NOM

Yup. I am one.

I always answered yes to this question because I am human and sometimes I get angry and yell and sometimes I say things that are unkind. I am not abusive, but I am also not perfect. No one ever seemed to care about this one.

Good luck my friend. Your family will be happier when you cut the cord. I really believe that.

I must have had a heavy shelf most of my life, because I remember a word of wisdom from my father, in relation to a question I must have asked him but that I don't remember: "God gave you a good brain and he expects you to use it." So even as a kid I was questioning things I was taught. When I was a...

I do smile in sacrament meeting. Genuinely and from the heart, because I love so many of the people around me and because the toxic doctrine that comes over the pulpit has no meaning to me and has no hold on me. I smile because I am free, because I am in SM because I want to be there. One of my good...

This one I can say yes to.

Silver Girl wrote: ↑

Sat May 20, 2017 1:37 pm

Confession time - until I read the actual post, I was thinking of the Partridge Family series on TV.

Guess I need to memories all the names of all the wives...

Me too! I was going to say Laurie...

Oh MerrieMiss, I'm holding my breath for you. This is such a hard step to take. I confess that I haven't taken it yet but I am completely in your camp. I don't believe any of it anymore and it has no hold on me, and my immediate family is completely out, but I love singing in the choir and I love th...

Nope, nope, and nope. I've always been taught that sustaining means I have to do what they say, and I refuse to do what they say when what they say is against what I believe. And I haven't seen a whole lot of prophesying, seeing, or revealing going on in SLC lately. Mainly obfuscating.

Nope. Joseph Smith was just doing what a lot of charismatic people in the 19th century were doing, trying to make some money and get some power from the religious gullibility of others. I've studied the period and there was an awful lot of this stuff going on. None of it was real or genuine.

Nope. I don't even really believe that Jesus existed because the Romans kept great records and there are no records of his execution. If he did exist he was probably a zealot, one of the many "messiahs" wandering the wilderness of Judea at the time.

Nope. God is a construct of ancient society designed to keep everyone in check.

You just said exactly what I've been thinking today. I've always hated Mother's Day and only in the last few years did it occur to me that it's the church's fault. Totally unrealistic expectations and saccharine garbage about angels, when I knew that my mother was far from perfect and that I am far ...

Very well put. I have felt this many times in my life but never put it into words. Several times I have been robbed of friends by a boundary change. It's disheartening and disconcerting. My poor mother-in-law is 82 years old and recently got moved into a new ward where she knows no one. I told her t...

I have found it helpful to set boundaries. DH and I belong to a group that goes to plays once a month. I won't go to the ones that have topics or reviews that make me uncomfortable. DH will often take DD in my place because she doesn't mind and he wants to see the show. My friends in the group don't...

You guys will love this. I did.

http://kambam.blogspot.com/2017/04/3-th ... whose.html

Corsair wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:31 pm

I would love to have a video of the pre-1990 movie. I'm sure it's in some vault somewhere since it got retired before the internet could have preserved it forever.

Eve was very blond and Peter was on WKRP in Cincinnati. That's about all I remember.

My son has been accepted to a good school with their top scholarship. The best part is that it's out of state, meaning that he'll finally get away from Utah County. His older sister already fled to California so there's not much keeping us here. All of us successfully out of the church and maybe soo...

ISFJ. I'm the protector, and I've actually never met another person of this type.

My son's prom date wore a shade shirt under her dress. Beautiful girl, but she just looked downright silly.