I was just being silly... a mass resignation, but first properly fold your arms, bow your heads and close your eyes while Saucie picks your pockets!
I love these events. I love reality rubbing its troubling existence via cream pies into the face of stodgy mormonism. I love the furtive glances from mormons who sigh, and wish...
I watched a streaming video of the last event and hope that someone goes the periscope route, or FB live route and lets us know!
Last year the attorney's office providing free representation to anyone wishing to resign processed over 6,000 resignations. To date, since beginning to offer free services last summer his count is over 11,500 resignations.
The "several thousand people" number is an estimate based on our experience holding this event since 2012. The Facebook page number is never accurate because, since it is a public page, clicking "going" means the event posts on your personal timeline and as you all know, a great many people are not wanting to be public with something like this.
Very few people are coming to the event as a public "fuck you" to the cult but are there to share support and to help process the powerful and difficult emotions of the process by connecting and sharing the pain and terror of such a huge decision.
We do not give a shit about the cult or about what they think of the event. We had 6,000 people last year and the D-News reported that "most were already inactive anyway". They are happy to make this significant but then are also happy to forget to point out that 2/3 of the 15 million members are "already inactive anyway" too.
This event is to support these courageous people. They deserve it. Please consider dropping by to help honor them.
Wow I had just been wondering how many resignations there have been since the November onslaught. I resigned in November as well but I did it through the church membership office. It only took three days .
It makes me so happy to find out that there have even been
more than I had initially thought. Oh Yay!!!!!!!!! That is
As a church, you ought to see that there's a major problem when members want to PUBLICLY resign en-mass.
In most churches, you just stop going to one church and either show up at a new church soon thereafter, or maybe no church. But it's usually a rather quiet transition. The LDS Church, on the other hand, seems to aggravate or oppress its members so much that they want to publicly cast it off just to show everyone, and maybe themselves, that "The LDS Church is not the boss of me!"
Either that, or members are so accustomed to being around each other so many hours per week that they just get addicted to being in a group, and they even resign as a group. :-)
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gotta have the trickles before you can have the torrents. That's how I chose to look at it.
As a missionary I got to open two small towns, Silao and Lagos de Moreno. The hope was that we'd have a couple of converts (the trickle) and that in the future this base would be built on and it would become a torrent. I smiled and kept good eye contact as this vision was laid out for me. The second time I got this speech, my smile was a grin and they had to see the laughter in my eyes. Anyway, I like the notion of attacking a huge problem and only getting minimal initial success. I also done mind not getting ANY success, as long as I have food, books and a soft bed.