I just went there the other day to have mid-afternoon tea and it was just amazing! Very relaxing.
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Could we close the thread? After the personal attack a few comments ago I just don't feel okay about having this on here. I feel terrible about bringing this up and wish I hadn't posted about it.
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dazed11 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You haven't met some of my facebook friends then. > I have one in particular that is convinced Obama > is the most evil man in the world and that no true > Christian could ever be a democrat. I agree with > you that there is a difference between your > political opinions and something that cuts a l
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Pertaining to my comments about "feeling shity": I mean to say that people really have made me feel badly about this. On purpose or on accident. **edit** I don't mean that I constantly feel this way. I just don't feel safe talking about it because of the backlash I know I'll get. I don't think that comparing being gay to being Democrat is apt because I don't think anyone would wish hell
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I was just wondering if anyone on here would know where to file a complaint about a joke a professor made during class. I am currently taking Intro. to Religious Studies and my overtly LDS professor made a joke that I, as a gay person, was very uncomfortable with. He said that sharing that he was a Democrat in Utah was the equivalent as a gay person coming out. I just sat there, stunned, almost s
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I believe I was 11 or 12. I started to think about it a lot after I received a copy of The Golden Compass as a gift.
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I hardly ever post, but this just encapsulates my whole experience lately. My partner and I recently started hanging out with a LDS couple and after a few months I realized I like them a lot, but damn is it hard to be around sometimes. I really agree with having nothing in common to talk about. If it isn't saying Obama is like Hitler, gay people are terrible, or in general agreeing with their w
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If I wasn't only about 32 credits from graduating I'd consider it! Think back on all of this I have realized that I should have chosen the U. to begin with. Their program for my degree would have been far superior to what I'm getting (just imo).
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Omg, I also just remembered that last week the pro-Peterson professor tried to justify Joseph Smith's and Muhammad's marriage to young girls. (sorry for the random bumping)
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In regard to the testimony thing, it happened over a year ago and I did comment about it when I got up to talk. So we kind of hashed that one out. What I should say is most of the tiffs I've had is between myself and students and not myself and staff.
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Normally I really love my department for those same reasons. I've mainly been studying under a handful of really amazing people who are open and don't push any opinions on their students. I've really only had one or two other professors be this blatant about issues. One of them even went on to pretty much give her testimony on the first day of class! That was quite awhile ago though. I figure
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The first teacher is C.H., it's his first semester teaching. Second teacher's are B.M.; so close, but no cigar!
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I think that certain departments are a little bit better than others when it comes to this problem. Normally my teachers have been from out of state and have avoided the problem all together. I long for those days. This is exactly why I am seriously considering moving for grad school.
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I thought I would come on today for the first time in forever and say that this semester has been the most uncomfortable I've had in years. Today I had my professor say that we should all go to the Dan P. talk this week about God and Science, but followed it up with the oh, yeah, anti-LDS material sucks and Dan P. is super awesome and amazing. I wanted to walk out of class. Thanks for eliciting l
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Thank you Anagrammy! I'm actually getting a minor in religious studies and I love this kind of stuff. I wouldn't have heard of it otherwise.
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Anagrammy, what was the name of the special?
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What's worse is the fact that my super TBM family thinks it's super awesome we're related and my sister's friends are all jealous I know him irl. *barf*
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Honesty moment: the blog is real and I am related to this individual....I had to de-friend him on facebook because his views are HORRIBLE.
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So I have off-hand experience with this. While I was dating my husband (the son of a polygamist who is not himself affiliated with polygamy), my mother actually yelled at me about this question because she was mad that her temple recommend was at stake because I was dating/talking to polygamists.
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Besides history/doctrine my biggest problem was the anti-intellectualism. I didn't see all of it as a member, but now that I'm out I realized how little people cared about learning in general. There is a complete lack of drive in this area. I did a study about religion in general for a class and I was shocked to see how little people knew. When I probed people about what they liked to read and if
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(lurker here!) I love this subject so I thought I'd drop by and lend a note. I'm an INFJ (protector/counselor depending on where you look). I think that a lot of the inherent traits of this personality type fit with why I couldn't stand being Mormon.
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My step-mother would always drink herbal tea and actually had a talk from one of the 70 that stated that herbal tea was different than the actual tea plant and was bueno for members to drink. She would often pull this out when being confronted by her coworkers. I about laughed out loud recently when a convert in one of my college courses said that he was a staunch mormon, but he was drinking gree
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I'm so glad that you mentioned everyone helping create the world. My father used to tell me that one; but in more recent years I haven't found a single lds person who will admit to that teaching. The stuff about being everyone being white after the resurrection is still something that my mother believes and will argue vehemently for.
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If you are really interested in reading an experience from a professor of anthropology who used to work at BYU read David Knowlton's "Once Upon a July." He now works at UVU, but I have not attended any of his courses yet. I don't think I could attend anthropology courses at a school that would want me to ignore haplogroups, evolution, or supports people who say "horses" mean
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Which place was it? I'd be more interested in going to the Tibetan one if I knew people to cozy up to!
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No one ever got disciplined as a result of this, but the issue is still the same. While dating the man I would marry my mom would go off on tirades about his polygamous parents. She threatened me to stop dating him once because if I didn't she would loose her temple recommend because I was fraternizing with apostate fundies.
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I haven't posted here in a very long time. But I thought I'd say a few things. I'm going to be vague because I have family who does try and look for me interacting with ex-mos and because I don't want to be completely out about things yet. My family-in-laws are polygamists; prominent ones. I know and interact with many of the other groups; mostly the Colliers, Harwels (sp?) and the Kingstons.
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I remember watching a Vanguard episode that talked about Ssempa. He is just disgusting. The idea of killing people over sexual views is just ridiculous. If the Mormon community as a whole started to support this lunatic I'm pretty sure they'd have even more people leaving their ranks. And quickly.
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Buddhist
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My mom saw me accidentally drop one of her tops on the floor last time I was there cleaning my clothes. She FLIPPED and yelled at me to hurry and pick it up.
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