I follow a lovely LDS woman blogger (no sarcasm - she's awesome, and she doesn't blog about religion). Her blog is about feeding your family on a super small food budget. This week, she was urging people to beef up their food storage because of what's to come. Do it now. So why? Was there some prophetic announcement?

Does she live in Greece? Might be a good idea there, as things might get a little wild.

The Mormons I know are so riled up by the SCOTUS being against LDS Inc. you would think that they legalized porn and not marriage for all.

They are seeing Jesus round every corner.

Jesus is too busy watching you masturbate to worry about the law of the land.

He is worried about the claws in your hand that are ripping your soul out of his grasp.

He is looking for my goddam car keys.

+1

And making sure washing machines break down for mormons failing to observe the sabbath.

And checking for excessive earrings, tattoos, and skirts or shorts that are too short.

I thought maybe there was some sort of mandate to start the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth. I thought also it could be the general despair about the SCOTUS decision (not my despair -I was quite pleased). This little blog and the helpful reader comments is my Monday happy place and it is not at all happy today. Yikes.

There is a lot of unrest among the faithful after what one of my neighbor's kids said was a "weird" meeting at church on Sunday.

Well, a lot of conservatives, including Mormons, were convinced that once gay marriage becomes the law of the land in the United States, that God will punish the world and that it will usher in the end times.

So I suppose its freaking out a lot of Mormons.

Ex-CultMember Wrote:
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> So I suppose its freaking out a lot of Mormons.

This too shall come to pass into the past.

Some Mormons I know are freaked out Marijuana will be legalized within a year and then literally all Hell will break loose.

Lately I’ve made a rather bizarre correlation. First some background: The most antagonistic member of my streets Mormon bully gang has always, rather unpredictably, pulled a specific stunt to try and get under my skin and annoy me. I won’t give myself away to lurkers by describing the action explicitly, but lets just say its annoying and infantile, and does take some effort to not ‘react to.’

Anyhow, here’s what this site has helped me correlate over the past year. Back at the conference, when the people got up and voted opposed, the next day he pulled his antagonistic stunt in an effort to lash out at someone with his frustration. Then, back when Perry died on May 30th, he pulled his stunt again. Then, when the SCOTUS ruling came down, he pulled his stunt the next day. And now, with Packer’s death, he's out there pulling his stunt again like clockwork.

Now that I’ve figured out that I represent the evil that must be fought in the world every time something bad happens in the Mormon realm, I could actually probably take my leave of this site and just return every time my neighbor pulls his little stunt, using him as a signal to come here and see what the news was all about. Seriously, it’s been fascinating to learn that these events in his life are what cause him to lash out at me. I guess that’s just the way he is, having the brain the size of a pea and all.

At least now I can stop trying to figure out what I’ve done to set him off each time he goes mental and takes his anger out on me. To think that all along it’s just been these abstract events that make him feel like a persecuted loser that’ve been triggering him all these years. I’m glad to know it isn’t anything I’ve done. Maybe I should even be flattered that he considers me to be the source of all his perceived evil in the world.

LOL, after conference, I almost raised my right arm to the square and shouted ‘opposed’ at him when I saw him out in front of my house. But, you know, I wouldn’t want to be antagonistic like him. I’ll just stick to laying low and watching him jump through his little circus hoops and laugh to myself. But it has been amazing to figure out how these events are what trigger him to lash out at us, every single time. That’s some clear mental instability if you ask me.

How could he possibly find the deaths of Perry and Packer to be threats, signs, judgments, or anything else that would trigger him? They were nonagenarians. They deserved to enter into their rest.

The best I can associate is: something bad happens in the Mormon world, and he lashes out.

Obviously it's not rational ... he's like a child acting out. What's creepiest is that it's the same repeated action, every single time. And he only ever does it when one of these major events takes place in the Mormon world, as predictable now as clockwork. He does other weird stuff too, but this one specific and quite unique action happens every single time, beginning on the Sunday after any great Mormon calamity has taken place.

It's like Antonin Artaud and his theatre of cruelty. He did a play once set in an actual loony bin, and the actors he used were the residents of the assylum. That's my neighborhood. Go team.

you are witnessing the monkey dance.

Or maybe the Monkey Chant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAUoa9pmokA

Oh lord, hear the words of my mouth.lol

Because they think the sky is falling and the morg is always right in their eyes.....

If it's in response to economic conditions (i.e. the situation in Greece, etc.) then you might say that there was some degree of rationality to her statement. If it's in response to the SCOTUS ruling, not so much.

Raise your right arm to the square and command him to depart by the power of the holy yada yada, the next time he pulls his stunt. Have a camera handy to capture the expression on his face.
@torturednevermo



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I’ll remember that one for the day I snap and go all John Belushi on his ass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvgHs-O_6NA&index=67&list=PLAB1E54A7527A24B8

I was with a very devout Catholic on July 4th who expressed in no uncertain terms her knowledge that America was going to hell, and not in a hand-basket, because of Scrotus. She did not know what to say when I responded that my opinion differed, and then went on to say that I did not really care what people did in their own bedrooms. She replied, "But the Bible forbids it."

My reply was, "The bible is nothing but ancient old stories written by a people who were trying to make sense of a world they did not understand. Now we have evidence and facts."

At this point, the discussion (?) was over and she moved to talk to someone else.

presleynfactsrock Wrote:
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> She replied, "But the Bible forbids it."

When they do that (and it's often), I remind them the bible forbids a woman to leave her house for 5 days during her menstruation, it forbids eating pork and shellfish, it forbids wearing mixed fabrics, and it forbids a whole bunch of other things the person talking about what it "forbids" does daily.

So for them to pick ONE thing, and get all upset about it, only shows their ignorance and hypocrisy. And I point that out to them.

If they're still around after that (and they're usually not), I remind them that more than 2/3rds of the world doesn't *care* what the bible does or doesn't forbid -- and I'm one of them. :)

Lately, I've been saying to women who say that "The Bible also forbids makeup. I can see that you are under as much condemnation as a homosexual". That usually shuts them up pretty fast.

Bacon

There's a drought in California that, if it doesn't break, may affect our food supply in a very negative way. North Korea is ruled by a lunatic with bombs. China's stock market has lost about 20% of its value and that percentage hasn't gone higher only because the government is buying stock to prop it up. Greece is in a mess; Italy, Portugal, and Puerto Rico aren't far behind. America has an 18 trillion dollar deficit and entitlements that are simply unpayable. New laws mean that if an American bank fails, the depositors money may be used to save it.

For all these reasons and more, I'm busy prepping for survival: i.e., bullets, beans, and bandaids. I've also taken quite a bit of money out of the bank and stuck it in the home safe. The blogger sounds like a sane woman to me.

I'm no longer a Mormon, but I'm not stupid. We're in deep kimchi.

darac Wrote:
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> There's a drought in California that, if it
> doesn't break, may affect our food supply in a
> very negative way. North Korea is ruled by a
> lunatic with bombs. China's stock market has lost
> about 20% of its value and that percentage hasn't
> gone higher only because the government is buying
> stock to prop it up. Greece is in a mess; Italy,
> Portugal, and Puerto Rico aren't far behind.
> America has an 18 trillion dollar deficit and
> entitlements that are simply unpayable. New laws
> mean that if an American bank fails, the
> depositors money may be used to save it.
>
> For all these reasons and more, I'm busy prepping
> for survival: i.e., bullets, beans, and bandaids.
> I've also taken quite a bit of money out of the
> bank and stuck it in the home safe. The blogger
> sounds like a sane woman to me.
>
> I'm no longer a Mormon, but I'm not stupid. We're
> in deep kimchi.

All these things scare me, too. :(

I no longer use these types of things as proof that it's the "Last Days", though, like the mormons do.

Although, after a lifetime of conditioning, it's pretty easy to let my brain fall back on those beliefs.
"OMG, what if it's true?" still occasionally pops into my head.

Because the world revolves around the USA. I know evangelicals that are acting the same way, that the world is ending, because of the two recent SCOTUS decisions on health care and gay marriage.

God isn't concerned with health care in other countries, or gay marriage in other countries, many of which have had it for years. Once the USA does it though, that's when God has decided it's time to punish everyone. Throw in the recent two planets close together in the sky on June 30th, and they think it's another Star of Bethlehem signaling Jesus is coming back and going to punish all those who support gay marriage.

It might be due to the SSM ruling issued by SCOTUS, which many of us think may have killed Boydy Packer.

Of course with the start of a whisper campaign, LDS Inc will not squander a chance to play the victim in the alleged "war on Christians"

Never waste a crisis, and always promote yourself as the most persecuted.



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There has been no mention of the ruling amongst my Canadian TBM friends, because we've had same-sex marriage here for a decade and the world didn't come to an end. Nothing fell apart. People just got married. That's all.

But I guess in the States, there's that fear of the Constitution hanging by a thread and that being a sign that the end is near.

i think being LDS is so damn boring, remember all of us are members of "the chosen generation that will usher in the Millienium" whether we're in our 20s or our 60s or in between, you look for something, ANYTHING that might be exciting so that things get a move on.

it's like getting excited about GC every six months for a year or two before you figure out that nothing ever changes.

my mom told me as a child that Christ would return before I went to college, then when my first child was small she said that it would be my first child who would have Jesus return before they went to college, now my first child will head to college soon...

It was all about the end of times at least 30 years ago growing up LDS. Our food storage rotted and so did the Fear Factor. I have learned to enjoy the now and let the rest take care of itself. Yes, I have a backpack with a few items but I don't dwell on the end. The "Freak Out" plays well in a Freaky Religion that wants authority and control over it's members.

They're so fucking scared of marriage equality. And they try to hide behind "God's laws trump man's laws" as some kind of code for off-the-chart homophobia. Now after the stupid PR letter that was read in church, they're hiding behind "we can still be compassionate" (while we discriminate against people).

Call it what it is. Stupidity. The only "what's going to come" is things those same people fight to be able to bring on themselves. They are the same ones who are anti-science, anti environmental protections, pro-drilling, anti-renewable energy research and then they want to blame the problems caused by that stuff on marriage equality and reproductive rights.

Sure, we should all probably be storing food and gold and whatever, to be ready for the destruction brought on us by the religious crazies.