gayle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > where the young women go as a group, but you find > out after you get there that they won't let you do > any baptisms if you are having your period. > > And, maybe you didn't want all the boys or anyone > else in the group knowing you were having your > period. > > But you have to sit o
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Yes, for about six months while I was in college. I was living in my hometown and my roommate/best friend with advantages moved back to his parent's house across the state during the summer after a pregnancy scare (not with me--he was a man whore). Before I became homeless, I was living with him in the house that he had grown up in. When he left, I decided that I didn't want to live under my pare
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The person who wrote that song is my step-grandmother. I am not proud.
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I quit cold turkey a year and a half ago and I go months without thinking about it. I can even be around people who smoke my brand and not get the urge to smoke. However, when I am stressed out, I find myself dreaming that I gave in and I become disappointed in myself and than am relieved that it was just a dream. I know that if I even let it happen just once, I will probably be right back where
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I ran from them for over twenty years. Some of the tactics they used were trying to contact my current landlords when I wasn't home and talking to my neighbors. I know this because my landlords and neighbors were the ones who told me. Since I was young and single, they took it upon themselves to shoo them away. I also had colleagues who were TBM who knew about my disbelief and respected my wis
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I am trying to figure out how to decorate the new house I moved into a month ago. Now that I finally have time off, I can now organize my things...all before Christmas, hopefully.
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My mom used to have this woman (also LDS but was married to a nonmo) babysit me when she would go to town. One day she came to pick me up and found that the lady had given me iced tea. I remember thinking how wonderful that drink was and how mad my mom got at the lady. It confused me. Poor lady was never asked to watch me again. My mom drinks "herbal tea" from Sunrider all the time thou
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I found out from an old boyfriend that his family had resigned in the 70's after blacks were allowed the priesthood. He and his family also taught me about the Mormon Meadows Massacre, Blood Oaths, and how the church had tried to hide their history by taking out the old church history books and replacing them with a new set. I wanted to resign back then, but was afraid I would lose my baptism. In
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I took it for a former boyfriend and it said I scored a 9. I had been told by the boyfriend that I was codependent. However, when I took it as me in high school with my dad being the other person, I scored a 19. My dad was emotionally and occasionally physically abusive to me from about 16-19 when I moved out.
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Today, one of my female high school students came up to me after class and bashfully handed me a card that showed the picture of a woman (Mary) holding a child (Jesus) that read: HE IS THE GIFT John 3:16 on one side and this on the other side: Discover the Gift Embrace the Gift #ShareTheGift christmas.mormon.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints When she handed
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I never bothered to get mine...though I was asked many times by my mother to get one. One of my cousins got hers and shared it with me. Apparently, she was going to have lots of kids and marry in the temple. As a young adult, she overdosed on meth and had one kid while living in an insane asylum. Now, she lives in a halfway house and her brain will never function past an eight-year-old's. I guess
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I was (am still?) in love with a young man in college who hurt me deeply. We were lovers and best friends for a couple of years, but he never would call me his girlfriend. I wrote a long poem and some songs about him that I let him read that told him how it hurt that he could give his heart to anyone else but me. So, he knew what he was doing to me and I knew that he knew, yet I still foolishly k
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Nope, I am 735 miles away from you but am still in a very Mormon town.
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That is very sad and tragic. You also have my condolences.
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It is still alive and well here in the southeastern part of Arizona. The other day when I visiting my parents, my dad warned me that their visiting teachers would be arriving in about 15 minutes and that I was free to stay if I wanted. He knows that I am no longer a mormon and was just giving me the heads up. I told him that unless they were ready for a bunch of questions from me about various to
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My grandma wouldn't let my mother pierce her earrings, so my mom was highly against it. My dad prescribed to the "Your body is a temple" sort of thinking, so he prized my mother for her ears being "pure" and refused to let me get my ears pierced until I turned 18. When I turned 16, my mom found out that my TBM grandma had changed her mind on piercings and made a big deal out o
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greenAngel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > but the rub is, two of my BFFs are LDS and they > are amazing ladies, they didn't care one bit when > we left, one of them even ran interference and > became my visiting teacher so that people would > quit bothering us. :) I know they will love me > regardless but sometimes I wonder if I just st
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I'm in a small community in Graham County where most of the people I work/associate with are Mormon. I hope it spreads over here. I feel so alone being the only exmo over here.
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For the past 20 years I have told people that I am spiritual...but a few months after I resigned (last December) I decided that I was more of an agnostic theist than an atheist.
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I've said it once and I'll say it again. Thank you, Tom!
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I love Skyrim. It's one of those games I have to reserve for a day off from work though because I get too engrossed in the side missions and there goes the day.
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Yes, I'm really interested in checking out Rainbow Six: Siege and The Division. I hope they play more like Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 than Ghost Recon though. I loved how the snake cam was used in Vegas 2. I have a lot of games on my back log that I need to play. Halo: Reach is one of those. I own Halo 1 and 2, but never bought 3. Microsoft gave me a copy of Halo: Reach and I've played a little bit
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I am a gamer/collector. While I don't own any of the newest consoles, I own almost every other console/handheld that has come out. I play nearly everything except I can't get myself to play Call of Duty, Battlefield, or most sports games. On the XBox 360, I am currently replaying Fallout 3. My brother recently introduced me to the Tom Clancy series. I especially love Rainbow Six Vegas 2. I'm s
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This showed up in my Facebook feed this morning. Have you guys heard of this program? I'm from Arizona and they are having one in Mesa on August 11 too. I am truly disgusted. Hasn't the church already done enough damage to our young men? Here's the link for the one in Utah: http://mwharkertherapist.blogspot.com/2014/07/breaking-chains-of-bondage-seminar.html Here's a quote from their flyer:
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I live in one of those Mormony parts of Arizona. They celebrate Pioneer Day and it even gets in the paper as front page news. Of course, this is a mini version of Utah so what do you expect?
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My parent's dirty garments are always on the floor. They are in their 70's. I've never heard of that rule and apparently, neither did they.
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Yes, thanks for sharing your inspiration for writing that song. It's always been one of my favorites and I always have to stop and sing it when it comes on the radio.
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My best friend told another friend in college that she could tell I "lost the spirit" by looking in my eyes. Of course I did, it's called waking up out of that Mormon stupor and living my life without anyone telling me what to do. Unfortunately, she and her husband and three kids may never get out of that brainwashing cult and think for themselves because they are always too busy
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Same with mine. A bishop I'd never even met sat on it for over a month before I received my final notice...in fact, I had three. See my struggle at http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1191272,1191356#msg-1191356 Congratulation on being out!
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