Some Schmo wrote:You may as well consign yourself to the life of a mute.
Of course! A "happy" Mormon agrees with everything the church says. A disgruntled, wayward Mormon makes waves. Its no wonder people outside of the church give a big !?WTF?! to the idea of remaining silent in the face of glaring stupidity.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
My mission president would remind us at every monthly meeting that God expected each companionship to baptise two people each month. To do less required repentance. He would also add, "I witness to you that I know this from the crown of my head to the souls of my feet".
Yack.
The mission never fulfilled this directive from the Lord's annointed. Not once. Most months the numbers were less than half of what he (God) expected.
We were driven by guilt. We were driven by fear of condemnation. I fulfilled an honorable mission, yet as a whole, I had failed to measure up to the Lord's standards. I knew it and the Mormon God knew it. In spite of repentance, I carried that humiliation with me all of my life.
The fact that this directive was acceptable by the passing so called dignitaries like McConkie, Haight and others, demonstrated that the mission was being run properly by the mission president.
It has taken me many years to overcome my anxieties because of what had been done to me (and my companions) on the mission.
This is just another of the many many reasons why the Mormon church is not a place to raise your children.
Now that's the secret to a happy life. Do whatever someone else tells you to do, even when you know they are wrong.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
DarkHelmet wrote:Now that's the secret to a happy life. Do whatever someone else tells you to do, even when you know they are wrong.
Common sense should have screamed at me that what we were commanded to fulfill was BS. But I knew the leaders would not and could not lead us astray.
One of my comps and I tried something new and had a 3 fold success in teaching meaningful discussions that we, of course, counted. After the second week of high teaching stats and no baptismal dates, we were accused of flogging people. We were told to knock it off and get with the program.
Regardless of the fact that we baptised 3 weeks later didn't matter.