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RubinHighlander wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 8:54 am
Good job Caylee! You successfully ran away from all that uncomfortable and painful cogdis and got sucked right back into the tribe so you didn't have to face all those awful scary facts! The truth is...you are a coward and took the easier path, thus making yourself the perfect poster child for TSCC. Ignorance is bliss in your case.
Teenagers are in a place and time of life where being truly courageous can be a bit of a rarity. I certainly wouldn't be too hard on this young lady for shrinking from the implications of what becoming a non-believer entail.
Someday she'll approach this again when she's more mature and probably make her stand.
Most of us had seeds of doubt sown early. Those seeds didn't germinate until some kind of catalyst event happened. But being there in the first place, those seeds were critical to the faith-journey.
My initial seeds of doubt involved the lack of accountability TSCC had regarding marriage problems people were having in droves around me. The answer was always the same: read scriptures, pray, pay your tithing,...and somehow that was going to fix everything. If things didn't get fixed, it was because you didn't have enough faith.
It was MADDENING!
This girl?...well, I'd be willing to wager the seeds of doubt have been sown. The solution provided is a poor one. Its purely temporary. When things get going in her life, if she ever has a crisis, you bet those seeds will take root, and away she goes....
The lady in the picture in the story looks like she just discovered her husband was lying when he told her on their wedding night that his manhood was as big as it got.
In my small branch we have a lot of older people hardly any kids and they are all stuck in the 80s !!!!! I am the only one to admit having a faith crisis etc etc of course it was all my fault for reading "anti mormon" stuff. These people still hang onto its all or nothing mentality the binary view if you will. My TBM wife is right in there with them wont listen to anything I have to say about the church so I just play along for her and hope and pray that soetime in the future her empty shelf will become heavy and crash . I have given her advance notice that I believe before long the church will allow coffee consumption and Im all in on that one !!!!!!
RubinHighlander wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 8:54 am
Good job Caylee! You successfully ran away from all that uncomfortable and painful cogdis and got sucked right back into the tribe so you didn't have to face all those awful scary facts! The truth is...you are a coward and took the easier path, thus making yourself the perfect poster child for TSCC. Ignorance is bliss in your case.
Teenagers are in a place and time of life where being truly courageous can be a bit of a rarity. I certainly wouldn't be too hard on this young lady for shrinking from the implications of what becoming a non-believer entail.
Someday she'll approach this again when she's more mature and probably make her stand.
I totally agree Pale, I threw down some harsh judgement and I don't even know the girl. What I'm really going after here is TSCC using her as a poster child for the youth to try and keep them in.
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2bizE wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 7:02 am
The lady in the picture in the story looks like she just discovered her husband was lying when he told her on their wedding night that his manhood was as big as it got.
Hey, babe, check out my priesthood antenna. Let me tell you what I can clearly discern about you!
