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Several of the kids who were abused by Mormon pedophile in my family are now LGBTQ. In my experience, yes, those who remain in the church are quite biased. My lgbtq kiddo went to church one last time with a non-lds friend who accompanied for support. Only one person talked to them, and that was by m...

Bishop of the Year!!!! If I was Bishop: One temple recommend for you! And you! And you! Like Oprah…: everyone gets a temple recommend! In my experience, a pedophile getting a TR taught him what he was doing wasn't so bad. Pay tithe - pay to play. Indulgences. For all the evil that is reinforced by ...

Happy Holidays everyone.

Many believe to attain a state of liberation and inner peace is letting go of the constant cycle of desire. Heaven? Hell? Dust to dust? Unattached to outcomes, at peace with any outcome, the journey itself is the destination. Escape binary dualism. Within - inner peace. External cannot be changed or...

Honesty is big for me too. When I turned my temple recommend in it wasn't because of tithes - don't want to think about how much $ was dumped there. I went in person to turn it in, was pretty hard on my bishop. He refused to take my tr from me, so I laid it on his desk. The priesthood is supposed to...

Family gatherings are always bitter-sweet. I used to feel more competitive than I do now - I think when younger there can be some bragging about kids/career/accomplishments - long prayers of blessings etc. With age, kids get settled, you see the ups and downs in everyone's lives, you've had your own...

Happy Holidays! Hope everyone has a good one.

Almost a dozen over here. Today has history for me, time is starting to heal? The kids are doing better.

JS was a pedophile, is this what was published? The wicked take the truth to be hard... I love that Star wars had good guys that looked like an ugly squid, and bad guys who appeared as kind friendly leaders. Great for kids to learn there are wolves in sheep's clothing, that some church leaders are p...

There are healthy, and unhealthy relashionships. Codependent, controlling, 100% all-in sheeple =conformity Interdependent, healthy self-reliance, respectful - independent thought. I think healthy relashionships require some percentage of being independent, not fully agreeing. It's a transition, a di...

Thanks. Interesting. For some people, the war probably has a start date based on something written on a cave wall. I live in Utah. At one point, this land was not part of the United States neither was it part of one nation under god. And yet, I feel like it has been long enough and this is my home....

Thank you, Angel. You refer to this as a war. You refer to a start. Specifically, you say "before the war started." With so much connection to the area, I am curious what day or moment you, your husband, your students, and friends would consider to be the start. Would the answers all be the same? O...

The idea behind "woke", is to see people for who they are, and not their skin color, nationality, but each as an individual. I have both Jewish and Palestinian students in class. One of my Jewish students was out for a week - their grandmother's home is now gone. One of my Muslim students comes from...

I thought those in this group had escaped groupthink mentality - for all of it - would recognize within all groups the same stuff that has caused us to leave LDSinc. Independent, not-affiliated, not following any hierarchy, not putting on anyone's team jersey. Anyways, I'm struggling right now tryin...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33732922/ Recently, direct brain-to-brain communication (DBBC) outside the conventional five senses has been verified ... https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-nu5Tgd689HU%2FT5B6uVau32I%2FAAAAAAAAA_M%2FlxTEacYKc84%2Fs1600%2Fs...

I copied this from a Wikipedia article about Jonathan Haidt: Moral elevation Main article: Elevation (emotion) With Sara Algoe, Haidt argued that exposure to stories about moral beauty (the opposite of moral disgust) cause a common set of responses, including warm, loving feelings, calmness, and a ...

I'm adviser of community garden at our school. Just finished planting a few more things with little group of students and staff. Yes -we plant in the winter here :). Tips: Weed barrier. Use it. Adopt a plot - set up small assignments. Weddings, funerals, wars - walk & garden events are nice. Excerci...

It's like a gringo pretending they invented tacos. Its like a theater major pretending they wrote Shakespeare's plays. Be careful what costumes you wear this Halloween kiddos... some cultures don't appreciate those who dress up in another's clothes. Dressing up in someone else's clothes. Wolves in ...

Mormons have historically partnered with Muslims, They probably admire the unquestioning devotion to ayatollahs and the willingness to die for your faith. They're thinking, damn, how do we get more of that? After Trump works his magic, the Kingdom of Deseret could utilize the tactic of strapping a ...

And yet in church today I heard a talk about gathering Israel. Patriarchal blessings - are members disappointed when their ancestry.com DNA results don't match their blessing? It's like a gringo pretending they invented tacos. Its like a theater major pretending they wrote Shakespeare's plays. Be c...

I wonder if its like JW's, with list of 144,000 (church judges who goes to heaven, not god)