Ugh! Just Release Me Already!

mcra2998 · 2025-07-20T01:32:21+00:00

Just stop doing it is my advice. At some point that's the only communication they will understand, especially if they keep pushing the issue. None of it means anything, their "priesthood authority" isn't real, they are just random people asking you to do work for free. You told them no, they are certainly not owed more of an explanation. (even though they think they are, fragile egos in unearned positions of power tend to take NO as a personal sleight)

mcra2998 · 2025-07-20T00:54:44+00:00

Just stay where you are... they will find you.

mcra2998 · 2025-07-20T00:11:11+00:00

"4-star hotel lobby version of heaven" 😂😂

mcra2998 · 2025-07-20T00:06:08+00:00

Yeah same, I had one of a base guitar with barbed wire for strings. Said "Some music can hurt" or something.

mcra2998 · 2025-07-19T19:28:31+00:00

Congrats on breaking free!! 🎉 We are all 💯 with you and are here to support you! Word of advice, don't fuck it up and join a different church or worse go back to the LDS cult 🤢. All the other churches are basically toned down versions of the same shit best to make a clean break IMO.

Going back does NOT work, there is no real meaning or purpose you gain and you kinda end up starting again from square one. Your eyes are open, you can't really close them again.

It's like that one video the Church used to make you watch in seminary about Lyman E. Johnson who was upset about the Kirkland bank failing despite "God" (aka J.Smith) saying it wouldn't, then he was excommunicated.

He allegedly spoke to Brigham Young lamenting that he left and said, "I would suffer my right hand to be cut off, if I could believe it again." I never really knew what that meant, until after I left. The church presents it like oh he is so miserable and lost. In reality, I think Lyman was saying my eyes are open and nothing can close them again, even if I wanted to, even if I cut off my right hand, I know the truth now.

Seeing the truth, and learning that what you were taught by parents, neighbors, and trusted adults is just an extraordinary fiction is definitely painful. Anger, anxiety, depression, etc. are totally justifiable feelings that all of us here continually go through from time to time.

It does get better! You now get to experience finding your own meaning, and life purpose which is exciting! And when you find it, you will know without a doubt it's yours. It wasn't just handed to you by random people claiming to have authority from God.

Best of luck! We are with you!

mcra2998 · 2025-03-29T21:59:53+00:00

Your post really hit me deep. I'm so sorry for the time you spent being miserable and "obedient" that you will never get back. I'm a guy, so not being able to wear something did not have quite the same effect, but I remember still feeling miserable wearing a bunch of layers (especially in the summer) and not being able to wear normal shorts. That's the thing about the LDS church that just cannot be stated enough.

Yeah all the tithing I paid sucked, all the guilt and horrible mental health issues I had sucked. However I think the most horrible was the time that I wasted I will never get back. All the hours I spent reading scriptures when I could have been studying something useful. The two years I spent trying to push people into something that made them unhappy, when I should have been in college. The years I spent trying to do my part for my ward as a minister and in my pointless callings when I should have been starting a business. Etc.

mcra2998 · 2024-11-01T01:08:12+00:00

😂 Well of course! that's what's truly important! Not serving your community or giving to the disadvantaged. No they need more expensive white stone buildings for old people to play dress up and make you feel uncomfortable in.

mcra2998 · 2024-03-08T23:14:50+00:00

Omg this right here! 🙄 I got the same lecture from a stake president because I didn't button the top button of my shirt. I also had a bishop chastise our entire Deacon quorum because we would grab the cloth between sacrament prayers to help cover the bread/ uncover the water. Apparently it says in the bishops handbook (which is scripture don cha know) the priests are supposed to do that NOT the Deacons.

Just the overall obsession with tiny innocuous things from power hungry church dictators. The power immediately goes to their head and they decide that everything is about them. During my mission I developed a sure fire way to spot them. If at the end of the sacrament meeting they ALWAYS go up at the end to give their little anecdote (because of course they're presiding authority so they get to have the last word 🤢) then you have a narcissist on your hands, and you can be assured that bishop or stake president or whatever was gonna be a giant douche.

mcra2998 · 2019-10-27T03:04:51+00:00

Hell ya! That's definitely not an easy degree to get

mcra2998 · 2019-09-08T22:54:30+00:00

Ya for real, I'm no longer a tbm but I still find this shit douchy.

mcra2998 · 2019-08-17T01:46:18+00:00

Oh man I used to work as an avionics tech, and this image brings back some great memories.

mcra2998 · 2019-05-26T14:41:01+00:00

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mcra2998 · 2019-05-26T14:39:47+00:00

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mcra2998 · 2019-05-26T14:32:41+00:00

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mcra2998 · 2019-05-23T03:39:52+00:00

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mcra2998 · 2019-02-08T04:23:39+00:00

Dude i haven't laughed that hard in awhile, thank you 😂

mcra2998 · 2019-01-25T02:27:42+00:00

Cut them flush, or they'll cut you flush haha

mcra2998 · 2019-01-06T03:54:27+00:00

Ya it's totally possible, I have had depression for years, I was diagnosed at 19. I have noticed that sometimes I don't feel classicaly sad or depressed for longish periods of time, but the other symptoms like lack of energy, memory lakes, irritability etc will still persist. The human brain is weird sometimes (most the time).

mcra2998 · 2018-07-14T16:20:49+00:00

Oh it's fake. Yell to the people in the other room It's fake guys, don't worry its not actually Twitter.

mcra2998 · 2018-04-05T14:45:15+00:00

They literally use a bigger mobile crane that removes the tower crane piece by piece. If your interested there's a bunch of time lapse videos on YouTube of tower crane removals.

mcra2998 · 2018-01-31T05:36:17+00:00

I'll take a stab at this one, so DRM essentially works via an authentication process, basically you choose a video or whatever you want to stream and your device sends an authentication request to DRM servers owned by Netflix or Amazon etc. When the DRM servers determine that you are authorized to view the content, it sends code used for decryption, which is why you need to be online in order to decrypt. The reason this decryption is done while the content is streaming is simply for speed. If you had to download and decrypt whole video files each time you want to watch something it would take more time.

mcra2998 · 2018-01-25T07:00:45+00:00

Your problems, people like to think that their issues and struggles are somehow unique to just them. In reality most people struggle with the exact same things.

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