By Mormon Bubble I mean a house that re-enforces and amplifies the Mormon indoctrination. It's a safe zone for Mormons. Nothing, absolutely nothing is allowed in the house that doesn't sing praises to Joseph and his cult.

Here are some examples:
Several back copies of The Church News on the "cocoa" table

Full book shelves but only church titles were on them - there may have been two history books not directly related to the cult. Other church books like Symbolism in the Temples were casually laid out on end tables making it look like they were recently read.

All the artwork was from Deseret Book - Stripling warriors, Temples, a 30 year old picture of Thomas Monson. There were pictures of Grand kids on the fridge but they were held up with magnetized frames that said things like "You're never lost if you can see the temple".

There were a couple of Disney movies under the TV but they were hidden behind a home-made copy of the Rexburg temple celebration event and other church published stuff. To their credit, I did not see a copy of "Meet the Mormons".

It was perfect. Remember the old Sunday School lessons where they'd rhetorically ask: "If Jesus came to your house today, is there anything there that might make Him or you uncomfortable?" Well let me tell you, the Mormon Jesus would feel right at home here!

mormon style. I did take note that when my aunt and uncle visited my house (I hadn't seen them in 19 years--can't stand my uncle), he was checking out the books on my book shelves. We sold our books to a used book store in slc the 1990s even before we went inactive.

Were you offered "sprite" to drink on sunday?


( see buying soda on Sunday thread)

My wife had a shrine to Joseph and Jesus in our living room
against the garage wall. I wanted to drive through that wall.

How about a picture of the 15 corporate raiders in your master bedroom staring back at you as you lay in bed or as you were trying to be intimate.

how about Christmas morning and the wife wont let the children
open gifts until a testimony of Joseph and the restoration was given by her .. while the kids glared at stuffed stockings hanging from the mantle and generous amount of gifts under the tree...while listening to " I know the Church is true and JS and Jeebus..."

I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on****

My wife bought a foot and a half tall Jesus statue many years back and I teased her by calling it her idol. She was a bit miffed, but I couldnt let it go because while in Europe I heard many missionaries refer to the Mary statues in homes as idols. They kept claiming the Catholics were idol worshipers because of Mary statues, yet didnt have a problem with the church's giant Jesus statue on temple square. The wife no longer displays the idol.

Does she really think the kids are going to think back and remember mom bearing her testimony and how special it was or that mom kept us from opening our gifts?

I was offered water and orange juice. I was also offered some rantings against liberals. I know we are supposed to be politics free on this board. Is it OK to make the observation that some Mormons think "liberal" is a cuss word as bad or worse than F***?

One lady there made the claim that race relations in America have worsened since "he" took office. She didn't even want to mention Obama's name. I really wanted to ask her to back that up. Are race relations really worse? I don't thinks so, but if they were, why is it "his" fault? I decided it wasn't worth it and I remained in observation mode.

The further I get from Mormonism the crazier it becomes.



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The race relations thing is a popular talking point lately, I hear it all the time from my more ideological brethren

"Cocoa" tables crack me up because cocoa is still a hot drink.

There was one of those wooden puzzles - you know for very young children. There were six or seven cut outs with pictures on them. The theme was food. The pieces had pictures of food and underneath was the name of the food - the glass of milk had the word MILK under it. Well the coffee cup had the word coffee blacked out with a sharpie marker and "hot chocolate" was awkwardly written around it.

Like I said, the Mormon Jesus would find nothing to complain about in this house.

LOLZ! Cuz coffee is evil, donchaknow.

Couldnt they find a cup that didnt have coffee written on it? Theyre easy to find. She must have done this deliberately just so she make the point that she sees coffee as evil.

I'm sure this puzzle never would have been purchased if Satan hadn't hidden that evil word! How many unsuspecting children have been tricked into thinking Coffee is normal by puzzles like this?



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dogzilla Wrote:
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> "Cocoa" tables crack me up because cocoa is still
> a hot drink.


Rabbit trail....I remember when I was a child our ward would have activities and there was no hot cider or hot cocoa allowed...you guessed it, NO HOT DRINKS!! (same ingredients--cold--were just fine.)

Let the loud laughter commence.

Ah, Mormons in their natural habitat. You described my mom's home perfectly. The only thing I'd add is a cupboard full of bottles and boxes of herbal remedies from all the MLMs she's signed up in over several decades. There's usually some type of literature on the "cocoa" table beside the Ensign describing the new company in full. The company's address is usually Orem or thereabouts.

The wife on the other hand is always trying some new diet or health trend. I learned that she is only fat because of aspartame. Now that it's been removed from her diet she will soon be free of the 70 extra pounds she's carried around for the 30 years I've know her. I'm sure this one is going to work. Her "Nothing but Jello and Pepperoni" diet almost worked.

Oh my...you could be describing members of my family and their houses. They have 1 framed picture of Jesus for every 5 pictures of J.S., That weird/spooky one where all of the prophets are together in white, Proclamation of the Family, The living Christ "The testament of the Apostles" BoM pictures, etc...

Well the mother/wife of this family is always on some sort of diet fad or going to the chiropractor. She's got two juicers, a ton of different (vitamins) and fat burning capsules. A case of Slim-Fasts. They do work for the first 4 weeks you're on a liquid diet, but then when you go back to solid foods your body thinks it better store fat for the next starving/deprivation period. Try to explain that to her and she'll pull out testimonials and ads from all sort of quacks.

koriwhoremonger Wrote:
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Her "Nothing but Jello and Pepperoni" diet
> almost worked.

Sorry, O/T I know, but I just spit my soda out at that one!

This thread makes me want to go visit my ultra TBM cousins in Bountiful since I've been removed from the culture for so long. I need to go experience the crazy.

I have a TBM friend who has a giant replica of Facsimile 2 on his living room wall. I like him as a friend, but it's all I can do to not ask him why he displays blatant evidence of Joseph Smith's fraud. It's like saying: "I'm so clueless I actually believe this thing has something to do with Abraham."

Okely dokely doodley!

The TBM homes I've been in have at least that proclamation framed, and some even have painted wood FHE boards where under each "duty" there's a board with each family member's name hanging there to show what they're expected to do for that week. There was a temple picture, often of the temple the parents were "sealed" at, or sometimes of their local temple. There's also a wooden painted sign "(last name)family est. the year the parents were married."

And a picture of nickelback Jesus

We had nickelback Jesus at my mother's house...blond hair and blue eyed, staring sapily upward.

My mom made a decopodge "13 articles of faith" on an old bread board that was diplayed in our house.

Let's not forget the old antique "coffee grinder" that they always ground wheat in. Whenever someone gasped and said "coffee grinder", they were corrected, and a demonstration commenced about how it really grinds wheat.

Then there's the wall of Sam-Andy food storage circa 1973...but since the world didn't end, they still have it. They didn't want to admit they were duped into buying it.

And the wall of Am-Way...

applesauce

belonged to my dad's parents. I was told at first it was a wheat grinder, probably by my mother. My dad told me it was a coffee grinder. My grandparents always drank coffee, as did my father.



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I explain to them that the look and feel to the store is True Believer decorum. And that the store and a TBM's house could be interchangeable.

It's a symbiotic relationship as Deseret Book sells Mormonism to Mormons, they sell Mormonism to their neighbors and visitors to return to Deseret Book.

I was lucky that my home growing up was "weird" and "different" by not being super mormony. But I heard the criticisms behind my parents' backs. Most of which were incredibly passive aggressive.

But I had friends and other relatives who lived in Deseret Bookstores.



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We had the current prophet over the fireplace always with the glowing Jesus over to one side and enough books to be our own branch of the Deseret Store. We had no low table in the living room because we couldn't take a chance on anyone thinking it was a coffee table. Avoid even the very appearance of evil, you know?

My mother is trying to decide what to do with the store room of Sam Andy now that she's so old and would never need it. I am scared that this stuff from the seventies actually is edible? No way. She doesn't want to throw it away. She feels like she could plant the wheat and it would grow. Maybe?

My brother blessed his house and consecrated it so that no unclean thing could ever enter. Since apparently I am the "unclean thing," I have never been in his house and have no idea how "Mormoned up" it is, but I have my suspicions.

I remember reading an expiration date on the Sam Andy (probably during the 5th or 6th time we moved it from old house to new house) and seeing that it had expired several years prior to that date. That was 20 years ago. Wonder if they still have it?

My Nevermo DH and I helped them move at that time, and DH says "Why do they have 16 cases of tuna fish? They must really like it!" They could not possibly eat it all in time for it to expire.

Yikes! applesauce

No "low" table made me laugh. I'm constantly amazed by the craziness in the stories I read here on RFM. I was raised Mormon but we never even had a single photo of Jesus or any other mormon religious figure in the house.

We did, however, have two buckets of wheat and a grinder. Of course, we didn't have any water saved so we would have had to eat dry, milled wheat only to die of dehydration three days later.

Oh, and we drank Postum as well.

We had the Postum too. But no Postum table.

That's funny, I wonder if anybody on here called their table a postum table instead of "coffee" or "cocoa" table.

Sounds like my relatives homes. TBMs never have any other books around (they aren't particular interested in reading anyway) Always mormon books are arranged around. They won't have a tv in the living room it disrupts the spirit. There is usually a piano no one plays. And there are usually pictures of cowboy hats and other western attire.

I was interested in reading your account. I realized that I had never been in an LDS home like that one. Maybe it's the times or where we lived for three decades- a college/university town. We had LDS professors (male and female) one who had an extensive book collection that covered several walls.
We always had bookcases for our books. Only a few were church related. We didn't subscribe to the church news.
We jokingly called the coffee table the postem table as my husband liked to drink it. We had no LDS religious pictures in the home.
The first time I saw a home with any LDS decor had a photo of the first presidency.

I could not have helped myself in that house.

I would have left porno mags stuffed in a few drawers, slipping porno DVDs in the Disney cases, and possibly left a couple of booze bottles hiding.

Not to mention changing home pages on computers to here, as well as recording every show on MSNBC on their DVR.