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by IT_Veteran
Sat Apr 01, 2023 8:50 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Priesthood session Spring 2023
Replies: 36
Views: 1864

Re: Priesthood session Spring 2023

I know the moment is passed, but I'm really annoyed that the financial audit report declared that everything was kosher when we all know damn well that it isn't. Do we know if the auditing department even has access to Ensign Peak books? Even the Q12 didn’t know much about those EP accounts. Edit: ...
by IT_Veteran
Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:01 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Conditional Love Part 2 (Gay Child edition)
Replies: 4
Views: 1134

Re: Conditional Love Part 2 (Gay Child edition)

Our lives have been simpler in a lot of ways but I am exceptionally grateful I made the decision to leave *and* to reevaluate my attitudes toward LGBTQ+ when I did. My oldest was 17, middle was 13, and youngest was three. Since then, my wife has come out as bisexual. My oldest has dates several non-...
by IT_Veteran
Sat Apr 02, 2022 4:30 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: April Fools Day Unmasking
Replies: 14
Views: 2699

Re: April Fools Day Unmasking

I’m a day late, but here’s a picture from a John Muir Trail thru-hike last year!
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by IT_Veteran
Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:17 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: NOMference Saturday morning Spring 2022!!
Replies: 109
Views: 13955

Re: NOMference Saturday morning Spring 2022!!

Red Ryder wrote:
Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:46 am
IT Veteran is in the house!!

How you been?
Been doing well! Family is healthy and all officially resigned now!
by IT_Veteran
Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:04 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Calling Extended
Replies: 16
Views: 5010

Re: Calling Extended

That would have been brutal. I was the SSP for a while as an unbeliever and ward council was so so so terrible. I imagine it was much worse as an EQP because you have to be more involved in the day to day workings of the ward. It was really tough. I told the BP I wouldn’t teach, preach, or testify ...
by IT_Veteran
Mon Jun 21, 2021 7:57 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Calling Extended
Replies: 16
Views: 5010

Re: Calling Extended

I spent nine long months as the EQP after coming out to the bishop as being an unbeliever and it was the worst nine months I’d ever spent at church. Once I shared the depth of my unbelief with a SP councilor I was released after just a couple more weeks. A week after I was released the bishop called...
by IT_Veteran
Sat Apr 10, 2021 8:19 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: What are you doing to protect your family against the virus?
Replies: 659
Views: 448513

Re: What are you doing to protect your family against the virus?

Had my first Moderna shot at 7AM this morning. Bit of a headache this afternoon, but nothing a little scotch hasn’t fixed this evening.
by IT_Veteran
Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:13 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: How to Handle Adding Children to the Picture
Replies: 7
Views: 2210

Re: How to Handle Adding Children to the Picture

Counterpoint: what if one of those kids you’re planning is LGBTQ+? You can try and counter the messaging at home, but I still think LGBTQ+ kids internalize a lot of what they hear and see around them. Participating in church where they’re shamed for who they are can be incredibly harmful. I didn’t f...
by IT_Veteran
Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:15 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: To share your doubts with your children or not, that is the question
Replies: 20
Views: 6578

Re: To share your doubts with your children or not, that is the question

When I told DW I’d decided to leave the church it was a bit of a bombshell. She knew I didn’t have a testimony about a year earlier, but as far as she knew I was still trying to make it work. Once I told her, she wanted us to tell the older kids (17 and 13) without specifics about why. We didn’t dis...
by IT_Veteran
Mon Nov 23, 2020 12:41 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Letters to the Slackers
Replies: 16
Views: 6150

Re: Letters to the Slackers

This reminds me of when Tommy Monson came up with ‘the rescue’. I was a counselor in the EQP at the time and remember the bishop directing us to assign *every* family in the ward a home teacher. That meant 18-20 families assigned per home teaching companionship. I moved out about the same time, but ...
by IT_Veteran
Fri Oct 09, 2020 9:44 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: What are you doing to protect your family against the virus?
Replies: 659
Views: 448513

Re: What are you doing to protect your family against the virus?

There is some deranged guy on TV with an active case of COVID-19 going all over in public without a mask. The only way to spot this deadly spreader is that he wears a suit and has way too much spray-on skin bronzer on his face. This is where I wish we had just a simple like button. Instead I’ll jus...
by IT_Veteran
Sat Apr 04, 2020 9:42 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Saturday Morning NOMference Thread!!!!
Replies: 230
Views: 107630

Re: Saturday Morning NOMference Thread!!!!

The Hosanna Shout is weird enough if you stepped outside to participate in Anywhere, UT. You’re really gonna weird the neighbors out anywhere outside the Jello Belt.
by IT_Veteran
Tue Jan 14, 2020 8:11 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: What are you drinking right now?
Replies: 489
Views: 304590

Re: What are you drinking right now?

Jefferson‘s Ocean Wheated - it’s quite good.
by IT_Veteran
Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:48 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Do You Love the Lord?
Replies: 15
Views: 9426

Re: Do You Love the Lord?

They want you to buy into their binary thinking of all of it is true or it's not!!! I have had several people try that one on me...it's either true or it's not. My response to that is that if I am forced to choose between those two options only, then the answer is pretty simple really. Because the ...
by IT_Veteran
Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:37 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Finally found my testimony after 40 years
Replies: 11
Views: 22511

Re: Finally found my testimony after 40 years

I was also grateful to the church in raising my kids. Was. Now I recognize how I sort of abdicated my responsibilities and just trusted that the church’s way was the correct one. My relationship with my kids sounds a lot like your wife’s - bound to rules and expectations. When we discovered my teena...
by IT_Veteran
Sun Oct 06, 2019 4:33 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: If you aren't doing conference, what are you doing?
Replies: 15
Views: 8513

Re: If you aren't doing conference, what are you doing?

We went and hung out with a few exmo’s and exmo families for a picnic this afternoon. First time meeting most of them - all great to just hang out and visit with.
by IT_Veteran
Fri May 24, 2019 10:20 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: What are you drinking right now?
Replies: 489
Views: 304590

Re: What are you drinking right now?

Calumet Farm 10 yr bourbon and Ragtime Rye for me tonight.
by IT_Veteran
Fri May 24, 2019 10:15 pm
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Dead To Me (Netflix)
Replies: 3
Views: 3243

Re: Dead To Me (Netflix)

A New Name wrote:
Fri May 17, 2019 9:16 am
Not as funny as "After Life" but quirky, with some real plot twists that keep you hooked.
See trailer here
Must have a similar sense of humor - I’ve enjoyed both shows so far.
by IT_Veteran
Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:06 am
Forum: The Coffee Shop
Topic: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire
Replies: 2
Views: 2285

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire

Anybody else read this book? I’ve recently started it for a book club discussion. The author’s intent is to show how we arrived at this post-fact era. His argument is that it’s largely tied to religion - particularly Protestantism because everyone gets to declare their beliefs as correct without any...
by IT_Veteran
Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:17 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: New and Confused (so long its not true, one little woman...)
Replies: 30
Views: 23543

Re: New and Confused (so long its not true, one little woman...)

I know some will encourage you to keep faith in God or Jesus. Quite frankly, don’t worry about what others tell you what you need to keep believing. That goes for those that would tell you not to believe too. After living such a high demand religion, take time for yourself to figure out what you be...