#ex mormonism

[unityrain24]

ok but for real tho does anyone know how to actually get all your records removed from the mormon church? bc if you've ever been to one you'll know how actually creepy they are. someone will have visited the church ONCE three years ago and they'll somehow have the persons address and be discussing ways to get them to come back

[onyx-got-clowned]

i wish every PIMO exmo good luck for general conference this weekend 🫡

[lupinedreaming]

Just a reminder to any new or long time ex-Mormons: It’s totally okay if you don’t want to do everything that was previously forbidden to you. Don’t let other ex-Mos make you feel like you’re lame or not experiencing life if you have no interest in drugs, drinking, sex, etc.

Personally, I see no appeal in drinking alcohol or doing drugs, so I don’t do it. The beauty of leaving this religion is that you can now decide for yourself based on your own wants and needs what things are right for you, not based on arbitrary rules. Maybe you’ll largely live the same as you did as before, just without Mormonism — and that’s perfectly fine. You might start living totally differently too — maybe you’ll decide you want some tattoos and discover you like clubbing. That’s perfectly fine too

Just don’t feel like you have to try everything that was forbidden of certain things don’t appeal to you

[cherieye]

I was a human taught within a cult mindset that I was one of the happiest humans on earth because I had the one and true Gospel, that non Mormons would envy me and wonder why I was so different, "They will want what you have, because i have "The Holy Ghost"

I was not happy, and the idea that people I met outside of the church would only feel my uniqueness, simply because I was a part of a organization made me even more depressed. "so when people see something beautiful about me, it's only the spirit of the church they feel? it's not me? I'm nothing without this church?"

This created so much lack of confidence in myself, my worthiness and my "light" was only because of my association within a cult.

The worst part is this would create a young girl writing letters to God in tears asking them to please let her disappear from existence.

Depression creeped in and decided to create a home in my body at age 10, it became to feel like my true companion, something so familiar, I didn't know what it was like to not be without such a partner.

Noticing the neglect within my family, my siblings emotional needs going unmet and trying to meet them myself. I decided the only control I had was to soak up the pain around me like a vacuum cleaner, except I had no outlet to clear out what I gathered up. So it stayed, and piled up.

By age 17, I noticed school was actually becoming something I enjoyed, I started feeling connected to other humans and my grades were going well. I felt connected to some kind of relationship with God and I started for the first time It seems, to be grateful for being alive. This feeling was so new to me, that I couldn't help be so absorbed by something I lacked for so many years.

Like someone who was never allowed to do something for years, I overconsumed the feeling. I couldn't get enough of it, I wanted to build it up more and more...to the point where I came in contact with what is called "manic psychosis"

The church I went to considered me to be inspiring, but my family knew something was not right...and how I was behaving irrationalally.

I was finally in a world through my own eyes that felt like a dream, nothing felt real, everything was just a Devine play and there was no point of being afraid of anything anymore. I finally for the first time felt special and important and free.

___

Fast forward after many visits in hospitals stays and heavily medicated, to the point where I experienced a doctor overdosing me my first visit

I was back to the pits of darkness, creating a new belief system in my head

"So if the only time I felt free, I felt connected and happy...is something the doctors and my family...say is an illness...my joy must be an illness, it will only destroy me and others. Now I know depression is my safety...I must stay in the dark for me to never be of inconvenient ever again."

___

I am 32 now, trying tackle to very deep wound and trying to let that girl know, her joy is not an illness, it is not destructive and it does not make her dangerous or a problem

I love her, she deserves to experience safety in her self and in her own joy, In her own light 🕯️

[gibbearish]

kids who werent raised christian being like "lol baptising children is whack if they tried to do that to me i would start doing things to make it look like i was possessed" no you would not. you would bask in the pride and approval coming from the adults around you and you would quietly wait your turn because you were told from birth that sinning sends you to hell and baptism is The Promise that youre dedicating your life to jesus that youve had hyped up for years and watched other people be fawned over as they cry happy tears about it and you do NOT want to fuck up your One Big True Promise To Love Jesus Forever So You Don't Get Tortured For Eternity when you are literally 8 years old. im begging yall to remember its a thousand times easier to see the church's bullshit for what it is when you're not actively in the church. eight year old you is not thinking about trying to fight back against an oppressive religious group indoctrinating children because You Are The Children Being Indoctrinated. stop acting like you would've magically known better if it were you.

[the-rad1o-demon]

So far, chances of KOSA being enacted is 31% according to the site linked below.

Let's get that fucker down to zero, guys!!

Stuff to help us do that is linked here!

The call scripts linked below were originally for Congressional representatives, but now that the bill is in committee consideration by Senate Commerce, you should call your Senators instead and you can use the scripts for them. Also, when calling your Democrat senators, make sure to add that Senator Blackburn explicitly stated in interview that it would be used to "protect children from the transgender." I think it's pretty clear that this is not meant to protect children. It's just going to harm children further, especially trans children.

(Article below with a video of the interview embedded.)

Please help stop this bill in its tracks. Reblog, donate, call your senators, and keep an eye on the bill's chances of being passed. We can't stop now. 31% is still kind of a big number. We need to shrink those chances by a lot more.

[seraphimfall]

i’m sorry but even if your personal version of mormonism excludes all the “if you’re a good mormon your skin will turn white when you die, no matter your race” and “dark skin is a sign of the devil” bs, your religion is still racist.

the idea that israelites sailed across the atlantic ocean and formed a population in north america that could be attributed to native americans is racist.

the idea that jesus christ appeared to native americans and converted them to christianity pre-colonial times is racist.

the idea that the arrival of christianity to north america with european colonialism was a prophesied “reintroduction” of christianity is racist.

the foundations of your religion are racist.

the foundations of your religion are historical negationism.

the foundations of your religion justify american colonialism as the will of god.

try as hard as you want, it’s impossible to remove racism from mormonism. it’s racist by nature.

[the-jesus-pill]

Shoutout to everyone who aren't free to choose how they spend their Easter this year.

If you're forced to go to church, I hope you can find distractions to make the day fly by faster.

If the pastor won't shut up about how 'evil' you are, I hope you can shake off any guilt they are trying to put on your shoulders.

If you're forced to meet extended family, I hope you can shut out their comments and find time to slip away.

If your family makes you eat food you don't want to, I hope you don't feel sick afterwards.

If this Easter is especially tough for you, I hope you'll find comfort and know it won't be like this forever. I hope you know that you have support, even from strangers online, and you can get through this holiday fast and as painlessly as possible.

[nobetafortomorrowedie]

It really bothers me when people describe the way I grew up as "sheltered" when in reality I was not being sheltered or protected. I was intentionally confused. I was kept in the dark. My reality was being controlled.

[unityrain24]

i feel like whenever you say youre no longer mormon to someone who is mormon they'll blame it on everything... except the actual reason.

No it was not because of ""peer pressure"". i was not excluded/shamed for being mormon (it's a christian religion in a predominantly christian country??), most people didn't even know i was.

No it was not because i met a mormon who happened to be mean/had a bad experience with a particular ward; i'm intelligent enough to know that one person (or even a few of people) do not define the whole religion, any group has bad apples (though a toxic members is a valid reason to leave).

my problem with the religion is the religion itself. it's beliefs and practices and actions. what it has written into its scriptures and websites and said by leaders in official talks. it's immoral. it's fucking immoral.

and freedom of religion does not extend to justify/excuse immorality. if your religion is immoral, it either needs to be reformed or stop existing. mormonism is fucked up. it's fucking evil.

[onyx-got-clowned]

the one time i pay attention im already rolling my eyes

“Some know god intimately!” Now i know why the bishop was in his office for so long 🙏

“more of the world should know of god” they do know Mormonism/christianity isn’t the only religion right? Right..?

[exmojoe]

Is your love language really acts of service or were you raised with the sole purpose of being a caregiver for all of eternity??

[cherieye]

I grew up Mormon, being told I needed to hide my body and that my existence as a woman was to bear children and be responsible for men's sexual urges and their thoughts.

It took me years to learn to embrace my body, to show any skin past my shoulders without feeling shame for it. I am also an open heart surgery survivor and have always been proud of my scar, but was denied to feel like it was okay to actually show it.

I am currently back in the home I grew up in and fear old psychological repression to hit me when my parents come to visit. My whole body often goes into a trauma response when I am around them. Growing up disabled, I was infantasized for majority of my life that it's hard to carry myself as an adult, because my parents did all they could for me to not be one. I don't know how intentional it was to coddle and isolate me so much to the point where at 31, I am not even able to drive. It has caused me live a life very similarly to someone who is on house arrest. constantly dependant on others approval to do simple things. Being conditioned for so long to believe I don't have what it takes to take care of myself. This is a trauma majority of people don't speak of because it's humiliating to admit. But I don't want to hide the reality of what arrested development truly is, it's debilitating and it shouldn't be left in the dark.

[im-a-freaking-joy]

CALLING ALL EXMORMONS/PIMOS

i have a proposition- lets all write the nastiest, most unhinged, atrocious mormon themed smut that we possibly can. It was honestly weirdly healing for me to read wild ass smut on ao3 that was themed around the religion and not the musical, and i want it to become such a popular trend for exmos and pimos to start doing that they have to start vagueing about it in general conference. It doesnt have to be good. It just needs to *be.*

Once im done writing my Ammon×Lamoni smut fic I'm absolutely reblogging this post with the link added, please join me in this unhinged rebellion

[josephsmutt]

i'll put Joseph Smith to shame

[the-rad1o-demon]

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GET KOSA TRENDING.

STOP SCROLLING NOW!

AS OF FEBRUARY 21ST, 2024, WE GOT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE DAY OF DECISION OF THE KOSA BILL, WHICH WILL CAUSE MASS CENSORSHIP ROUND THE INTERNET IF PASSED. OR DOOMSDAY. WE NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND CONTRIBUTE. I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU ALL.

WE'RE DOWN TO THE WIRE BUT WE CAN'T GIVE UP YET. IF WE GIVE UP, EVERYTHING IS OVER. IF WE DON'T, AT LEAST WE HAVE A CHANCE.

I'M THE ONE WHO SOUNDED THE ALARM, AND I'M NOT GOING TO CURL UP AND DIE YET.

Reblog this post in every LEGAL way you can under the Tumblr guidelines with the appropriate tags. TELL AND TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW, then add the tags to see below... and more if you can think of any complying.

Visit badinternetbills.com if you want to find a way to defeat KOSA. It WILL NOT take much of your time. Reblog with any other information or sources, too-- but make sure to reblog if you can.

Reblog if you support lgbtq+ content.

Reblog if you support questioning queer youth and/or abused youth getting the information they need.

Reblog if you support Ao3 and/or other sites that wholeheartedly preserve talentedly made media.

Reblog if you're going to repost this on other sites than Tumblr and spread the word across Twitter, Tik Tok, Pinterest, or elsewhere, alongside the link to badinternetbills.com.

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Hey, everyone. So yeah, this is happening. We're still fighting this battle. And we can't give up now. We can't. We can't stand idly by while one of the most important resources that helped us all wake up, or at least start to question things, is being threatened by the government.

We can't stand idly by when kids, teens, and adults just like us still trapped inside might lose access to the resource that could help them wake up. We can't stand idly by when they might lose access to their non JW friends and family. We CAN'T stand idly by when we can do something to stop this bill from passing.

I am sick and tired of this same old song, where conservative fuckers higher up think they can oppress everyone. I am FUCKING SICK of it.

Please, reblog both this post and the original post linked above what I've written, and do what you can to stop KOSA, please. We are running out of time.

I suggest that if it is within your power to do so, that you do more than simply reblog and assume someone else will do something. DON'T assume that. Please do more than just reblogging if you are able to, because that's not really enough at this point.

Call/email representatives in the House and tell them to oppose KOSA (you may want to list different reasons depending on who you're calling, some House representatives are anti-LGBTQ+, so it may be best to tell them to oppose because it violates people's privacy, safety, and anonymity online). Print posters and put them up where legal if you can.

Sharing all this information to other social media sites (Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, the bird app) to reach more people can really help too. The wider the reach, the better.

Thank you. Now let's fucking rip that bill apart like we rip apart Watchtower magazines and eat it for fucking breakfast. (In a "we're eating it and the politicians who are sponsoring it are looking on in horror" kind of way)