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sorry to hear that. situation sounds unsustainable. as you have not asked for advice I will abstain. FWIW it seems you are acting nobly in a terrible dynamic. It's good to have somewhere to vent, even if it is in cyberspace.

Earlier this year agreed with DW to pay on surplus. Now that's a result

A minuscule insignificant cult that has peaked and is on its way to being an odd religion confined to obscure history books.

I for one would like to thank Kerry. About 3 years ago. The nail in my spiritual coffin came after spending three days reading everything I could about the BoA. And it was Kerry's weak (and from what I remember positively deceptive rendering) that convinced me the BoA was indefensible Q.E.D. Kerry, ...

some people have celebrities they would love to hang out with: mine is RFM

I'm balls to the wall busy just trying to do very basics. No time left for metaphysics. And no guilt about it too. One day perhaps. My oldest child was on a buddhist retreat not so long ago. He said he found it transformational. After mormonism he thought he was dead inside, but his trip away awoke ...

MM I also love what Crossmyheart said. Best thing about being NOM is we get to do things in our own terms, if that is using no faith, or a little faith, or lots of unorthodox faith. We can also engage with other Mormons, as we choose. So if some decent people reach out and can be trusted, you might ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44644130

This is huge national news coverage - one of the day's most read stories on the UK BBC news website.

A major embarrassment for the church.

Sorry if this is thread-jacking, but I thought it was relevant.

Even as a TBM when my oldest a few years ago showed no inclination to go on a mission I was glad. Mine was a complete waste of time (yes there were learning experiences, but none I couldn't have got elsewhere). It is token of the conformity and compliance that no one feels comfortable opening up at ...

how to develop discernment - but let the congregation know that can be a tough one for even the best of us, as we know by Mark Hoffman episode. then you could say that even Joseph got confused when God or the Devil was giving him revelations, as we know from the time sent someone to sell the copyrig...

Anyone else remember actually believing this drivel? That and Blacks were fence sitters who white people should not intermarry with (even after the ban was lifted). And that perhaps the ban was put in place by the Lord, so the white Utah church could concentrate on its base before being in a positi...

Why am I blacklisted? Spouseman says it's not that I'm unlikable, but more that it's obvious I cannot be manipulated. But I feel rejected everytime this happens, even knowing I probably wouldn't accept a presidency call anyway. Move to Europe within three weeks you'll be the RS and your husband the...

https://www.yearofpolygamy.com/year-of-polygamy/episode-139-joseph-didnt-fight-polygamy-part-one/ TBH I haven't listened to the podcast episode above or its second part. However, Lyndsay Hanson Park clearlyfeels that Joseph was a polygamist and there is no evidence that stands up to scrutiny, to th...

1) Yes you can hang on/attend church to satisfy your spouse, plenty of board members here and other places, do so. Some are Sunday mormons and do not keep all of the mormon commandments; others are card carrying, WoW keeping, tithing paying attendees. 2) My best guess, as for what HF and JC would th...

Looks like Corsair beat me to it!

1st Nephi 17:45

superstition hypothesis http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Pigeon/ "A few accidental connections between a ritual and favorable consequences suffice to set up and maintain the behavior in spite of many unreinforced instances. The bowler who has released a ball down the alley but continues to beha...

Sorry fella.

I tend to agree that the church has lost some valuable members here. Obviously we can't say it representative of people who have stepped away in the last few years. But it does seem to have some similarity with the John Dehlin study http://www.whymormonsquestion.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Survey...

I wouldn't even share finger food with the bishop.