Posted by:
moremany
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Date: November 27, 2018 11:58PM
"... I do think the single men set out to drive us new converts crazy."
I think LDS men have 'problems' "handling" equally-superior attractive-powerful women in great part due to their 'leasthood' [powerlessness] 'down-bringing'.
Sorry, I didn't 'set out' (on the right foot, but it wasn't the wrong one either) but I was a new convert also, at the time, and certainly ignorant, ESPECIALLY of the True History - and EXPECTATIONS - and beliefs of Mormonism, at age eight. But then, suddenly, I was a teenager (when I [initially] left socially, mentally, morally, etc.) and NEVER brought anyone to church, bought into or talked about it, or even drove, at that age. As a once single [LDS: 20+ years away/ 'inactive'] adult, I went to ONE "activity". I swore then and there I would NEVER involve myself with an active, or even believing, LDS woman (even if attractive, like the devil), even though I already knew I wouldn't. It was the dullest bs I had ever seen [single mormons, trying to/ not to 'hook-up']. "Saints" acting like idiots! Later that year-winter, I resigned. I'd been learning here and there, and observing the "saints" for about a year and a half by then, and had learned enough, and had enough.
So, for me, it has always the values, and focus, of time and energy, and creative interests and sovereignty and personality, more than worshiping a shape-shifting shadow of an immoral, unsaintly, and unholy ghost.
But then I never really held the priesthood.
I was busy holding other thoughts and things.
Calling a teenager a "Teacher" doesn't really help.
I wasn't Mormon for thirty years-went to the old 'church'.
Talked down to a bishop. He said, "oh, you are STILL a 'teacher'"
I HAD NEVER "advanced" in the 'church's/ his [tiny] eyes.
(Song on the radio sang "eyes" as I wrote 'eyes'-anyway)
Like a woman. Like a child. Like HELL, I thought.
I'd LOVE to be a teacher. NOW, I know enough.
Forget a boy at 14. Conditioning.
Glad I didn't get too much of that.
It'll make your hair go flat.
Not to mention your tires.
I'm tired. "Post crashing"!
M@t
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/28/2018 12:32AM by moremany.