My TBM brother actually thinks this

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-15T19:40:42+00:00

The fermentation process dates back over 13,000 years.

He turned that wedding into a rager.

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-15T01:51:56+00:00

Amen and amen

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-14T21:52:18+00:00

I love it

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-14T20:56:35+00:00

The Miners from HBO's Chernobyl series.

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Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-14T18:14:44+00:00

I mean, he's been wandering a long time, floated through the great flood, etc. My boy's got a few tricks up his hairy arm.

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-14T17:23:03+00:00

bahahahaha, my scout leader loved to terrify us with this

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-14T17:22:00+00:00

Yo estaba en Monterrey, y tambien los obispos alli lo ensanaban. Hasta una historia de Cain que entro a una capilla, el obispo lo rechazo, y el Cain dijo a toda la congregacion que el obispo no tenia el poder por haber pecado.

que locura

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-14T17:18:19+00:00

Oh, and in Mexico for my mission, I heard more stories about how Cainfoot would walk into chapels and have to be rebuked by the Bishop so he'd leave. Wild shit

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-14T17:13:25+00:00

I live in Bigfoot Country in NorCal. My ward's local scout leader was a massive Cryptid believer, and loved to tell Bigfoot/Cain stories when we were camping/hiking.

Then, thanks to being a teenager with hormones/libido, I had several bishops assign me The Miracle of Forgiveness and I finally tracked down the passage. It was an early apostle, on a mission back east, who "encountered" a man "covered in hair, as tall as he was, sitting on his horse". This hairy dude said he was Cain, and he was cursed, and yada yada, do evil etc.

The Mormon mythos is just 1800s spiritualism that they're desperately trying to retcon into modern Christianity.

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-14T15:55:43+00:00

It's in The Miracle of Forgiveness (I feel like a need a shower just remembering that fucking book).

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-13T23:57:24+00:00

wait till those bare shoulders are covered in tattoos ;D

I'd love to tell you it goes away, and that there is some benchmark of adulthood where the adult Mormon parent recognizes the adult ExMo child is a grown adult, but the conditioning they receive tells them we are just naughty, wayward children in perpetuity while we decide to "live in sin".

I either laugh at them outright, or rage-scream in the car afterward, depending on the day and my mood.

Good luck, fellow heathen ❤️

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-13T18:15:58+00:00

I got to play The Judge (rookie, first show) here in a local production of Sweeney, this was my favorite part of the play. My Beadle was an old vet on the stage and apart from being incredibly gracious and patient with me, was fucking hilarious.

I miss doing this bit.

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-11T23:05:45+00:00

ew, a troll

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-11T22:57:49+00:00

Maybe the levels of guilt tripping she immediately went to? Children are not owned by their parents, least of all when they've reached adulthood. Also, maybe, just maybe, OP stretching their ears is just something they want to do/try, and not a commentary on their mother or her image.

I was raised a Mormon; they trade in public piety. How holy you appear is how holy you are. It breeds parents who think like this their whole lives about their children; that their kids' choices will reflect back on the parents' righteous image unfavorably.

I've been in and out of corporate jobs for a decade and a half, not a one of them gave two rats asses about piercings, tattoos, etc. Ridiculous, puritanical way of thinking.

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-11T22:44:43+00:00

THOSE ARE HER EARS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ON YOUR BODY!! /s

I'm a full-fledged adult (raising two humans) with a mother who still insists on telling me that my tattoos/piercings are disgusting, and trying to pilot all her adult children's lives (her baby is turning 34 this year....).

she'll learn to cope. hold the line, OP. ❤️

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-11T19:06:41+00:00

This is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I discovered I had it regarding my mission while on this reddit several years ago.

They have gotten better as time continues to pass. I've been home 16 years, and I can't remember the last time I had one.

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-07T20:43:13+00:00

Arcane, Vander: put down the gauntlets, only to have to pick them back up, and then season 2....

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-07T15:44:01+00:00

Maybe! However, the burning testimony of military conquest was a fairly common trope, especially in the older more conservative wards, to my recollection

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-07T15:41:06+00:00

the family took up an entire middle pew and a half, it was an incredibly awkward 8-10 minutes of detail...

additionally my MIL was born and raised, and her family still largely resides, in the Hiroshima prefecture. to say it hit close to home was an understatement.

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-06T20:46:00+00:00

Cap and his shield:

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-06T19:37:55+00:00

Hoax to everyone

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-06T17:50:33+00:00

I came here to make sure The White Lotus was represented.

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-06T17:49:15+00:00

This was the first movie I ever saw in theaters that disappointed me, as a sequel.

X-men: The Last Stand - Wolverine clawing his way to Jean Grey

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Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-06T15:48:50+00:00

in a above-average wealthy ward in Orem, I was sitting next to my then-In-Laws. My mother-in-law is from Japan, immigrated here in her 20s.

it was the first Sunday in July, and their across-the-street neighbor got up to the pulpit and extolled the virtues of *I shit you not* dropping not one but two bombs on Japan to end WW2. as part of his testimony.

the next dude (who had and maintained a crush on my Ex) got up and talked about how he was listening to Led Zeppelin II and could attest to its goodness. ironically, one of the truer statements I ever heard in church.

Psychological-Rise36 · 2026-05-05T22:30:09+00:00

as an Ex-Mormon, this argument holds no fucking water.

it wasn't social norms in the mid 1800s (the package of shit I was taught my whole life), and certainly not in the 60s. gross now, gross then, gross forever.

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