summer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good, decent, fun-to-be-with people do not necessarily have to belong to a church. Truth! And the best part is, making friends outside church, you know they are with you because they want to be, not because they think they are 'supposed' to be...
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Done & Done Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It took me years to learn about real friendship and healthy relationships. Excellent post, Done. Agreed, I did not find real friends in TSCC, only pretend friends. Time, space, and distance will all help your recovery!!!
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Tevai, If you haven't seen "Office Space" the movie they are all quoting lines from, it is worth a look. My favorite scene is when he brings a dead fish into his cubicle. :)
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I just have to monetize that other 85.89% and then I can retire....
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Done & Done Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 2000 years and Jesus can't even manage one drive-by? Hahahaha!
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I wonder if the OP really wants advice and ideas, or only support for bringing the missionaries to the home? IF the OP were truly open to hearing other ideas, the OP wouldn't have made a profane and uncalled for personal attack on Cheryl's sincere and thoughtful post. The OP owes Cheryl an apology. If the OP only wants posts confirming decisions already made, everyone here who has contrib
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Super wash, Yes my cult fake friends dropped me without a thought. :( CL2, Yes , you have also been extremely helpful to me! Especially your humor!! Extra-especially that funny you posted showing how members are ranked(converts last, ha!) So glad you don’t have to do the Sam’s gig anymore!!!
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[|] Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > https://www.deseretnews.com... etc... Funny!! When you look at that link name it says “hell be stopping” Maybe somebody at Deseret news has a sense of humor? Probably machine-generated but still funny. :)
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Am I missing something? Like, the middle of the sentence? For example: I’ll never, except for baptism, let a cute teenage guy push me under water, again? Or, I’ll never, except for baptism, wear a funny white jumpsuit?
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macaRomney Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...going to be deceived for reading anything that's not a gc report, church news, or standard works. They live in fear all the time. Yes. I saw that too. A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Screen Name Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am in the process of severing our relationship, due to this denseness. Screen name, I am very sorry you are losing your friend. :( I lost friends when I left, also. I think you were very brave to try to reach out to him with truth, though. I didn’t even try. :(
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jay Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... “remember, it doesn’t cost anything to pledge.” Ha! She does sound sincere, but as they say, talk is cheap!
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Jordan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >yes. I would be more impressed if she used it to raise the salaries of those poor grunts toiling in her warehouses. Not to mention the contract employees there who don’t even get benefits. As it is, she’ll maybe make a foundation like Bill Gates where he controls how every penny is spent and the terms for every gra
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Dave the Atheist Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why the divorce ? He had a girlfriend...
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caffiend Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Makes me think of Baghwan Shree Rajneesh Thanks, Caff! That’s the one I was trying to remember! And didn’t they try to get rid of the locals by poisoning the salad bar in town? Ouch!!!
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If I got a vote on the Revelation it would have been “my people” or “my peeps” for brevity. But alas it has been revealed to me that I don’t get a vote...:(
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Done & Done Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The first step in cutting off your inheritance. Whew! For a minute there, Done, I thought you were going to talk about cutting something else off..like that Penishood referenced by another poster...
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xxMo0 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 2025 version > > "My sons, daughters, and nonbinary persons, will > you now covenant and promise to, you know, sort of > be cool to one another.......Good luck, Inshallah!" MHaha hilarious, xxMoo!!! Thanks!!! I couldn’t pick a favorite part so I’ve quoted you from first to last!!!
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GNPE Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes! the only appeal to LDS men is the Penishood; Ah! So that’s why they’re there!! I always wondered why there were so many guys there compared to other churches...
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macaRomney Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Citizen rights are granted by god... Huh??? Is that why so many US immigrantion lawyers are making a good living helping immigrants here through the morass of USCIS paperwork and fees and waiting to become a US citizen??? Guess they didn’t get the memo that they apply to god, not the government. >but in A
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Lottie, I am very impressed with your analysis and *stamina* to read through all that. Better you than me! Your conclusions are very interesting. Thanks for all your work on that, much to think of here! I agree with CL2, report! I had stopped reading anything he posted but never reported him, eternal vigilance, as they say, the price of a good, supportive Board. Jordan, that is something
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Rubicon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In my experience the know it alls in Gosphel Doctrine were the ones who tended to go off the deep end. Oooh, do tell! I would love to hear more on that sometime if you wanted to start a thread on it. I remember those know-it-alls in my class, including the teacher....I wasn't in long enough to see any deep ends thoug
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I feel sorry for those small towns which are taken over by cults. It happens time and time again. Sad. :(
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Send our own messages? You first, Ziller!
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Options, Dazed... can you buy him a drum set or guitar right quick? French lessons with the promise of a trip to Paris? Scuba diving? I hate to see you abandon your son to the cult! If you could get him interested in something where he isn’t just with cult members you could break their stranglehold on him. What about ballet lessons? Yes guys can take them—my cousin started after colle
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thedesertrat1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HE WILL SPREAD THE WORD!! True! There was a "single man" in my ward, who told everyone he'd "never" been married, as he madly flirted with every female. Then the word came down, in another state, he'd been married in the Temple, not once but twice, and both were annulled due to non-cons
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Yep, this whole topic makes no sense, now that I guess it was changed. :(
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That's an old episode, I saw it last year sometime. It was funny when Troy accused the man of exercising "Unrighteous Dominion" over the kid. I looked up that term, I kinda liked the concept (I was still 'active' then) but, you know, LDS exercises Unrighteous Dominion over all the members, in my opinion.
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Yes, when my post ends up in the wrong place, I do that. Just edit it out with a brief explanation and then re-post where I wanted to be in the first place. :) Works well.
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alaskawild Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sadly, The LDS church is all about sex, and control. Yes, it is so weird that JS had s*x with everyone he could catch and yet the cult declaims: no s*x with anybody, not even yourself! It took me a while after leaving to find myself again, having been shoehorned into being a 'perfect moron'---you may have to r
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