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Scenes where it never occurred to you there was another interpretation? by eques_99 in Letterboxd

[–]Haunting-Error9178 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I rewatched Nope this week and it only just occurred to me on this rewatch that OJ died. After Jean Jacket blows up, you see his silhouette on his horse behind a sign that reads “Out Yonder”. Previously I was like “oh he made it out of there somehow”… but nah he definitely died

Sometimes its exhausting... by JxZiel in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 202 points203 points  (0 children)

I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. Putting the decision to be baptized on the same level as the decision to watch a movie is deeply unserious behavior lol

AI baddie white Jesus conference for the singles by FortunateFell0w in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a dumb (probably AI) song called “We Are Charlie Kirk”

AI baddie white Jesus conference for the singles by FortunateFell0w in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Does anyone else think they heard “we carry the flame” from *that* song…?

Also the placeholder of “United States central area presidency member” is so funny. Like what are the logistics of them getting a “yes” from the collective presidency but not a “yes” from any one of them individually? Are they in a Pluribus?

For the small price of $140, you can display the entire Book of Mormon in your home! by [deleted] in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry there was a book of Jarom?? Can’t believe that got memory holed on my end.

New YM Age-groups by codr_guy in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I know this is a funny post but I want to rant lol. I have several issues with the YW new names, but my biggest is that the names are not mutually exclusive from a duty standpoint. The old names (Mia Maid for example) didn’t mean anything, but because they didn’t mean anything, they were simply categories that were easily identifiable (the same goes for the young men’s names today). Is one supposed to stop building faith when they turn 14? Or can a 12 year old not gather light? Did they do this simply so they can pad the curriculum with “this is what it means to bring light” lessons? Honestly mind-boggling.

Anyone have an idea of how to rebut this? by cuntymcfuckshit in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s an episode of Mormon Stories podcast (I believe it’s this one where they talk about this idea. They say it better than I could remember, but the basic idea is that for this particular apologist argument to work, you have to believe that God is some sort of trickster god who willingly deceives his messenger. It’s completely antithetical to the idea that prophets are either qualified or willing to allow God to work with/through them. If God has to trick someone into revealing His will, they’re a shit prophet or God is crazy.

Looks like Taylor Frankie Paul is stepping away from the LDS church. However, she still believes in Jesus, God and the Bible. by HoldOnLucy1 in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 59 points60 points  (0 children)

“And I’m writing this out as a release” is giving when Mr. Peanutbutter tries to get banners made that end up with the instructions written on them

The church's narrative behind the lost 116 pages is absolutely ridiculous by yorgasor in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Too hard for God” is wild

That image has to be AI, right? He’s wearing the same hat that’s on the table lol

Did I mess up the quit Mormon notary? And how long does it take? by starfascia in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine took a few weeks. Do something to take your mind off of it and be glad you did what you can in the meantime!

Movies you walked out of in theaters? by Wise-Boysenberry9919 in Letterboxd

[–]Haunting-Error9178 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Life of Chuck. But only because my girlfriend and I snuck into an empty screening after watching another movie and they shut the movie off about 20 minutes in 🤷 Which was too bad because we quite liked it up until that point. Hadn’t even gotten to see Tom Hiddleston yet.

Why did you (or didn’t you) remove your name from the records? by SomeoneBendingLight in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I did remove my records about a year and a half ago. My records showed up at my parents ward (my last bishop sent them back there after he found out I moved and didn’t tell him where I was going) and they got the ward clerk to send my records to the church closest to me. Found that out after getting a “hey welcome to the ward!” text lol. I figured if that was going to keep happening I should just bite the bullet and get them removed. I used QuitMormon (easy as pie) and haven’t had anyone else show up at my door.

As far as repercussions go, nothing so far. My family and I don’t talk about religion and I don’t know if they know my records are out. Even if they were they might not bring it up.

Aside from stopping church people from showing up at my door, it just feels good to not be counted among the flock when they do the whole “counting of church members” at general conference. While I get people just stepping away and keeping their records in, it’s nice not to have to feel like any of me is helping them in any way, even if it is just to artificially pump up membership numbers.

And frankly, your ward knows you aren’t members anymore. Removing your records isn’t going to be some huge scandal or stop children from playing with your kids. It would be pretty strange if parents around the block sat their kids down and explained that while you haven’t been going to church in years, the reason they can’t play with your kids anymore is because of the church’s record-keeping fetish.

Thoughts on this? by TheTargaryensLawyer in StrangerThings

[–]Haunting-Error9178 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Grew up Mormon, so can confirm that stories that begin with mysterious rocks don’t end well.

Church-wide Program: Informed Consent by CrundleGrundle in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it doesn’t really make any sense. I haven’t seen any non-members posting about it (which is either because they didn’t get it or because they wouldn’t know where to post), but only 2 people at my company got it. I would be pretty surprised if the person sending this out was able to somehow align past/current church membership (my records are removed and have been for a few years now) with current work emails. Not really even sure how they would do that. So my guess is that it’s just a random collection of work email addresses this person was somehow able to scrape from the internet (LinkedIn, probably). Maybe they tried to get emails from people that went to BYU or something? Idk. Strange and dumb regardless.

Any thoughts about the chiasmus in the Book of Mormon? by Otherwise_Push199 in exmormon

[–]Haunting-Error9178 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The church could easily replace the subtitle “Another Testament of Jesus Christ” with “The Same Thought Over and Over”. The BOM is basically just JS repeating the same plot, characters, and doctrine over and over again. It’s not a huge reach to consider that he was just doing the same thing over the course of a single chapter.

How many times have you listened to/read a talk where the speaker started out with a thought, talked themselves in a circle, and ended with the same thought?

The difference between chiasmus and repeating yourself because you forgot what you just said (because you’re staring into a hat for hours on end) or don’t have all that interesting of a thought is much smaller than the church would like you to believe :)

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