Yes, it's true. I attended church for 3 hours every Sunday and was there at least a couple nights a week. I went to seminary every day in high school. I had to get up at 5:30 AM to do that shit. It took me forever to get over Mormon guilt. Now I'm drinking, smoking, taking drugs, fucking and generally rebelling for the first time in my life. It's so fucking good.
I was married at 21 to a non Mormon - thank goddess - but I was just running away from the reality of the shit my family put me through. I even went to BYU. Now I'm divorced and living the life of sin I was destined to live. But I'm done w/the guilt thing and really don't think of it as sin, just fun, my life. My life is fun and the Mormons can go on living as they live but I've found my own way.
Love, Recovering Mormon,
Mandy
I was married at 21 to a non Mormon - thank goddess - but I was just running away from the reality of the shit my family put me through. I even went to BYU. Now I'm divorced and living the life of sin I was destined to live. But I'm done w/the guilt thing and really don't think of it as sin, just fun, my life. My life is fun and the Mormons can go on living as they live but I've found my own way.
Love, Recovering Mormon,
Mandy
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Re: I was a Mormon once
Wed, April 28, 2004 - 11:12 PM"To thine own self be true."
Hope you find what you're looking for in life.
Peace of mind is something very special, and you'll
know instantly when you've found it. Good luck!
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Re: I was a Mormon once
Sat, August 21, 2004 - 10:38 PMYeah, my parents raised me as a mormon but they use to always force me to go and now I hate church and I am an Atheist. So it just goes to show you that parents shouldn't force a religion on you cuz religion is for everyone to decide for themselves. I hated being mormon, I am glad I don't have to go to that hell hold anymore, that's just my personal experience but I respect all religions, but that just wasn't my thing. *lights up a cigg and drinks away* Ahhh, feels so nice dosesn't it kiddo? -
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Re: I was a Mormon once
Sun, August 22, 2004 - 1:57 AMThirteen years, thirteen years of some quiet oblivion where everyone can't stop talking of divinity, but the essence of such radiated more for me amongst the trees and forests, river banks and mountaintops. Sliding through some left of center reality that every one around acknowledged as 'gods' creation, but never once accepted the same worth of such within the human. Human was 'evil' by nature, and so by accepting that as the only nature of man, they have succeded in manifesting that fate for their past, present, and future. Of course now the majority of humanity doesn't quite fit in, the civilization and society that this abundance has evolved into contradicts instead of incorporates and accentuates the nature around it. So this developement, from the point of view of a chosen dissassociation and alienation from that nature, brings the easy and likewise perverted perception of a 'flawed' and fallen race of men. It's like that radiohead song, "You do it to yourself, it's true, you and no one else!!!" So from where I stand, if they want their armageddon, they can have it, but they can't blame me from sitting back, laughing, and having a few (or more) cold ones while they all burn and cry to thier god in restraint for the wounds they gave themselves. Bottoms up... -
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Re: I was a Mormon once
Mon, August 23, 2004 - 3:30 PMWhen I "lost faith" and left the church I did worry at first that maybe I was wrong and was giving up "heaven". Then it dawned on me, I'd rather spend eternity in hell with the kind of people the church was condemming than spend eternity with the rigtheous in a never ending boring church meeting! Besides, you just can't get a good beer in Mormon heaven, so who wants to be there?
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Re: I was a Mormon once
Thu, August 26, 2004 - 12:23 AMYou have too much fucking time on your hands. -
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Re: I was a Mormon once
Fri, August 27, 2004 - 3:21 PMNo, I'm just an anthropologist, and the relative impact that religions such as the LDS church and it's predessesors have had on our society have been and still are molding and shaping our civilisations (mainly western) into the bastard child they always claimed human life to be. By screaming so much about how it is 'flawed' and 'evil' they have succesfully, over the course of many generations, transformed it into such. When the basic root of the problem is a severe and very damaging denial of the basic principles that make us living animals. View spirituality however you want, I don't care about that, but accept the nature of humans as to be centered in 'sin' and 'un-natural behaviors' and you suffer from a strong case of neurosis and border on psychotic tendancies. This is what that religion pushes on people and was a very disturbing thing for me to awaken to at an age like thirteen. I don't nessesaraly have more time than anyone else, I just study this stuff, because for me none of it makes any sense... but don't get me wrong, I don't lose sleep over it either, just carving out my niche in the whole ubsurd story we call humanity and enjoying the ride while I do it... I have a naturally inquisitive mind, I choose to take full advantage of that... What's your story?
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