Posted by:
exminion
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Date: August 08, 2018 06:19AM
Mormons grieve, yes.
The point is, that Mormons don't care if YOU or someone else is grieving, when they want you to do something for the cult.
Black people and other minorities grieve, too. What does that have to do with anything? Most NORMAL people have empathy, right?
I understand Crazyhorse's individual story, and the emotions involved. I, too, had demands made on me by that specific group called the "Mormon church" (I don't know the exact ethnicity of each individual Mormon who made demands on me). They told me I HAD TO play the organ, anyway, even though I was sick. The chorister told me to keep a barf bag, behind the organ, just in case. The bishopric told me that if I didn't play the organ, that God would make me SICKER. I was undergoing painful hospital treatments, and not one of the Mormons ever called to ask how I was doing, once they knew I wouldn't be there to play the organ. I might as well have died, as far as they were concerned. I did get one visit from 2 bishopric men, who tried to persuade me to give free organ lessons, so someone could substitute for me. I was sick in bed, on sick-leave from work, and could barely feed my kids, and they argued with me to give FREE organ lessons. They lied to me, and promised me that if I gave the lessons, God would give me the strength to get out of bed and do so!
I agree with Crazyhorse. Mormons as a group, following Mormon policy and Mormon social manners, Mormon assertiveness training, Mormon missionary sales training, Mormon priesthood power-weilding, and telling Mormon lies, will try to FORCE you to do what they want you to do. These certain individuals, in my experience and the experiences of many others on RFM, do not care if YOU are grieving over a dog, YOU are grieving over a parent, YOU are sick, YOU are in pain, YOU have to work for a living, YOU have homework or a test, or anything else in YOUR life.
The above Mormon individuals are taught that the cult matters more than anything else--and I mean anything else!
Read in the New England Journal of Medicine, about how philosophies such as Mormonism DESENSITIZE people to death and suffering, I'll try to post a copy of the article, when I find it in my archives.
Or you can ask my TBM cousin and his TBM past-her-sell-by-date wife, who had 4 babies die within a few days after birth, in four different attempts to have their twelfth baby. Why? Because they decided they wanted 12 children, not just 11 children. They were fine with the deaths. They took the deaths as "already perfected spirits who needed a body only for a day." They happily and self-righteously bore their testimonies about it. I view people like that to be inhuman. Finally, they produced a baby number 12, who will have agonizing physical problems all his life.
It is hard for me to relate to people like that.
I get angry at others who kick people when they are down. Crazyhorse is grieving, and he/she has a right to do that!
You spend more time with your pet than with a spouse or a child, even, every day and night. A one-of-a-kind pet can never be replaced. It does help to focus on where your love is, for instance with family members, other pets you still have, etc. You can make plans to maybe rescue another little fur-person, when you're ready, sometime in the future. Don't close the door on happiness.
(((hugs)))