Today is Sunday October 7th in Australia and for the first time in a year or so I happened to drive past the chapel of the branch my family and I used to attend. Back in those days (the late 70's and early 80's), the car park, whilst never full, always had between twenty and thirty cars parked there on any Sunday. Today at 10.45am it contained only six cars. This is a branch that has "g
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I am another grateful reader who seldom posts. Over the seven or so years that I have been following this forum on a daily basis I have learned much more truth about the Mormon Church than I ever did in my sixteen years as a cult member. Thank you Eric for all your hard work over the years, it has certainly been appreciated. Have a truly wonderful musical retirement. Concrete Zipper, grea
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Heartless - You may be thinking of mitochondrial DNA which is passed from a woman to all of her offspring, but which is transferred only by her daughters and not by her sons. In other words mitochondrial DNA is transmitted only through the female line. All other DNA is transmitted by both parents on the X Chromosome contributed by the mother and on the X or Y chromosome contributed by th
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I have no doubt that this will indeed happen and Rusty Nelson will announce it when he visits Young and Jackson's pub in Melbourne and stands at the bar ogling Chloe while he guzzles a glass of Carlton draught.
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GNPE wrote - "...they claim they're maintaining their image; that's yet another lie!" No,they really are maintaining their image, they just haven't realised how bad that image is, and how much worse it is rapidly becoming.
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wondering Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > December? I’m confused. No wonder you are confused, I really slipped up there, thanks for picking this up. Sam's letter opening is on Sunday 16th SEPTEMBER.
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Here are a few - When a deacon makes a mistake, he must have been masturbating When a teacher makes a mistake, he must have been watching porn When a priest makes a mistake, he must have been watching porn and masturbating. When a Laurel makes a mistake, her mistake was confessing to the bishop, the whole ward knows within an hour. When a missionary makes a mistake,the investigator
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https://invisiblescubit.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/verdict-is-in-the-envelope/ Apparently the verdict from Sam's court of "love" was delivered to him at his place of business on Friday afternoon. No doubt TSCC (ETSCC) thought that the east coast hurricane and the fact that Friday isn't usually the best day for a press release would take some of the impact away from his announcem
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Sam has been notified of the verdict. A letter was delivered to his place of business on Friday. Sam has not opened the letter yet and he will not do so until Sunday 16th at 12 noon MT when he holds a public meeting opposite the Salt Lake Temple. https://invisiblescubit.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/verdict-is-in-the-envelope/
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Henry wrote "...How about legally? This is more complicated, because it depends on the legal context. But, as an attorney of 30 years, I can certainly imagine both a civil and criminal context where membership in an organization was relevant, and where the parties argued about the status of such membership. Suppose a person committed a violent act in the Church, or on a Church outing, sa
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This is exactly the point I tried to make with my inactive son's "minister" a while ago. (see my post - You'll do it our way"). I whole-heartedly agree that there is no legal requirement to put your resignation in writing, it is simply enough to say I no longer belong to your organisation. IMHO,the requirement for a written resignation is nothing more than authoritarian gam
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I cannot believe that TSCC, (even the Mormon church, Ziontology, or the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, even this rotten lump of cabbage that they believe smells like a rose), is probably going to ex-communicate Sam Young. What more can they do to prove that they are nothing but a corrupt caricature of a religious organisation? This so-called
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babyloncansuckit Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Should I give up hope that he’ll visit a tribe > that practices cannibalism? > > What I find interesting is that money is his hot > button. Of all the problems he could have talked > about, he chose that one. Maybe all he can see is > dollar signs. That’s the measure of Mormon >
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Yes the use of the word "sister"really set my teeth on edge. If he hadn’t started backing away from the formidable combination of an elderly dog and an old bitch, I would have queried him about the “sister” bit. I was already thinking about what to say when the dog interrupted - Do you remember me from my 16 years as a Nursing Sister in the local Psychiatric Hospital? No?
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Apart from an odd visit or two by missionaries going door to door in the neighbourhood, my very inactive 39-year-old son and the Mormons have not had anything to do with each other since he was 12 years old. However, “ministering” seems to have changed that and we are now being visited almost weekly. After my son answered the door to them once a few months ago and both of us ignoring th
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Because they are Fundamentalist Dudes who followed the prophet and changed their name to one that more accurately reflects their roles in TSCC.
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As an Aussie, thank you all for your thoughts and support, so sad and almost incomprehensible that an entire family was wiped out in this tranquil little town that I have visited on several occasions.
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Saucie, I agree with you totally. You are out when you say you are out, you don't even need to resign. My son was baptised at 8 years of age. He certainly never signed a contract with TSCC and even if he had, it would not be legally binding because he was a minor at the time. He is now 39 years old and has been totally inactive for 27 years. On the few occasions that he has been contacted by
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Cheryl wrote:- "Besides, names are never "removed." The mormon church keeps all records. There are no clean deletions because they're hoping the resigned members will change their minds. If they do, then the church can step in and reinstate whatever priesthood or other levels were lost at resignation". Yesterday I tried pointing this out to my son's newly minted "mi
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Good to see you back, I too have missed your posts. So sorry about your little Princess, dogs can be such wonderfully loyal and loving family members and it is heartbreaking to lose them. Dogs do indeed grieve for their people and friends too. Seven years ago my beautiful 15 year old Staffy died and her eight year old friend, another Staffy, missed her badly for several weeks and became very cl
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Unless he is kept away from the other inmates (and I hope he isn't) he won't have an easy time in jail, Aussie prisoners don't take kindly to child abusing scum like him. In 2015 there was a Royal Commission into Child sexual abuse by Jehovah's Witnesses, so maybe it is now time we had one into child sexual abuse by members of the Mormon Church. Darren Scott and one other that I know of are
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What a low life rock spider! Wonder if he has been or will be ex-communicated, or will TSCC forgive and forget if he says he has repented? (Of course he doesn't really need to mean it, just has to say so). I was ex'd for getting pregnant a few months before my divorce became final and refusing to say I repented of "my sin".(Not to mention that I hadn't paid any tithing for the past 6
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I am so sorry to hear of your loss Desertman, take care of yourself.
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Apparently she left TSCC in her twenties because of its anti-gay stance. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11933632
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My heartfelt condolences to you and your family Ron. Please know that your love for Merna came through very strongly in your posts here and that, together with your strength and support, must have been of immense comfort to her during her illness. Hugs ++
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Church discipline is the judging of imperfect people who supposedly have little power, by other imperfect people who believe themselves to be all powerful.
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I started smoking at 16, it was the "sophisticated" thing to do way back then in the 1950's. Like you I always thought having a cigarette was a great way to start the day and never gave any thought to the health risks involved...until I was two months shy of my 70th birthday and had a bit of a health scare. I have now been totally cigarette free for seven years and the health and finan
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Reminds me of many years ago when my late Welsh husband tried to teach our children to say Llanfair....etc. Seven year old said it was too hard. The nine year old with a well developed sense of humour said "No, its easy, all you have to do is clear your throat spit and sneeze."
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As a ten year old child, (way back in ancient history), I remember reading in "The Argus Students' Practical Notebook" that Wagga meant Crow and Wagga Wagga meant place of many crows. Another Aboriginal name place I can remember from all those years ago was Korumburra which meant big blowfly. My mother used to buy Korumburra butter which I refused to eat after finding out the meaning
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No Hie, you must be thinking of Wagin in Western Australia. :-)
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