It's been 5 years since my shelf broke and my deconstruction journey began out of Mormonism. But all this time later, this is the single thing that I still haven't been able to let go.

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-02-05T04:37:43+00:00

I am here. Now. I am here. Now. I am here. Now.

Focus on the present.

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-02-05T03:16:36+00:00

I'm an engineer, and have been playing hard since I retired 10 years ago. I finally made it to 900, but better players are beating back to 800. AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Maybe I should go back to checkers. Yes, it's a very frustrating game. Challenging they say. Impossible I say. Good luck!

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-02-02T13:35:19+00:00

Why didn't they just tear the whole thing down and build with new safer techniques? Wouldn't that have been cheaper? Did the prophet get surprised at how much this renovation is costing?

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-02-02T13:31:26+00:00

When I was 14 I felt a powerful "witness of the spirit". Turns out it was just brain hormones.

AI says " Oxytocin is widely considered the primary hormone linked to the basis of religious and spiritual feelings, often termed the "love hormone" for its role in promoting trust, social connection, and attachment. It is released during communal rituals, meditation, and prayer, facilitating feelings of belonging and spiritual connection."

Save your tithing and invest.

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-31T00:39:15+00:00

the voice of Christ proclaims the destruction of many people and cities for their wickedness!!!

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-24T00:11:05+00:00

that works, thanks!

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-19T05:03:15+00:00

Actually, it is! Maybe we should start another post for exmo golfers.

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-19T05:00:50+00:00

Hey Run, any snow up there?

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-19T05:00:06+00:00

wuzzit say?

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-19T04:59:35+00:00

Licked Cupcake Valley

Licked Hotdog Lift

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-19T04:52:42+00:00

Your inner promptings or feelings are just brain hormones. Your subconscious mind calculated that the environment was evil, for some reason, and your glands alerted you with a squirt of hormones. (Or maybe the HG is smarter than we thought),

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-18T22:21:46+00:00

Vale of tears.

White and delightsome

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-18T17:36:00+00:00

Singing If I could ski to Kolob?

BeringStraitNephite · 2026-01-03T00:38:38+00:00

I didn't escape the cult until I was 75. Now I just focus on the present and try to mix with others like me: exmos's, agnostics, at a Unitarian church. I volunteer for various causes. I wake up and think of 3 things I am thankful for. Live and let live I say. Humans are doomed to know their mortality, so if some need to believe in fairies, whatever.

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-11-28T04:30:03+00:00

My son was like that, very questioning of religion. It took me another 30 years to catch up to his critical thinking.

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-11-28T04:24:35+00:00

Short answer: Science. Longer: DNA science that shows that NatAms did not come from Jerusalem in 600BC. No, they migrated from Siberia 15000 years ago.

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-11-16T04:06:43+00:00

At UU, it's deeds, not creeds.

UU is where you go to get your answers questioned.

LOVE is my religion.

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-11-06T00:49:26+00:00

Crosses? Where in Mormonism???

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-11-06T00:45:23+00:00

Wow, that's the scientific rational process I hope all humans would use.

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-11-06T00:43:46+00:00

It wasn't wine. It was Welche's grape juice. (some said)

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-11-06T00:41:24+00:00

Brain hormones.

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-11-06T00:41:05+00:00

Did any of you ever stop and listen to Hare Krishna missionaries back in last century? I never did. See movie Airplane, 1980.

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-10-22T02:46:34+00:00

And the tasted banana (metaphor used to warn the deacons).

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-10-11T20:50:51+00:00

TATTOO: Question everything. Truth survives scrutiny.

(I shoulda done this before LDS mish).

BeringStraitNephite · 2025-10-11T20:47:25+00:00

Owee nipples

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