WheatThins wrote:Only had like 3 talks with the bishop, one of which was when my father and I were going to get permission to go to a temple dedication. He was a pretty laid back and cool guy though so it doesn't surprise me that he never asked me at 13.
Oh, he wanted to....they all want to talk about masturbation :)
it would have been extremely awkward because i didn't ever start fapping till i was like 15 or 16 and would have had no idea what they were talking about.
I'm a girl. I was asked at an interview around age 12 or 13. When I said I lived the law of chastity, the Bishop asked if I was sure. When I said "yes" again, he explained female masturbation in detail in case I "didn't understand."
This was the same bishop who used one of his daughter's sleepover parties as an impromptu "standards night," and crept downstairs after we were in our nighties to tell us that you could be forgiven for a lot of sins, but not the sin of "self pollution."
Edited to add: I remember another anecdote about Bishop's interviews from after I stopped attending. I was walking home from High School with some of the girls from my neighborhood/ward and suddenly one of them turned around and said, "Guys! Do you know what sodomy is?" Giggling, she explained that it was having sex with animals. "Can you believe that? That some people have sex with animals?"
Actually, I didn't find it that hard to believe: as a big reader one thing I'd learned was that people had been finding ways to have sex with just about everything since the dawn of time. What I was surprised about was where "Pam" had come across this. "Oh, the Bishop explained it to me in my last interview."
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Sorry for the late response, had to get my boy to B-Ball practice and just got home and read this)
Rambo wrote: I know ceeboo is a nice guy and didn't even know he was being offensive.
I did not intend to be offensive. Sorry. (As a believer, I offered my honest opinion and I firmly stand by it).
Considering some of the things I have read on this board, I am a little surprised that my comment about Joseph Smith produced "offensive" in the eyes of the readers.
This statement kind of shows why ceeboo's last one was offensive.
Ceeboo wrote: Considering some of the things I have read on this board, I am a little surprised that my comment about Joseph Smith produced "offensive" in the eyes of the readers.
Oh it wasn't the jab at Joseph Smith it was the jab at atheism. Some atheist would be offended by it because you believe not believing in God is sad. It almost sounds like believing in god is superior and that people that believe in God have a happier more full filling life. I don't think you meant it this way though.
It does? I wasn't offended at all.
Good. Some catholics would be offended by it but you don't come across as someone that easily gets offended.
Buffalo wrote:Did any of you get asked if you have sex with animals? I hear that used to be a standard question, especially for rural Utah/Idaho kids. I think it was before my time, though.
If you've ever listened to the Will Bagley interview on Mormon Expression, you'll chuckle again at the reminder. Will told the story about how he was asked that question once by a bishop, and it's pretty funny.
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
The Bishop rounded all the youth up and asked us all if we masturbated (individually, of course).
All the bishops I had in my youth asked me whenever I had a worthiness interview…
Twice...once at home in VA before my mission and the second time by my BP at BYU....
Somewhere on this forum DCP makes an unsolicited comment to the effect that he, as bishop, never asked any of his interviewees whether they masturbated. He didn’t have to because so many of them, women included, were desperate to unburden themselves to him.
Rambo wrote:Oh it wasn't the jab at Joseph Smith it was the jab at atheism.
Huh?
Some atheist would be offended by it because you believe not believing in God is sad.
Huh????? I was offering my opinion (as a firm believer in a God/Creator) that it is very sad for someone who used to believe in a God/Creator to no longer believe in a God/Creator directly (and I would suggest in some/many cases soley) due to a mere man named Joseph Smith.
It almost sounds like believing in god is superior and that people that believe in God have a happier more full filling life.
Stem?
I don't think you meant it this way though.
Good because not only did I not mean it that way, it never even entered my cerebelum.
Good. Some catholics would be offended by it but you don't come across as someone that easily gets offended.
Yes, some people (of all labels, including the atheist label) get offended, period.
Anyone know the source of the old missionary anecdote about the Mission President at a zone conference who was railing against the evils of masturbation and said that it wasn't just a problem with elders, that sisters in that very zone had confessed to it as well? And the only two sisters sitting in the conference were all mortified?
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
Rambo wrote:Oh it wasn't the jab at Joseph Smith it was the jab at atheism.
Huh?
Hum... well I don't know how to explain it better. Maybe buffalo can explain it better than me. Buffalo were you trying to prove a point with that comment?
Huh????? I was offering my opinion (as a firm believer in a God/Creator) that it is very sad for someone who used to believe in a God/Creator to no longer believe in a God/Creator directly (and I would suggest in some/many cases soley) due to a mere man named Joseph Smith.
Well I think it's sad you believe in God. That's just my opinion and it is a firm one. I think I will blame Jesus Christ for that one.