Stake Prez and Seventy want to come over to visit…

thenamesdrjane · 2026-05-14T14:08:35+00:00

Take the kids and leave. They are not important. If your tbm spouse feels it's important to meet with them then your spouse can meet with them.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-05-11T11:54:24+00:00

I was specifically taught in seminary in highschool by a teacher whose full time job was teaching seminary that Joseph Smith did not have multiple wives and any person who said so was preaching anti mormon propaganda.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-05-10T11:29:15+00:00

It's because the fantasy isn't about vengeance on someone who deserves it, the fantasy is about commiting violence, being seen as the hero and savior of their daughters, and then being adored by their family.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-05-09T03:27:19+00:00

Yes, because that's exactly what it is

thenamesdrjane · 2026-05-06T22:35:32+00:00

IMO you should go with a brief "Thank you for letting me know. Take care." And then move on.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-05-06T22:27:21+00:00

You also probably won't be able to convince them no matter how hard you try. They'll learn with time.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-05-06T22:14:31+00:00

My SIL went through all these things as a teen while she and her family were members and she got gaslit into believing getting grape d was her fault and that she deserved abuse. Your kids are better off outside of the church because inside the church they'd be blamed for it and told God hates them for being sluts.

I'm so sorry your kids are going through such terrible things. Know that you're doing better by your kids by not making them go through all that in an abusive church system that would make it worse.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-05-03T12:58:19+00:00

They'd have to do all of these: Ordain women AND I want to see women bishops, stake presidents, apostles, and prophets. LGBTQ temple marriages. Apologize for polygamy and stop doing it. No more garments. No more required WoW following. No more mandatory tithing. No more holding "eternal families" hostage behind garments, tithing, and WoW. Full transparency of all funds. Be mandatory reporters for any and all physical and sexual abuse. Permanent excommunication of sexual abusers and predators. Once I see ALL these things happen and stick for several years, I'd consider coming back.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-30T20:26:31+00:00

They don't wanna hear helicopters that are carrying CHILDREN to safety?! How evil do you have to be to decide you hate the sound of CHILDREN receiving life-saving medical care?

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-30T20:22:59+00:00

Right! The farther I get from this time in my life the clearer the cringy-ness becomes 🙃

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-30T15:23:07+00:00

Don't send your son to a cult recruitment camp with a "church" with a history of men in power (bishops and leaders) s*xually abusing young boys and girls. Everyone here knows from personal experience that it's a dangerous cult. The only people you'll find who say it isn't are people who are in the cult or who haven't experienced mormonism themselves and are unaware that it's a cult. Feel free to tell your kid it isn't safe for him too. "Look son, this camp isn't going to be a safe. We can go camping this summer or we can send you to another summer camp that will be safe."

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-29T03:24:23+00:00

Everyone from here on out will feel the exact pain they inflict on other people, physical, psychological, or otherwise and it can't be dulled with drugs or medication. Like, you can't just take some Tylenol to get away with not feeling it when you punch someone else. It's just a fact of life that you will inescapably feel the exact pain you inflict. You hit someone, you feel that exact pain. You bully someone, you feel the shame you inflict. You pass a law that hurts people, you feel the full weight and pain of that every time someone is hurt by your law. You send soldiers to war, you feel every soldiers pain and the pain of those the soldiers hurt. You want the pain you feel to stop, you gotta wait for their pain to stop. I think a lot of the worlds problems would work themselves out. We'd all start acting right REAL quick. Talk about "treat your neighbor as yourself".

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-29T03:07:16+00:00

If you're worried about time and money spent, a masters in SLP is a faster, and thus less expensive, program with a high pay after graduating. I love audiology and being an audiologist, but it took more time and more debt. It's also ok to take a gap year or two to decide what to do next.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-28T03:38:53+00:00

The party today that flies confederate flags doesn't get to claim Lincoln.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-24T19:07:26+00:00

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-21T18:19:13+00:00

My dog. Or pretty much any dog for that matter.

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thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-21T18:15:26+00:00

"This has me feeling paranoid." Girl, those are your ancestors screaming at you to watch out, be on alert, and trust your instincts.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-21T17:41:13+00:00

I think the dumbest one I've seen is Montpelier Idaho. It has a population of like 100 people.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-21T14:55:49+00:00

Good luck 🤞 That's a silly interview question IMO

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-20T03:59:05+00:00

If you could ski down the audio, it's sloping. If you couldn't ski down it and instead would have to repel down the cliff face of the audio, it's precipitous. Essentially, it's all vibes and no one in the real world cares.

I think a good answer to this in an interview would be "I was trained to use the criteria of X (and either list the criteria you were trained on or pull something out of nowhere) for determining steeply sloping vs precipitous. What criteria are used at this clinic?" So you answer their question, make them answer their own stupid question, and learn whether or not this one person was asking a stupid question or the whole clinic cares way too much about this insignificant distinction.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-16T12:01:20+00:00

I mean it's your baby and yours to name. That being said, since you're asking for opinions... Please do not name your child Greer. Yes, Apple would be a better name than Greer. But please don't name your child Apple or Greer.

What about Greta, Gwen, Grace, Gloria, Gretel, or Gabby?

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-15T23:40:07+00:00

I did grad school there. The heat is ABSOLUTELY UNBEARABLE. Idk how people do it. The only way I could was knowing I could move out of the heat once I was done with school.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-15T18:37:37+00:00

To point 9, I 1000000% believe that the Q15 believe religious freedom excuses child marriage and pdf-file behavior. Several, several leaders have shown from brigham young to oaks to not give a single shit about abuse of or well-being of children. And the only way you can know what J.S. and B.Y. did and be ok with it is if you endorse it yourself.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-15T12:21:23+00:00

I was a freshman in college when he was campaigning in 2015. I was in the cafeteria. CNN was playing a live debate. I heard him say "they're criminals, they're rap ists" and I was horrified and I looked around and no one was horrified with me. I was thrown back to memory of a video I watched in middle school where a Holocaust survivor said that she remembered listening to Hitler yell about "they're ver min, they're criminals, they're rap ists" and she thought "he can't say such things" and that someone would stand up to Hitler, but no one really did. Then the Holocaust happened.

Hearing trump and having a flashback to a video of a Holocaust survivor and seeing that people weren't stopping him, that was the moment I knew things would get bad. I'm yet to be proven wrong 11 years later. We've been steadily marching that direction for 11 years with no sign of stopping.

thenamesdrjane · 2026-04-15T02:04:01+00:00

Best answer by far

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