Just curious, as it seems many new *faces* have appeared lately. I'm the only exmo/member in my family, so this board is my only link about the Morg.

Thanks!



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My brothers and I no longer drink the Kolobian Kool-Aid, but one of them just replaced it with mainstream x-ianity which is like trading in a car with a bad transmission for a car with a bad motor. You're still not getting anywhere...

That I know personally, probably 50 - 70.

Ron

However, you need to know that I have been to many exmo conferences and have hung out at bars and other venues with exmo's I've met on other boards. They're everywhere!

Ron

Around 20.

2, and not too well. That I know of anyway, and they live about a thousand miles away.

I know about 10,000 TBMs.

It's a lonely world.

Geez, TSCC is definitely hemorrhaging!

8-10 about.

Within my family and circle of friends, there are easily 50 adults who are ex-mo.

If you factor in their children who will not be raised in the church, that number pretty much doubles.

I have many, many more acquaintances who are ex-mo whom I've met and socialized with over the years.

My whole social group the last few years I was in Utah were exmos. And funny thing, they are some of my lifelong friends now. My "lifelong" mormon friends interpret that as "lifelong mormon" friends. Hence, I only have a couple left and certainly don't miss the others.

I'm new here, so a little foggy on the acronyms. What does TSCC stand for? I'm guessing it's the church. I have a few cousins who left, and have met a few ex-mos at my local brewery.

I know two personally. The assistant manager at my store is completely inactive, and I doubt his religiousness. The other also works with me. He was exed a few years ago for rolling a joint in sacrament meeting with a page from the BoM.

My brother is inactive and agrees with what I say, but when he drinks he starts talking about god and stuff, so I dunno...



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At least the BoM is good for something! ROFLOLOLOL!!!

koolman2 Wrote:
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> I know two personally. The assistant manager at
> my store is completely inactive, and I doubt his
> religiousness. The other also works with me. He
> was exed a few years ago for rolling a joint in
> sacrament meeting with a page from the BoM.

That is too funny!
Which was the greater offense 1. The weed or 2. Ripping out a page of the BOM?

No idea, but I assure you, unless he's lying, it's true! :-D

Four out of the six kids in my immediate family are out. That means 7.5 kids (the half is...what Jack Mormon?) who aren't being raised in it but I have a sister with seven super-duper-uber-TBM kids so I guess that's kind of a wash.

My stake patriarch is out along with six of his seven kids.

I'm not clear on who is in and who is out in my extended family. I'm sure I have more than a handful of cousins who are out.

I have a friend that was re-baptized after being ex-ed and she's totally out. (Note- she was ex-ed for sleeping with two of a stake councilman's sons. They were disfellowshiped. I guess her being a convert with a lunatic mother made her expendable).

Another friend (RM, temple married) is out.

There are others whom I grew up with that I believe are out but don't know for certain so won't count them.

It seems like I knew more......

ETA: By "out" I mean at least totally inactive. I don't know who might be off the records. I'm not. Nor are 2 of by brothers, however, it's been over a decade since any of us have been involved at all.



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However, one drifted away and came back. Sigh.

My brother and his wife, my sister and her two kids and a couple of cousins are inactive. I left the church when I was a teen and have since lost track of most of the people I knew then.

I don't know how many I visit with are ex-mormons or just totaly inactive. However some of the TBM's I visit with complain about some famlies joining,,and after 5-6 months,,never come back. The same members seem to doing the same ward jobs. I just sip my coffee and say what a shame.

I also helped a niece resign. I'm working on a guy at work.

(Mormons now tend to squirm around me, because I don't hold back when they want to challenge me, and I talk about temple stuff, Kolob, whacky beliefs and everything, and do so without lowering my voice or considering who's around me. I always see the other person's (the LDS person) eyes darting about, and a lot of body language that says they wish I would whisper. Then they seldom engage me anymore with an intent to bring me back. I didn't used to be able to do that.)

About thirty in my region, though some are through the exMormon group I attend. Several have become good friends.

I never thought to actually count until after i read this thread.

I now realised (with the help of recently gone inactive friend) almost 70% of my former active ward members (in 2004) are no longer going to church (not counting the children). That's about 210!

Gosh no wonder they are combining wards for sacrament meeting.

Probably about 50. Half of my family is out and most of my peers from my YM days are out. I would say the attrition rate in my own ward is about 75%. But when you look at global trends of church membership that seems about right. My ward is just excessive because its an old ward that can't find or hold on to new blood.

As far as exmo goes, I am by myself in my group of friends and family members.

There are a few inactives, but they all still believe to an extent.

it's the quality of people leaving, not the quantity...

in my case ...

1 x YM president
4 x RMs from my mission
1 x college housemate (RM)
1 x girl from my youth program (and her mom and dad) -- college educated ... smart, smart, smart biology researcher.
(and of course, about 20 people from my extended family)

compare that to my local mission ... the mission president's blog is mostly pictures of missionaries in meetings with one or two convert pictures ... of people not on the short list for leadership. TSCC is going nowhere fast.