Another Introduction
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 12:24 am
Hey everybody!
I'll go ahead and introduce myself. I've already made a few posts without doing that. I mainly lurked on the old NOM board. I also decided to go by a different name. My username on NOM 1.0 was IDontKnow. I also go by DontKnow on a couple of other forums.
Anyway...
Just a little bit about myself...I grew up fully active in the church, enjoyed YW's, attended EFY, graduated from seminary, went to girls camp every year, etc. I was pretty much a typical TBM. I am now in my 20's, single, with no kids.
Growing up, I didn't really like the "Families are Forever" belief. The Church teaches that if you're not sealed to your family, you won't be with them forever. I am part of a part-active family. My immediate family is actually not sealed. So that teaching weighed pretty heavily on me.
Back in October of 2013, I did research on what brides and grooms who are part of part-active/part-member families do for their weddings. During my research, I found out that the 1 year wait policy only applies to those who live in the US. Then I read some of the stories on the Family First Weddings site, which put a huge crack in my shelf. I started doing more in-depth research on sealings, which lead me to D&C 132. Learning about JS's polygamy and polyandry is what made my shelf fell and crashed. After that, I learned about the freemasonry, first vision accounts, BOM translation, and so on.
Now I'm a nonbeliever and inactive. I would consider myself a secular humanist. I went from a TBM to an inactive nonbeliever in about 5 or 6 months. I'm grateful for my faith transition. I feel that my mind is more open than it used to be. The world isn't as evil and wicked as I once thought.
That's pretty much it. I'm more of a lurker. I'll try to post here and there.
I'll go ahead and introduce myself. I've already made a few posts without doing that. I mainly lurked on the old NOM board. I also decided to go by a different name. My username on NOM 1.0 was IDontKnow. I also go by DontKnow on a couple of other forums.
Anyway...
Just a little bit about myself...I grew up fully active in the church, enjoyed YW's, attended EFY, graduated from seminary, went to girls camp every year, etc. I was pretty much a typical TBM. I am now in my 20's, single, with no kids.
Growing up, I didn't really like the "Families are Forever" belief. The Church teaches that if you're not sealed to your family, you won't be with them forever. I am part of a part-active family. My immediate family is actually not sealed. So that teaching weighed pretty heavily on me.
Back in October of 2013, I did research on what brides and grooms who are part of part-active/part-member families do for their weddings. During my research, I found out that the 1 year wait policy only applies to those who live in the US. Then I read some of the stories on the Family First Weddings site, which put a huge crack in my shelf. I started doing more in-depth research on sealings, which lead me to D&C 132. Learning about JS's polygamy and polyandry is what made my shelf fell and crashed. After that, I learned about the freemasonry, first vision accounts, BOM translation, and so on.
Now I'm a nonbeliever and inactive. I would consider myself a secular humanist. I went from a TBM to an inactive nonbeliever in about 5 or 6 months. I'm grateful for my faith transition. I feel that my mind is more open than it used to be. The world isn't as evil and wicked as I once thought.
That's pretty much it. I'm more of a lurker. I'll try to post here and there.
