It's been a few months since I turned in the resignation. I only did it as a formality since I've considered myself out for the better part of a decade. I turned it in via quit mormon and I'm going to be honest I kind of forgot I had even done it until I got the notification. It feels good to be out officially though even if it doesn't mean anything in the long run. It's been so long since I
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My Dad made it VERY clear early on that he wasn't going to convert and he didn't care, he threw the bishop off his property before I was born and told him to never set foot there again unless he got permission. He also told numerous sets of missionaries to sod off. My dad is a very outspoken man and frankly no one tell him anything he doesn't want to hear, very pro freedom of choice on almost all
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Oh my parents met when my Mom didn't care about the church that much, this was a post my birth thing in fact my brother was conceived out of wedlock(and born in it) to my tbm grandmother's frustration.
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The positive thing about the faith I am joining is they require a good deal of study and heavy research to even join, which I find refreshing coming out of mormonism where we were always taught to get people to join no matter what.
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One big change is my choice is entirely based on research and positive experiences(attending and ensuring I didn't see some of the worst red flags that mormonism gave me for years but I didn't see because I joined when I was 8 and never had a choice :D ) I will definitely won't let emotions dictate my choices anymore mormonism is really good at teaching that lesson when you realize it's full of s
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I stopped attending 7 or so years back after I got fed up with the judgement I received from church members and happened upon the CES letter, Gospel Topic Essays and My failed attempt to engage in mormon apologetics. I spent the years after just trying to process my grief(lost a close family member at the same time and almost lost another one), get used to life without mormonism, and to try to fi
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Honestly this feels very true to what I'm feeling at the moment. I did have some rough times right AFTER I left but it quickly faded after 6 months or so of feeling it. My heavily mormon grandmother was also sick/dying at the time and despite the religious differences she and I were very close. Lately I've been thinking about it more and more and I realized so many things in my life even to t
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Oh she is a nevermo, she has been bringing up how frigging crazy mormonism is/feels to her because my mother kept talking to her about it the other day. Sorry I wrote that early in the morning so I didn't quite think it through!
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It's been a few years since I left the mormon church even though I never bothered turning in the resignation letter, I don't really consider myself a member anymore. I haven't thought much about it in years except to hide my rather extensive liquor selection when my mother comes over for a visit. Honestly I've thought a lot lately about it as my fiancee kept bringing up religious topics, I tho
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Working on my projects, turns out actually getting something done beats the hell out of sitting in an empty building.
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I'm turning 25 this year
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Sorry I would be open about it if I could but I'm in a rather...tight and uncomfortable situation. You don't always get the freedom to do as you want. By the end of the year it hopefully won't be a problem, but for now it is and my insomnia demands a means of staying awake at times.
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I hide the trash in the bottom of the trash can where she physically can't reach it(due to movement issues) and won't. As far as finding anything things she doesn't go through my personal effects, we've had some interesting talks about snooping through my items.
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I still live with my TBM mother its a nightmare...
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Does anyone know of a coffee maker I could hide easily?
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When they use the word infidelity in that ensign article I wonder if they mean the husband actually cheated or they are just being judgemental jerkwads and equating pornography use with cheating.
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My mother knew nothing about the game really but it went beyond games. Any mention of making jokes about the bible or people in the bible irritates her. Even the harmless ones that are meant in good fun. One time I made a harmless joke about the exodus story that was if anything a positive thing about it, my mother immediately met it with calls of my needing repentance. Speaking of high cou
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One time I was playing a role playing game(not the table top kind the video game kind). I had just accomplished a feat in the story in which your character joined the "High Council". My mother happened to be walking nearby when I exclaimed I was on the "High Council". This apparently rubbed her the wrong way so she had to run in and scream at me "NO YOU'RE NOT!"
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I did it was a huge waste of time generally, but when there were decent elders who weren't massive self religious zealots, it was a little fun well until we had to teach people. Most of these people were far too busy or just weren't interested yet these persist guys would harass and harass. One or two I knew just kind of gave up when a reasonable person would. I got uncomfortable when they t
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Just looking at that beat church by a mile.
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I am working on my newest project and being thankful I no longer have to wake up each Sunday morning and dress up in a suit.
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Funny how the very things the church suggests can lead to an end of belief in it. They should add as a condition that you shouldn't use your brain while doing these things.
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I travelled hundred of miles to New York to stare at a grove of pretty trees. Still they were quite pretty but when people asked "Do you feel the spirit here?" I said yes, but in reality all I thought was how lovely and nice the trees were. It was quiet and peaceful but in the end so is the forest down the road and its a shorter trip. I got to see some nice places though so I am not com
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You know I drive around when I'm working a sunday shift. I see a lot of churches and some people are dressed quite nice and neat and some people are just in normal old street clothes. They are all going into the same building and I don't see any discrimination over it. Mormons are the only people I've seen who walk in dressed like its a funeral... Oh sorry that's right it is a funeral for their i
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Lol I went to the grocery store today and picked up my favorite brand. The whole time I was scanning the store aisles for my mother's ward members. Because you can bet they'd rat me out in a second.
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Am I a coffee addict? no but I finally found a brand I enjoy and I've bought everything I needed(minus some filters but some internet hacks helped.) I finally made coffee by myself for the first time in my life. I am now going to go hide my coffee, my creamer, and everything else somewhere I won't get grief from my TBM mother over! Is this anything special? eh not really but its a step towards re
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I personally was already 98% sure TSCC was false, however the CES letter was like that last 2% got shot with an RPG.
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I am just waking up and getting started I don't have the weekend shift this week so I'm in a good mood.
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Why do mormons seem to be the least helpful missionaries! I mean I've heard of religious missionaries doing a lot of net good before they began preaching, however mormons seem to put that as the very last priority.
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Goodsell, elder and sister Goodsell. Good missionary names.
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