The artifacts of Mormonism are embedded in my person. There is no way to erase them.
Trying to let it all go must cause problems if your loved ones don't share in your new opinions and convictions. My search for the sacred is now hidden from ridicule while I watch people around me proclaim their beliefs with gusto.
I need a God to turn to. There isn't anyone else so what can a person do?
Will you be happy if I just go along with it all? Will my life find peace then?
God, I hate this institution sometimes. Why did it ever have to start, Joseph? Why?
God, help me stop hating.
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Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
The Holy Sacrament.
The Holy Sacrament.
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Sorry zeez feel better.
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07
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I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it.
I avoid church religiously.
This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
MASH quotes
I peeked in the back [of the Bible] Frank, the Devil did it.
I avoid church religiously.
This isn't one of my sermons, I expect you to listen.
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zeezrom wrote:The artifacts of Mormonism are embedded in my person. There is no way to erase them.
Trying to let it all go must cause problems if your loved ones don't share in your new opinions and convictions. My search for the sacred is now hidden from ridicule while I watch people around me proclaim their beliefs with gusto.
I need a God to turn to. There isn't anyone else so what can a person do?
Will you be happy if I just go along with it all? Will my life find peace then?
God, I hate this institution sometimes. Why did it ever have to start, Joseph? Why?
God, help me stop hating.
Sorry you're feeling ripped up. 'Tis the season of new beginnings. Hang tight.
"And the human knew the source of life, the woman of him, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, 'I have procreated a man with Yahweh.'" Gen. 4:1, interior quote translated by D. Bokovoy.
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Zee,
I am your GOD.
Worship me.
Better?
I am your GOD.
Worship me.
Better?
New name: Boaz
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Makes perfect sense to me, sweetie. (((hug)))
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Don't let them get you down. Thursday I got a letter from my father where he tells me I am throwing my wife and kids away......................................
I am feeling the love.
I am feeling the love.
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
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Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
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zeezrom wrote:The artifacts of Mormonism are embedded in my person. There is no way to erase them.
Trying to let it all go must cause problems if your loved ones don't share in your new opinions and convictions. .
You have your wife and children on your side, right? That should be enough. Other relatives are concerned for you and they show it in the way they are showing it. They mean no harm. See the positive in it.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world.
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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
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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God, I hate this institution sometimes. Why did it ever have to start, Joseph? Why?
God, help me stop hating.
Perhaps you should have gone into weapons, but obviously, you're a people person. Quark has some very good advice for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hdiuRMK3UQ
I would agree that the LDS Church, your only hope for salvation, is a bit like root beer. Bubbly, cloying, happy, and......insidious.
Machina Sublime
Satan's Plan Deconstructed.
Your Best Resource On Joseph Smith's Polygamy.
Conservatism is the Gospel of Christ and the Plan of Salvation in Action.
The Degeneracy Of Progressivism.
Satan's Plan Deconstructed.
Your Best Resource On Joseph Smith's Polygamy.
Conservatism is the Gospel of Christ and the Plan of Salvation in Action.
The Degeneracy Of Progressivism.
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This is exactly the kind of psychological toll the Church likes to inflict on those who leave.
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Keep drinking the kool-aide bc. Slug it down.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt, it is a river of kool-aide circulating through bc's veins.
Zeez if you are tempted to go back, just remember when you do..... swap your 15 year old daughter to some leader with 20 some odd other wives for guaranteed exaltation and eternal lives for you and yours.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt, it is a river of kool-aide circulating through bc's veins.
Zeez if you are tempted to go back, just remember when you do..... swap your 15 year old daughter to some leader with 20 some odd other wives for guaranteed exaltation and eternal lives for you and yours.
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It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin