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I love my mother. I’m very grateful for all she’s done for me and continues to do for me. I’m lucky that way.

But love, goodness, good intentions, and good feelings (and especially authority) are no way to go about determining truth, even if you’re a fictional character in a a 19th century novel.

I REPEAT: Good and smart people can be wrong. Good and smart people can be manipulated and fooled, and used to pass the manipulation along to the ones they love. That doesn’t make them bad or stupid. But you are also under no obligation to go along with what you know is wrong, even if someone you love really, really wants you to.

Happy mother’s day.

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I'm going to archive this blog and move to a new account

stay tuned for updates

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Why mormons in usa can’t drink green tea? ‘Cause I used to be a mormon here in Brazil and it was ok, the church even makes tea parties

"God said don't drink tea" is one of the little lies that, if you believe it, you'll end up believing a much bigger lie down the road. It's a gaslighting tactic the church uses to gain lifelong members. Internationally though, they run around like snake oil salesmen saying "let's see if we can make a quick buck off these foreigners" because you guys are too... I guess you could call it street smart? They have to be picky with the lies they tell you because they know you will see through it if they're not careful. Americans are straight up the biggest idiots on the planet tbh and it's a lot easier to pull off a long con here.

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Ok I'm yelling because

Good ole' latter-day revelation, lmaoooo

This is the greatest progression of events I have ever read, where’s my historical gay romance novel about this

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Note: I know the temple videos are painful to Mormons, and I want to acknowledge that. But I also want to have my pain acknowledged in return. And that hasn’t happened. What has happened is that people dismiss me, they call me names and try to slander my character. That’s not ok. Why shouldn’t I be able to talk about the Mormon temple and post videos of it? I feel like I was being groomed by a manipulative organization to get me to obey them and to give them time, money, and children. I was being set up to go through the temple my whole life. All the lessons in young women’s about wearing all white. Primary songs like “I Love to See the Temple” and the ominous tune “Follow the Prophet” get stuck in my head TO THIS DAY and feel like complete brainwashing. I haven’t been able to get them out, but I’m working on it. Accurate information can be stronger than brainwashing. Knowing what I know now about how sexist the ceremony is, and how demanding the church is (you promise to give everything to the church, not to God) I’m disgusted that throughout 20+ years being raised Mormon I wasn’t told about the aprons, the chanting, the secret handshakes, and the secret hand symbols. I can’t find it beautiful. I can’t feel that it’s sacred. This is the same as the “secret combinations” Mormons are taught to abhor, but even now I have lingering hesitance to post videos like this. Why should I be scared of posting temple videos? Even though  I know that it’s just counterfeit Masonry in a building, that brainwashing still gets to me like the primary songs get to me. I don’t want that to be the case. I want this all out in the open. I want all the ways that the church has tried to manipulate me to be exposed. I want to talk about the things I was told were sacred but were really just the church keeping secrets.

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If they...

Entitle themselves to your money and time

Dictate your clothing and personal grooming

Encourage you to leave your spouse over disbelief

Tell you to obey without question

Have rules for when, with whom, and how you can express love

Divide and discourage mixed-faith family, spousal, or friendly relationships

Forbid research from outside sources about their organization

Put on heavy pressure to conform

Encourage you to commit crimes or go against your morality (or justify acts like lying, stealing, rape, and murder for a “higher good”)

These are serious red flags.Get out.

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So brave.

Here is a young girl bearing her testimony in church on 7-5-2017. She gets two minutes and twenty to seconds which is very good. They simply turn of her mic and ask her to sit down. She finishes her speech towards the end of the video.

 I have nothing but love and respect for this brave young women. 

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fixed it

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“It’s chaos. Be kind.”

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Just so we're clear; I'm an agnostic atheist. I don't know whether there is a god or multiple gods. The fact is, I just don't care.

If there is an all-powerful watchful being, all I can think of is his cruelty. And if there were some sick ass aliens 10,000 years ago who taught apes to make fire, well, they're obviously dead by now. I'm really just apathetic about (and probably too traumatized to delve into) the subject.

So, I'm not going to go railing against anyone for having harmless beliefs that help them have some peace of mind.

But mormons and the like, you can choke

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Whom the fuck want a ᶻᶻᶻ boring ass temple wedding

Don’t let them pull this shit. Turn the tables.