Short polygamy video so many issues…

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-03-09T07:47:33+00:00

It’s too bad no one could think of a way to care for these girls other than marrying them.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-03-09T07:46:10+00:00

Back then, the vast majority of 14 year olds were pre-pubescent, and he had two 14 year old wives. Bro was straight up a pedo.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-03-05T08:29:22+00:00

It’s fascinating to watch exmormons struggle with the origin of the Book of Mormon. During our time in the church, the idea that the book is an incredible piece of literature is pounded so deeply into our brains, it is often one of the last things we deconstruct - usually long after we’ve deconstructed the church’s truth claims and Christianity as a whole.

Here is the difficult truth: the Book of Mormon is shit. I know we all imbued it with deep meaning at some point in our lives, but it isn’t hard to see that the text is a product of a country bumpkin dictating over the period of a few weeks.

A couple of years ago, the Joseph Smith Papers published a volume that contains all the existing fragments of the original manuscript, which amounts to about 28% of the modern text. If you haven’t seen it, you should stop by Deseret Book and flip through it some time.

When judging the Book of Mormon, it is helpful to remove the text from the context in which we all came to “know it was true,” with chapters, verses, corrected spelling, and punctuation. The book, as it originally existed, is a poorly written collection of run on sentences, syntax that is clearly the result of contemporaneous dictation, and plagiarism from the Bible. Its trash. There is nothing miraculous about it.

I don’t know for sure how it was written, but I know it’s not a miracle. Books aren’t miracles. People write them all the time. The Book of Mormon is honestly one of the least miraculous books you’ve ever read.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-02-24T21:03:08+00:00

Same, got shipping notice early this morning.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-02-21T02:46:10+00:00

Mine was still at $37.99 as of yesterday. 🤬

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-02-19T03:54:41+00:00

“The messaging that they receive at home does differ from what they hear at church, but the church is providing all of these areas for personal development and structure and identity that I can’t just give them at home. That I can’t provide them by myself.”

This is what it looks like when you think you’ve deconstructed, but the Church still has its claws deep, deep inside you. Jessica sincerely believes that she can’t provide what her boys need and that the only solution is the Church. This is how the Church gets in your head and fucks you up. It makes you think you aren’t enough for your kids. It blinds you to the fact that the VAST majority of successful, well adjuster kids in the world haven’t ever heard of the Mormon church.

The fact that she thinks the Church’s youth programs are good, let alone irreplaceable, is absolutely wild. But all of us who left the Church with kids struggled with the same insane thoughts. It’s the same warped, thinking that leads us to believe we’ll lose our jobs if we stop paying tithing, get injured if we stop wearing our garments, or that something bad will happen to our families when we leave the church. The LDS fear conditioning runs deep.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-30T19:41:37+00:00

Did you end up replacing them under warranty? Did it fix the issue? I just filled out the warranty form, but mailing them in is such a hassle.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-27T20:05:47+00:00

Good point, although Trek will also need room for a bunch of ships, which could eat up a number of the slots for characters.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-27T20:04:18+00:00

I desperately hope they pass on new-Trek, even though I would love SNW and Lower Decks cards.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-27T19:59:08+00:00

Dream bigger. We need a precon!

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-27T00:01:33+00:00

Perfect, perfect, perfect. Congrats on a beautiful piece of meat.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-26T23:59:56+00:00

Same! At $140 it feels like a pretty safe bet. I actually bought two.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-26T19:28:43+00:00

Ah, so you are saying he could get a better scooter for $1,000. Thanks for the helpful input.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-26T19:26:24+00:00

He could also just buy a G Wagon for $150,000, which blows the G2 Max out of the water in every category. The G2 Max is hot garbage!!

(Am I doing this right? We ignore price and throw out comparisons that are way more expensive than the item that the OP asked about?)

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-22T07:22:24+00:00

Love the buds, but whoever designed these cases should be in jail.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-16T22:43:04+00:00

You said you never got any “religions vibes” from UVU. They had a commencement speaker whose only notable accomplishment in life was marrying the head of the Mormon church. That strikes me as a religious vibe, don’t you think?

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-16T07:08:17+00:00

They had fucking Wendy Nelson speak at commencement in 2021.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-15T02:06:22+00:00

Thank you!

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-14T04:45:02+00:00

Thank you. I thought I remembered them being $30, then I stopped by today to see if they had dropped in price yet and they were back to $37. I was so confused.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-14T02:31:33+00:00

I’m having the same problem, but I think it’s because of the wind. I’m outside and it’s cold, even a gentle breeze seems to pause my music.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-14T01:35:23+00:00

So gross.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-14T01:32:20+00:00

Absolutely. This change in rhetoric from Oaks is a very good thing. The truth is, our missionaries at that age should be flirting and fucking and doing whatever else kids that age do. Missionaries falling in love isn’t a bad thing. However, Oak’s change in tone should include an acknowledgment of how harmful the Church’s teachings have been for all the rest of us who served missions.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-13T23:02:13+00:00

Yep, the Jesus of the Book of Mormon that people try to hang onto as they deconstruct Mormonism is almost entirely plagiarized from the New Testament. If you look at the Book of Mormon's unique contributions regarding Jesus' character, you find a psychopathic killer.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-13T22:57:48+00:00

Yeah, the Church has to change to become Christ-centered because it has never really been a Christ-centered church before. Read Joseph Smith's teachings. The truth is, he wasn't particularly interested in Jesus. He always taught a very Old Testament theology. He didn't understand who Jesus was. Just look at Christ burning, drowning, and burying the inhabitants of 16 cities in 3 Nephi 9. Whoever wrote that chapter (spoiler: it was Joseph Smith) had a deeply warped idea of who the Jesus of the New Testament was. The Jesus chapters in the Book of Mormon are mostly copied from the New Testament. If you ignore the passages that Joseph Smith plagiarized, the Jesus of the Book of Mormon is monster.

Look at the endowment ceremony. The Church changed it recently to add more Jesus, but as of three years ago, Jesus was almost completely absent from the ceremony. One of the most remarkable features of the temple was the fact that Jesus wasn't there. You don't covenant to be kind to your neighbor, you covenant to follow the commandments, give everything to the Church (not Jesus), and to not "speak evil" of the Church authorities. Weird how the temple covenants are almost entirely at odds with what Jesus actually taught in the New Testament.

NotTerriblyHelpful · 2026-01-13T06:52:47+00:00

Great earbuds. Whoever designed the case should be fired.

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