I do not read the Ensign, New Era, The Friend, The Book of Mormon, Dessert News, Church News or any other publication by the Cult of the Living Morons aka TSCC.
anything pertaining to mormonism including books like "No Man Knows My History" and such. I have purchased quite a few and my mind just shuts down when I know it is about mormonism.
That leaves room for good stuff; truth and reality; growth and imagination; time for reading, and writing, research and rhymes, poetry and prose; rest and relief for body and mind.
I wouldn't read that filth and consider it repulsive and laughable. It's only purpose is to inflate the flat, holey egos of the spiritually dead moron producers of the propaganda and to put to sleep (or really to death) the reader.
I threw them all away. I won't have anything to do with them ever again. Some people keep them as references for speaking/writing against TSCC, but I can't stand to have them in my house.
My dh gets them in the mail. I don't read them, but sometimes someone will mention to me an article that is especially bad, then I look it up and share it here so we can throw rocks at it.
My brother left a box full them at home from the mid '70's--I picked up couple to see if there was any cool, fun stuff to talk about on RfM, but it was the same stuff, over and over and over and over again.
Nevermo here. There was a time when I read a lot of anti=mormon books including No Man Knows My History.
To be fair, I also read the BoM in its entirety as well as the D&C in its entirety. By the time I got to The Pearl of Great Price I was so bored (even so, I do have a high boredom threshold) I bailed. Maybe one day I'll get to it as well.
It's been a number of year. Now all I ever read is this board.
When I was a Mormon, I hated reading church magazines. It got to the point where I almost never did it. It seems like the magazines were full of energetic, perfect, faithful people. There was no possible way I could stack up. It was too depressing to read the magazines, so I quit reading them.
This might be a thread drift and with no real research or evidence. However, observation to me and my head, clearly shows that few active members really read study ponder...or pray about seeking truth. Lip service is made to the BOM, but family scripture reading is "slamming" if at all, through a chapter or two per night with no questions or discussion.
Shorter shift to the PoGP and D&C. Denial of the essays, certainly typically not read. Leaders do not have the time availability anyway.
There are a few exceptions, of course. Anyway devoting more than 10 minutes a day and outside the annual BOM speed reading course, often discharged by 2nd Nephi...is a candidate for NOM status or here.
If keeping a TSCC version testimony is required, then critical thinking, which begins with reading studying and pondering is not advisable.
Much better to sing primary songs. Hand actions included, even better.
You remind me of when I was a teenager. I got no allowance or lunch money, because my white collar administrative father said things were tight, but he subscribed to every Mormon periodical including the "Friend" for kids. You better believe I was going to read my deprivation. The garbage they push in those magazines startled me and at least provided entertainment, if only by provoking laughter.
I live right near a Deseret Books (across the street) and I love to go in there and stalk the stuff. Soooo creepy and reminds me of being a member. A strange form of negative nostalgia.
I use to read the ensign but had this unwelcome tendency to find all the errors. It became especially troubling when I was detecting all the doctrine errors in the conference reports. Like seriously what's correlation actually doing these days?