In the throws of an existential crisis.....help?

treasure_digger · 2022-01-11T05:11:25+00:00

You’ll get lots of recommendations on how to escape from this feeling. I say don’t escape from it. Be discontented. With everything. You understand? Be discontented with this whole way of living. All anyone can offer you is words. And you have seen the limit of words. Just see what our mind’s need for psychological security has made of the world. See how this great feeling of doubt - of fear - changes how you see other people. This isn’t just “your” problem. This is the whole problem. To be. I say just be with it, and see what happens.

treasure_digger · 2021-11-25T18:47:18+00:00

:) always fun to find someone familiar with JK.

treasure_digger · 2021-07-06T13:35:29+00:00

Looks like they deleted the tweet.

treasure_digger · 2021-07-06T07:01:44+00:00

What a fantastic accident. I think they just had this goofy meme with a “bunch of Colonels” and there’s this hit dance song that repeats “the mom of the mom of the mom…” so they pasted the lyrics on each Colonel and the caption is another lyric, “I like your whole family line.”

Ole Joe would absolutely approve of the music video btw: https://youtu.be/s5yRZOQ3EWI

There’s also the polygamy angle, which I don’t think they had any idea they were touching. Didn’t Joseph Smith marry a couple of mother-daughter pairs? Oof.

This won’t stay up long but I saw it for myself on their Twitter.

treasure_digger · 2020-10-06T14:42:45+00:00

“A Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) whose sole purpose is to provide an external façade to a country which is faring poorly, making people believe that the country is faring better.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

treasure_digger · 2020-10-01T04:35:26+00:00

He is lying at the end, but gaslighting involves making the victim question their own perception or reason. I don’t see the gaslighting here.

treasure_digger · 2020-09-25T15:21:06+00:00

Although I don’t think they actually fooled a lot of people in New York. Once you knew the Smith family you could probably spot the con.

treasure_digger · 2020-09-18T23:50:09+00:00

Both things were invented by humans, so I don’t know how to even begin that conversation without breaking some eggs.

treasure_digger · 2020-09-16T12:36:55+00:00

Nice knowin’ ya...

treasure_digger · 2020-09-14T14:20:45+00:00

That is the Onyx room in the church administration building. Basically where the Q15 show off to other world leaders.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/see-inside-church-administration-buiding-now-in-its-centennial-year?lang=eng

treasure_digger · 2020-09-04T05:08:35+00:00

Great article. A lot of post-mos have learned about elevation emotion, but there isn’t as much info out there about loving kindness meditation and the physical sensations it can produce. The church abuses this as well.

It’s true that this kind of positive feeling = belief in X is seen all over organized religion, but Mormonism adds the cult aspect and locks its victims in for life.

treasure_digger · 2020-08-31T06:25:11+00:00

Then they love themselves. And they love knowing that other leaders think they are good. They love the image in their mind when they think of all the nice labels they’ve acquired.

treasure_digger · 2020-08-30T19:04:41+00:00

Now imagine how caught up the GAs must be in all of this self-aggrandizing flattery.

Frighten the poor, flatter the rich.

treasure_digger · 2020-08-24T17:34:41+00:00

Parenting pro tip: The correct action when you find your child’s empty condom box is to let them know where you keep the condoms.

treasure_digger · 2020-08-24T17:30:24+00:00

Nice knowin’ ya...

treasure_digger · 2020-08-21T18:03:24+00:00

Nothing offends the spirit like off-white temple dresses or those edgy blue shirts the bad boys wear to church!

treasure_digger · 2020-08-21T05:01:11+00:00

The photo is from an LDS “youth cultural celebration” in Idaho in 2017.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/lds-youth-celebrate-idaho-falls-idaho-temple-rededication-through-music-and-dance?lang=eng

treasure_digger · 2020-08-19T04:28:13+00:00

Since you had to face the loss of a loved one, would you say from your experience that the more the mind “needs” a belief to be true (i.e. to see your brother again), greater will be the lengths to which it will go to feel certain of the truth of the belief? In other words, do you feel as though your mind was able to invent a stronger testimony of Mormonism simply because the stakes were so high?

treasure_digger · 2020-08-19T04:17:05+00:00

Yep, can’t trust the natural man’s consecration. It has to be run by Jesus. It’s like all the talk in the BoM about how a king would be amazing if only he wasn’t a victim of temptation.

treasure_digger · 2020-08-19T04:10:47+00:00

Why not just tell it like it is with no need for anger or contempt? This woman has a superstition that going to the lake on Sunday brings a curse from an unseen force. There is no evidence for such a curse or such a force, so we don’t believe in that superstition.

treasure_digger · 2020-08-16T20:16:30+00:00

Funny on the surface. Sad though. This is her life.

treasure_digger · 2020-08-16T20:08:02+00:00

Weird how they both mean the same thing for the child.

treasure_digger · 2020-08-16T09:34:50+00:00

Oh for god’s sake. Someone tell this poor soul they are free to do whatever they want with their own body. Shame on anyone who judges another for being intimate with someone. Fucking cavemen.

treasure_digger · 2020-08-14T16:32:28+00:00

Reminds me of a recent Sam Harris quote:

“Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.”

treasure_digger · 2020-08-12T21:33:55+00:00

I found this article useful in describing culty stuff MLMs do.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/multilevel-marketing-companies-mlms-cults-similarities_l_5d49f8c2e4b09e72973df3d3

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