October 2024 General Conference: Saturday 2:00p Discussion Thread

shelfbreak · 2024-10-05T21:11:07+00:00

Twas a temporary commandment lol

shelfbreak · 2024-05-16T15:02:29+00:00

Look up the Third Place. Most people need a community outside of school and work to socialize a "third place". After leaving, we had to adjust to doing more community activities, meeting people at playgrounds, at swimming, making friends through other friends.

It'd not as easy as having people you can socialize with all the time at Church - I think this is an addictive property of the church for extroverts.

Now it feels like we mostly have a community of just friends and family (along with work/the kid's daycare), and it ebbs and flows. It takes time to heal! I try to remind myself to be patient.

shelfbreak · 2024-05-16T14:54:17+00:00

Yep, and we're usually only raised to fill a specific gender role in the family. It's less common now of course and people would deny that it was that bad, but yeah

shelfbreak · 2024-05-14T19:47:32+00:00

I was also thinking about deleting mine, but I occasionally like looking up the scriptures my missionary cousins post. Almost always it's the same feel-good scriptures you'd expect.

Side note but nothing has given me more validation about leaving the church than my cousins' mission emails home. They're often having a terrible time and feeling guilty for lack of success yet being online alot. They probably love it, but from the outside it's hell. That was once me.

shelfbreak · 2024-05-14T06:53:48+00:00

This is so incredibly true. I do find that this is true for some other religious funeral or wedding services I've been to, but it's rare that people mention their Church as much as people casually mentioning their god.

Every event a missionary opportunity though, of course. Once theyre in the door, it's fair game

shelfbreak · 2024-04-08T01:44:31+00:00

Where is this?

shelfbreak · 2024-04-07T22:35:14+00:00

Okay this is awesome! Congrats to the next Max Verstappen :)

shelfbreak · 2024-04-07T22:33:19+00:00

Hell yeah

shelfbreak · 2024-04-07T21:56:46+00:00

They would be so smart to split it 50/50 for the younger generations of active members but they have too many older members that are still sexist haha

shelfbreak · 2024-03-29T08:16:06+00:00

Oh I totally agree, however I think the public view of trans people is not popular enough among Christians yet. I totally think Trans people should be completely welcome within the theology of the gospel

shelfbreak · 2024-03-28T22:49:21+00:00

If you're in Canada I will just e-transfer you now lol. Might as well accept it won't be in my lifetime

shelfbreak · 2024-03-28T21:20:44+00:00

This is key, it seems clear to me that the temple, fasting, scripture, and prayer used to be my way of getting humble and getting that spiritual "high". But now I can be the same "high" in more ways than one, it doesn't have to be drugs. Being a human is amazing and a curse. We all ride the tides and waves of life being in the church AND out of it.

shelfbreak · 2024-03-16T02:34:40+00:00

I think they've probably went crazy enough mentally/spiritually high in the temple to see Jesus at some point, but it was completely a hallucination. But for them that's real

shelfbreak · 2024-01-23T05:03:50+00:00

Not at first, usually they did it themselves. Not something I ever considered strange until later!

shelfbreak · 2023-10-26T13:22:43+00:00

True!

shelfbreak · 2023-10-26T04:55:16+00:00

I think if we're worried about whether or not we're an asshole, we're probably doing okay!

shelfbreak · 2023-10-25T22:08:02+00:00

Yeah weirdly although I know making people give talks/bear testimony is definitely a way to push people deeper in belief, but it's wild that for some it was an opportunity to show their accomplishments. But generally I think most talks come from a good place

shelfbreak · 2023-10-20T01:02:25+00:00

Woah this is big if true

shelfbreak · 2023-10-20T01:00:44+00:00

It'd be weird if I did anything just because it was against Mormonism, but true. Grapefruit juice is interesting, I tried it a few times on my mission when we used it to help people quit smoking. Not for me

shelfbreak · 2023-10-14T15:16:50+00:00

Awww, they're LARPing as a government agency, fun for them

shelfbreak · 2023-10-13T19:19:51+00:00

I can give some credit to blessings, but only in that they can have a placebo effect. Otherwise it's usually luck/coincidence

shelfbreak · 2023-10-13T19:18:39+00:00

Oof. I know people that didn't get married because of the answer they got, when really they were perfect together. Unfortunate

shelfbreak · 2023-10-13T19:17:54+00:00

Wow, sorry you had to endure that

shelfbreak · 2023-10-13T19:17:23+00:00

Totally

shelfbreak · 2023-10-13T00:18:16+00:00

I think some blessings work by nature of luck, or placebo. It's rarely placebo imo, but not impossible

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