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by Rob4Hope
Thu Apr 22, 2021 8:23 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: New Thread -- Natasha got exed
Replies: 15
Views: 4804

New Thread -- Natasha got exed

RFM and Reel just announced (which is where I got it) that they did ex Netasha. The pod-cast was interesting. She flew to Kansas, they wouldn't let her friend use the bathroom -- and her friend was an active faithful member, and after not letting Netasha speak for herself because she refused to surr...
by Rob4Hope
Thu Apr 22, 2021 8:14 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?
Replies: 82
Views: 24117

Re: Did Netasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?

Just heard the podcast from RBM and Reel.

Netasha has been excommunicated.

After they dismissed her, the continued with the court and the decision was made.
by Rob4Hope
Tue Apr 20, 2021 11:55 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: The 2020 numbers
Replies: 35
Views: 11951

Re: The 2020 numbers

The average age of LDS Membership is advancing steadily higher. Because the church is losing youth and babies are happening less, the "faithful" are those who are older -- and are not having children. With that type of thing happening, its just a matter of time before there is a serious drop-off of ...
by Rob4Hope
Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:06 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Trigger Warning: Surviving Sexual Assault
Replies: 21
Views: 7630

Re: Trigger Warning: Surviving Sexual Assault

Talk to your parents or another trusted adult, and seek your bishop’s counsel immediately. WTH? They need to quickly talk to an ecclesiastical leader who has no training, and who historically represents a sexually oppressive church that espouses dangerous practices? Two implicit messages are immedi...
by Rob4Hope
Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:19 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Trigger Warning: Surviving Sexual Assault
Replies: 21
Views: 7630

Re: Trigger Warning: Surviving Sexual Assault

This old thread popped up again this morning and reading through it, yeah, these are the kind of issues that Natasha Hefler is trying to address and once again the church just decides to shoot the messenger rather that look in the mirror and fix the problem. Yes, so much I remember sitting in horri...
by Rob4Hope
Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:04 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Trigger Warning: Surviving Sexual Assault
Replies: 21
Views: 7630

Re: Trigger Warning: Surviving Sexual Assault

You know,...this whole sex thing creeps me out in the LDS church. I am a father. I didn't have any daughters....only boys. They did discuss their sexual issues with the bishop. I found out AFTER the fact -- but then again, I was TBM back then and went along with everything. But I now have a grand-da...
by Rob4Hope
Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:00 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Trigger Warning: Surviving Sexual Assault
Replies: 21
Views: 7630

Re: Trigger Warning: Surviving Sexual Assault

Talk to your parents or another trusted adult, and seek your bishop’s counsel immediately. WTH? They need to quickly talk to an ecclesiastical leader who has no training, and who historically represents a sexually oppressive church that espouses dangerous practices? Two implicit messages are immedi...
by Rob4Hope
Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:48 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?
Replies: 82
Views: 24117

Re: Did Netasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?

I never heard if they rescheduled. If they did and again they think to force her to travel, that is abusive. It seems to me that Netash want's to stay LDS -- or why would she make the effort to be to the meeting? And they canceled it? I can understand why the men would be frightened about her record...
by Rob4Hope
Sun Apr 18, 2021 9:05 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?
Replies: 82
Views: 24117

Re: Did Netasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?

I don't have a punching bag, but I do have a spare copy of The Miracle of Forgiveness. My other copy is doing duty as a backstop for indoor pellet gun shooting. I would be happy to send the other to whomever might get similar therapeutic value from it. The MOF is such a devastating book isn't it? I...
by Rob4Hope
Fri Apr 16, 2021 12:25 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?
Replies: 82
Views: 24117

Re: Did Netasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?

Not to burst your bubble, Rob, but have you seen the Washington Post article on Natasha yet? Apparently Sauron's mouthpiece, the redoubtable church spokesman Eric Hawkins, clarified the church's position on the matter thusly: "Eric Hawkins, a spokesman for the LDS Church, said in an email that the ...
by Rob4Hope
Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:22 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?
Replies: 82
Views: 24117

Re: Did Netasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?

I had a girl in my ward growing up, so same YW lessons that I got. After two years of her being too terrified and shamed about sex that they were unable to consummate the wedding, her husband gave up and divorced her. This stuff happens, probably more often than you would think, and frankly, It MAK...
by Rob4Hope
Fri Apr 16, 2021 10:09 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?
Replies: 82
Views: 24117

Re: Did Netasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?

Good to know she is Netasha Helfer without the Parker. Lots of comments about unhealthy sexual practices messing up marriages. It seems like every year or so NOM circles back to that topic. It just goes to show how much the church STILL invades people's bedrooms. Years ago I read several of Netasha'...
by Rob4Hope
Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:24 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?
Replies: 82
Views: 24117

Re: Did Netasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?

Part of the interview with John Dehlin (I didn't see it all) covered some of the sex issues. I've read on Netasha's blog that she has tried, unsuccessfully, to find the LDS position on masturbation. There doesn't appear to be an "official" position on this. Therefore, as part of her work as a mental...
by Rob4Hope
Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:12 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?
Replies: 82
Views: 24117

Re: Did Netasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?

I looked on Reddit. There are several people who are watching this. If they EX her, it will cause ripples. Bill Reels EX caused some ripples, and so will this lady.
by Rob4Hope
Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:41 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Is Christianity Dying?
Replies: 25
Views: 8823

Re: Is Christianity Dying?

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by Rob4Hope
Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:39 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Is Christianity Dying?
Replies: 25
Views: 8823

Re: Is Christianity Dying?

The merging of the Radical Right with Evangelical Christianity is frightening to me. We live in a world of confusion and intellectual deferral that is taught to us from childhood. For example, the idea of "informed consent" doesn't exist in the temple at all. You go there, and before you are told mu...
by Rob4Hope
Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:24 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Kwaku, FAIRMomon, and terminating Dehlin
Replies: 88
Views: 29396

Re: Kwaku, FAIRMomon, and terminating Dehlin

I've been away for a while,...but back as there are developments that are alluring. One is the excommunication of Netasha Helfer-Parker. But I just read above that Kwaku is gunna do an interview with RFM and Bill? Oh gees....that outta be worth a sit-down and listen? I've not followed this very much...
by Rob4Hope
Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:12 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?
Replies: 82
Views: 24117

Did Natasha Helfer-Parker get Exed?

saw a discussion by John Dehlin. I take it this lady got Exed?

Thoughts?
by Rob4Hope
Fri Nov 13, 2020 9:59 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: The Best Two Years?
Replies: 39
Views: 11727

Re: The Best Two Years?

Apologeticsislying wrote:
Mon Nov 09, 2020 6:15 pm
RFM's new podcast of the CES director demonstrates the abject horror that missions were and still are. Mormonism is just all about image. It has precious little substance, if it ever did at all.
I've listened to RFMs post. It was incredible. What a horrible mission that guy had!
by Rob4Hope
Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:40 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: The Best Two Years?
Replies: 39
Views: 11727

Re: The Best Two Years?

Can it be both? I has some good experiences but it was still a theft of two years when I was young, in shape and could have done a lot of great things. Yes...I believe it can. I do want to mention something though. Years later I was in a mental health counselors office with a family member, and I r...