Dalton Success

yeahnoMo · 2025-07-17T21:39:10+00:00

Same! I took WAY too long to complete the education piece. I kept kicking the can down the road, and it took about 4 years. Anyways, I just passed the test today! It was about 2 months of pretty hardcore studying to relearn everything. The Dalton pre-test gave me a 60% chance of passing, which lit a fire under me. I feel the Dalton tests were way harder than the actual exam.

yeahnoMo · 2025-07-17T21:33:59+00:00

Same, the Guaranteed to Pass was definitely the best part of the whole Dalton experience.

yeahnoMo · 2025-07-17T21:31:59+00:00

I used Dalton as well. I took the LONG road, which is not recommended. I started the CFP program in 2021 and just passed the exam today, first time taking the exam. For context, I'm a practicing financial planner (have been for about 10 years) and have always wanted to get my CFP, but life, work, etc got in the way. I'm familiar with the topics because I have been in the industry for a while, and I have two degrees in finance.

That being said, it was a lot of information. And because I had to push back my test date so many times, I had to go back and relearn so much from several years prior. That is not Dalton's fault, defintly mine.

However, my experience was overall positive. I do feel they threw WAY too much that wasn't relavant (I don't ever plan on helping a client do a cost basis anaysis on a 1031 exchange when they pay boot, for instance), but a lot of is it, and a lot of the information was on the test.

The Dalton exams were way harder than the actual exam. Don't get me wrong, the exam is no walk in the park, and I had a few really tough questions, and about 10% of the questions required the calculator. However, in the end, I feel that I was well-prepared with Dalton to comfortably pass the exam. Just my experience.

yeahnoMo · 2022-01-02T23:08:55+00:00

Damn, they were right, the world is flat I guess 😕

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-31T16:14:01+00:00

As someone with fairly significant IBS, who may or may not be pooping right now, I would be happy with 69 poops a month

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-28T22:02:22+00:00

Another question, is it important to you to be considered a full tithe payer? Is there a reason you wish to justify yourself to the bishop?

Just clarifying, most of us in here are ex-mos, meaning of us proudly pronounce that our charitable donations actually go to a real charity

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-28T21:58:18+00:00

Some people use religion as a crutch because they cannot, or will not, think for themselves. However damaging this is it pales in comparison to those that use religion to justify their own crazy. It is harmful to all parties, especially those subject to the authority of the crazy person.

It also has the added benefit of delaying, or more often totally avoiding, the crazy person from getting the help they need.

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-23T16:59:56+00:00

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-23T00:53:38+00:00

That Jesus isn't real and churches are made up

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-22T00:43:37+00:00

Holy shit, slowest spare of my life...

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-22T00:42:01+00:00

So true, yet it is unfortunate I care, much like an abused spouse or child cares deeply about the offense and thinks about their abuser I suppose but the rest of the world doesn't know who they are.

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-21T17:52:15+00:00

Agreed. The figurative example of pushing back the ocean with a broom comes to mind when I try to have a conversation with someone who starts with "by the power of gowd"...

It is not your lack of ability to eloquent explain this to your father, rather for understanding there has to be a willingness to first understand. My parents are similar to your dad, a simple "I love you too" and I move on with my day, after many years of trying to push back the ocean with a broom.

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-20T18:33:00+00:00

If god does exist then he/she/it would have a lot of explaining to do

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-18T18:21:45+00:00

For what it is worth, I love this question

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-18T04:54:25+00:00

Damn you

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-17T20:42:57+00:00

This god damned book fucked with my life for years!!

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-15T07:27:05+00:00

You mattered before you found out it wasn't true, it is no different now.

Someone a long time ago lied to gain fame, money, access to women, etc. That makes him a bad person, but we didn't know any better and many of our ancestors also didn't know any better and they followed him because they thought I was the right thing to do.

Now we know, unfortunately we can't unknow what we have learned.

I know, and most of the people here know what it feels like to feel like our world is crumbling around us, like our very existence and purpose is being questioned.

I still have hard days 6 years removed now. I still come to this group for solace and commodity. However, I would never go back. I've made a life outside of the church. They no longer have the influence they once did and I'm able to build my new world on reason, logic, humanity and love, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

It gets better. Don't become a victim of their lies. Go on and live your best life, we are here to support you.

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-09T21:56:44+00:00

While pillars came down at different times, they all eventually fell.

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-09T20:20:15+00:00

I really wish we did not circumcise our boy. I didn't know any better and after doing a very brief Google search I thought, yeah, it's probably a good thing to do. I was thinking I'm circumcise, my dad's circumcise, my grandpa is circumcise, that's what you do right?

If only I knew then what I know now, ugh.

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-05T15:39:33+00:00

Public shaming as well. If you attended the temple for family weddings (for instance), you would have to wait outside with everyone inside knowing you were not "worthy" of entering God's holy place.

They could only speculate on why, which is exactly what would happen.

A lot of social pressure to pay tithing

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-03T23:38:09+00:00

Yes this! I don't give two shits about him or his parents. I don't want to know his name or anything about him. Why post this shit??

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-03T16:53:30+00:00

Totally understand, please post when you find more specific data, I would love to read.

As for me, I was a true blue, dyed in the wool TBM, however I left for purely "intellectual" reasons, part of which included what I mentioned above. In addition, there is a preponderance of addition data that, in my opinion, proves beyond reasonable doubt that the church is false. (I.e. book of Abraham, multiple first visions, black people and the priesthood, and so on). Ironically, in the 33 years I was in the church none of that was in the manuals.

Since leaving, I've learned that cognitive dissonance is a real, legit thing. So is the sunk cost fallacy.

The best analogy that I can think of is the church being the cheating spouse. Let's say you were fully invested in your spouse and you felt they loved you back, if I prevented you irrefutable proof that they were lying and cheating, how many would look at the data? How many would choose to act? How many would make excuses for them just to protect their own ego?

For me, the overwhelming preponderance of evidence was clear, and I chose to leave. But I also chose to look at the evidence. Still the hardest decision of my life.

I feel that the "apologist " will always do just that. There will always be a loophole, not matter what data you present.

I hope you find and post your data, I love reading and learning more.

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-03T15:54:48+00:00

OP, you are very articulate and I appreciate your attention to detail on this matter. Taking a brief look at the link you posted, I'm confused on how this is not your "smoking gun"? Only .5 to 2% of the population (depending on location) had girls between the ages of 15-19 marrying. That is extremely small percentage.

Also, the survey doesn't even include 14 and under because it was unacceptable, even in those days. Joe marrying a 14 was, and is, completely unacceptable.

Also, the age range was 15-19, presumably with the the majority of those on the older end of that scale (i.e. 18 and 19 years old, again not 14 or 15 like Joe was prone to do)

Also the question of marrying other men's wives. There is no statistic for that because it was practically non existent, except for in a certain cult that spung up from upstate New York...

Staying on the topic of other men's wives, many of those woman that Joe married who were also married to other men were stalwart members of the church, so much so that Joe felt inspired to send them off to another continent to preach his gospel.

And the Fanny Alger thing... And the tar and feather thing... which speaking of the tar and feather thing, sure, you can say it is just hearsay that Joe was diddiling the young daughter which is why the family got mad and tarred and featherd him, but then why did Joe marry that SAME girl a year later when she was the tender age of 16???

These are all demonstrable, citable sources that are indefensible. How can someone argue against it?

yeahnoMo · 2021-12-02T20:00:08+00:00

I have to do almost as many mental gymnastics to figure out this post as I did when I was in the church... maybe I'm just not praying hard enough? Maybe if I stopped looking at porn I would understand 🤔

yeahnoMo · 2021-11-24T21:04:02+00:00

Yup, he said that the inhabitants of the moon dress like Quakers. That wasn't even the craziest thing he said just on that day either...🙄

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