Posted by:
Josephina
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Date: July 15, 2018 06:44PM
much like flashbacks, are causing me to gasp at the terrible decisions I made in my youth due to counsel at the hands of the LDS. Some of it was from the uncorrelated, in the 70's. Both correlated and uncorrelated gave me advice which I often interepreted as "inspired by the Holy Ghost" or "the Spirit speaking". Not always, but frequently. I made horrific decisions that messed up my life in many ways. As a teen, I still had a lot of magical thinking. Perhaps due to the home background of abuse? I saw the priesthood, spiritual discernment, Mormon Holy Ghost as easily divining inspiration directly from God, there for my taking. I don't think I got this completely out of my head until my late twenties! By then, I had a child and had to get into the real world. I was never very active at church again, only attending enough and doing just enough to be seen as (barely) active. There were swaths of time when I just didn't attend. But instead of blaming the church for misleading me, I blamed myself for not "getting it" right. Not a a vulnerable, emotionally messed up case who was preyed upon, especially by the uncorrelated.
It would have helped if Mormons had had some trained people to help guide me.