Depends on how much of a sally you are about your drink.. Light choices -Beer: Try angry orchard (green apple taste) -Wine: Roscato (this is literally fermented grape juice. very sweet with no dryness) -Liqour: This one is hard..start easy on the amount of alcohol.. a little is a lot! - 1 part vodka with 2 parts organe juice and 1 part cranberry - Captain morgan Private stock with cok
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They absolutely keep a file. Your membership number never gets deleted. They can keep any and all records on you, there is no law against it. However if you ask for no communication then they are violating law.
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Yeah, that is my original thought... I mean I really don't care either way and I have no emotional strings attached to the church. But I feel like they still "consider" me a member (probably count me in their numbers), and feel as they can still contact and bother me anytime they want. But after I thought of all that I started second guessing it.
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Been around 3 years since I resigned. Pretty simple exit. Told my bishop what I thought, wrote the letter, and got a free divorce and a prize for leaving the church. (I'm sure you know the story) Today I got a letter from the church (the seventy) saying my ex was granted a temple divorce but I would still need permission to get sealed if I so wished to. My resignation clearly stated that I was no
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It's been awhile, but I have a question. http://www.lovesac.com/sactionals/6-series-covers-pieces.html I was looking at purchasing something like this, a modular sectional set. When I found these, I was excited but I dreaded the price. Then something caught my eye. The company is owned by a Mormon and I am now completely turned off. So the question is, does anyone know any alternatives?
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Same here. The bottoms were EXTEREMELY HOT and I refused to wear them with my uniform deployed or not. The wife didn't seems to care because in her mind 'the lord would protect me because I lived the spirit of the law not the letter of the law." I heard in the last year they have improved them even more for functionality on the bottoms. As for the tops I wore those and the sand colored ones
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I can tell you for a fact that in my old ward and stake the numbers were close to 15% full tithe payers, and 25% max of the stake paid some sort of tithe. They skew the numbers to make you feel like the minority so you want to fit in and pay tithe.
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As soon as I started reading this I smelled a setup from the bishop to get your companion to bring you to this house to have someone who has "been in your shoes" to put you in your place. Should have asked a little nicer for the spirit to be with them I guess. Those ignorant to fact will never master logic.
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I carry a gun. So they usually don't screw with me.
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I never had any problems with her and loved her dearly. She is just stuck in a bad situation and hasn't been able to get out of it and clear her head to make the right decisions.
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Been almost a year and a half out. (was the standard eyes opened, told spouse, got a divorce over it, submitted my letter, etc) I have never looked back. I had a few withdrawals like looking over my shoulder to buy beer (like I was murdering someone), and other programming to undo, but I am completely out. 2 months ago my ex wife stopped by to told me she had stopped believing (a year later
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Wife beaters are awesome. Just sayin. A lot of non mo's wear undershirts. I find full shirts uncomfortable but love the beaters. Give it a shot!
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I did the sabotage bit for awhile during my exit. I would send anon letter to investigators houses with info and scare them off. For me, after a few months I realized while I am completely capable of lying.. it was not the person I wanted to be. So I left.
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Good point. And in most states you can legally shoot em!
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I would have told that bishop that the church has received my request and it needs to be handled professionally. Then I would have told him that if he wishes to not comply I would be happy to file a lawsuit on the basis of harassment.
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My first trail (due to divorce) was money and handling having to rent my house out with my single income. I weighed heavily on me at first. The like any process of dealing with stress, I learned to handle it after a few rough weeks. and things worked out. No praying, priesthood blessings, or perverted angles invading my bedroom. For me, it's the same. But one of my non LDS friends always pegged m
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I want to get one of the angel Moroni and Kalvin (from Kalvin and Hobbs) with Kalvin pissing into the "trumpet" Moroni is blowing.
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To General Conference. Now I have one less facebook friend. Everyone knows where I stand and why I left the church... But damn Mormons don't know their bounds.
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Oh man. I need to steal a recommend and go take HUGE dump in the temple bathroom...On the floor.
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It is amazing how everyone's stories are so similar. For a 'religion' that claims to be christian and loving to act this way just reinforces you are doing the right thing. You are scary because they have been told you are. You are shunned because you think for yourself. I love how you go to church and absolutely blow the walls out of their perfect thinking! You are a better person than me... If I
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Since you don't know me, let me explain a few things. -I have never been co-dependent (even with the church).. I have never even had roommates (minus the fact I lived with my ex wife, haha) -Second, I am grateful for all the support I received out of this forum. Even though I think I eventually would have left, it was a HUGE relief to find this place and know others have walked in my path a
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Congrats!
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Man, I am sorry...you fit a cookie cutter of what a lot of us have been through. It is hard to change her mind. The only thing (in my opinion) you can do since she wont see an unbiased counselor is to tell her you love her and don't want this. Tell her that you can not believe in the church because you KNOW it is false. If she wants to go to a LDS counselor, ask her why a non LDS counselor wil
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You know, I have been reading a lot of negativity on the forums lately. Now before I get to my point, I’d like to say that I have been negative lately. Hell, we all have a reason to be mad and angry at what the church has taken from us.. has done to us mentally… to our families, relationships (I lost a marriage because of it), pocketbooks, etc. But I would like to point out a few things. A
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The love bombing they call "fellow-shipping". The tactic of over working people is to give callings that are "issued by the lord" (so you can't say no), family home evening, service projects, attend the temple, home/visit teach, etc.
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*snif* *snif* I smell troll. If I am wrong, do some searching..we didn't write it... but he sure did plagurized it!
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The initial step can seem hard (it is designed that way). You WILL make new friends, and if you fiancee breaks up wit hyou over that, he isn't worth his weight in dog crap. Trust me I know. I am an divorced exmormon. I lost all my 'friends' and wife over it. But I am free and it was a small price to pay.
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Wow, this missionary was good at spinning that one. Nice cover for a lie.
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I want you to remember one thing. Post deployment can sometimes be harder than combat ops. You need to keep in mind how many times he has deployed, how he is taking the deployment, and how post deployment (reconstitution and the decompression peroid) might be. It might be easier to talk a little about here here and there.. Drop a hint, see how he is taking it, move forward...Only if he is adjuste
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He will be told. You could make this issue very clear in your letter, and if they violate that, sue the pants off them.
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