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I know the moment is passed, but I'm really annoyed that the financial audit report declared that everything was kosher when we all know damn well that it isn't. Do we know if the auditing department even has access to Ensign Peak books? Even the Q12 didn’t know much about those EP accounts. Edit: ...

Our lives have been simpler in a lot of ways but I am exceptionally grateful I made the decision to leave *and* to reevaluate my attitudes toward LGBTQ+ when I did. My oldest was 17, middle was 13, and youngest was three. Since then, my wife has come out as bisexual. My oldest has dates several non ...

I’m a day late, but here’s a picture from a John Muir Trail thru-hike last year!

Red Ryder wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:46 am IT Veteran is in the house!!

How you been?

Been doing well! Family is healthy and all officially resigned now!

That would have been brutal. I was the SSP for a while as an unbeliever and ward council was so so so terrible. I imagine it was much worse as an EQP because you have to be more involved in the day to day workings of the ward. It was really tough. I told the BP I wouldn’t teach, preach, or testify b ...

I spent nine long months as the EQP after coming out to the bishop as being an unbeliever and it was the worst nine months I’d ever spent at church. Once I shared the depth of my unbelief with a SP councilor I was released after just a couple more weeks. A week after I was released the bishop called ...

Had my first Moderna shot at 7AM this morning. Bit of a headache this afternoon, but nothing a little scotch hasn’t fixed this evening.

Counterpoint: what if one of those kids you’re planning is LGBTQ+? You can try and counter the messaging at home, but I still think LGBTQ+ kids internalize a lot of what they hear and see around them. Participating in church where they’re shamed for who they are can be incredibly harmful. I didn’t fi ...

When I told DW I’d decided to leave the church it was a bit of a bombshell. She knew I didn’t have a testimony about a year earlier, but as far as she knew I was still trying to make it work. Once I told her, she wanted us to tell the older kids (17 and 13) without specifics about why. We didn’t disc ...

This reminds me of when Tommy Monson came up with ‘the rescue’. I was a counselor in the EQP at the time and remember the bishop directing us to assign *every* family in the ward a home teacher. That meant 18-20 families assigned per home teaching companionship. I moved out about the same time, but v ...

There is some deranged guy on TV with an active case of COVID-19 going all over in public without a mask. The only way to spot this deadly spreader is that he wears a suit and has way too much spray-on skin bronzer on his face. This is where I wish we had just a simple like button. Instead I’ll j ...

The Hosanna Shout is weird enough if you stepped outside to participate in Anywhere, UT. You’re really gonna weird the neighbors out anywhere outside the Jello Belt.

Jefferson‘s Ocean Wheated - it’s quite good.

They want you to buy into their binary thinking of all of it is true or it's not!!! I have had several people try that one on me...it's either true or it's not. My response to that is that if I am forced to choose between those two options only, then the answer is pretty simple really. Because the ...

I was also grateful to the church in raising my kids. Was. Now I recognize how I sort of abdicated my responsibilities and just trusted that the church’s way was the correct one. My relationship with my kids sounds a lot like your wife’s - bound to rules and expectations. When we discovered my tee ...

We went and hung out with a few exmo’s and exmo families for a picnic this afternoon. First time meeting most of them - all great to just hang out and visit with.

Calumet Farm 10 yr bourbon and Ragtime Rye for me tonight.

A New Name wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 9:16 am Not as funny as "After Life" but quirky, with some real plot twists that keep you hooked.
See trailer here

Must have a similar sense of humor - I’ve enjoyed both shows so far.

Anybody else read this book? I’ve recently started it for a book club discussion. The author’s intent is to show how we arrived at this post-fact era. His argument is that it’s largely tied to religion - particularly Protestantism because everyone gets to declare their beliefs as correct without any ...

I know some will encourage you to keep faith in God or Jesus. Quite frankly, don’t worry about what others tell you what you need to keep believing. That goes for those that would tell you not to believe too. After living such a high demand religion, take time for yourself to figure out what you b ...