"Why I Left" Map

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"Why I Left" Map

Post by StarbucksMom » Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:06 am

Has amyone seen this?
https://whyileft.herokuapp.com

It's a worldwide map of people (smiley faces) who have left Mormonism and if you click on a face, their reason for leaving pops up. I enjoyed reading some of the Spanish ones (I served a mission in Guatemala). Weirdly, none of the European ones I quickly read were in a foreign language.

Anyway, thought I'd share.
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Post by profit_seizer » Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:56 am

Just added my pin. Thank you for sharing!
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Re: "Why I Left" Map

Post by Corsair » Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:01 am

I put my mark on the map a couple of years ago. I check back in occasionally hoping to see another ward member plant their flag. Nothing yet, but I'm patient.
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Re: "Why I Left" Map

Post by alas » Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:41 am

Corsair wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:01 am
 I put my mark on the map a couple of years ago. I check back in occasionally hoping to see another ward member plant their flag. Nothing yet, but I'm patient.
Someone who is in my old ward boundaries (last place I would know anyone from church) put one up, but there is no way to know who it is. It could be anyone of ten or so houses, and no way to know if they are the angry exmo who lived next door to us either.
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Re: "Why I Left" Map

Post by wtfluff » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:29 am

StarbucksMom wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:06 am
 Has anyone seen this?
https://whyileft.herokuapp.com
Yep, I'm still there...


profit_seizer wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:56 am
 Just added my pin. Thank you for sharing!
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Re: "Why I Left" Map

Post by jfro18 » Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:38 am

Just added mine... doubt anyone will ever see it, but it's now there. Amazingly enough there are two nearby - both from 2016... I'm in Illinois so far from the heavily Mormon areas. One of them just says "brutally boring" for the reason. :lol:
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Post by RubinHighlander » Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:41 pm

Thanks for the tip, just added my pin.
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Re: "Why I Left" Map

Post by w2mz » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:37 pm

So, let’s say that hypothetically someone added a pin but accidentally marked the wrong house. Ya, I’m that dumbass. I couldn’t find a way to move it or delete it. Anyone know? I do know the people in the house I tagged and they are as TBM as you can imagine. They would be mortified to know this tag was there.

Any thoughts as to how to fix or a contact link?
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Re: "Why I Left" Map

Post by Just This Guy » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:54 pm

Added mine.
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Re: "Why I Left" Map

Post by Random » Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:15 pm

w2mz wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:37 pm
 So, let’s say that hypothetically someone added a pin but accidentally marked the wrong house. Ya, I’m that dumbass. I couldn’t find a way to move it or delete it. Anyone know? I do know the people in the house I tagged and they are as TBM as you can imagine. They would be mortified to know this tag was there.

Any thoughts as to how to fix or a contact link?
I don't think there's a way - but they do say you can pin another place. Someone else in my household had already pinned our place, so I pinned nearby.
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