A Profound Question (for active Mormons only)

[hopfrog]

If I wasn't LDS I'd be Jewish, as were my maternal ancestors. I think part of what brought me back to the church was growing up in the church and having that emotional foundation. Y'all can't be serious in stating that if your child left the church you would have no child. My parents told me that when I came out, and they told my younger sister that when she married a black man--we were no longer their children. That is a form of damnation for all concerned.

[creekster]

When I was a kid, I had a very vivid dream that I was in a horrific car accident and died in front of that RLDS church east of Salt Lake, somewhere between 33rd south and 39th south, and about 27th east (give or take a few blocks).

It's been over 25 years and it still gives me the heebies to think about that dream.

My aunt and uncle were married in that church. I was the ring bearer. As a reward my aunt gave me a Revell brand 1/72 scale plastic model of an X-15. I was very excited.

[SeattleUte]

If I wasn't LDS I'd be Jewish, as were my maternal ancestors. I think part of what brought me back to the church was growing up in the church and having that emotional foundation. Y'all can't be serious in stating that if your child left the church you would have no child. My parents told me that when I came out, and they told my younger sister that when she married a black man--we were no longer their children. That is a form of damnation for all concerned.

They're kidding, making fun of main stream Mormons. I'm telling you, this place is like the RLDS.

[SoonerCoug]

I got a boardmail from my mom:



My mom is dead serious when it comes to bets.

Now I'm going back to work.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Sooner CougMom

[The Rambam]

Is your assumption that non religious people lack community entirely? Or that your child would, for whatever reason, be totally unable to become part of a community outside of the LDS Church?

It is my observation that the vast majority of people who leave the LDS Church do not replace it with another loving supportive community with whom the interact with regularly. They typically become somewhat isolated. There are, of course, exceptions. But Mormons don't easily become evangelicals or Catholics or join the local synagogue.

I think it is not healthy to become isolated without a strong community, especially when raising kids.

Which loving, supportive, church community are you an active member of?

Are you asking me which ward I am a member of? I spoke in Sac. Mtg last week--wish you could have been there.

[NorthwestUteFan]

Why do we Brighamites hate the COC so badly?

[lambdacoug]

Why do we Brighamites hate the COC so badly?

LOL

[myboynoah]

Why do we Brighamites hate the COC so badly?

Because Emma hated Brigham so badly. She started it.

[Viking]

Now I'm going back to work.

You use Sprint on an iPhone??? That's like pouring bbq sauce on a filet mignon.

[Jeff Lebowski]

You use Sprint on an iPhone??? That's like pouring bbq sauce on a filet mignon.

[SoonerCoug]

You use Sprint on an iPhone??? That's like pouring bbq sauce on a filet mignon.

Actually, it's the only provider that covers every square inch of the hospital where I work. (The place is so huge that there are areas of the hospital with no cell signal without Sprint.) Also, I have speed tested Sprint versus AT&T here, and Sprint is actually much faster.

I'm kind of surprised you don't realize that I make decisions based on hard facts--not on rumor or news reports.

[lambdacoug]

Actually, it's the only provider that covers every square inch of the hospital where I work. (The place is so huge that there are areas of the hospital with no cell signal without Sprint.) Also, I have speed tested Sprint versus AT&T here, and Sprint is actually much faster.

I'm kind of surprised you don't realize that I make decisions based on hard facts--not rumor or news reports.

Which is pretty funny considering a few years ago I couldn't get a signal on my Sprint phone while in Sprint's World HQ campus in KC.

[smokymountainrain]

Are you asking me which ward I am a member of? I spoke in Sac. Mtg last week--wish you could have been there.

It was a sincere question. I don't know you well and really was curious. I have no doubt your talk was very good and I too, wish I could have been there.

[DrumNFeather]

I don't know if you are seeking serious responses here, but I voted inactive LDS. I think that when a parent has an inactive child versus one that has resigned from the church and has either had his/her name removed from the records or is actively involved in some other faith, there is probably a bit more hope that something might happen to said inactive child that might make them change their mind...or have a change of heart, depending on whether or not you believe that.

For the hope component alone, I voted for Inactive LDS...though the poll doesn't seem to account for angrily inactive or down right antagonistic which I think should be accounted for somehow.

Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness. - The Architect in The Matrix