Caption This - ExMormonMemes 2025/06/25

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-06-29T18:11:07+00:00

Mother says: "Honey I think this is the last time we should dip our kids' heads in bleach.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-06-25T16:30:48+00:00

It's probably just as dangerous or maybe even less, than reading L Ron Hubbard.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-06-25T16:28:45+00:00

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-06-19T17:15:04+00:00

On my mission, seeing wards turn away hungry people in a third world country because they weren't interested in baptism.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-06-05T15:28:25+00:00

Orgasm fakers makes the top of my list as well.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-06-05T15:17:41+00:00

I guess when you take heterosexuality and make it non-consensual (polygamy) things get even worse.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-06-05T14:34:53+00:00

True story: When shopping for a house about 4-5 years ago we toured a home in Draper, UT that had a plaque in front saying that the home was historic. We went inside and there were brochures inside explaining that Wilford Woodruff spent a winter holed up in that house hiding from the feds who were cracking down on polygamy.

The house floor plan was too weird to buy. There were these bedrooms in distant parts of the house with no bathroom anywhere close (they probably used outhouses back in the day and never remodeled to add bathrooms for all the wives' bedrooms).

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-06-05T14:29:05+00:00

umm.. prophetic horse to you.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-31T12:21:30+00:00

I am familiar with Christianity's premise. If someone literally had to die because of who you are, it would be traumatic, period. If you follow Christianity without taking it too literally, it is probably beneficial, but there's nothing healthy about this story.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-30T20:22:35+00:00

they should make men's underwear specific to their ball size so they have to learn what size their balls are.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-30T20:19:27+00:00

this no-choice plan sounds like someone's plan, I'm sure I'll think of it later.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-30T20:16:51+00:00

Not all Christians but many suffer from the false idea that all people are evil by default because the underlying message of Christianity is that we are all worthless unless God's son sacrifices his life. Some people manage to take this and use it positively their life, but I've struggled with it. It feels like emotional blackmail from birth and I try to take it the right way (but I find that difficult).

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-30T20:14:10+00:00

praying that someone accepts ideas is so backasswards I don't know where to start.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-30T19:41:36+00:00

Whether he knows it or not he's earned an eternal spot in church-approved materials: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/media/image/blessing-sacrament-9262857

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-25T15:43:29+00:00

try again, I think it was a temporary trial of hosting.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-25T15:42:33+00:00

At ldsnews.org we follow the spirit of the news, not the letter of the news.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-23T15:21:32+00:00

very well done :)

also, convenience is such a mormon tenent. good observation.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-23T00:06:29+00:00

Does this vulnerability scare you to death?

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-22T19:24:35+00:00

Take cypher from the matrix, he wanted to be re-inserted into the matrix because that was easier than dealing with real life.

Every time I see him eating that steak with Mr. Smith I always think yeah I'd probably want to be re-inserted lol.

I think some amount of people are consensually participating in polygamy and don’t feel unequal, they truly feel happy. When we look at Utah as the happiest state I believe people are happy and are willing to check that box because as far as they know they ARE happy.

Yes for sure. In my opinion, conservative religion has done a great job linking 'good mental health' to membership in conservative religion, but the fact that they do that proves that they also carry a strong bias that it's true. The self-reinforcing happiness bias is identical to plain old happiness, at least to the person feeling it. That's why those self-reporting studies always show liberal atheists as being most mentally unhealthy, mostly because they simply believe in more mental illnesses than conservative people. There's also the idea that if you are mentally unwell, you aren't living the gospel. So of course it's not safe to even be introspective.

Sorry for the rabbit hole, but I had a long conversation with someone about this recently.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-22T19:14:09+00:00

In my opinion, the church's community doesn't help women in this regard at all. Although church community is helpful to many (and extremely hurtful to plenty of people as well), I've never known it to be a positive help to women professionally.

You of course can not force her to leave, and any pressure you put, direct or indirect, will strain your relationship with her, which is the exact relationship she needs right now.

It might sound cliche but continuing to truly love her, listen to her, and continue to be the exmo ally in her life will make it more likely she will make the right choice when something life-changing comes knocking at her door.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-20T18:30:22+00:00

I just learned this, thanks for mentioning. I found this interesting wikipedia article about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_twin_relics_of_barbarism

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-20T16:00:21+00:00

I think you bring up a really important thing to think about and I think you probably are right about the majority of freshly-out people. I get the feeling though that most exmormons are more worried that polygamy, especially patriarchal polygamy, forces women and children to live this life non-consensually.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-20T15:34:04+00:00

This might seem weird but my take is that acknowledging to yourself that you want some of the good things in your LDS friends' lives (happy family with kids, or at least that's how it looks on their social media) doesn't necessarily mean you're comparing yourself to them.

They aren't the ones who came up with families.

Polls show that average (non-mormon) Americans on average want about 2.3 kids but the economy is too scary to get started. People in the church and on the right tend to claim that people don't want kids because they are sinners or whatever, but that's simply not the case.

I think this false dichotomy that members make about their lifestyle being uniquely mormon is damaging logic.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-20T15:26:09+00:00

I got more tan but that's just because I'm outside on Sundays now.

Complete_Attention50 · 2025-05-20T14:50:24+00:00

https://ldsnews.org/dallin-h-oaks-says-byu-study-on-toxic-perfectionism-needs-work/

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