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Posted by: T-Bone ( )
Date: March 03, 2023 11:20PM
10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church (n/t)


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Posted by: T-Bone ( )
Date: March 03, 2023 11:25PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

Not sure why (n/t) was automatically put at the end of the subject. I can't erase it.

Yes, it's intended to be on-topic.

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Posted by: [|] ( )
Date: March 03, 2023 11:27PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

n/t means no text. It will automatically be appended to the title if the post does not contain any text in the body.

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Posted by: Susan I/S ( )
Date: March 03, 2023 11:33PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

Correct :)

My first answers off the top of my head, authentic relationships and peace of mind.

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Posted by: T-Bone ( )
Date: March 03, 2023 11:36PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

Got it. I haven't been here much in the past few years, so that went right over my head.

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Posted by: Brother Of Jerry ( )
Date: March 04, 2023 03:52AM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

It also means no thanks, New Testament, and nipple torture. Just in case you need to know. ;)

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Posted by: T-Bone ( )
Date: March 08, 2023 11:43PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

Oh, my. I didn't think it was that type of board.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: March 04, 2023 12:08AM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

A shot at defining the Truths that I am comfortable espousing.

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Posted by: Laban's Head ( )
Date: March 04, 2023 10:47AM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

I get to choose my own underwear.

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Posted by: schrodingerscat ( )
Date: March 04, 2023 12:30PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

FREEDOM!

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Posted by: messygoop ( )
Date: March 04, 2023 12:33PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

Control of my life.

And I can choose to be spiritual (or not) on my own terms. I need no one's approval to be myself.

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Posted by: Silence is Golden ( )
Date: March 04, 2023 01:43PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

Waking up and getting out of bed on a Sunday morning when I darn well feel like it, and sitting down and casually eating my breakfast with no where to go.

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Posted by: want2bx ( )
Date: March 04, 2023 03:25PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

I don't have to defend the church anymore. Every time something wrong/unethical/illegal surfaces that the church is doing or has done, I see the TBMs in my life jump to the church's defense. The explanations and excuses always seem so pathetic. Defending the indefensible is exhausting. I'm so glad that's not me anymore.

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Posted by: heartbroken ( )
Date: March 04, 2023 04:19PM
Re: 10% raise and Sundays off, what else did you get from leaving "the" church

I don't have to feel pressured to invite nevermo friends to church.

I don't have to be a fake friend aka visiting teacher

Sundays are now an actual day of rest and not a day spent in long meetings.

No underwear peaking out from under my cloths. I can show my shoulders.

I don't have to feel intense guilt about my thoughts.

When I do a good deed I do it because I want to do it and not for a reward in the next life.

Although I'm still not sure about an afterlife, the afterlife actually seems less scary than it did when I was TBM knowing that I would be separated from my family forever. Now I think if there is an afterlife God wouldn't be so cruel as to separate loved ones because of their religious affiliation.

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Posted by: CL2 ( )
Date: March 04, 2023 04:50PM
I was thinking freedom, too.

IN SO MANY WAYS. Time is a big one. Mormonism wasn't kind to me and as my "husband" says, I was never happy as a mormon. I didn't realize that until he said it. I lived it because I had to. It is so nice to be free.

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