Seriously? Holding doors open for girls or helping old ladies with groceries is something done OUTSIDE of your personal space. It generally does NOT include being pawed, groped, having bruises left on your wrists, participating in an unwanted wrestling match, or having someone standing over you for several minutes spitting in your face when they talk. Anything that requires close physica
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Zelph, Laughing so hard the tears are rolling down my cheeks! You should write a book of memoirs!
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Oh that is so sad but it makes sense. I thought it was some new thing for depressed women in RS or something.
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Here in a rural Utah area have noticed affirmation signs popping up all over in yards. ("You can make it", "You're Enough", "Don't Give Up", etc. Does anyone know if this is a new church thing?
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Oh cool! One way to make up for lost tithing money. Sell old mission pics as "fine art".
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"In Sacred Loneliness" By Todd Compton The author may not attempt to explain what he was thinking or why he did the things he did, but it is an amazing & well-documented list of a lot of the things he did and said. (How's that for a run-on sentence?) The book is very revealing about his character, as well as some of the other's. (Brigham Young, Heber C Kimball, etc.)
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I have always wondered where the "we take care of our own" (and everyone else is pretty much out of luck) attitude comes from. Especially for a church that claims to "follow Jesus". Am not particularly religious anymore, but in the Bible you only have to go as far as the parable of the Good Samaritan to find that Jesus taught the exact opposite. According to the Bible (or
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That is certainly true about the "high blasphemy" power! When we do our required HR Training at work I find it amusing that it is apparently acceptable to be rude to some groups of people but not others (protected classes)!
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To me "sweet spirit" has always been a horribly rude way to refer to another person! Even joking about it is about as funny as using the "n" word to joke. When my family joined "the church" I was surprised to hear people using this term to describe single girls/women. Often the person designating the girl as a "sweet spirit" (male or female) was not exa
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Summer, Your advice is probably good. Those things certainly need to be dealt with at some point. I always enjoy reading your posts. You have a lot of wisdom. When I read Eric's post this morning and wrote my own post is was more the emotional aspects that came to mind rather than the practical issues. Reading Eric's post reminded me of how confusing it was as a child (and a teen and a you
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Eric K, Hugs to you and your family! So sorry to hear you are going through this. This has been an interesting thread for me to read as suspect I will be in a similar situation soon with my own mother. She has always been "difficult". It has only become worse with time. At age 11 & 9 my sibling & I went to live with our Dad & his new family. She was diagnosed with
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Love the suggestions above! Not long after leaving a sibling asked me why I left. At first I beat around the bush. They got a little demanding to know. I finally just dumped everything on them at once about Joseph Smith, Book of Abraham, DNA, etc. They said they would NOT want to know if it's not true. We both ended up in tears and our relationship has never been the same-in a bad way.
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Alasmyeyesareopen, Can understand your disillusionment! I grew up in a state that had very few LDS at the time so had not had much contact with the"GA's" When was on my mission several GA's and other "VIP's" came to visit our mission. Several of us were assigned to serve them and their wives dinner at the mission home. When the time came I was literally shaking wi
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No kidding! We have probably all experienced being invited over to someone's house for dinner only to be blind-sided by an MLM pitch after dinner. (Or is that just a Utah thing?)
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GULLWINGSSG SAID: "I hope I don't come off rude because that isn't my intent. I just want to ask why you are here if you are all in or all out?" MY RESPONSE: It could be you meant this in a humorous way. If that is the case I will apologize in advance for being dense and taking your question literally. Everyone's journey is different. Many of us chose the "all out" opt
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Wonder if now they throw all the resigned & ex-communicated into the "dismembered" (broken toy) pile? Might look better for their numbers?
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As someone who has been "co-existing" here in Utah for the past thirteen years or so, it's NOT something I'd deliberately choose as an ex-mormon. It's a beautiful state with a lot of good people in it. Have lived in a friendly neighborhood and have great co-workers but it seems like the friendships only go so far. Am weary of living in a state where the whole world seems to revolve
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Do you think they will apply the term to those who have resigned their membership?
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