY abusive.

Leave my home, uproot my children and move to another state, closer to family with false pretenses. :)

Return to BYU, when I was happier at the university I attended in the summers. Well, it was the loss of credit hours.

I was in love with two men at the same time (both Atheists) and my bishop and I prayed and prayed about it. He advised me that I could not love two men, so I probably didn't love either one of them. Then I met the phoniest play-actor who ever lived, and the bishop and my parents just loved him. I married him after a few months, in the temple. I was "closer to the Lord" than at any other time in my life--and I made the biggest mistake of my life. I went against my own heart, my own intuition, my own gut reactions. Yeah, my temple husband beat me.

He just took it and said "Gracias." He didn't look as though he was rolling in money.

To buy a bunch of clothes at the gap.... and I'm not joking

Tell a woman whose 2 year old just drowned that I could promise her she would see him again if only she would join my church.

No kidding. From my upcoming memoir "What Was I Thinking?"


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Ouch! I said something similar to a lady I barely knew after her husband died. I was trying to use my "truth" to comfort her. I did leave out the part about joining the church.

I had a friend that told me about his "prompting" to ride his bike right through a stop sign. He was riding down a hill that he regularly rode down. There was a stop sign towards the bottom that he always stopped at, but this one time he felt prompted that he needed to run through the stop sign. He got hit by a car...no joke.

Nowadays--I USUALLY have no regrets. We have made our lives work somehow--and we both got out of the lds church. There are days I wonder what might have been--but not very often. He did need me--he still does. Just not as a wife.

I was prompted to directly disobey an apostle on two separate occasions. Those were two of the best decisions I ever made as a TBM.

To get my bellybutton pierced. I really wanted it done and saw nothing wrong with it. I fasted and prayed a lot. I got confirmation it would be okay.

My mom saw it and said I could take it out or be kicked out of the house. It was a big WTF moment for me. I did not understand why I could not rely on God myself but was suppose to just blindly follow some old guys I never met.

I am glad I wanted it pierced it was the beginning of the end of the church for me.

Now my sister who has her bellybutton pierced and is covered in tats lives there with no problem.

Go on a mission.
Date a girl.

GET OUT OF TSCC.