#fld

[kc4artz]

You get a tail flick, as a treat :)

This is part of my "This is Halloween" project I'm working on. Might actually be done before Halloween, idk.

I have 6 parts done with no background out of 22. So it's going well.

Anyhow, see you soon, guys :D

[poltergirlst]

🔥💯 NEW TYPE OF BULLYING DROPPED💯🔥

me and the girls forming a circle with you the middle while you are being praised to the point of tearing up from embarrassment

[angelicandsanegirl]

it’s funny to me how much mainstream mormonism tries to like distance itself from flds by being like we’re soooo normal guys trust us we don’t do polygamy we’re sooooo normal when like 1 well I don’t think the polygamy is the only bad thing and um 2 well u literally still do polygamy actually like if u believe families are forever and u let men be sealed to multiple women in the temple and u believe there is an afterlife where all those women are sealed to the same man…well then ur still doing polygamy actually……..

[lesbianforlottie]

Everytime someone comes on this godforsaken website and talks about Mormons it is always the most uneducated, idiotic take I have ever seen that makes it 100% obvious that most of y'all have never interacted with a single Mormon much less know any in any significant way and that you view Mormons as this weird, occult, polygamist group that wears magic underwear.

If you don't know the difference between LDS and FLDS then respectfully, shut the hell up about Mormons because I am so tired of people saying that Mormons still practice polygamy. (There's so many weird things in Mormonism that still exist and y'all really chose the practice that they stopped doing 120 years ago??). Do you even know WHY Utah has so many Mormons? No? Then shut the hell up. Go do some damn research instead of spreading misinformation.

Also why do people on here act like the LDS Church is the fucking Westboro Baptist Church. Yeah they're a majority conservative group but they're about as wild as the Catholic Church is. I'm going to be honest, most Mormons don't give a shit about you or what you do with your life.

But who would I be to tell you to do research and not give you a starting point? So here. Watch this video. If you have any interest in Mormonism whatsoever go ahead and watch this video. (Genuinely it is an amazing and well researched video though).

And if you're a Christian who is constantly talking about how Mormons aren't Christians. Uh, A) nobody cares and B) shut the fuck up.

[insipid-drivel]

Hey you're mostly correct with your addition to the mormon post, I just want to point out that male child abandonment is specific to fundamentalist LDS members. The mainstream church doesn't do that, they just turn a blind eye when the FLDS do.

Thanks for the clarification, anon. Assuming you see that I replied, or that someone with more precise knowledge on the subject sees this, do you think you could send another anon/reblog this expanding on the differences between the FLDS and the LDS? In the Mormon world, what defines a Fundamentalist? Are there changes in LDS doctrine and practice that have been made that have divided the two, or is it more related to differences in interpretations? And are these differences perceived as schismatic or otherwise a source of conflict between FLDS and LDS community members?

None of my questions above are rhetorical or sarcastic. I am sincerely inviting you, or someone as knowledgeable or more, to expand on the subject so interested readers can learn more about the realities of the FLDS and LDS communities outside of what news outlets discuss and commonly confuse and conflate. On my part, pretty much every non-LDS or FLDS member I've met (meaning most people I've met in general) has never heard reliable, clear explanations about where the two denominations separate or why.

[doueverwonder]

I gen do think Utah and Ilithyia got married so fast, Utah is sitting in a west meeting all giddy and distracted the whole time and when someone is finally like “why are you acting weirder then usual” he can’t contain himself and tells everyone he’s proposing that night and it literally goes:

“how long have you two been dating?”

“two a half months”

“right, but you’ve known her for a long time right?”

“nope, we started dating two weeks after we met”

“… do you want to rethink this.”

“Absolutely not.”

which in fairness they were all more chill with it after meeting Ilithyia bc it takes 2 minutes around her to realize her and Utah are literally the same person in different fonts, if any two people on this planet were actually made for each other its them. but it was still vaguely shocking how fast it happened.

[spurgie-cousin]

this video is long and tbh I wish she'd just addressed the situation with the kids and given a history lesson in another video, but whatever. kids have been disappearing in the FLDS for a really long time, I remember hearing about it even 5+ years ago they would just show up and take kids from mothers (especially mothers who had been in trouble with the FLDS) saying that they were called by the prophet to go to a property to be trained for higher service, I want to say it was the United Order property but I'll double check. Anyway, here's the first video on that, the history part is most of the video, just in case you're familiar with the FLDS/mormon polygamist sects. I do wanna know more about the disappearing kids situation though so I will post part 2 when it's out.

Edit:

[autumngracy]

Literature recommendations for the coming day (Pt 74)

Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs - Rachel Jeffs

Escape - Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer

A Place Called Waco: A Survivor’s Story - David Thibodeau and Leon Whiteson

Uncultured - Daniella Mestyanek Young

A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology - Mike Rinder

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple - Deborah Layton

The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control - Steven Hassan

When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir - Guinevere Turner

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief - Lawrence Wright

[mod2amaryllis]

growing up mormon in slc you'd think I'd know more about the flds but I'm watching this Netflix documentary like 👀???? the horrors????

[aerodaltonimperial]

okay, fam. real talk. major motivation issues. writing = hard. i know this is not a popular fic BUT could you all help me write it. please. i am dying. i do not want to write it. but i also can't write anything else because my brain won't let me jump so i'm stuck in no writing land. i NEED you to make me do it.

[poltergirlst]

let’s be silent together while we feel the warmth of each other’s embrace.

[serenhob]

Idk why it's taking so long (probs cause very been taking so many breaks to watch documentaries about the Flds) but this is what I have so far

My friend called him a dorito

[anycornie]

Eu não ia fazer nada de QSMP tão cedo, mas vai se fuder o Richas e o Pepito. Não resisti... Eles são extremamente fofos!!

Esse tá bem mais simples pois foi feito no celular às pressas, eu grelada de sono usando toda a força de vontade que ainda tinha pra ficar igual uma gay viciada na relação deles

Te amo Pepito que não é mais o Otipep

Imagino se vão lembrar que o Chinelo do Roier tá com o Richas. Rapaz...

[autistic-zukoao3]

If you see these two kids, or the described car, please call 911 immediately.

The police believe these two were kidnapped to be killed by FLDS church members to "turn into pure beings" under the instruction of their leader.

Their lives are in immediate and imminent danger.

[spurgie-cousin]

I used to be a rabid Oprah fan, way before I knew very much about the FLDS, and I remember seeing her interview in 2009 where she goes around an FLDS compound with a handler and has a very Pyongyang-like experience.

It popped up on youtube so I'm rewatching it for the first time, and since I was a teenager at the time the original aired, I definitely didn't understand the significance of the fact that Oprah got access to Yearning for Zion Ranch......I think she said it had only been around about 5 years in 2009.

I also didn't process just *how* set up everything was for Oprah's experience, I remember at the time thinking they were weird but functional. But now watching it again, it is like a state sanctioned tour of North Korea, everyone is creepily silent unless spoken to (including small kids) and they blatantly lie about every aspect of the community, like to the point that it's so obvious..... it's most evident when Oprah speaks with a young girl whose mom had left and was worried about her being married off, and any time she talks to women about polygamy.

Idk it's very interesting maybe it's something I'll watch on live

[darlingandmreames]

Local Trash Goblin's Reading Corner: Nonfiction Edition

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

We continue with the cult-related nonfiction books! This book is a fascinating dive into L Ron Hubbard, the inception of Scientology, and its development both during and after Hubbard's life. It's thorough without being indigestible, which is nice for a topic as complicated as Scientology. I did appreciate the even-handed approach to Hubbard- he's a fascinatingly complex individual who seems to exist as a combination of grifter, paranoid true believer, charming, and abusive without ever solely being any one thing and I think it can be very easy to flatten him into just one of those things, but Wright outlines and discussed all these aspects and acknowledges the complexity of the man as he was and how these various complexities influenced the creation and development of Scientology in turn. It did get a little hard to track and follow all the names at times, but that may have also been because I read it somewhat piecemeal and often during my lunch break.

7/10

A thorough but still digestible outline of the origins and development of Scientology, I would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in understanding how Scientology developed into what it is today