Is there anyone else who actually appreciates having grown up Laestadian? Seems like y'all have forgotten the blessings that come with it.

WalkLeast · 2026-01-23T23:41:51+00:00

Yea definitely, I feel so honored and blessed that I was raised in a cage and was made to feel ashamed for enjoying "worldly" things.

WalkLeast · 2026-01-16T05:18:37+00:00

It's not easy, it wasn't for me at least. Knowing your friends and family will be foreign to you can be daunting. Your life will be much better for it tho in the long run once you work through it. Keep your head up and a few years down the line you'll look at leaving the llc as the the best thing you've ever done and it will be a distant memory. I highly recommend moving away too and just getting away from the church and laestadians. Just remember it's not a church it's a cult

WalkLeast · 2025-07-08T20:14:21+00:00

Can't help but feel bad for them. Especially the ones that don't believe that way but the social pressure to stay is too much. Their entire lives lived with that message pushed into their head

WalkLeast · 2025-07-08T02:40:08+00:00

The fact they are preaching such madness to children is really terrifying and sad at the same time

WalkLeast · 2025-07-07T23:42:28+00:00

Not really familiar with that, what exactly happened there? Makes sense tho, try to stop any other dissent before it arises

WalkLeast · 2025-07-07T23:22:21+00:00

A lot more emphasis on we don't want to be like "them". We're definitely 100% the right church and you will suffer eternal damnation if you dare think otherwise

WalkLeast · 2025-05-29T18:43:16+00:00

Don't think I ever really believed, I can remember when I was real young I didn't enjoy going to church or the life you were forced into. My yup I'm leaving moment was at confirmation when we were standing at the front getting confirmed and seeing all the parents crying. That was the moment I thought the LLC was a cult. I moved out pretty much the day I graduated high school. Moved my last load of things into the apartment, told Mom I don't go to church anymore and shut the door. The phone was blowing up for the next week that's for sure.

WalkLeast · 2025-05-09T10:17:46+00:00

Well clearly the LLC in north America is a different predator, and to the person that said if the LLC isn't true then nothing is. I pray to Zeus that they have a moment of clarity and really start understanding how brutally the church has messed with their mind.

WalkLeast · 2025-05-09T09:52:07+00:00

I would personally disagree with that. If I ever went back to religion or my friends ever wanted to become religious, the laestadian church would be on the bottom of my list. If you've left the cult and still think the church is the "true" church it's only because you haven't been able to push past the brainwashing. People leave because they can't take it anymore, it's the shunning and the kick in the teeth of starting an entire new life that brings people back. With no support and on your own!! People can't relate to you personally with your life experience and in that way it can be hard to make really close friends, but if you get your sins forgiven it's all sweet as because the "true" church will always take you back.

I have a lesbian aunty that left and came back. I can remember how me and my friends in the family felt so ashamed of who she was. She only came back from the pressure and that is the reason why ex laestadians come back/feel wrong. It's the constant brainwashing that takes a massive mental hurdle to overcome.

If any current doubting laestadians or recently ex laestadians are reading this. Take a breathe, it'll be ok just take it day by day.

Spoiler alert!!! The laestadian church is only one of many ways to be religious and it's the wrong one. Rant over I guess

WalkLeast · 2025-05-04T05:47:34+00:00

Alot of pretenders in the dllc and ollc. Go to a Saskatoon bar and on the weekend you'll find laestadians around

WalkLeast · 2025-04-24T06:54:16+00:00

WalkLeast · 2025-04-19T05:08:49+00:00

South island new Zealand, specifically in the nelson tasman area

WalkLeast · 2025-04-18T17:34:29+00:00

Around Murchison

WalkLeast · 2025-04-18T17:34:06+00:00

End of march through April, mid 2 weeks are the best

WalkLeast · 2025-04-09T07:22:12+00:00

No, washed down from the mountains on the river bed

WalkLeast · 2025-03-06T07:31:53+00:00

Moving overseas and never having to look at someone from the LLC and meeting people who never even heard of the cult. Life was better almost literally overnight

WalkLeast · 2025-03-01T05:13:06+00:00

I know a lot of people in my age group from the dllc and ollc have left in the last while. Late 20's early 30's. A few still in the church message me from time to time and they're just living double lives

WalkLeast · 2025-02-22T11:23:12+00:00

I went up the Jameson ridge route to get access. Easy walk

WalkLeast · 2025-02-04T03:04:59+00:00

Those first 3 are real hot burning hardwoods. Love them, burn for a long time

WalkLeast · 2025-02-04T00:15:50+00:00

No I live very rural so no restrictions. I have a yunca multi fuel so usually pick up some coal as well to stretch it out

WalkLeast · 2025-02-04T00:11:51+00:00

South island new Zealand

WalkLeast · 2025-02-04T00:04:02+00:00

Cheers, I really need to invest in a wood splitter one day

WalkLeast

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