I've been doing a lot of research about the endowment ceremony and temple ceilings. I'm speechless. The whole thing gives me the hebee-gebees. I recently remembered that 15 year old me once asked my mom what exactly your endowment was. She blindsided me by saying that endowments were a sacred thing and I'll learn what it is when I get one. I remember feeling hurt by that answer. At the time,
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Holy moley! I've heard people call TSCC a cult before and my nevermo boyfriend and I make jokes about it being a cult all the time but for some reason this really hit me. I guess I never thought it was actually a cult until now. This is a terrifying realization.
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Reading your posts made me feel instantly better about my decisions. You said, "Nobody actually knows any of those answers. Nobody. The supposed one true church in the universe, with a living prophet that has had a direct line to god for nearly 200 years, doesn't even know the answers to simple questions about their claimed "eternity."" This is really encouraging to me. I feel
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Thank you for your words of encouragement and for sharing about your family and their relationship with TSCC. It has lightened the frustration I have about my dad being re-baptized. I really appreciate it.
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I never realized "Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you” could be used both ways. I really like that. Thanks for sharing. I think that phrase will help me through several things.
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I've been inactive for about 5 years now. I stopped going to church after a youth conference trip to Kirtland, OH. I noticed some minute details that got me questioning the validity of the church and thus my beliefs. Being so young and born into a TBM family, I did not know how to handle all the feelings and emotions I had. I did a few weeks of research (I read a few paragraphs here and there on
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