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by hiding in plain sight
Wed Jun 07, 2023 3:14 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Revisiting my thoughts on an afterlife.
Replies: 12
Views: 1463

Re: Revisiting my thoughts on an afterlife.

I always liked the idea of mormon afterlife. I never wanted the CK, even as a TBM. I mean, I'm female, so it would not be a good fit for me. I wanted to be in either 2nd or 3rd kingdom. The celestial kingdom as described by mormons sounds more like hell to me. Eternally pregnant. Casting out the ma...
by hiding in plain sight
Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:17 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: So many Holes in the gospel, so few explanations.
Replies: 7
Views: 933

Re: So many Holes in the gospel, so few explanations.

If you take mormon doctrine literally, then the majority of those who are in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom will be kids who died before the age of accountability (whatever that means) and fetuses who were aborted or miscarriages. All of those get a straight pass to heaven. For most of ...
by hiding in plain sight
Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:35 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Reasons to resign
Replies: 17
Views: 1893

Re: Reasons to resign

Evan after 13 years after waking up, I still attend. Hold a calling. I am currently in the EQP. Even though I only attend about 25% of the time. In fact the bishop came up to me and my wife on sunday. The first time in about a month that we were physically in attendance and mentioned he hadn't seen ...
by hiding in plain sight
Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:29 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Revisiting my thoughts on an afterlife.
Replies: 12
Views: 1463

Re: Revisiting my thoughts on an afterlife.

I continue to choose to believe that there is something after we die. But I recognize that I don't have memories before I was born and if I blink out of existence and its one long dirt nap, I will probably feel the same way as before I was born. Nothing. But I choose to want something after this lif...
by hiding in plain sight
Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:35 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Be ye therefore perfect vs. Our flaws are who we are
Replies: 2
Views: 1245

Re: Be ye therefore perfect vs. Our flaws are who we are

Are we meant to be perfect? Great question. I am reading a book title "life after death" right now by Deepak Chopra. But I like some of the ideas that he puts forth. 1) We are all divine. 2) It's not really about heaven or hell it is about what do we need to learn. 3) Once we have learned that then...
by hiding in plain sight
Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:20 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Rise of the "Nones"
Replies: 8
Views: 4210

Re: Rise of the "Nones"

Nice article and thanks for sharing. This quote stood out to me. The nones can generally be broken down into three groups: agnostics, atheists and a third bloc that is much larger than the first two and doesn’t ascribe to a label — the “nothing in particular” bloc It feels like the trend toward non-...
by hiding in plain sight
Fri Aug 30, 2019 12:39 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Ouch...I think?
Replies: 12
Views: 5318

Re: Ouch...I think?

Good for you to speak your mind, even though there is pain in the journey as well.
by hiding in plain sight
Fri Aug 30, 2019 12:37 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Book of Abraham
Replies: 48
Views: 18344

Re: Book of Abraham

Look here and scroll down to the middle for two examples of the same kind of picture with legs moving.

http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/vie ... &start=273

Look here and also scroll half way down for another example.

https://www.ldsdiscussions.com/bookofabraham
by hiding in plain sight
Fri May 17, 2019 3:17 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Materialism In LDS Culture
Replies: 12
Views: 6395

Re: Materialism In LDS Culture

When I lived in the seattle area. One of the wards in the stake taught a sunday school lesson and used the symbol of dollars raining down from heaven as a sign of their righteousness. I was just dumbfounded how blatant they were in calling out their righteousness through their wealth. But that is a ...
by hiding in plain sight
Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:20 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: What was your first NOM thought?
Replies: 46
Views: 23634

Re: What was your first NOM thought?

When I was preparing for my mission and praying to get a testimony I recognized that I might NOT get an answer. I was open to the possibility that it may not be true. Now don't get me wrong. I thought it was true. I wanted it to be true. And I was praying as if it was true. But I remember thinking a...
by hiding in plain sight
Tue Feb 26, 2019 11:35 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Who's the trickster?
Replies: 11
Views: 5715

Re: Who's the trickster?

God is the trickster in mormonism. All starting in the garden of eden with the multiply and replenish the earth, but don't partake of the fruit. Two commandments which both could not be kept. All the way to D&C 19 where he tells us that he only told us that hell was real to keep us motivated, but he...
by hiding in plain sight
Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:40 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: I love my wife
Replies: 8
Views: 4547

Re: I love my wife

Hagoth wrote:
Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:13 am
I think I love your wife too, HIPS!
I didn't know you were into polyandry. :-)
by hiding in plain sight
Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:51 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: I love my wife
Replies: 8
Views: 4547

Re: I love my wife

Now, in the Mormon church, those women in mixed faith marriages are second class of the second class. I don’t know if being a second class woman multiplies the second class status, merely adds it, or cubes it. I suspect it cubes it making women married to non members 8th class, but at a minimum it ...
by hiding in plain sight
Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:42 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: I love my wife
Replies: 8
Views: 4547

I love my wife

It has been about 10 years since I woke up to the church's truth issues. In that time my TBM wife and I have had an interesting walk together. The first couple of years were ones of just enduring the change. Then there was the great awakening on my part that I was a jerk and needed to lean in more a...
by hiding in plain sight
Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:34 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Incontestable!
Replies: 15
Views: 8165

Re: Incontestable!

It's also incontestable that the Book of Mormon plagiarizes at least 15.5% of its verses from the bible and writings that were written hundreds and sometimes thousands of years in the future. Not sure how accurate of a history that is. As well as ancient american prophets were able to channel 19th c...
by hiding in plain sight
Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:55 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Deja vu all over again
Replies: 5
Views: 5298

Re: Deja vu all over again

Good to see you sojo. What an amazing journey with so many coming along and waking up. How is the relationship with your father and siblings since they are still in? I have 4 kids of which 3 are out with their spouses and 3 grandchildren. Who would have guessed. But my wife continues to be TBM and i...
by hiding in plain sight
Tue Feb 19, 2019 9:50 am
Forum: Support
Topic: More Conversation with DW
Replies: 11
Views: 6168

Re: More Conversation with DW

I didn’t know what else to say, I can’t convince her of the reasons I’m depressed. Much more we talked about, some of her issues she has with me, like how she feels that I'm more arrogant now. She definitely has some valid beefs with me, I won't deny those. I don't feel like going into it all here....
by hiding in plain sight
Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:32 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: What are you reading right now?
Replies: 25
Views: 18802

Re: What are you reading right now?

On Book 8 of the wheel of time.
by hiding in plain sight
Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:31 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Faith Crisis Contagion
Replies: 9
Views: 4948

Re: Faith Crisis Contagion

Sharing in case this can give someone hope who's struggling with pressure from TBM family members... Thanks for sharing. It is a very important reminder to NOT break our relationships while we are waking up. It is easy to thrash around in the angry phase and get offended because believers say such ...
by hiding in plain sight
Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:25 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Apocalypse vitamins and the return of FARMS
Replies: 15
Views: 10977

Re: Apocalypse vitamins and the return of FARMS

Yeah, well, I guess the jokes on us then isn't it? :| Don't get me wrong, I love those quotes. But if JS or BY had to contend with the Internet I am very skeptical that they would have uttered them. No. They would not have. But I do miss the early methods of mormon missionary work. If you ever read...