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My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 7:17 pm
by MsJack
Most of you have known me for a long time. Last week I sat down with Steve Pynnaker from
Mormon Book Reviews to cover my messy, 18-year sojourn among the Mormons.
Things we covered:
- My teenage romance with "Sean" (you know him as Avatar4321 at MDDB) which introduced me to Mormonism
- Why I decided to attend Brigham Young University as an evangelical Christian
- The professor and mentor I was close to, who was later accused of coercing and recruiting students into a subsect of Mormonism
- Why I married a Mormon (and later, why we divorced)
- The counter-cult pastor who disinvited me and my husband from visiting her church
- The day my Mormon husband paraded my Protestant replacement in Sacrament meeting while I was there with our 9-month-old
The interview is
here. Thanks for listening to it, if you do.
Re: My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 10:18 pm
by Dr Moore
Very cool interview. I just finished. What a fascinating, impressive and brave story. Thanks for sharing!
Re: My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:05 am
by High Spy
Interesting your timing and your tallness. Recently I met a tall identical twin (IT) which is only the third one I’ve ever known. Really only the third IT of any height and all are women, albeit this last one has an unusual name that phonetically is almost exclusively masculine. Name anomalies are nothing new to me, such as Palmer as per my PTP type posts.
Timing wise the Davidic Servant has posted about seeing his standing, in less than one weeks time.
Re: My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:17 am
by Everybody Wang Chung
That was a great interview!
Re: My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:40 am
by Tom
MsJack wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 7:17 pm
Most of you have known me for a long time. Last week I sat down with Steve Pynnaker from
Mormon Book Reviews to cover my messy, 18-year sojourn among the Mormons.
Things we covered:
- My teenage romance with "Sean" (you know him as Avatar4321 at MDDB) which introduced me to Mormonism
- Why I decided to attend Brigham Young University as an evangelical Christian
- The professor and mentor I was close to, who was later accused of coercing and recruiting students into a subsect of Mormonism
- Why I married a Mormon (and later, why we divorced)
- The counter-cult pastor who disinvited me and my husband from visiting her church
- The day my Mormon husband paraded my Protestant replacement in Sacrament meeting while I was there with our 9-month-old
The interview is
here. Thanks for listening to it, if you do.
Thank you. That was a very interesting interview. I was surprised to hear about the accusations pertaining to the professor/mentor of yours. (I don't know him, but I've read some of his writing.)
Re: My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:35 am
by MsJack
Dr Moore wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 10:18 pm
Very cool interview. I just finished. What a fascinating, impressive and brave story. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for listening!
High Spy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:05 am
Interesting your timing and your tallness. Recently I met a tall identical twin (IT) which is only the third one I’ve ever known. Really only the third IT of any height and all are women, albeit this last one has an unusual name that phonetically is almost exclusively masculine. Name anomalies are nothing new to me, such as Palmer as per my PTP type posts.
Yeah, my father is 5'11.5" (always said he was 6'0" until I passed him slightly...) and my mother was 5'7". The men in my family are usually in the 5'11 - 6'2" range, the women in the 5'5" - 5'8" range. I was something of an anomaly. (My theory is I absorbed a male twin in the womb. It would explain a lot...)
To be clear, it was my ex-husband who was an identical twin. He is 6'1", a bit taller than average but not crazy-tall.
High Spy wrote:
Timing wise the Davidic Servant has posted about seeing his standing, in less than one weeks time.
I'm not sure I understand this reference?
Tom wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:40 am
I was surprised to hear about the accusations pertaining to the professor/mentor of yours. (I don't know him, but I've read some of his writing.)
I first became aware of the allegations sometime around 2012 to 2014, and had a very detailed summary of them in 2014, although my information is second-hand; I have not heard from one of the victims myself. I think it has been something of an open secret among classics alumni all these years. I have not said anything in public prior to this out of respect for the BYU Classics Department and what the faculty and admin had to go through. But like I said in the interview, now that he is deceased, I think maybe we need to start making spaces to talk about what happened.
(But, just in case any of the students involved ever read this: please know that moving on with your lives and not speaking out about it is a perfectly valid choice.)
Regardless of how complicated he was and what he did, I cared about him very much and I am sorry he is gone.
Re: My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:41 am
by Bond
Fun watch. The only disappointment was not getting to see MsJack tap out Pynakker in a friendly cage match post interview.
Re: My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:47 am
by Everybody Wang Chung
Bond wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:41 am
The only disappointment was not getting to see MsJack tap out Pynakker in a friendly cage match
Or William Schryver.
Re: My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:56 am
by MsJack
Bond wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 2:41 am
Fun watch. The only disappointment was not getting to see MsJack tap out Pynakker in a friendly cage match post interview.
I'd wristlock him.
I play prison rules.
I'm pretty sure I already tapped him.
Re: My Interview on Mormon Book Reviews
Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2023 3:43 am
by High Spy
MsJack wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 1:35 am
... Thanks for listening!
High Spy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 12:05 am
Interesting your timing and your tallness. Recently I met a tall identical twin (IT) which is only the third one I’ve ever known. Really only the third IT of any height and all are women, albeit this last one has an unusual name that phonetically is almost exclusively masculine. Name anomalies are nothing new to me, such as Palmer as per my PTP type posts.
Yeah, my father is 5'11.5" (always said he was 6'0" until I passed him slightly...) and my mother was 5'7". The men in my family are usually in the 5'11 - 6'2" range, the women in the 5'5" - 5'8" range. I was something of an anomaly. (My theory is I absorbed a male twin in the womb. It would explain a lot...)
To be clear, it was my ex-husband who was an identical twin. He is 6'1", a bit taller than average but not crazy-tall.
High Spy wrote:
Timing wise the Davidic Servant has posted about seeing his standing, in less than one weeks time.
I'm not sure I understand this reference?
I'm not sure I really understand anything, but jic I'll continue in a follow on post.
Follow, but not on, off or not-connected ...
My smile was missing due to a threshold set to limit the number of characters.
The PTP gave voice to my many characters, some of which were conceived of by a ghost writer for said purpose.
Conceived in the mind is much the same as creation. WTH is the difference?
QuickReply at your service - I'll continue in a follow on post.
Follow, but not on, off or not-connected ...
My smile was missing due to a threshold set to limit the number of characters.
The PTP gave voice to my many characters, some of which were conceived of by a ghost writer for said purpose.
Conceived in the mind is much the same as creation. WTH is the difference?
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