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Your bishop jumping straight to taking your TR away is as unsurprising as it is disturbing. This is Orwellian stuff. How was I blind to this before? A church that pays lip service to common consent spends 10 minutes in a meeting where they ask everyone to either vote to sustain or oppose various ...

Thanks for all the support. The manipulation, negativity, and leader-worship make me sick. We had a family get together with my very TBM family (who doesn't know of my disaffection) last night and I brought up my SP's message and my thoughts of how inappropriate it was. It was funny to watch them ...

Like Kori, Mrs. Linked and I were blessed with ward conference today. I wasn't ready to vote opposed, but I did barely flit my hand up for the general authorities, and all positions that weren't people in my ward. It was also a little creepy when they had all the people that were visiting with Stake ...

Yeah, what does "Done" mean? Any fallout?

Hi Linked! it's been a while since you've posted, and I was wondering how things are going for you generally and how preparation for you talk is going? Hi MerrieMiss, Et Al.! Things are going pretty good right now, just a little busier at work. The talk was moved back a month due to a bunch of ...

I accepted a request to speak in SM on Easter. I don't think the BP realized it was Easter when they were planning it, he may change his mind... The talk is on service, which is awesome. I am happily surprised to be given 2 months notice for a talk on a subject I feel good about. This is the same ...

I joined NOM 1.0 in November 2015, so my history is short. But I do see a bit of a shift like you are talking about azflyer. When NOM went black I floundered for a few weeks then found the exmo gathering on reddit. Those guys are really pissed off. But it was the only place that met my need for ...

Wow, I am so sorry you are going through this. Hang in there Archimedes.

Good thread MerrieMiss, thanks for posting. Your story about the woman from the meetup sounds about right to me, if a child feels like their parents are being deceitful to trick them into believing in Santa then they probably won't like Santa. Although, there are probably people who wouldn't like ...

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 ...

EQ Secretary/Counselor (2x) SS President/Counselor SS Teacher YM Presidency Counselor Primary Teacher I am currently the primary teacher, Sunbeams, with lessons like "I have a body", and "I can love my family". I don't think I could do the others anymore. Without real belief in the church I don't ...

It's a right of passage that correlates with growing up. No harm no foul, right? But what do you do when your teenager comes home and says they're an atheist? My brother is dealing with that right now. He and my nephew do not like each other much right now. "Nephew, come down stairs for scriptures ...

Our youngest is four years old and just lost his first tooth. My wife, who is the LESS believing of the two of us, was SUPER excited to put some money under his pillow and play 'toothfairy' for the night. It was so great to see the enormous smile on his face when he came in the next morning with a ...

My oldest told us he has his first loose tooth this weekend and is stoked to start collecting the sweet tooth fairy cash. A while after he discovered the tooth was loose he and I were alone in the kitchen. He turned to me and asked, "Dad, is the tooth fairy real?" I thought for a moment, then simply ...

We are blessing our baby whether church sanctioned or not. No one is doing it except for me or my wife. I haven't told the Bishop this, I don't want to get called into a disciplinary court. But in talking with DW, if it's not church sanctioned I think we might turn the event into a little party at ...

That took a lot of courage azflyer, nice work. I'm glad they took the time to respond to your question, it sounds like there wasn't too much reframing of the question.

I am ok with the earth and life on earth being a product of the laws of physics working in the universe after the big bang. The thing that gets me wondering is why my consciousness is stuck in this body, and not in another body on another planet. And why "I" exist at all. I think the most profound ...

Well, I had a dream about the fireside. The questions were all pre-selected and NOM was not happy about it.

I think I need to spend less time on here...

I've certainly noticed the same trend. Perhaps it as simple as people have different interests or goals in life. An example that comes to mind, we've cut the cable chord and consume our digital entertainment through streaming services like Netflix. This has changed our viewing habits as my wife now ...

Why are members afraid to discuss the issues? This continues to be one of my biggest shelf items since my my ‘faith awakening’ began 6 months ago. At the beginning I would come to my father with questions, but it was difficult to have meaningful discussions as he was was unaware/skeptical of the fac ...