I'm no oldtimer by a long stretch! I think I found this place in 2006, and read for maybe two weeks before diving in. I was scared, but also sooooo excited to see I wasn't the only one who didn't work out as a morgbot. They're really good at pretending no one ever leaves without falling into a life of sin.
Just curious about some names unfamiliar to me. How long have you been here?
It was a fast detox, but everything just finally made sense to me. I was waiting for the truth for a long time. And thanks to a courageous friend, I found it
Since about May or June? It has been a big help to me.
I have a relative that is not too happy about my leaving. After talking to her i come here to reenforce my knowledge. You notice i didn't use the word "beliefs".
If i would have had this web site, i would have left 40 years ago and not looked back. I just didn't have access to the info that the internet brings. I love reading research that has been done. The tbms i know don't know how much verifiable evidence against the church is out there. I use it one bite at a time to deal with the people who are trying to pray me back in. How does that go?Line upon line,precept upon precept.Here a little there a little....
I've been lurking for awhile, probably since 2003 or 2004. I'm a nevermo, married to a non-practicing Mormon. I felt like I needed to start doing my homework on Mormons when my TBM FIL had a 3-hour conversation with me about how my husband and I really aren't married until we go through the temple. I think he might have given me more "meat" than the the whole "milk before the meat"or whatever kind of thing. He told me about Kolob and a bunch of other stuff that freaked me out. At the time I was horrified. Now I'm glad I heard that stuff so that I could study as much as I could about the religion. Especially considering that whenever the in-laws are in town they send the missionaries and hometeachers over as much as possible.
2002... right after I got a visit from mishies. My husband and I were engaged and he had always been positive about the church, so I let them in. When my husband found out, he got upset. That led me to look for reasons why.
Since 2006 when I saw people all backslapping and happy to meet each other at the Exmormon Conference. I learned they all met online here (there was no Post-Mormon then) so I decided to pop by.
Lurking on and off for the past 4 or 5 years. Posting for just a few weeks. I come here when I get worked up about my TBM sister and her TBM family, which includes her sanctimonious husband and my 3 really sweet nieces/husbands + their young children. My cousins are also TBM. They all live in Utah, I don't. My terrific parents are inactive non-believers like me. I am happily married to a Catholic, and my kids are Catholic. Sometimes I just need to come here... like right after a sweet neice posts on facebook urging "everyone, not just my LDS friends and family" to click a link and watch the wonderful message delivered at General Conference. If I come here, it helps stop me from posting a comment in reply comparing Josesph Smith to Warren Jeffs. They all have no idea how silly and demented I think their religion is. I would never say anything to hurt them... so I come here. And of course, I was a big-time visitor here when my parents and I were kept from watching all of my nieces get married. I could go on and on...
I guess about 1½ years or so. I was googling and youtubing like crazy a couple years ago...midlife crisis? It's been quite the eye-opener. Thank you to everyone for taking the time to contribute to this online community.