I streaked through Bolton Field Golf Course in Grove City Ohio. I guess I felt like it was my last hurrah. I hated wearing the garments. They made me feel tied down. When I dumped them, I felt like a person again.
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Also, if you're a student, there are usually counseling services offered by schools.
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I've been to some really great showers. Maybe it's a cultural thing, but I don't understand the point of a drive-through shower. It's supposed to be a celebration among friends, right? The idea of just inviting people for a quick hello and gift drop just seems bizarre to me. If a friend would be inconvenienced by a regular shower, maybe they aren't close enough that they should be invited in th
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The kinds of explanations and language that work within the church sound very odd, freakish, to outsiders who haven't been conditioned to think it's normal. As do the defensive posts that flood every comment forum for LDS-related news stories. I remember thinking GBH was wonderfully media-savvy when I was a kid. Then I grew up and realized he was regularly saying creepy, weasely, ethnocent
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n/t
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“The problem they are not understanding is that this is a church, not a house or a multi-unit complex, and the increase in the square footage is for extra space for children to have Bible study lessons.” Really? The objectors do not understand that this is for a church? That's such a typical, Mormon thing to say-- "You aren't thinking what I want you to think, you must not understan
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The in-laws took us there-- it was one of the strangest, most unique experiences. Definitely make a visit. You could picnic in the park nearby, visit Gilgal Gardens, and then have coffee at a local cafe (if I remember correctly, there's one within a short walking distance-- it has been a few years).
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What bugs me most is how the church has co-opted the family and appointed itself arbiter of all-things-family such that families in the church will put the interests of the church before the interests of their family because to them it's essentially the same. I have a friend who is suffering through some serious rejection right now because her family is so caught up in the idea that the chur
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Yes! Get her the info for PP. It's a way to stay out of it, while increasing the chances that she'll get the kind of support and information she needs.
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LOL-- My mother had heard all about the City Creek Center, but somehow missed the point that the church was funding the project. She didn't seem to feel very good about that.
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So I called my mother to talk today and we got to politics somehow (always seems to work that way). We got to talking about Mitt (Mom and Dad are NOT fans) and I said "Oh Mom, it is a bad week for the Mormons" and my mother was like "Oh, what's going on? You know how bad I am about keeping up with the news". So, I told her about Bott-gate, Pearl-gate, Wiesenthal-gate, and ab
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Perfect timing too :0) I don't really understand how the doctrine/not doctrine/folk doctrine/"it was just a policy" categorization game changes what we should think about the priesthood ban. I mean the church allowed instituationalized racism to take place long after the Civil Rights movement should have embarrassed them out of it. And regardless of whether the Bott type of ratio
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...slimy act by the church. The ban was racist to begin with. There's no escaping that fact. There is no 'rationalization' for it that won't be racist, because you cant rationalize a racist policy without racism. Even saying "we don't know" (being totally weasely, and dishonest) can't mitigate the fact that it was a fundamentally racist practice. And-- it doesn't matter whether it w
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Is that you can use the bra to secure the garment and keep it out of view. Thank FSM I can just wear whatever the hell I want now.
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Probably not, but could be. Seriously, I'm not saying she's a model of Mormon modesty, but just in virtue of my body type I was able to wear a lot of clothes that most Mormon would consider immodest-- like cleavage galore and skirts to mid thigh. My cousins always tucked and pinned, but I didn't even have to do that- the g's just didn't fit as intended. So I felt like as long as I was covering t
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Marie Osmond, Gladys Knight, etc. LOL. Actually, if you're a pretty busty lady, and you get the garments to fit your boobs instead of your shoulders, you can get away with lower necklines fairly easily. Of course, you'll have more garment in other places. Ick. The very thought of those things makes me ill.
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I'm considering posting it-- might help me clean out my friends list.
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http://www.change.org/petitions/the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-stop-posthumous-baptism
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Seriously, are Mormons trying to make the world hate them? It's so cowardly how they publicly make excuses and shift blame to individual members who violate their "protocol". How about they start an office of people who call the nearest living relative for each would-be dead non-Mormon they baptize and officially ask for permission? That would be respectful. That would be respon
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That Tanner quote is something! Thanks Baura.
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You need to precede it with some kind of warning. I took some coffee through the nose, and now have a mess to clean up. Lol. It was worth it.
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they really shouldn't be running around saying that tithing money wasn't used for this or that mall or hotel.
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That is all.
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Parts of the reasoning process that led me to reject Mormonism also had implications for broader Christianity. Regardless of whether you think Mormonism is Christian or not, there are some shared ideas, texts, and history. I wasn't about to ignore that-- it seemed intellectually dishonest to apply a more lenient standard of reason in order to maintain beliefs that seemed more appealing. If I was
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She has been reading through the material I recommended and has been sending me questions over email. She is asking the kinds of questions that are total testimony-killers. I think it's just a matter of time. I'm sorry that her family is having a hard time with it though. She is divorced, so she doesn't have to worry about a marriage falling apart. Her siblings and parents are really freaki
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They both disrespect the dead to further their own insensitive, tactless, and offensive religious agenda.
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intelligent, but naive. She doesn't seem to realize how atypical her perspective and experiences have been. She admits she doesn't speak for the church, and that she doesn't have any official capacity, but she IS speaking for the church-- just like the Osmonds and Steve Young spoke for the church. Non-members don't care about church press-releases, they barely register on their radar. They do r
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I definitely see your take, but it wasn't just a case of a man helping his disabled wife use the ladies room. If I read it right, it was that he was occupying the ladies room/mother's lounge during sacrament meeting while his wife was snacking on some crackers. I could understand if it were just as you've described-- an old dude helping his disabled wife use the restroom so she doesn't hav
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So, so, so, so glad I have cool coworkers and an office with a door. Sorry you have to suffer through that. Yikes. Yikes. Yikes.
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Instead of taking responsibility for their own offenses, they start denigrating the whistle-blower. Idiots.
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