Recovery from Mormonism
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Recovery from Mormonism
Well by Gosh I think it finally happened to me after more than 15 long years. I think I have fully "recovered" from Mormonism, completely, fully and uniquivocally. I posted twice today, but now no longer find myself reading Mormon boards, thinking about Mormon apologetics or caring the in the slightest what Mormons believe, teach or practice.
I am fine with whatever any Mormon wants to believe. It makes me content and happy to now not care. Actually I feel free. Freer than when I mentally broke from Mormonism. I am happier, more content and healed.
I live in the heart of Mormonism (Orem, Ut) and find myself perfectly content, unaffected, unmoved or swayed by my surrounding popular culture-religion.
I am free at last!!
I am fine with whatever any Mormon wants to believe. It makes me content and happy to now not care. Actually I feel free. Freer than when I mentally broke from Mormonism. I am happier, more content and healed.
I live in the heart of Mormonism (Orem, Ut) and find myself perfectly content, unaffected, unmoved or swayed by my surrounding popular culture-religion.
I am free at last!!
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Re: Recovery from Mormonism
Congratulations! That's got to feel good.
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Re: Recovery from Mormonism
"Hey tomorrow, where are you going? And do you have some room for me? Night is falling and the dawn is calling, I'll have a new day if she'll have me"
I seem to be headed down that path, and for the most part, tier of this battle.
quote by Jim Croce
some more, as I have not thought of this song for ages and it fits so well!
Hey tomorrow, where are you goin'
Do you have some room for me
'Cause night is fallin' and the dawn is callin'
I'll have a new day if she'll have me
Hey tomorrow, I can't show you nothin'
You've seen it all pass by your door
So many times I said I been changin'
Then slipped into patterns of what happened before
Chorus:
'Cause I've been wasted and I've over-tasted
All the things that life gave to me
And I've been trusted, abused and busted
And I've been taken by those close to me
Hey tomorrow you've gotta believe that
I'm through wastin' what's left of me
'Cause night is fallin' and the dawn is callin'
I'll have a new day if she'll have me
I seem to be headed down that path, and for the most part, tier of this battle.
quote by Jim Croce
some more, as I have not thought of this song for ages and it fits so well!
Hey tomorrow, where are you goin'
Do you have some room for me
'Cause night is fallin' and the dawn is callin'
I'll have a new day if she'll have me
Hey tomorrow, I can't show you nothin'
You've seen it all pass by your door
So many times I said I been changin'
Then slipped into patterns of what happened before
Chorus:
'Cause I've been wasted and I've over-tasted
All the things that life gave to me
And I've been trusted, abused and busted
And I've been taken by those close to me
Hey tomorrow you've gotta believe that
I'm through wastin' what's left of me
'Cause night is fallin' and the dawn is callin'
I'll have a new day if she'll have me
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Re: Recovery from Mormonism
congrats in feeling better. My sibling is having a very difficult time, rightfully so, I am hoping it does not last many years.
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Re: Recovery from Mormonism
Are you still on the records?
I've been an unbeliever for about 15 years as well, but I didn't feel "free at last" until I had my name taken off the records about a year ago. It was amazing how final and relieving that felt. And it put an end to the annoying phone calls and visits from the ward.
I've been an unbeliever for about 15 years as well, but I didn't feel "free at last" until I had my name taken off the records about a year ago. It was amazing how final and relieving that felt. And it put an end to the annoying phone calls and visits from the ward.
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Re: Recovery from Mormonism
The Dude wrote:Are you still on the records?
I've been an unbeliever for about 15 years as well, but I didn't feel "free at last" until I had my name taken off the records about a year ago. It was amazing how final and relieving that felt. And it put an end to the annoying phone calls and visits from the ward.
I am feeling much like tchild BUT I am married to a person who wants to participate in the LDS church so i haven't sent in the letter....I want to. Its written...but i just can't send it as i think it would cause my wife grief (based on her conditioned need to believe in elohim's plan of salvation)...I think its hilarious that i am actually part of the 13mill member stat, especially considering I am personally responsible for the resignations of several high tithe payers...the crazy thing is that the sort-of-LDS posters here (sb, hore, bc, droopy, etc.) are also considered "Mormons" when they obviously don't even believe (or understand) the basics of Mormonism - my "believing" wife thinks they are a bunch of tools but doesn't judge the LDS church based on these morons...I say, good for her :) - she is smarter than all of us....
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Re: Recovery from Mormonism
Tchild wrote:
I am free at last!!
No one is ever totally free. Freedom is just an allusion of a state of being that just doesn't exist. We can never escape from cultural socialization rooted in former beliefs.
By the way, what exactly is there to recover from when someone no longer believes in an organization or religion? I would think that freedom is instant in that case.
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We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…”
Joseph Smith
Re: Recovery from Mormonism
why me wrote:By the way, what exactly is there to recover from when someone no longer believes in an organization or religion? I would think that freedom is instant in that case.
If one has never invested and lost, then there's nothing to recover from.
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Re: Recovery from Mormonism
RayAgostini wrote:why me wrote:By the way, what exactly is there to recover from when someone no longer believes in an organization or religion? I would think that freedom is instant in that case.
If one has never invested and lost, then there's nothing to recover from.
I suppose that this can be said for the stock market too. There are many people in recovery after losing some money. But I think that disappointment is a better term than recovery which signals some aspect of the pyschological.
However, if I lost my testimony in the LDS church, I would say that I would experience no recovery. Lost of tesimony should be a freedom starter for sure and there would be no recovery necessary.
In Mormonism, people come and go all the time, and most that leave do not have recovery in their vocabulary.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world.
Joseph Smith
We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…”
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith
We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…”
Joseph Smith
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Re: Recovery from Mormonism
why me wrote:
I suppose that this can be said for the stock market too. There are many people in recovery after losing some money. But I think that disappointment is a better term than recovery which signals some aspect of the pyschological.
However, if I lost my testimony in the LDS church, I would say that I would experience no recovery. Lost of tesimony should be a freedom starter for sure and there would be no recovery necessary.
In Mormonism, people come and go all the time, and most that leave do not have recovery in their vocabulary.
There is a certain percentage of human beings who don't possess a single reflective bone in their bodies. For them, leaving Mormonism is probably quite painless, aside from familial and social repercussions.
There is a certain percentage of Mormons who always knew it was bunk, even as children. For them, leaving Mormonism is probably relatively painless, aside from familial and social repercussions.
However, for those of us who actually do possess the ability to reflect, and who did genuinely believe in Mormonism and built our entire lives around it, recovery is absolutely going to be part of our vocabulary.
Of course you, whyme, are never going to understand this. As Ray was suggesting, you've never invested in Mormonism enough to be able to begin to understand this reality. But since I suspect your ability to genuinely reflect is quite poor, you don't recognize that you don't know enough about it to comment, and should keep quiet rather than reveal yourself as ignorant.
by the way, this whole internet "there is no recovery needed from Mormonism" is a meaningless trope developed in order to shame exmormons into silence. It's intended to suggest that something is psychologically wrong with exmormons who actually need to recover.
I have a suggestion for a new hobby for you, whyme. I think you should join boards intended to support people going through a divorce and tell them that they should have no need of recovery.
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