Good points here, thanks!
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Right you are. Nothing wrong with being shy and reserved. Interestingly that's how I tend to be naturally too but the cult really messed me up with presenting me with behavior that is not normal or healthy, as normal and good. So even though I've never been comfortable with it, I've been victim to it more than enough. And if anything I was criticized for being guarded. So I would try to be les
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"I must have been especially valiant, as I was so "fair"--translate, blonde, blue eyes," OMG! PUKE!!! Double and Triple PUKE! What the hell??! And Mormons still like to think and pretend that they are not racist! Well that's never been said to me, I am brunette and I get many dark deep shades of brown in the sun. So I guess I wasn't as valiant! Lord or Lord! LOL A
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I've had that kind of thing happen at retreats too.. like yoga and dance retreats .. sometimes there is group sharing and different people get up and speak about their experiences but it ends up feeling like testimony meeting to me and I am never comfortable with it. And people say those same kinds of things.. like 'I don't know you all personally but I just love you all so much anyway.' And the
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Summer you are right, that's a more heathy normal interaction and how it is for me with my real girlfriends.. and I guess I didn't mean just flattery as much as over friendliness .. more friendly attention than is normal, esp. when first getting to know someone.
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_ Also most people have no clue about EMFs being dangerous, so they think that solar power and electric cars will save everyone but solar power creates crazy dirty electricity from the inverters (still I think that solar could be a good thing if we can correct that aspect) and dirty electric causes cancers and other diseases. (I personally get migraines around those inverters). .. And the EMFs in
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I have to agree with the OP. Sometimes I really am ashamed to be human. not that we are 'all' bad, but we certainly have mismanaged our planet pretty terribly and people still don't seem to get it. We seem hell bent on destruction of our environment and resources with no end in sight to the greedy industrial military complex reign. Once we fully pollute our planet we will of course go
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Well that explains it! The artificial colors and flavors in Jello are neurotoxins..
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Thank you Breeze! I always love your posts, you are such an inspiration to me, you have no idea! And yes you are right, my first instincts were correct with these people. Interestingly in one case (from last year) I did see the red flags and was initially cautious, but I can see now that the 'friendliness' factor (love bombing) was something that enabled me to dismiss some of my initial cauti
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Thank you so much for your share 'severedpuppetstrings' ! That is truly awful what you had to go through. I am so sorry. And I really appreciate you sharing. Awful that you had to go through the brain hemorrhage and surgery but extra awful how you were treated afterward. The behavior you describe sounds SO familiar. I know that in my family and at church growing up people would behave in
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So I have been reading 'Recovering Agency' (thanks to those who recommended it!).. and am on the 'love bombing' section. I guess the term was coined by the Moonies or because of them. But basically it's a cult tactic to get and keep new recruits. Interestingly my TBM mom used to love to say 'kill them with kindness' and it's something I remember as being a phrase that started a crack in my s
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OMG! That is SO disgusting! The more quotes I hear from the ass the more disgusted I am. Just incredible. Puke! Vomit! ARRGGGHHHH!!!!!!
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'Freeman'.. Mormon women have to swear to OBEY their husbands in the temple marriage ceremony. How is that NOT submission? The women are taught and expected to submit to the male priesthood authorities in all things. This includes what happens in the home. And as if to say the women still get a lot out of it because you think they have a say of what happens in the home and get to 'rule' it is abs
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Oh and I should say that a lot of Mormons do still have racist attitudes, though they act like they just 'love' the natives, etc.. they still see you as inferior to them and in need of 'saving'.. so to say that they don't think you are 'bad now' as I wrote, isn't entirely true. Firstly they think all non-mormons are bad/sinners/in need of saving.. because they think they have the ONLY truth t
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Guess they didn't tell you that the 'story of your ancestors' is a fictional story written by Joseph Smith who declared in it, that your ancestors used to be light skinned and 'white and delightsome' (quoted from the Book of Mormon, though it's since been changed to 'pure and delightsome') and that they were 'cursed' with dark skin for not obeying god's commandments. and God wanted to mark them s
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ugh, how awful you had to go through that, that is so WRONG that you were made to feel that way!! I didn't even know that girls could do that, I was so naive. But I actually had organisms in high school from romantic dreams and didn't really know what was happening. Just felt really good! LOL.. So I actually didn't know I was bad. The funny thing is not much happened in those dreams that I rememb
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"Third, I was reading some TBM comments. They were justifying how they felt the spirit by saying that even though the story was false, the Holy Ghost used it as a vehicle to testify, because the principles were true. Holy mental gymnastics." Wow,that is pretty incredible. It sounds like the kind of logic that can dismiss ANY fallacy that comes to light.. I.e. the Book of Mormon, Book
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I imagine it's probably something like being given endless enemas, that you can't hold but they won't relent. Out of that list, it sounds like the most painful thing that could happen. Have you ever tried to hold an enema and couldn't? Do you remember what that feels like? Try it and see. Somebody made millions coming up with these ideas? That is so so wrong. One thing that needs to happen is
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It's about f'n time these post 911 CIA torture crimes came to light and some justice was done. Can you imagine going through any of that? Just because you fit a profile and 'might' have information. What if you have no information? Then you are endlessly tortured because there is nothing to get out of you. These kinds of 'techniques' have very serve damaging effects on the victim, emotionally, ph
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Sorry 'inovermyhead' for your pains. I agree with the other posters responses. I'll just add my two cents as well for what it's worth. The reason he sends mixed signals is because HE is MIXED up emotionally, mentally, intellectually. The Mormon 'church' is extremely controlling and psychologically damaging. Those still deep in it, can't see that. But they deal with emotionally pain and
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Over exposure to wireless radiation (microwave radiation), in the forms of cell phones (ESPECIALLY as so many men carry cell phones in their pockets close to their reproductive organs), wifi and cell towers. This has been proven in a lot of different studies. And makes sense when you look at the decline of sperm count (And also fertility in women and incidence of breast cancer, particularly tumor
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Yes to #2.. I saw a chart somewhere recently that shows the huge decline in membership in TSCC corresponding with a huge rise in temples built.. indicating that TSCC is now more than ever, focused on building temples worldwide to SHOW they are growing and expanding when in fact the opposite is true. Just another lie.
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Sounds like of like a conjugal visit. Those should be allowed right? For all of us low lifes 'imprisoned' down below.
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But are the sisters allowed to 'toss their cookies'? The Hinkster makes me want to toss mine every time he opens his nasty little mouth.
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LOL
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(Meant to post this at the end of the thread) This is awesome, thanks for everyone's responses!
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This is awesome, thanks for everyone's responses!
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"No Ma'am That's Not History, by Hugh Nibley " Wow, what a jerk. They really are so childish aren't they? Thanks for the recommendations!
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Very cool! Congrats and thanks for your work! Btw, what year did you start in?
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Thanks for the additional recommendations. Eric, that bible one sounds interesting. I've personally wondered about the legitimacy of those stories myself. :)
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