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by alas
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:10 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: NOM needs to be a safe place
Replies: 19
Views: 342

Re: NOM needs to be a safe place

I probably triggered DB’s rant on my thread... DB's entire interaction with NOM has been a rant. He appeared on the scene in the form of an unsolicited rant wrapped in accusations, and then hovered around waiting for any opportunity to offend. I'm sure he feels very picked on, as these guys usually...
by alas
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: NOM needs to be a safe place
Replies: 19
Views: 342

Re: NOM needs to be a safe place

Yes, thank you for paying the bills, for getting us up and running again after a crash, and using your best judgement on banning or not. It is always a judgement call, because we do want safe, open discussion. It is judgement to err on the side of open or on the side of safe. I personally want NOM t...
by alas
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:51 am
Forum: Support
Topic: NOM needs to be a safe place
Replies: 19
Views: 342

Re: Dirty Bird has been asked to post elsewhere.

Good. He has been nothing but a disruption.
by alas
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:24 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
Replies: 26
Views: 493

Re: Is the church headed for a schism ?

Nope, chemical castration is different. It is used on sex offenders to remove sexual urges, and while I am not a doctor either, puberty blockers work before there are sex hormones to block. They work on the area of the brain that triggers the things before the sex hormones are even released. They ar...
by alas
Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:28 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
Replies: 26
Views: 493

Re: Is the church headed for a schism ?

In my opinion your logic on the trans issue is flawed, let me explain. So following your logic, a trans woman is a woman so that means it's perfectly acceptable for a trans woman to be part of the relief society presidency. OK, but what if that trans woman decides to de transition during serving on...
by alas
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:16 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Is the church headed for a schism ?
Replies: 26
Views: 493

Re: Is the church headed for a schism ?

Wait, Hagoth, I thought Trump was the one mighty and strong. What? You are telling me he isn’t? So, far the church has been pretty quick to excommunicate anyone on either side who starts to get any kind of fan base, before they can get even close to causing any kind of schism. And that seems to conv...
by alas
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:52 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Pray Pay & Obey And Humor
Replies: 7
Views: 360

Re: Pray Pay & Obey And Humor

For many Mormons, it is the Puritan influence. Those stuffy Mayflower people (not Puritans, but the same attitude) and then the even stuffier Puritans who settled Massachusetts and most of New England. I mean, can you imagine anyone who is so stuffy they have to escape England, the stuffiest nation,...
by alas
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:22 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
Replies: 24
Views: 724

Re: Teaching the wrong stuff

The progressive stance you're taking is basically this. 1. Protect our politicians with pistols and long guns but not our children while they're in school. 2. Protect our judges with pistols and long guns but not our children while they're are in school. 3. Apparently you are OK with police and eve...
by alas
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:19 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Declining callings and talks is getting easier for me
Replies: 14
Views: 275

Re: Declining callings and talks is getting easier for me

Good for you in drawing better boundaries than the church likes. The secret meeting stuff is really a power play to cause anxiety and remind you they are the au-tho-ri-ty. And this guy’s attitude on the phone was a bit arrogant in assuming you know his calling and au-tho-ri-ty. Especially to an inac...
by alas
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
Replies: 24
Views: 724

Re: Teaching the wrong stuff

Thanks for your thought-provoking post, alas, and also for the helpful communication tips in your other thread. Marriage is one area where the church teaches all the wrong stuff. In the 80’s and 90’s, the church’s programs for teens and young adults put an enormous focus on avoiding pre-marital sex...
by alas
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
Replies: 24
Views: 724

Re: Teaching the wrong stuff

Dirty bird, read the book. It gave the statistics to say why it is BOTH guns and lack of mental health support. And it named all kinds of things that your swear word Republicans fight such as better mental health programs for the poor and in schools. If it is REALLY mental health, why are the repub...
by alas
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
Replies: 24
Views: 724

Re: Teaching the wrong stuff

Dirty bird, read the book. It gave the statistics to say why it is BOTH guns and lack of mental health support. And it named all kinds of things that your swear word Republicans fight such as better mental health programs for the poor and in schools. If it is REALLY mental health, why are the republ...
by alas
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:38 am
Forum: Support
Topic: How do you define Mormonism?
Replies: 54
Views: 5154

Re: How do you define Mormonism?

I don't know if a church support group would really be that positive. Their answer for every problem is more prayer and scripture study. It becomes more guilt, heaped on the person seeking help, because they aren't praying hard enough. The support should be at the pulpit, preaching the need for lov...
by alas
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: Support
Topic: Communication skills
Replies: 61
Views: 3527

Re: Communication skills

These are great tips fam, thanks for taking the time! I've read through this a few times, but haven't had the time to formulate a response, sorry to let it sit for so long. slow the whole conversation down. Start by narrowing the subject... No dirty fighting... kitchen sinking is when you bring oth...
by alas
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:08 am
Forum: Support
Topic: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!
Replies: 13
Views: 358

Re: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!

,We are back, again.
by alas
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:06 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Teaching the wrong stuff
Replies: 24
Views: 724

Teaching the wrong stuff

I am reading a book about mass shooters and it is heavy enough I have to take it in bits and pieces. It helps that I have a degree in psychology. It talks about school shooters, but also those who go into work places, stores, churches. It has been analyzing what it is about American society that we ...
by alas
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Looking back....
Replies: 12
Views: 813

Re: Looking back....

Baptism didn’t bother me until they made it absolutely mandatory and that was Catholic twisting what Jesus actually taught. It should be symbolic of washing away the old person and rebirthing a new person who takes the name of Christ and lives a life following his example. It should never be used as...
by alas
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:01 am
Forum: Support
Topic: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!
Replies: 13
Views: 358

Re: We’re back! Thanks Captain Salty!

Yes, thank you for fixing NOM and I know it probably took some time. I missed it because this has become kind of my favorite people social group.
by alas
Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Looking back....
Replies: 12
Views: 813

Re: Looking back....

Excellent point. Our society recognizes it is unfair for 8 year olds to make an adult decision, but the Church baptizes them and then Bednar tells them they are obligated for eternity. It is so manipulative. :cry: And the covenants we make as adults, or late teens, we are not told what they are ahe...
by alas
Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Question on Mormon Cooking
Replies: 22
Views: 695

Re: Question on Mormon Cooking

Mormon food tends to be bland because so many early converts were from New England. I mean, all 6 of my “crossed the plains in a covered wagon or hand cart” ancestors were from New England. And that is all the ancestors I have in that generation. From the “overseas” converts, the biggest group was E...