I was in a public place this evening and I was walking behind a lady whose garments were showing. She had on knee-length shorts and her t-shirt was hiked way up in the back, exposing her garments. Seemed like a static cling situation and she wasn't aware. Anyway, it just got me thinking how are Mormons (especially women) able to make themselves be ok with wearing those culty undies? For men it kind of resembles normal underclothes...lots of men wear an undershirt and boxers. But for
Women? They scream cult. They resemble nothing close to underclothes the rest of us wear. They are just so disgusting and culty. To me they scream polygamy. Obviously they are a trigger for me.

How did you feel the first time you had to put them on? And I say 'had to' because I can't figure why anyone would willingly decide to start wearing them unless their culty religion made you think you had to. I've never worn them, so I wouldn't know. But I sure have seen my fair share of them in person. My parents walked around in them at home when I was a kid. Ick!

my parents wore them, i was delighted to wear them and felt it an honour. my inactivity started 15 years ago, non belief about 10 years ago. i am 51 years old now and so happy to be out of that cult.... but i still wont share my temple name or talk about garments till tonight.

nitrate Wrote:
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> my parents wore them, i was delighted to wear them
> and felt it an honour. my inactivity started 15
> years ago, non belief about 10 years ago. i am 51
> years old now and so happy to be out of that
> cult.... but i still wont share my temple name or
> talk about garments till tonight.

Why do people do this? Dangle information and expect people to wait? Why can't you just tell us now?

Certain family members also walk around the house in their G's. I find it totally in bad taste and not something I want to see.



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i agree. i still don't understand my parents choices and i was born into the church. 5th generation and i was always told to be proud of it.

I seriously can't remember what name they gave me when I went to the temple the first time. But then again I don't remember anything about my "Patriarchal blessing" either.

nitrate Wrote:
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> but i still wont share my temple name or
> talk about garments till tonight.

Ooooh, so exciting!

My temple name is Abigail. Nothing so freeing as thumbing your nose at the silliness.

I hope you reveal your temple name when you are ready.

Hey Abby! Love your posts! Barnabas the Boner here!

Deborah here

I was so disappointed when I found out that my special temple name was given to all the females that day in the temple.

I was also sort of disappointed or surprised that all the names given that day were the same. My name is Daniel and I have an older brother (who's long since passed away) whose name was Dan, not Daniel. In those days I thought it was odd that the Lord would give me the same name or a variation of a brother. THEN I found out they were all the same.

When I was getting ready to be married, we went down to the Provo Temple so my fiancee could take out her endowments. Her aunt Janice was her escort since her parents were never active or endowed.

After the session was over, as we were leaving, a temple worker came to talk to her and asked her and her aunt to come back inside the temple for a few minutes. I don't remember all the details but apparently she had been given the wrong name, along with 2 other girls that day and they gave her a form with her new name (Sariah). She was confused but I don't think we ever talked about it again.

I felt totally deceived when I found out about garments after my baptism. As a convert I knew I would have been dumbfounded it they had told me earlier. They never worked with pantyhose. They were hot and terribly uncomfortable in the summer. Women's garment tops are an instrument of torture if you want my opinion.

I heard a whiff about wearing garments before I was baptized, but I thought it was some sort of small thing that you wore, not underwear. Catholics have a small cloth thing called a scapular that is worn around the neck next to your skin, under your clothes. It's not a bother like weird underwear. I could never understand why Joseph Smith chose underwear as the special adornment of Mormons.

I think at the time Joseph Smith chose the regulation underwear, they weren't that different from the underwear non-Mormons wore in the 19th century. It's only during the 20th century when regular underwear developed into what we have now that Mormon garments really make them stand out as a cult.

I was also a convert, but I'm glad I got out before I had to wear the regulation underwear, especially as a woman.

I found garments to be the double whammy as I prepared for a mission. I already knew it was going to be bad riding a bike in a suit in a hot climate, but the continual sweatiness from wearing them in muggy weather was hell. I tried all of the types that were offered (save the military-camouflage mesh ones - they wanted a military id or number) and they were all nasty. Cotton breathed the best, but wore out twice as fast. The mesh ones chaffed and irritated my skin. There were some rayon ones that were soft, but it made the sweat drip like a sieve. They were all yucky and repulsive.

Saw the UPS delivery guy jump out of his van with about 4 inches of garments showing below his UPS shorts. Yeehaw Utah.

way. I got married long after all my friends and family my age were married (I was 27), and it was such a relief to finally be married. The attitude of my "friends" was rude all those years, as though I was defective, and it isn't like I was a special spirit or something. It is still a sore subject for me.

Anyway, I hated the temple, but still wore the garments that made me sweat even in the dead of winter. I didn't have a coat for years as I didn't need one. We went to Hawaii on our honeymoon during a drought. What a place to go when you just started waring garments. At the polynesian cultural center, I sat in the shade while my husband went around checking out all the guys that were partially dressed (the performers) and I'm sure others, too.

It is SUCH A RELIEF not to have to wear garments. No matter what fabric, it is like wearing thermal underwear year round.

P.S. My super special secret name that God had picked JUST FOR ME is LUCY! Even my TBM daughter knows it and she laughs about it. I also know my daughter's special name, but I won't share it. Summer is the one who helped me find that. My ex's name is Abdinidi. Now I could buy Abinidi more than Lucy, but then what about Abinidi in the BofM? I was so excited to get my new name. What a complete let down. And for the person who hasn't told their name yet, my ex said 'WHAT?!?!" at the veil when I gave him my name.

My father has one foot out the door of the church. I kind of want him to tell me his super amazing new temple name now.

HI CL2,

Did you happen to see the movie Lucy with Scarlett Johannson gaining access to 100 percent use of her brain?

As for garments, I still giggle that my mom and dad wear the onesy's. GROSS!

Garment sightings should be in the same league as plumbers’ crack—best ignored unless you’re close kin. And if you are close kin, speak up for heaven sake! The plumber’s Boner.

I talk about some of that in a recent post on automatic thinking scrips, which explains why Mormons think and do what they do. It's automatic. #12 is about the garment.
https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2130672


As a member, we are imprinted with dozens of automatic thinking scripts, sometimes from birth.
The Testimony (core of the believer) is based on the spiritual witness that it is the Only True Church of Jesus Christ with the only authorized authority to perform the ordinances for eternal life in the Celestial Kingdom, which must be done on earth. The Testimony is another subject that is very powerful. The temple garment is considered sacred and special and a protection, if you live worthily. It is called: The Garment of the Holy Melchizedek Priesthood. It is a requirement to be worthy of the Celestial Kingdom. That is, religiously, heavy duty stuff!

As I've said before, unless y'all had the joy of one-piece garmies, you have no clue how hideous they were. You think they are hideous now? Nope.

And fast forward to now, am I correct that the ladies' garmies are sleeveless? In the onsies, even when I'd wear a cap-sleeve shirt, the sleeves in the garmies would likely show. I can't believe that especially when I lived in Okinawa, I didn't just chuck the stupid things, realizing that there were other things by Mo standards that would keep me out of heaven before my undies did, so why suffer?

Where was my brain?

At one time, I believed this, just as many of us former members. When I joined they only had the one piece for men and women. That's a whole different life style!!

To be absolutely clear: I am not a believer in any religion.

I posted this for information purposes only.

This is a good explanation of why members wear them. They finally stopped hiding them, and did an official video to state their religious position.

They clearly show sleeves for both men and women, and long knee length shorts/panties.

I can't imagine they will ever get any smaller or shorter or sleeveless for men or women.

http://www.ldsliving.com/Church-Updates-Temple-Garment-Video/s/77163