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I’m feeling low. Sundays have always been difficult, but I went to RS today and I just feel lonely. I look around the chapel during F&T, around the RS room (I did skip second hour) and I just want to know that there is someone else out there. From what I can tell, I’m alone. It’s times like these NO...

If the BoM says polygamy's purpose is to raise up more "seed" why do apologists try to claim JS didn't have sex with his wives? That is a very good point. During the 19th and early part of the 20th Century, Mormons argued that polygamy was an adjunct to eugenics in that it produced sturdy superior ...

I'm with Enoch Witty on this. I think this was my first shelf item at age eleven or so - I know it was when I was still in Primary. I never, as a child, youth, young adult, married adult, absolutely never, had this experience. It weighed me down a lot. As a youth I was told that if it bothered me wh...

Ugghh. I’ve been wanting to back off from reading and studying about mormonism but I keep getting dragged back in. As I wrote on another thread, polygamy has never really been one of my issues, but I’ve been thinking about it this week and here’s one of my thoughts regarding Jacob 2. I’m somewhat re...

I really appreciate everyone's comments. I stand all amazed as well that that is the topic and I wonder how it became such. Who is the email from? Did they say whose idea it was for that to be the topic? Whoever came up with it, it sounds like a NOM type trying to spread food for thought. Every week...

I have not been to RS for years, and since being released from Primary I've always found other things to do than attend. I received an email this week that our lesson on Sunday is on the polygamy essay so I am tempted to go, just to see what it's like. I usually don't say much in church, but I would...

The book was very good (read it last year), much better than the film. It was one of the better fiction reads I've had in a while. I'm going to have to look into the book. I found it particularly moving in part because it is narrated by a five year old boy and I read it when my own son was five. I ...

Though I would not say that the bible is THE basis of western thought/ideology. Christianity added an important piece of western thought with charity for charity's sake. But western thought is deeper than that. (I only say this because I have been diving into it lately, and it is fascinating to see...

Sunbeams Primary teacher Nursery YW teacher RS teacher RS Presidency Primary Presidency Two presidencies, never a president. :-) Husband and I were called to be Sunbeams teachers when we were married. It was the first time I realized that we were indoctrinating little kids. It really weirded me out....

The lesson was more of a sociological observation that Mormons continue to believe how they are the only ones that are actually talking to God. While God does generically love all His children, all other belief systems are simply deluded about their chance to talk to Him. I don't really get this. T...

I do remember the intermediate hymn was Praise to the Man . Yes, I skipped that. Its just so monotonous. Same stuff all the time. Also, yesterday I told my husband I'd go to fifth Sunday with him. He says I don't give the new bishopric a chance. So I said I'd try. When I got back to church after my ...

Some thoughts I've had and never got around to posting, but Linked's post about the Tooth Fairy changed my mind. About eighteen months ago at a Meetup I met a woman, my age, same number of kids, same ages. She was the first person I ever told I was an unbelieving Mormon. She told me she was an athei...

When I was about six, a kid at school told me his mom was the tooth fairy. I was so excited to tell my mom. "Mom, Josh's mom is the tooth fairy! She comes to our house. What a cool job!" My mom agreed that it was a pretty cool job to have. :-) Yeah, I didn't get it. I think it's a kinda cute story t...

I'll just echo everyone here: Good job. All of us - the believing, the disaffected, the leadership - need more authentic questions asked at these meetings.

The topic for the speakers was the holy ghost. How many times have we all heard a lesson or talk on this subject? And all three speaking never mentioned christ or biblical prophets at all, not once. However, we did get quotes from many current and dead general authority members and of course monson...

At some point in my later teenage years/young adulthood I threw away the concept of a meddlesome god. Since I didn’t think god meddled with humanity I saw no reason why Satan would. At this point, I see both god and Satan as mythological symbols for good and evil. As a child I used to feel sorry for...

Thank goodness I have many years before seminary becomes a reality for my family. I do not have, and never have had, an LDS.org account. My husband has one and the computer automatically puts his info in so I use his. I've been pressured to make one from time to time, but why would I bother? I only ...

Your husband and experience and conclusions are similar to mine. DH comes from a very non intellectual family. They none of them think more than an inch below the surface, and I don't mean to sound condescending either, but I have to remind myself that this is not because they are stupid or shallow...

There are a lot of good thoughts here. I particularly like the first two points. Why I married is over and done with. Life changes, we change, our relationships change. It’s about the present and moving forward. Also, none of us knows what life is really like for other people. We don’t know what the...

My situation is a little different from most, from what people share online anyway. My husband is a believing member, but he doesn’t take a lot of it very seriously. He takes the TR stuff seriously, but not a lot else. He doesn’t “preside,” hasn’t read his scriptures in more than a decade, hasn’t at...