It seems to me the ages of the posters seem to be either young or mature. Young being 20 and mature being over 55. Which is interesting because in my opinion these 2 groups are not wanted at TSCC unless you are an obedient toilet scrubber.

I am 60 and seem to be one of the younger mature posters.

52

66

Forties

I am old enough to have pantomimed slitting my throat and disemboweling myself. 54

73 and completely out of Mormonism before age 30!

47. Slit my throat too.

72

33

Throat slitter here too! 56? Oh hell, I'm 56? Where did the time go! I still think I'm 25 LOL!

My brain is 38, my new knees are 25-ish and my back is closing in on 85 I think.

Ron Burr

Dennis Moore Wrote:
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> Throat slitter here too! 56? Oh hell, I'm 56?
> Where did the time go! I still think I'm 25 LOL!

And another throat-slitter.
55 in a couple of weeks :)

37

I am that number that was 'the meaning of everything' in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. And it was bs ...everything still means nothing.

I remembered the book wrong ...I'm 49, not 42. Doh! Everyone is older than I thought.
Where are all the younger people? (Rhetorical, don't answer ...I am just surprised.)

I was 52 when I joined the RfM congregation, 13 years ago.

I refuse to grow up. Moism must have stunted my juvenile brain.

57

Throat slit, chest cut open and belly slashed. SP lied to my ex, his counselor and myself as if the penalties had never happened. All of us had done it many times.

And yes themaster, you are a young poster at 60!

50's. Also old enough to have been LIED to by two temple presidents when I asked them about the temple ceremony change -- in the temple itself no less. Disemboweled myself when I became distraught about Satan wearing his BLACK apron representing his priesthoods was taken out at the same time. But in the words learned from the loud laughter of other great spiritual leaders in "Monty Python and The Holy Grail", "I got better".

(Note: Sealed in live ceremony SLC temple in 80's).

40

42

37

62

Mature in age, immature in Spirit.

I will be turning 70 during the first quarter of 2015. I am pre-atomic, which was one of my AOL chat room S/Ns.

45 throat slitter that left at age 33.

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I am a man of the ages...

16 mentally, 30 something at work, 63 on driver license, 85 when its time to get up...

40, prime mormon age, the perfect age for the big callings but more importantly to them my husband is 42, great age for paying a hefty sum in tithing with several boys nearing mission age. I have ran across quite a few families like us, that has to be hurting the church.

I am 63, going on 64 baby I was naive......
Sung to the tune of the sound of music.

45

56
I left at age 13

Been masturbating ever since...

Who wants to know? I am very, very young in my way.

Will be 62 in January. Yep, slit throat! LOL

aquarius123 Wrote:
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> Will be 62 in January. Yep, slit throat! LOL

Good month, good year: I'll be 62 on New Year's Day. Throat and chest slitter. Disemboweled myself. Pay lay ale. Left the cult at age 24. Resigned once I figured out how in my forties.

78

40, and took our 3 teens with us.

Almost 32, or almost 14 billion, depending on how you look at it.

Lately I'm leaning closer to 14 billion.

kolobian Wrote:
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> Almost 32, or almost 14 billion, depending on how
> you look at it.
>
> Lately I'm leaning closer to 14 billion.

We all are nothing more than 14 billion year old star dust.

I think you're right, they've only got a good grasp on the ones who make it into marriage and making babies for the cult without checking the internet.

I've been coming to RfM since I was 28, but I was an early articulator about hating everything involved with the cult. I ran from it like my ass was on fire the second the police would no longer return me like the possession my parents considered me.
36 now.

There is a suspicious gap of missing early twentysomethings. I know we get a lot of struggling teens, but they don't always have the kind of freedom to check in like well established adults do.
Yes, yes, I know there ARE early twentysomethings on the board, but not quite as many as you might expect. Of course lots of them would be bogged down with children, depending on how far they followed the cult script(and of course it is totally normal to have children, the general population just tends to wait longer than religious ones do). So I wonder if they just don't have the time to check in until afternoon naps or so.

I think part of that is because 20-something mormons are exhausted. They are kept so busy with callings, work and young children that they barely have time to shower let alone question their faith. I hardly remember my 20's, I was busy with a husband as EQ president, teaching primary and tending to a growing family that went from just the two of us to the seven of us all in my 20s. Being in your 20s as a mormon is tough so it makes sense there aren't many 20 somethings here.

Late 50s. Way too young to quit, but noticing society ignores me....

My chronological age is 69, mentally I am in my 20s. Left the church nineteen years ago after 30 years of servitude.

60 as of last month.

75

A couple weeks shy of 40.

How many times has God made a revolution around Kolob on His planet?

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41, with 35 year old wife and 5 children. Not out yet, but certainly disbelieving. What a sham.

I am 16. An Old dog for sure.

Mom is 60. She's an old dog too.

40's

In my 60th year. The temple change in 1990 was the final straw (bale)on my overflowing shelf.

I am 31 for at least for another couple of weeks before I have another birthday.

Mid 30s. Left at 18, but never would have experienced the excitement of death vows had I stayed in the cult.

A disemboweled 57 year old.

My age is the Age of Enlightenment.

(OK, I'm 67--My eyes were opened in Priesthood Meeting in spring
of 1978, when Blacks were still cursed)

62

I heard from a couple sources that people don't come into their own and reach true maturity and until age 30.

18

Don't make generalizations. Everyone's different.

In some ways I think I was more mature at about 16 than at 30. If only I had followed my gut as a teenager and left TSCC I would have saved myself years of grief. No question everyone is different.

Just turned 60 - 45 years CULT FREE!!

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I am 48

26.

31

I'm a 44 y/o nevermo.

I'm really confused about my age.
* My penis thinks I'm 15
* My car thinks I'm 25
* My partner thinks I'm 35
* My brain thinks I'm 45
* My wallet thinks I'm 55
* The AARP thinks I'm 65
* My kids think I'm 75
* LD$, Inc thinks I'm still under 110 (that's ONE thing they got right)

2^6 + 2^2

52. Left morg 22 years ago after I realized my throat could be slit for giving up my secret name....Kolob. Damn. I did it again.

Wow. The younger folks are working while I am home with the flu. Age 63 Sigh..

The "throat slitters" refers to those of us who went to the temple prior to the 1990 changes where we pantomimed the slitting of our throats and disemboweling ourselves. Younger Mormons deny these grotesque gestures in the temple ever happened. We slitters are able to observe history being rewritten.



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And thanks for all you do here! madalice may grit her teeth as I say this, but I think you are a-w-e-s-o-m-e!

;^)

Look it up!

Timothy

I think the 20 somethings are mostly over on the Red site. There are a ton of them. My kids also left when they were 27 and 28.

50s

57 year old slitter

25 in 8 days. I've lurked here on and off (gaps as large as 18 months) since I was 15. I posted a little as a teenager unregistered, but I registered a couple months ago. I still enjoy reading more than posting, it's obvious there's a wealth of experience to benefit from, yet telling that despite the gaps in ages, most stories of leaving the church are vaguely consistent.

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Heinz 57. Trying to catch up. Born in '57. Feeling like an Edsel on the highway of life. Gas gauge titling at empty, steam rolling out from under the hood as I wheeze uphill. There's a sign ahead: Donner Pass. Maybe get something to eat...

35.
The younger people aren't into "reading" about life and problems. They are out making problems! The ones I know aren't into reading they are into video games.

61 here. I find it interesting that so many of us remember the throat slitting but we also remember precorrelation when church was actually fun with bazaars, road shows, gold and green balls, sleeveless dresses and mini-skirts, some guys went on missions, some girls waited, not singing "Follow the Prophet" and not calling the President of the church The Prophet. But we were also the ones who were shocked to find out that it was JS who started polygamy and not BY marrying all of those widows. We were in the middle of the Civil Rights movement and became disillusioned by lies of our authorities regarding Vietnam and Watergate and Blacks being the draft dodgers of the pre-existence. We were forced to start questioning everything and when we did that, we ran screaming down the street after going to the temple. The "Wonder Years" indeed.

78

64 out 8 years all 7 kids out too

42... but I am a nevermo, so that's probably irrelevant.

40

I stopped ageing at 24, 26 years ago. I still get carded at the club.

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... the servant of the Lord known upon the records of the Board as beyondashadow wast revealed through the instrumentality of the Holy Ghost to be fewer than 65 years, and lo, and not only lo, but lo and behold, the number thereof to be greater than three score and three. Yea, the accounting of years following the birth of the Elder Brother of cricket thus revealed by the power of discernment and holy mathematics to be sixty years and four.



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Several months before my 40th birthday.

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50; until Wed 51 then.

Turned 29 this year - for the 3rd time. :)

31. Left at 29.

Yup another throat slitter and the whole catastrophe, I am 62.

21 (well, almost. in march) left the morg at 17.5. still in recovery :)

Me: 39
Wife: 14

I'm joking. Wife: 33

64. Will you still need me, will you still feed me?

36

I win, I'm 81

Spouse and I left 7 years ago, now in my late 30's. Spouse is around the mid 40's.