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I did not intend for force to mean war. Peeling people away from their bubbles is good. Allowing people into our bubbles and being welcome into theirs is better. It’s not clear to me whether you disagree entirely with my point or if you sorta agree. On the one hand, you seem fine with the name-call...

There is something to this. I love my husband who is currently at church. But occasionally I get angry that he can remain in a church and just plain not WANT to understand that his tithing dollars go to bad mouthing sexual abuse victims like the church did in the Joseph Bishop case. I try to talk t...

Thanks. I acknowledge your point as I have acknowledged Amen’s. I am not refuting these points or positions. I believe you. I hear you. I think change is necessary and that it will only happen by and through external force. However, I don’t see my family members or your husband as hateful or prosel...

The current Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is a member of that Christian Nationalist movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Apostolic_Reformation#:~:text=The%20New%20Apostolic%20Reformation%20(NAR,Oriental%20Orthodoxy%2C%20and%20Eastern%20Orthodoxy There's far more than just Jo...

Backing up a bit here, the jolly penguin didn’t say “some”saints. I would hate to put words in his mouth and understate who he is accusing of hatred. If you live in America, and America starts a war, are you a complicit killer? Is the blood of dead soldiers on Dick Cheney’s hands or yours? If Ameri...

Hi Nomies : Happy New Year to all. Just want to touch on something bothering me I have been pimo for many years but I still attend and participate in the tscc for Mrs Conman52. I just don't ever see the light at the end of the super loooong tunnel!! No end in sight . I have made my case against the...

I dont think calling all saints hateful is kind nor accurate. Hateful or not. Kind or not. Like angel said: Those who "stay" are in some way complicit in supporting a hateful organization. Not only bigoted and hateful, they spend millions protecting predators. And... I don't see anywhere in this po...

I haven't read through the 48 pages here. Just in case no one else has posted it, example podcast discussing the NAR movement

https://youtu.be/v33PDIst_ew?si=jz9v9f5eMRiNq3e1

Ever since the Pope decided that priests can bless same-sex couples, so long as the blessing does not resemble a marriage ceremony; the blessing is not to be treated as a sacrament, as marriage is between men and women in the church. This has been disconcerting to many Priests and even parishioners...

Maya wrote: Pedophile leaders made the lgbt community? Whaaaaaat?

Correct.

Many kids who are abused grow up not feeling comfortable around the gender who abused them.

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....