Posted by:
blueorchid
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Date: September 08, 2012 03:04PM
My favorite song for a long time now has a lyric that goes, "Two against one, you and me against me."
Consider this.
Look at the women leading the nation in doing what they want, wearing what they want, pounding and sometimes breaking the glass ceiling. Winning or failing but free to be , free to follow any path that their deepest essence is drawn to. Free to try, free to fall down, free to still be seen as viable no matter what.
Look at mormon women. They are free too. Free to obey or free to be rejected if they don't obey. It isn't that they don't have a choice in marrying young, having kids young, wearing one earring and two sleeves, promising to obey their Preisthood endowed husbands, and on and on...even if it takes a pill or two.
They do have a choice, but, they have been carefully groomed, to fear any other choice than complete obedience. They are constantly rewarded by the TSCC with a 'well done thou good and faithful servant' every time they deny their true selves just the same as a dog is rewarded with a treat accompanied by a clicker. Eventually the clicker is enough and the treat isn't even offered and a dog will do exactly what you want. The mormon church has a clicker. How else could they get a young bride to sit through death oaths in a silly costume and stand in line for a quickie impersonal 'wedding' ceremony with her parents standing outside the Temple on what is supposed to be the most beautiful day of her life?
When it is you and mormon church, it is 'two against one, you and me against me'. You will go against all that is good inside of you, all that is curious and open and honest. You will deny your natural self to the core, because the church has chosen you to be on it's side---against you.
And it's not just the women, its the men too. We men were carefully groomed too. We took our place on the church's side. Two against one. Taught to be our own worst enemy.
If there were a god and he wanted everyone to be exactly the same, why did he create diversity? Is there anything more beautiful than diversity? What possible purpose could sameness serve? Oh, yeah. We know don't we.