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Date: July 09, 2011 03:09PM
A quick glance at the board and I see posts asking questions about recovery. Here's a test:
Who here can read the following, a conversation between a Linguist (Noam Chomsky) and an Evolutionary Biologist (Robert Trivers) about Deceit and Deception, and NOT think about Mormonism and its people and structures?
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/noam_chomsky_robert_trivers/For me, recovery from Mormonism is much less about not being reminded of Mormonism and far more about it not bothering me so much if I'm reminded of Mormonism.
Things remind me of Mormonism because I was once Mormon. Like a rough childhood, it is part of my experience. But unlike my rough upbringing, Mormonism very often fails to arose strong emotions either way anymore. This is after 11 years of being out.
11 Years ago this interview would have easily made me livid. I would have completely missed the points of the interview because I would have been furiously busy thinking only of myself and Mormonism. Not today. Although the interview reminded me of Mormonism, I grew livid for other reasons.
Human, recovered (but reads RfM for pleasure)