1. People U sometimes will resent You, maybe undercut U...

2. In Mormonism, people, especially family, will debate and/or ignore U

others?

+GNPE:
I don't understand your question.

~~~~iceman9090

I think (remember actually) that when one family member is telling the truth about Mormonism but homed with tbms..
that often leads to trouble!

is it also true with engineering & other fact-based situations such as accounting, medicine, etc.?

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> is it also true with engineering & other
> fact-based situations such as accounting,
> medicine, etc.?


Here's a video on the subject of being hated for telling the truth.

https://youtu.be/0m9E9Ewhack

And the problem with being WRONG, as Kathryn Schulz says in her book, Being Wrong, is that being wrong feels exactly like being right — because we think we're right. It's not until we learn we're wrong that we feel embarrassed, stupid, unanchored, etc. That's one reason we usually resist learning we're wrong. We don't want to feel those negative things.

Why do I love it when I’m wrong? Especially on big things?

Cause then I can change. I can improve. Life can be better. More happiness, more success, more fulfillment . . .

Discovering wrong perceptions, etc is a major rush - riding the 30 foot waves on North Shore in Oahu. IMO, once you figure out all the good that can flow from seeing where you’re wrong, there is no embarrassment. You want to see it. It’s freedom.

Being Mormon is like having a really bossy spouse. Even when they’re wrong, they’re right.

WELL SAID!!

and,

they trivialize important matters,

exaggerate trivial matters.

Exactly.

their trump card is their (claimed) Priesthood Authority, EXCEPT when U ask them to use it in a tangible way & get tangible results; In my case I asked them to help heal a 29 yr marriage in which I was faithful, no adultery, no abuse.

My failure? I stopped going to church AND I told them their lies were the reason...

You’re always wrong and the church is always right.

If they are wrong, see rule #1.

So sorry you went through that.

thanks, Dorothy;

I've been looking fwd to a PM from U...

manderst@yahoo.com

It's hard to listen when you're right.

People don't follow their emotions for reason. They follow their emotions because we're emotional beings to greater and lesser extents individually.

Faith is primarily emotion based. Until that emotional structure is eroded or otherwise reduced, reason has insufficient penetrative power to overcome the instinctive deflection response.

We all do it when we hear something at odds with our world view. Demonstrate the cultivation of reasonable doubt over the usual blind certainty.

Just as Mormons don't listen to us, neither do we listen to Mormons because we are both right. There is a failure on both sides and we need to communicate in sideways paths rather than about being right as the topic itself.

One of the wisest things I ever heard from a prophet was not to be concerned with who was right but what was right.

Sadly that died with Ezra Taft Benson in the modern mormon corporation.

It doesn't matter if you are right as people who are wrong still want to prove they are right. It is more important than facts.
Hence, mormonism still exists and people proudly proclaim a church that is verifiably without modern day revelation has a prophet.