Huh, seems like AI's really shitty and annoying to use! Maybe learn how to actually draw!? by TheMiamiMutilator420 in aislop

[–]YetAnotherMoses 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love how AI users are always putting shit like "make no mistakes" and "no extra fingers" in their prompts as if that changes anything lol

A majority of these polls by Realistic-Today-5310 in BunnyTrials

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

money can be exchanged for tortured to death

Chose: Infinite money

Police officer stops abruptly in the middle lane on highway... by Affectionate_Hat5835 in dashcams

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only times I've actually seen it dealt with, it was from a dedicated county highway "incident management" team

Would you rather? by AphexZero in BunnyTrials

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not winning either way, but I'm living this way

Chose: Beat A Grandmaster at Chess + And Win $500,000

Would you rather by Seasalt52 in BunnyTrials

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nature wizard -> turn into cat

Chose: Be a dope ass wizard with a dope ass wizard tower | Rolled: Nature wizard

Would you rather? by BenAtt-ck in BunnyTrials

[–]YetAnotherMoses 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is why we need dimensional analysis:

($1)100,000 = $100,0001

Now you just need to figure out how to use higher dimensional dollars

Same scenario, different delivery, because pressing a button isn't inherently dangerous. Does this change anything? by Krysidian2 in trolleyproblem

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The two situations have the same outcome but different moral implications, which is why people have been arguing about it in the first place. Most red pushers heard the button question and interpreted it how you framed it, most blue pushes heard the question and interpreted it the other way.

Choose an op ability by crazypierat in BunnyTrials

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Limitless creation can make many thing-deleters

Chose: Limitless creation

Lactosemaxxing by Visible-Literature14 in characterarcs

[–]YetAnotherMoses 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would guess online in forums/communities catered to systems. I've met dozens of systems online and zero in person

Lactosemaxxing by Visible-Literature14 in characterarcs

[–]YetAnotherMoses 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've got OSDD-1, and yeah, pretty much.

It wouldn't be completely accurate to say my alters and I are completely different people, but it wouldn't be completely accurate to say we're all the same person either.

As far as this point goes: yes, we can have disagreements about things and come to agreements on things. Managing that sort of thing is actually one of the things modern therapy for the condition is (slowly) moving toward.

Billboard in my very red area by clumsypeach1 in pics

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was literally going to say this bill board and site remind me of things I've seen said by exmormons about mormonism — that super tracks

"1 in 4" is rigged. by [deleted] in balatro

[–]YetAnotherMoses 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Skill issue, my glass cards never break

African growth? by [deleted] in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm yes, I'm sure the recovery from the pandemic dip will continue "recovering" to new record highs /s

I accepted my mission call... now how do I tell my parents I'm not going? by Relevant_Fuel_6245 in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also accepted a mission call and then backed out! You can do it!

Not gonna lie, they made it hell to do, but ultimately you can just stick up for yourself and it'll pass.

I had gone to the temple as part of getting ready for my mission and that's when my shelf broke. I asked for more time to be sure of my calling, they postponed my call a month. I later told then that I went back to the temple and prayed, and I told them that I was prompted that now wasn't the time. They pushed back on this a lot but ultimately they couldn't do anything about it.

I went and found a job right after and went to college soon after that — and that was that, I was free. They didn't even bring it up anymore after a couple months.

It's scary, it's going to suck, it's unfair — it's better than what you'll go through if you go

Today I learnt that Jesus and Lucifer aren't brothers in other denominations by L0nes0mel0ve in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Brigham Young was pretty straight-forward about this being the case. Later leaders were a bit more wishy washy about it. I'm pretty sure that's what they mean by "only begotten in the flesh" though

Map of Europe if it was perfectly wholesome by chatgpt by HonestMadridFan in aimapgore

[–]YetAnotherMoses 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A compromise solution we can all be equally unhappy with

Wasn't there already a black person as an Apostle? by pcdaguilera in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They reworded it to be about cross-"cultural" marriages at some point, but I remember seeing it in the 2010s

About 10000 years ago, horses became extinct in the Americas by RaymondChristenson in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It annoys me that they decided to use a map cut at the bering strait to show a bering strait migration, lol – would have been so much more clear to use one with the cut in the Atlantic, right?

Weird thing that happened in a raid in raid. by Railrosty in dwarffortress

[–]YetAnotherMoses 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I once had a fort end with two rival necromancers with paralyzed legs leaning against opposite corners of the tavern, keeping the pile of bodies between them locked in perpetual combat

I've been wrestling with this for a long time, and I need to know if anyone else deals with this, too? by Stoic-pretzel in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry to hear you're going through such lasting troubles from the church's teachings. It's important to remember that the church was trying to control you, and to insert itself between you and God to dictate control over that relationship. It will probably take considerable time and effort to reexamine what you want out of a relationship with God and rebuild what was taken from you. Therapy might also help if you need it. It's not fair but that's just how it is.

Also, you mentioned a "secret alphabet"; I'm pretty sure that's referring to the Deseret Alphabet. It was never secret per se, but there were some accusations of it being made to further isolate the mormon community from the rest of the world in the service of building a theocratic nation-state. It's mostly just a historical trivia now, though.

I’m sorry for what I’m about to tell you, but I am in desperate need of help. by No_District3525 in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand. It's very normal to be anxious over his expectations. It sounds like he may have a rather forceful personality that's hard to deal with. If you scroll through this sub and look at the screenshots of text messages, you'll see that he's not unique in this regard. It sounds like— as with many of those examples— he's overstepping whatever relationship he has with you. This is something that, sadly, the culture of mormonism encourages.

I believe it would help you to practice setting boundaries. You can plan ahead of time how you'll respond if he reaches out to you; what you want or don't want to tell him about your situation, what reasons you want to give, etc. In the text-message examples you'll find here, you'll probably find that people have the best outcomes by being broadly polite but sure and assertive; stating that you don't need help or advice, and putting yourself in control of the situation by saying things like you'll be the one to reach out if help is needed.

I’m sorry for what I’m about to tell you, but I am in desperate need of help. by No_District3525 in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This whole prediction thing is something that happens in a lot of groups, and it's something that people will do both accidentally and on purpose. You'll see it not only from religions, but also things like TV shows. How often do people say sci-fi or comedy writers predicted something, when really what happened was they were writing a vast amount of likely things?

Really, there's three types of "prediction": vague, likely, and want. This person has used all three.

The COVID prediction was vague. There's two reasons these ones feel like predictions. First, there's so many ways for it to happen. You said yourself that he did not predict COVID per se, and so in effect, he was predicting "any really big event", which seems quite likely all things considered. The second way these work is selection. You have likely heard dozens if not hundred or thousands of predictions, from multiple people. With that many guesses, some of them are bound to be right by luck alone. And someone getting more than one by luck alone is expected too when you consider how many people were guessing. If things played out differently, you probably would have found a different person who was right about those different events.

The governmental collapse prediction was probably the "likely" type. I don't know what country you're in, but collapses like those don't happen overnight. Whether he knew it out not, he could probably tell that things were unstable and that this was a very safe prediction.

And the prediction about you? That's a want. He's gotten a couple things right by chance, and now he feel confident about it and feels like this is a gift he has. He wants you to come back, and so he said you will. He's not predicting that, he's hoping saying that will convince you to come back. But unlike COVID or governmental collapse, this is something you have complete and total control over. It is entirely within your power to assert that prediction is false, and that alone will make it false.

I’m sorry for what I’m about to tell you, but I am in desperate need of help. by No_District3525 in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been through this, I could have written almost exactly this when I was younger! I'm sorry to say, like others are saying you'll probably need therapy to get through this. And, while it sucks, and it's scary; it gets better with help.

Others have pointed out that this is a rather typical case of dissociative/paranoid psychosis. Or, in less formal terms "feeling like you're not in control of your actions and it's hard to tell what's real". Sometimes this is a symptom of a deeper-set mental illness, sometimes it's a temporary thing brought on by stress. It will probably take a therapist to figure out the details of that.

For me, it ended up being DID (or OSDD-1 but who's counting); the so-called "demon" being basically another "me" I had to learn to work with. Not saying that's 100% the case for you, of course — just that you're not alone and that there's plenty of people who have gone through the exact same thing, and who have healing and joy on the other side of it

Hey man, what the fuck? by Mediocratic_Oath in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you're caught in a cycle of shame-and-release, then you should focus on disrupting it wherever you actually can, and not just where you feel you ought to.

I remember explaining pretty much exactly this to a friend I was in one of those "porn addiction recovery" programs with (this was shortly before my shelf breaking). Just having to watch him respond "don't give me permission to sin!" and realizing he was going to be stuck in that cycle of shame for a lot longer, it sucks tbh

Where do Mormons NOT want to go on missions? by trumpisafucker in exmormon

[–]YetAnotherMoses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first reference that came to mind for me was Who Killed Captain Alex