My kids had this done, I'm still waiting to hear back from them as to what it says.
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Too funny
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Sometimes when Honest TBM posts something here, I wonder if it's for real or if it truly is satire. With this posting I wondered once again so I prayed about it. Isn't that what gawd wants us to do when we don't know something? What happened next astounded me; I found my damn car keys and I didn't even know that I had lost them. Now if that ain't inspired intervention, then I don't know what it.
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I went out to the mailbox today and there were several letters there. Usually I look to see who they are from as I walk back, but Millie was in her yard and she is better looking than mail. Once in the house I started opening the letters and I mistakenly opened one addressed to you. Yes, you the reader of this post. I don't know how the mailman delivered your mail to my mailbox, but it happened.
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One day I came home from town after visiting several stores. (this was back in the day when I was still a believer) I noticed my wallet wasn't in my pocket and not in the car. My first thought was to ask gawd for some help but then he likes it when a person tries to help themselves first so I looked and looked. Nope, no wallet. In all of my wisdom I figgered that it had to be at the last stor
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I've been struck dumb a few times in my life and sometimes I wonder if I ever recovered from it. Luckily for me I was too dumb struck to know I was dumb.
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Can't say that I have seen a miracle and attributed it to gawdliness. I do remember as missionaries we tracted out a man who had brain cancer. We thought we could heal him so we went out to the car to decide who would anoint and who would do the actual healing. This was a big deal as we would be invoking the powers of the universe. We each wanted to anoint and neither of us felt like we had t
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Had I spent as much time learning mathematics, science, or anything for that matter, as I did sitting in some boring Seminary class, I'm quite sure that I would understand the world better today and probably would have fared better in the work place. Religion took precedence over academics.
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Thank you Hamster for returning and reporting. I have been wondering what was going to happen and now I can go back to playing solitaire. It looks like you have skated past what could have been a difficult visit.
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I haven't been to church for a long time so I don't know if they still preach it. But back in the day I always thought that the end was very close and I couldn't wait. I no longer have tons of food storage, but I have maybe 2 weeks of stuff I could live on if necessary. A fridge full of beer should stay cold for a few days. Got enough Folgers for a month. Three packages of hot dogs and a few old
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Cooked up some Farmer John's sausage links, couple of eggs, and some delicious to the taste coffee. Watched the neighbors leave for church. Walked out back and seen a few peas starting to pop out of the garden. It's a bright sunny day, trees are starting to bud out, birds chirping, and the best part of all of this is; I'm not going to be sitting in a gall durn church meeting listening to crap abo
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I have a Brother in Law who likes to go to Mesquite to gamble. He goes maybe twice a month. He gets a boner telling me how much he wins every time he goes, sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. But, he is always a winner! He never tells me how much he loses, that doesn't make to the pulpit. I'm pretty sure that the mighty morg is much the same. They report their "winnings" but ne
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Like many others here, I was also bored with church. The same cliche's over and over; our loving Father in Heaven, bless those who can't be here this week will be here next week, my brothers and sisters, stand blameless before gawd, blessings poured out, pleasing to our Father in Heaven, blah blah blah. About the only interesting talks were about the second coming when Jesus would return and
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Your posting is just too close to home for me, and since you asked, I'll give my two cents. In my experience, the Bishop doesn't normally have a regular home teaching family every month unless it is a "delicate" situation and he/they don't trust a regular priesthood boner to go visit. (No offense Boner). Back in the day when I refused to allow home teachers to come around I was given
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Someone rang my doorbell and ran away. They left this little ditty on my porch in a covered basket. I'm curious, ziller, do you know where I live? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jye8QUnjG10
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If it would be okay, I'd like my role a cinimon roll heated up with a small scoop of ice cream.
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I turned my back on the mighty morg 5 years ago. I recently resigned by using the attorney who lives in Salt Lake and handles resignations for free. It took about 2 months, but I now have that letter that says I'm no longer a mormon.
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I remember those times; a nickle would buy a huge Payday candy bar, HUGE! Soda Pop was a dime if you drank it there and didn't take the bottle every store had a penny candy counter where you could get a piece of candy for a penny, or two for a penny a dime would almost fill a gallon gasoline can for the lawnmower kids who misbehaved were often times given a good beating right on th
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I'm older now, retired, and don't have any real worries in my life anymore. However, during the entire time I was submerged in the cesspool of mormonism I always looked forward to the second coming of Jesus or simply running away and starting over somewhere. I totally think I could have started a new life somewhere and not tell a single soul anything about my past. I fantasized about this a lot.
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I'm not doing a darn thing, had some delicious coffee earlier and I'm taking the rest of the day off. There was a time though that by now I'd be fairly irritated at how slow the time passes as I wait for church to be over so I could go home. Gawd knows how much I disliked going to church. Now, I'm happy that I'm not bound anymore like I was. Might even have another delicious-to-the-taste coff
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I remember years ago that a prominent man in the ward was on my list of people to home teach. We visited him and his new wife every single month. He told us he worked for the church in their real estate offices and his job was to liquidate properties that the church had acquired through donations. He had an area assigned to him and he would visit these properties to place a value on them so that
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Wait wait, stop for a minute please, where did you find this watch? I lost one 34 years ago and I've been praying for help to find it. Was it a Casio? Metal stretchy band? Jesus, I bet it's mine.
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In my youth I was an avid reader of Mad Magazine. I can testify that there is also "good" in that magazine because of the two spy guys, one white and one bad. Usually the good white spy would win by blowing the other bad black spy to smithereens with a round bomb.
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Jimbo, if I say amazing, can I get a spanking instead of a punch?
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We were both virgins when we were templified and the night we did it for the first time was a disaster. Neither of us knew what or how and I had to ask her if it was in. She said, "I think so" so after a few awkward pushes it was all over. I remember laying there thinking what a disappointment that was. It took a while before we figger'd it out but we eventually got very good at it.
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It's been a while but if memory serves me correctly you have to watch a 2 hour movie, go over to a white curtain, rap three times with a small mallet, and they will give you a new name. However, don't tell us what it is, it's a giant secret. Other than that I don't have a clue how you change your name.
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I'm out completely now, just received my letter from the morg a week ago that tells me they have removed my name from their rolls. After a lifetime of "towing the line" and trying to be perfect, I am now free of all of that. However, some damage that was done will never go away. The effects for me are minor compared to others I read about. I would like to share a recently learned sto
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I can identify with this, thank you for posting it. Like many of you here I was stuck in stage two for a very long time. Time is what allowed me to pass into stage 3 and even though I still slip backwards I have mostly put it behind me and it is a distant memory. What lingers with me is the issue of trust, I simply don't trust anyone anymore. I live in a mormon stronghold and every day I am r
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I would absolutely love it if one fine day a mormon told me, "I told you so" as they languished in their mansion on high and I watched from outer darkness. At least then I would know the truth.
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I can't speak for others but this behavior has been very typical of my own deeply mormon family, especially my own Father. I have two sisters who used to grill me hard for information to take to other family members. It's like they got brownie points for ratting me out for misdeeds. All of my family is true believing mormons and very judgemental of those who commit any sins. It took me years
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