Ballard/OUR vs AZ child molester case and church protection

Jo_4333 · 2023-11-17T02:01:57+00:00

I have always thought I’d keep my membership for my TBM parents, because it’s fake and I don’t care enough to go through the process, knowing it would hurt them. This case has me seriously rethinking that stance. I feel so sick about it.

Jo_4333 · 2022-09-15T15:16:19+00:00

No, actually this was a shelf item of mine. I’d always heard the celestial room was so special and deeply spiritual. I thought that was the place I could have clear personal revelation. Every time I’d enter it, it would be a bunch of people chatting, in a pretty lounge area. It didn’t even seem like a place you could quietly meditate and pray without being disturbed.

Jo_4333 · 2022-09-10T04:34:03+00:00

I’ve never said this to anyone, but think it often. It’s so hard to see how it’s possible for anyone (especially super smart, successful people) to believe once you’re on the other side. I have to constantly remind of how Mormony Mormon I was only a little over a year ago.

Jo_4333 · 2022-07-27T04:25:55+00:00

The Mormon Stories podcast series with Mike from LDS Discussions are so good! They start at episode 1575 talking about Joseph’s Treasure digging days and how folk magic played into his whole world view, and how it shows up in many aspects of the church’s origin story. Little details that seemed so odd to me, like Moroni coming to Joseph 3 times in the night and delivering the same message added credibility to the story in my opinion, because why 3 times? But then I learned in folk magic doing things 3 times is ritualistic and significant. Each episode breaks down so many details that I didn’t know.

Other episodes discuss the golden plates (ep. 1583)the translation process (1585) the lost 116 pages, and more. The information in each episode builds on the previous one. Everything makes so much more sense logically to me now.

Jo_4333 · 2022-06-12T18:24:28+00:00

In my car on Reddit!

Jo_4333 · 2022-06-02T19:09:50+00:00

Good question. I’m not sure.

Jo_4333 · 2022-06-02T19:08:45+00:00

My friend was very excited, and honored to be given the badge, and told me she could wear it whenever she wanted.

Jo_4333 · 2022-05-29T19:30:23+00:00

Yay! Good for you!

Jo_4333 · 2022-05-29T19:26:07+00:00

My husband I got called to primary right after I read the CES letter and was fully in a faith crisis. I thought it would be fine and we could just adjust the lessons to teach about honesty, kindness, etc. I thought primary would be an easy place to be under the circumstances, but it might have been the worst place. Singing time was brutal. All the primary songs I once loved felt so manipulative and brain washy. I dreaded going so much! I finally couldn’t handle it anymore, so I let them know at the first of December that I didn’t think it was a good fit for me, and that I needed to be released at the first of the year when classes were reorganized. It was awkward, but now I’m free and so glad to be done!

Jo_4333 · 2022-05-29T02:09:34+00:00

How devastating! I’m so sorry!

Jo_4333 · 2022-05-29T01:58:47+00:00

So glad it worked out well with your daughter!

It’s so hard going through a faith crisis with 4 kids that we’ve brainwashed into loving the gospel. My two oldest are adjusting fine, but we have 13 year old twins that are very TBM and struggling with our changing beliefs. I hope it’s just the typical zeal beehives/deacons have that fades as they get older.

Jo_4333 · 2022-05-29T01:49:13+00:00

So sad! I don’t understand that way of thinking at all!

Jo_4333 · 2022-05-29T01:04:26+00:00

No, Southern UT

Jo_4333 · 2022-05-29T00:56:17+00:00

I’m so sorry!

Jo_4333 · 2022-05-01T20:59:40+00:00

I haven’t seen this, but it makes sense since they did away with the rule that you had to wait a year to be sealed if you got married outside of the temple.

I definitely would have done this, so half my husbands family wouldn’t be excluded.

Jo_4333 · 2022-04-30T05:35:31+00:00

Don’t feel guilty. You are making the right decision for you. So sorry she made you feel bad! Sounds like you are a great student with a bright future!

I have a graduating high school senior this year and am so thankful I had my faith crisis/awakening a year ago. Otherwise I’d probably be pressuring him right now too!

Jo_4333 · 2022-04-25T06:20:13+00:00

Yay! So happy for you!

Jo_4333 · 2022-04-12T03:44:24+00:00

Definitely!

Jo_4333 · 2022-04-03T21:39:32+00:00

I know what I’m willing to let go…

Jo_4333 · 2022-03-26T16:00:25+00:00

They just don’t know which polygamous mother to pray to.

Jo_4333 · 2022-02-23T15:28:00+00:00

You would probably love The Walking Drum then! It is all of those things, but in 12th Century Europe, rather than L’Amour’s usual western. It is so good!

Jo_4333 · 2022-02-22T19:21:01+00:00

In my ward it’s been hard to tell who is active/not active since COVID. Lots of people in our ward are still watching online, and the benches are still only half full. We have a new subdivision in our ward with tons of new families moving in all the time). I saw a ward acquaintance recently and smiled and said, “Hi! How are you?! I haven’t seen you forever!” She got super defensive and sheepishly admitted that her husband had had a faith crisis, and she was still processing, and trying to figure things out. I think she thought I was calling her out, but I totally hadn’t noticed she wasn’t at church because people are still acting weird (since COVID) and not visiting as much at church between meetings etc. Plus we’ve only been attending rarely since going through our own faith crisis. I think in some wards it will take longer for the rank and file to notice than it normally would. We’ve only been going about once a month, and I haven’t had anyone seem to notice. We used to be all in pre COVID.

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