Some of you might think I'm too young to feel this way,but I fell in love with a girl in middle school a few years ago. I was way too nervous around her because of my upbringing, and because I wanted there to be no chance of me compromising my chastity. I've only been able to see her once last year but I still think of her every day.
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Trust me, the way I felt about her wasn't physical at all. She was just the most beautiful, amazing person I had met and I just wanted to be with her. Thanks though
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thanks, I just feel like any relationship would be hard because she goes to the other high school in town. on the bright side i get my licence in a few weeks
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First of all, I would like to say that I'm back! I've had to take a break from rfm because of my parents (my mom would flip if she knew i was checking this site during school). But I have some time to make this one post. So, this Friday I finally turn 16! and according to mormon custom I can finally date! I was wondering if I could get some advice. A never-mo that I've known for almost 2 1/2 ye
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well i for one am glad for a place to vent my 'unorthodoxy' without any 'telescreens' around :)
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thanks ill try to read both, the similarities are mind blowing between the authoritarianism orwell describes and tscc. just thought it was worth posting
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that communication with your family sounds great! i'm glad everything is fine at least with your family
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I just realized this because i'm reading the book, but in orwell's '1984' the ministry of love is the law enforcement branch of the government. hearing the church's disciplinary court called a 'court of love' reminded me of the obvious parallels between the english socialist party and the church's authoritarianism. they almost have the same exact rules of 'orthodoxy' if not the same surveillance
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the humor, the valuable insights, and just bring able to vent your feelings. thanks for providing all this and more rfm and all my friends here
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no, absolutely no mention of mlk. but on the bright side i did start an intelligent discussion in my class on a major logical fallacy in the doctrine of exaltation (wait... did i say intelligent, i meant that none of the other students had a clue and a bishopric member who was visiting the class and majored in philosophy said that basically we can't understand it because celestial matters are bey
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i wouldn't make it any more of an issue with your parents, they'll make your life living hell if you don't conform. also, keep your non belief on the down low, the kids will forget it at some point if you act like you believe. i'm around the same age and i'm sorry you have to go through this, if you stick it out until the end then you can leave everything churchy behind when you move out without
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thanks, just have to get a class because my brother is also in seminary and my parents can't take two trips to the other side of town for school. and i just guess that i'm pissed about the girlfriend thing because she seemed to sincerely care about me and its hard to think she was just being manipulative
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Last thursday I was finally able to talk to my parents about the cutting and my other issues that are more pressing than porn and atheism. We talked for a while and they decided to take a step back on the mormon issues and i've decided to stop with the porn because of the circumstances. They've even decided to let me drop out of seminary as long as I can find another before school activity. We're
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my parents don't know about the cutting, I don't know how to take action, either by leaving or by getting help from social services. They've created this crushing anxiety and I don't feel like I can do anything to directly contradict them but if I don't act then i'll be forced into the waiting game because they'll pull me out of school and be keeping watch over me 24/7. that means no more friends
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thanks for the advice, I don't see this as an issue except when my dad makes it one, me and my dad are stuck in completely different viewpoints. he's in control though, so I have to live with it. I told my parents that I was an unbeliever almost a year ago, thinking there was a chance that they would be understanding and compromising. I've regretted that decision since the day I tried that. My
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so i've been having continuous issues with my dad, he'll find out i watched some porn and have me admit to masturbating, then he'll lecture me about how its addictive and a poison, get emotional when I just sit there stony faced, and try to force me to talk to him about it. i'm past talking to him because he always uses the same old sorry excuses for arguments and whenever i say anything to make
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just havent had the chance in a while, my parents are really cracking down on any sign of anti mormon in me
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"Yeah, ain't nothin' like a bad violin. Cheney should have thought of it." hahaha thank you cludgie
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Wow.... Best explanation of superstition I have ever heard. +1
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Just take him at his word? I'm sorry but someone on this board should know at least how to think critically of claims instead of going off of faith (if you are exmo.) Plus NOT believing in a god has given many of us the perspective we need in order to be charitable. Because we know that this life is probably it, we also know that there is no special place that we go to after death that makes th
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"There is a remedy, he added, for life’s most difficult and painful periods. 'There is the gospel and Jesus Christ and the Atonement,' he said. 'There is peace and safety and a future.'" Great, now they've patented suicide prevention, just like they patented the concept of eternal families. Why can't the church just give honest advice to people struggling instead of making up di
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love this guy +1
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To me agnosticism isn't a 50/50 chance of there being a god, its just a statement that its impossible to know if there is deity in the universe. However that doesn't mean that all religions have a chance of being true and certainly not a 50/50 chance. According to science, the earth is around 4.5 billion years old, disproving bible claims and meaning you can discard christianity as a truthful rel
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so the perfect being they endorse IS fallible, their excuse 'he was once a fallible man' how much dissonance does it require to actually believe that horseshit
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Many christians point to the top verses or ones like them to say 'god is perfect', 'god is moral', and 'god loves you'. While ignoring chapters in which god kills millions or endorses genocide, or destroys a nation, not to mention all the bigotry he puts into his 'laws'. If a god like that exists, he's not worth worshiping
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omnibenevolence: Psalm 145:17, James 1:17, Isaiah 45:7 omnipresence (just in spite of the church) jeremiah 23:24, Proverbs 15:3, Psalm 139:7-10 omniscience Psalm 147:5, 1 John 3:20, Psalm 147:4-5 omnipotence Luke 1:37, jeremiah 32:27, Job 42:2 all thanks to: openbible.info
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either that or he only exists 'beyond time and space' and therefore the rules don't apply to him, or some other apologetic nonsense like that
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You just don't get it, scripturally he's not just 'hyper benevolent' he is omni-benevolent, but, not just that. He is also omniscient, omnipotent, and (not according to tscc) omnipresent. But wait, if he's all these things, then how is it possible that he could allow evil and reject his own children?.... Because he's also nonexistant
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i made the mistake of telling my parents, it doesn't end well, trust me.
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found the truth this summer! can't resign yet though
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