NOM

If I can stand to attend, I certainly will. I haven't been active in a year or so but this feels unusual. There is lots of speculation about pretty much every scenario. Our inactive rate hasn't drastically changed ( I live in the land of Ezra Taft) and our stake was recently realigned. Several gues...

When my shelf first started giving way, I began attending only sporadically, and at the time I had a calling that allowed me to don the cloak of invisibility, and I liked that protection. Because I had a really cool HT, I talked to him about my concerns, and it was clear he had some as well, but had...

. You are not alone - one of the most difficult things to go through is losing the generation above you (especially your parents). We have always been conditioned to think of our parents as our emotional soft-landing place (this is true even if your childhood home wasn't a testimony to that philosop...

. I'm a feminist, and I don't think the design is sexist. I've been in several chapels of various vintages and design eras, and some have the kitchen near the RS room, while others do not. I'm not an architect, but I can think of several considerations that could affect placement: 1. Placement of pi...

Allow me to award Callister -25 for apologetics with zero fact or logic attached to it. The guy who sucked up toward the end of the conference (I think he gushed about Nelson being "inspired" to go to the death bed of Hales) needs about -100 awareded for blatantly trying to audition to be appointed ...

. I believe Bennett the abortionist was put to use very frequently. This book is available on the Wayback Machine (Archive) - it has source material about Joseph Smith through interviews with his contemporaries. The link here should open to pages 58 & 59. If you read the bottom of page 59 and contin...

. As a former convert, now resigned and back to my growing-up years beliefs in God and Christ, I've been interested and also saddened when I see the impact the church's dishonesty has on the ability of former members to believe in God. For what it's worth, "other churches" (the mainstream ones, at l...

I grew up in other churches and have attended them again after resigning my short incarceration in the LDS church. I'd suggest contacting the churches during the week (unlike the cult, other churches are actually open on weekdays). Pastors will have more time to talk with you when it's not on a Sund...

I'm sorry you're dealing with the "down in the dumps" part of the transition. When your life has been controlled by an outside organization telling you not only what to do all day, but that it should make you happy, you can't just flip a switch and substitute something else. You don't yet know what ...

I don't remember the name of the last speaker (it's one of the Q-12), but I'd give him a -25 for blatant suck-up content.

Nelson will have a hard time sitting down with that last speaker stuck to his butt.

I thought the guy speaking about the BoM was going to trip himself from all the fancy side-stepping. BUT - for the sake of further argument - let's suppose the BoM came about exactly as the church claims (whichever claim seems to be in vogue, that is). Suppose it is inspirational. Fine. That does no...

. I'm going to puke if I hear any more bragging about the yellow-shirted helping hands. ALL churches reach out during times of crisis. All of them. They also have ongoing programs to serve communities and other countries, and that happens all year long. No other churches brags about this stuff the w...

Now we have proof that MPs will completely and deliberately ignore requests from missionaries who want to go home. Yep, lots of those wrecking balls out there in the mission fields.

Meanwhile, Darth Vader could learn from the message to widen his lens.

MoPag wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 30, 2017 10:06 am

Hagoth wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 30, 2017 10:03 am

So God's test for our generation is measured by how much we hate LGBT people. Nice.

So messed up!! I'm giving that a -50.

Me too - enter another -50 (but not in the manner of an algebraic equation - together we awarded him a -100)

Ugh!

I have a friend who would calculate Gen Con talks based on whether the talks are doctrinal- (focused on scripture) or instructional- (focused on obedience to the structure, etc) the balance was usually 50/50ish until people like Neal Maxwell died and were replaced with the Bednars of the church. Sh...

Here's a start: -5 for a whiny Molly voice -10 for a whiny, high-pitched Molly voice -5 for a story about someone who left the church and returned because someone brought them cookies (or did service) -10 for a story about someone who left the church and then repented and came back after loved ones ...

Nothing like service to bring a little meaning and joy into your life. (Well, there is coffee, but if you mix the two, just wow!) Do you guys remember somebody who used to post on one of the DAMU sites about a weekend or week of service during general conference? I'm in Utah County, and I'm going t...

Go down to the distribution center and buy the award and give it to her yourself. Invite Grandma out to dinner and make it a family celebration. She's earned it. So give it to her. Aside from the abusive YWP, the main takeaway for me is that she was led to believe she was doing all that was expecte...

What a great story! It's so important not to feel alone, and I'm sure it was comforting to her to have a safe place to share that story. Maybe you, Mrs. Hagoth, and Sister Disaffected and her DH can get together sometime on a double date. One the most healing things for me was finding people in my o...