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Become a NOM.

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moksha wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:04 am Become a NOM.

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That's quite sneaky to use click bait headlines to get me to read your posts. Now I'm awaiting the missionary department to try the same tactics.

• "This one weird trick will get ensure your salvation"
• "Top 10 restored secrets about God (number 7 will have you tears of joy)"
• "When these two Mormon Missionaries knocked on her door, at first she thought..." (This sounds like the setup for a conversion story and a porn movie [Joseph Smith is involved so maybe both])

In any case, the two concepts of "improving Mormonism" and "Becoming NOM" are often correlated together. But it's not always a positive correlation. My experience is that I am a duplicitous scoundrel and have kept up this image of being an active, believing Mormon when I'm around Mormons. I just finished a cup of coffee and I only wear garments to church, after all.

If I had this firm resolve to live as authentically as possible it would have caused some rifts in my family, wife's family, and ward family. It's really hard to walk back a public stand for leaving the church. But as long as I added rated R movies back onto my Netflix queue, stopped paying tithing, and started playing computer games on Sunday I found that I had 90% of what I was looking for in my personal life to begin with.

To improve Mormonism I'd say worship a God of Truth and Love. Be suspicious of any god or demi god that says tell little lies, or keep secrets. And realize that anyone you can't criticize is equivalent in status to a demi god. (for example, Joseph Smith)

Yeah, NOM is on the right track.

JUST SAY NOM!

I've been kind of catching up on Mormon Stories interviews lately after not listening as much for a while. One thing that has surprised me is when interviewees talk about an Internet forum that they found more comfortable than the ex-Mormon ones, but they can't remember the name until John Dehlin reminds them that it was NOM. I noticed that in two or three different interviews.