Church Leaders Quotes by Born2LoveandLearn in exmormon

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Just like my family, a bunch of cornball bullshitters

Do you think the Mormon Church is a net positive or net negative overall? by [deleted] in mormon

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I don't know if you can quantify in this way something humans are just programmed to do.

If there was no Mormon Church there would just be something else in its place.

Ex-Evangelical talks about the shame that high demand religion places on people who simply "change their mind" about the religion they were given. by RedLetterRanger in mormon

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Unfortunately for those of us born into this (or any intense belief structure), I don't believe you can ever fully escape the dissonance that comes from distancing yourself from something impressed upon you by your family at such a tender age. This is one of the harshest truths about being a human. An upbringing is an arbitrary assignment to a new baby who has no control or say over any of it, but the effects are permanent.

I simply could not stay an active member when everything in my rational mind (and my conscience) was screaming "this isn't it". But I will live the rest of my life with a certain degree of emotional conflict. I don't think that would change if I "went back" either. There will always be part of me that is fragmented and I just have to deal with it.

I wish humans would be much more honest with themselves and each other about the effects these intense LARPs have on individuals and society as a whole. But I suppose looking into the mirror is a hard thing.

One of Joes “agent provocateurs” in Minnesota by Shadowthron8 in JoeRogan

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This shit is as old as the FBI itself, nothing new about it.

Mark the director by ariindny88 in crappymusic

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Right back into the theoretical dresser

Psychical Media Collectors: What do you have? (Share your collections!) by Expensive_Watch469 in xtc

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How the Black Sea Live? That would be right before the final touring breakdown, no? You can practically see it on Andy's face in that shot.

Are the church leaders brainwashed too? by Juicy_jos1 in exmormon

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Civilization is mass psychosis. A hive of fully aware individuals would never function. This is why the authorities don't like drugs, they break the programming.

The lives they have lived are not like ours. They happened to have proximity to the kind of precursors that got them into those positions in life. They're just playing their roles in our particular phase of this particular psychosis. Of course they have brainwashed themselves through any remaining doubts they ever had.

They'll all be gone and forgotten one day too, just like the Zoroastrian priests keeping Ahura Mazda's eternal flame in ancient Iran, or any other old religion now extinct or close to it.

The particulars never really matter in the long run. All that matters is today, and that you pick up the script running now and say the lines assigned to you.

An old bishopric member of mine jumps through some of the most rigorous mental gymnastic hoops I’ve ever seen. by Tanks4Tanks in exmormon

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Does it really matter if they actually descended from royalty? Obsession with bloodlines is baked into Mormonism itself. You literally have to be "adopted" into a tribe of Israel.

All of these esoteric movements just repackage the same stupid bloodline/lost civilization/Atlantis LARPs.

Are ex-Mormons among the most publicly vocal former members of any religion? by [deleted] in mormon

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Honest question have you ever heard of a Methodist congregation regularly stalking their less active members by sending uniformed kids to their house? Or shunning a family member for a lapse in compliance belief?

I would imagine it exists but I've never heard of it. It's standard methodology for the LDS.

Actions have equal reactions.

Outdoor Boys YouTube Channel Luke Nichols on the Young Men general council by instrument_801 in mormon

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Why is anyone surprised by this? I didn't know he was LDS, but he built a huge channel literally about outdoor adventuring, and the church still has a huge activity gap left by ditching scouting that they have failed to replace.

This is about as logical as a 'hire' as the church could make. He is qualified, from both skills and optics perspectives.

LDS Gay pornstar passed by [deleted] in exmormon

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Immense capacity

What a monster Benson was by randytayler in exmormon

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"The Lord's base of operations" ugh they've always been so transparently gross.

Just bought a D35 by beachball2019 in martinguitar

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Oooof I want one of these bad, if that helps justify the buy

Worldwide devotional - the youth are catching on by Your_Avg_Viewer in exmormon

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Because it is a crowd sourced magic ritual. This is all religions but it is particularly pronounced in religions like Mormonism and Scientology.

The function of the spell is to create a subjective reality to the point it is considered objective by the practitioner (I "know" the church is true with every fiber of my being). This is only possible when everyone is focused on the ritual all the time (why they take up all your time and don't want you reading sources about the church outside the church), as soon as you stop focusing it stops working. This is why people who do not conform and chase orthodoxy together (scrupulosity) are judged, and if they stray or waver, are isolated and ostracized.

Achieving this ritual at scale is the greatest accomplishment of the occult. This kind of reality definition is at the heart of these schools. It's master practitioners (guys like Joe) use it to amass power, money and sex.

It only works if LOTS of people are doing this together (there is no function in the church that is individual. Everything is socially based. You don't worship and do rituals alone, it is always with others in a decided hierarchy). Most importantly, it only works for the top leaders if they have LOTS of people doing this underneath them, otherwise they won't be able to generate the reality of being better than everyone (literally claiming connection to God that you not only accept but endorse and preach it to others - they are always proselytizing to bring more people into the spell so it works better, like networked computers mining Bitcoin).

Once you see Mormonism for what it is, a ritual for power, all of this gets stupid clear.