Spoiler: Rearrange the letters in Santa spells Satan
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I posted this hoping someone would share some optimistic factual news about the future again. I'm tired of all this gloom and doom from the mormon culture and family members. The world is going to end soon, yada yada yada.
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The main problem is I don't want it to cause problems in a future job or something. I have difficulty with organizations and rules in general they make me nervous, probably due to my being raised in a very rigid organization.
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I am having difficulty setting personal boundaries and socializing with people in normal manner. I think this stems from being born into the church. Also I was socially somewhat decent in high school but after my mission I feel more socially crippled now, the only social interaction I had was with members/missionaries and the only interaction with normal people was as a 'salesman' How do I set bo
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Thou shalt not think for thyself and shalt not question anything
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@Albinolamanite There is not always 'choice' when it comes to finances, I don't know what day of age you went to school but nowadays I attend a Tier 1 school in the Engineering and Sciences for about $XX,XXX a year in which the responsibility falls upon me to pay for all of it. It is difficult although not impossible to work a full time job. I do work part time 20 hours a week. I do get schola
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I am in my 20's but still have to live with my folks when I'm not at school, until I can finally graduate and get a job and enough money to be totally independent. I can't stand even visiting them for the holidays or any reason. It just turns into a giant guilt fest of things I'm not doing in my life. I have tried telling them the truth that I don't feel comfortable being around them b/c this but
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THANK GOD i didnt get married right away and start making babies like my other RM friends, because of mission I had enough sense to see through that.
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I am in my mid 20s, about the graduate from school in a field I don't want to go into. I feel like I'm behind in life compared to the rest of the world because I bought into the lies and deceit from close family and friends. I regret a lot of decisions I made b/c of the church, like going on a mission, because I could have had a life and a job by now, like most others my age. I have no car. no p
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I just looked up TBM on wikipedia (didn't know what it meant i'm new here). It said "True Believing Mormon." Its funny the entry right after it said "Tunnel Boring Machine" If you have ever been in an argument with one they seem to have this effect (ignoring everything in their path)
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Thanks for the answers, the tobacco one was what I was really curious about. Also you showed me how much research I didn't do @_@, the civil war one I just realized I could have looked up the history of civil war on wikipedia. As far as the "how can so many people be wrong" is the Argumentum ad populum Fallacy which makes sense logically. Its just hard to separate from it emotional
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Hi, I was raised a mormon, was a letter of the law mormon, did the whole two years mission thing and all that jazz. I am studying physics right now at a non-mormon university. After my mission I went to church for a while and then stopped.My doubts have been growing slightly over the years but recently had the 'pull the rug from underneath me' moment. The whole pray to know doctrine would prov
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