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I think one of the worst themes of lies they are doing now is that mormon women somehow have priesthood power. While at the same time continuing to marginalize them by taking away even the few crumbs local leadership have tried to put out there to compensate for the corporate blindness. All of it ...

It's all about the church. Members have never actually been the priority. Just how members can help the church. Finances, grunt work, toilet cleaning.

I hope you are doing well on the journey.

From my circles I can see a mix of opinion about Susan's husband. I know a lot of TBM's who love him because of his directness. They kind of like having someone in authority.

But a lot also blanche at his arrogance and unloving style.

I hate the guy's style. What a terrible leadership style.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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-p ...

Good for you to speak your mind, even though there is pain in the journey as well.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 i ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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. ...