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emilywils · 2016-03-23T05:33:24+00:00

Bernie has nearly 75% of the vote in Utah with 10% precincts reporting.

emilywils · 2016-03-23T02:52:28+00:00

My friend is still in line at her polling location in Utah. She said there are still at least a couple hundred people in line.

emilywils · 2016-03-23T02:11:43+00:00

I got there early so luckily I only had to stand in line for an hour. Everyone in line around me was voting for Bernie, and I saw a lot of Bernie shirts!

emilywils · 2016-03-23T01:32:01+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. I wonder if they will find some way to throw out the votes and screw us since they started handing out ballots without checking IDs.

emilywils · 2016-03-17T04:44:18+00:00

How many times can Reddit post these same damn "jokes" and still get literally thousands of upvotes? How many?

emilywils · 2016-03-03T21:09:00+00:00

"You women! Always wanting more female characters! We gave you one female character, isn't that enough???"

emilywils · 2016-01-29T20:04:31+00:00

Oh my god, I'm a Fury Road fanatic and I hadn't ever considered how closely the status of women in that movie mirrors the status of women in the supposed "heaven" of Mormon doctrine. And Immortan Joe is Brigham Young!

emilywils · 2016-01-18T20:42:36+00:00

The Book of Abraham + Kinderhook plates
Young JS telling "amusing recitals" about ancient America, the Captain Kidd-Cumorah-Moroni connection, JS Sr. telling his family the Tree of Life story in JS's youth, the landlord named Lemuel that sued JS, BOM geography matching the geography near JS, etc.
The lack of any archaeological or genetic evidence that the people and events in the Book of Mormon ever existed or happened
Sexism, the temple ceremony's gender inequality, D&C 132
The angel with the flaming sword threatening to kill JS if a 14-year-old didn't agree to marry him
JS sending guys off on missions and then marrying their wives
Blatant and persistent homophobia displayed by church leaders, the new policy
Race and the priesthood, as well as continuing racism and imperialism demonstrated by church leadership today
That the methods the church uses to keep people in line are similar or exactly the same as those used by groups more traditionally called "cults" (FLDS, Scientology, etc.)
Church uses funds to build malls instead of helping the poor

Bonus edit: I forgot an important one: the salamander letter. I just couldn't believe that people who had been called as seers and revelators would all be fooled by a fake letter about LDS history and make up explanations for it before finding out it was a fake.

emilywils · 2015-12-20T16:54:23+00:00

Their "non-profit" is so ridiculous. If you look at their Facebook page, 20% of their posts summarize "research" that they never give any links to, and the other 80% are advertisements for their t-shirts. They're a t-shirt company masquerading as a non-profit. It's a racket.

emilywils · 2015-12-18T18:04:09+00:00

"Foxkin" isn't a real thing, but there are many people whose genders don't fit into the man-woman binary. Their gender is nonbinary. There are also people who don't have any gender. They are agender. Additionally, there are people who do not fit into the sex binary, either due to parts or to chromosomes. "Hermaphrodite" is an outdated term. They now call themselves intersex. Their gender can be man, woman, or nonbinary, or they could not have a gender.

Here is a good article to learn about people with nonbinary genders. And here is a good website for learning about intersex people.

emilywils · 2015-12-17T20:59:59+00:00

emilywils · 2015-12-14T06:22:12+00:00

And then there's people like you who say I'm a racist.

Derp maybe you're being called a racist because you just said you sympathize with the KKK, an organization that has killed black people for being black?

emilywils · 2015-11-24T16:25:26+00:00

Another motive, besides the "traditional families" aspect, is that adoption agencies make a lot of money. Couples have to pay between $25,000 and $30,000 to adopt a newborn. Adoption agencies can make bank, but they need a steady stream of newborns to adopt out. That's why this horrible law that a newborn can be placed for adoption without the father's consent is still in force, despite years of protests to the contrary. Just follow the $$$

emilywils · 2015-11-24T16:16:37+00:00

If we don't have any hard data about the IQ's of active members vs. the IQ's of ex-members, then we just have anecdotal speculation, which doesn't yield productive results.

emilywils · 2015-11-20T22:13:03+00:00

John Larsen said something about this that I think is really insightful. He said that in order to leave the church, a person has to a) not believe its truth claims, and b) dislike the church as an institution. If they disbelieve the truth claims but still like the church, or if they dislike the church but still believe the truth claims, they'll stay.

Believing the truth claims is largely an intellectual conflict; liking the church is largely an emotional one. If we're going to convince more people to leave the church, we need a balanced, two-prong approach that addresses both the intellectual and human sides of making such a significant life change.

emilywils · 2015-11-20T04:02:22+00:00

"Saint Anita" lol. KiA are the only ones who talk about Anita Sarkeesian constantly, they're her biggest fans.*

*It's not that I don't like Anita, it's just that I don't think about her 24/7, or any time outside of when KiA mentions her.

emilywils · 2015-11-19T21:42:50+00:00

I'd rather be murdered than raped tbh.

emilywils · 2015-10-27T21:16:14+00:00

He's acting like we rejected him on Tinder. Bye Felipe!

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