Cinnamon Bear Head wrote:Many people seem to suggest that eventually I will lose interest. Partly this is true. I am far more interested in what Blixa or Trevor says about anything than any of the trash that oozes from MADb. Every now and then, though, I feel pricked by a sense of outrage. Maybe this will stick with me. Is everyone here basically "meh" these days?
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Tobin wrote: When I left the Church, I was "meh" about it. I left Utah, made my own life, and didn't care.
Now, I've come back to the Church, I'm still "meh" about it. I view it as a man-made organization with a tad bit too much IBM/Wallstreet corporate mindset. So, I'm unsurprised when they do corporate group-think and things like the mall. I guess I might care if I believed the claim that the Mormon Church was run by God and really God's one TRUE church and kingdom on earth. But I don't.
Heh. The Church should be just an association of like-minded individuals. There are Mormons that really know God and are interested in the determining the truth for themselves. I value those associations (and funeral potatoes).
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
Since leaving, some parts have become meh while others, I have exalted beyond what might be reasonable. For example, I have this fantasy that Relief Society craft classes would be as thrilling as my bouts of creating things at home. I have a fantasy that Utah Mormon culture in the 1930's totally rocked with ward bands and plays and stained glass windows. I have a fantasy that John D and Joanna B will become the next FP and that my family will start liking Michelle Obama as much as I do.
I also have church nightmares. 4 in a row this week! Usually, my nightmares involve my past feelings of guilt, in the shadow of men in business suits who look like CEOs of corporations ready to calmly and quietly crush me with a smile.
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)
zeezrom wrote:Since leaving, some parts have become meh while others, I have exalted beyond what might be reasonable. For example, I have this fantasy that Relief Society craft classes would be as thrilling as my bouts of creating things at home. I have a fantasy that Utah Mormon culture in the 1930's totally rocked with ward bands and plays and stained glass windows. I have a fantasy that John D and Joanna B will become the next FP and that my family will start liking Michelle Obama as much as I do.
I also have church nightmares. 4 in a row this week! Usually, my nightmares involve my past feelings of guilt, in the shadow of men in business suits who look like CEOs of corporations ready to calmly and quietly crush me with a smile.
Same smile, I imagine, smiled by the Jews seeking to crush Jesus. I have seen that knowing smile, smile its vile smile. All they really know is that they are able to get away with it for now. Peace bro.
I think late anger is perfectly natural. This was a big thing in your life. Your emotional engagement with it will not suddenly end. You will continue to go through a range of emotions for some time yet.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
According to the psychology of PTSD, current situations can re-awaken old traumas. Thus the resurgence of feelings with the current American political situation.
Huckelberry said: I see the order and harmony to be the very image of God which smiles upon us each morning as we awake.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
MCB wrote:According to the psychology of PTSD, current situations can re-awaken old traumas.
Sometimes Post Traumatic Leaving Disorder (PTLD) can stay dormant for many years. When it awakens it leads to anger and a craving for chocolate. It is the chocolate that gives the most relief.