Very interesting
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Yep. I make casseroles AND funeral potatoes. Not all the time, but still do sometimes
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I love this response.
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Honesty is the best policy. Imagine how terrible you would feel lieing to your kids and pretending you believe in something you don't. I told my child right away I don't believe and never asked permission from my husband either. So far she still believes. I don't control what she believes, I left that controlling behavior behind. But she knows where to turn if one day it isn't working for her
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Me too
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n/t
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I looked his photo up. Not saying there is any correlation but he looks like he only has 3 teeth, if you can even call them teeth.
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Yes, I believe so. My husband said they had combined Session and talked about keeping the Sabbath day holy. My young daughter got the same lesson.
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Assistant choral director. I was supposed to stand there and waive my arms around, but I just couldn't do it. I never did it once. It was right before I left for good.
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Yes. Forever and ever, dammit. But I want to fly around the universes discovering things and making new friends. I suppose when you get old you are more at peace with death. Right now, I can't imagine it and don't even begin to want to.
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Why thank you!
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My mom died of cancer at 68 years old. My mom and dad deeply loved each other and she was his best friend. He started dating a woman about 5 months later from his church (my dad has never been Mormon, so a non Mormon church). They were married 3 months later and have been married now for over 20 years. She has made him so happy. Her husband died of cancer too. My dad said that they mourned th
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I had to come to terms with the fact that I just don't know what happens after we die. We might live on, we might not. I hope I will, but I can't know. In the meantime, I have thought, well if I don't then I won't even know. I admit I don't like not knowing, and I even feel sad about it because I want to go on forever. It reminds me not to waste a moment of my life being down. It takes p
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Go back for awhile. Maybe you just aren't sick of it enough yet.
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Says 95 percent of users are male.
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If they are young, sometimes young couples haven't learned how to keep things between themselves. As you get older as a couple, it gets easier. You don't always feel like you have to talk about your problems. No marriage would last if you didn't allow for a mistake or two along the way.
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They get offended and hurt because they must know somewhere deep down their beliefs make little sense. I can't think of any other reason people with the truth would ever get so offended.
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It doesn't seem like she said anything bad about you. She is just following her beliefs. She thought she was doing the right thing. I just think some people on the thread are blowing it out of proportion, that's all.
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This isn't a Mormon thing. Just a bratty kid. My step nephew was a real brat (not Mormon) when he was a kid (yes, I still remember), but he grew up to be a psychologist and good husband and father.
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It's funny, but one Sunday my eyes just opened to all the nonsense. All the magic was gone. I watched people shuffling in the halls and noticed them all just going through nonsensical motions. I listened to nothing I had not already heard before and realized there was nothing new to learn. I walked past women who were friendly one week and then just didn't even see me the next, and realized t
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There is a bit of a stigma in the Mormon culture that missionaries come back, just find someone suitable that will have them, get married in a loveless temple ceremony, and get down to the business of having a family. Like clockwork. Maybe they are finding it necessary to tell people they are more important to each other than just that.
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Because their standards and values do not align with mine.
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Just one less fun thing the church has to worry about.
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I love it. Glad those comments are there for everyone to see. It is a little shocking they would be so callous but that just demonstrates their true mentality.
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Yes, I always feel sorry for people when they first leave the church but claim their friends have stood by them. It is only a matter of time before those friendships fall away, sometimes in hurtful ways.
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Michael Quinn
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I'm almost kind of, maybe a tad bit embarrassed to say I liked that show. I thought Marie was the prettiest ever and wanted my hair to look like hers. And while I wasn't allowed to have boy posters up, I envied my friend who had a Donnie poster in her room. Carry on ...
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(smiling as I read this) "Whenever I "reach" my audience of 44 (half of which are Russian and Nigerian fake accounts)"
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That sapped my energy.
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I liked Joseph Wirthlin as far as GAs go because he seemed to have sincerely believed what he preached. I also liked Gordon B. Hinckley although few here do. He seemed nice and grandfatherly, and he had a good sense of humor. He knew how to connect with the members, and was good at speaking as far as that goes.
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