#i used to be mormon

[songofsunset]

Hello I have created a niche meme!!!

[almondcroissantsandink]

I'm moving and was going through my books today and found the Book of Mormon script book I bought in like 2016 so I could illustrate Kevin Price's coffee monologue and opened it up to the Spooky Mormon Hell Dream section and this line has no right to be so funny

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

[starmin-marmin]

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

Once I come up with a killer band name all I'll need to do is actually learn how to sing or play an instrument!

(Honestly this thought exercise is actually a really fun coping mechanism for rejection of any sort I highly recommend it)

[grubloved]

its so silly but i just keep thinking abt being in norway and seeing for the first time kinda ever that like governments can do things to make peoples life better. for no other reason but just to improve things. like im sure norway has lots of problems i didnt see on a trip but i cannot stress how insane it was that the government had done things because it would be nice. to take care of people. ?????

[starstruckodysseys]

i don’t “struggle” with same-gender attraction. i’m actually very good at it

[icannotgetoverbirds]

shitty image id: a screenshot of an email from quitmormon confirming the recipient's resignation. end shitty image id.

It's done.

[outofcontextdiscord]

[jamesrambles]

seeing everything about the secret lives of mormon wives is so weird to me because

1. I didn’t grow up in Utah so some of the more cultural vs. doctrinal societal norms weren’t really prevalent

2. I have very chill parents who love the religion but also know that the church institution itself is fallible and religion/practice are personal above all else

so it feels almost alien??? Like I grew up in the church, and even though I’m pagan now I still enjoy going to church with family when I’m in town and I feel up to it. I have ties there. I love a lot of the people in the ward I grew up in.

it feels like this show is talking about something I’m barely even familiar with. Idk. It’s also frustrating because I really want someone from outside of the church to take us seriously enough to do an actual deep dive into the cosmology/culture/structure and general history of the church without affirming or outright condemning all of it. There’s so much nuance in people’s relationships with church and it makes me kinda sad that we never get that.

idk I maybe need to start incorporating some Mormon characters with actual nuance into writing projects ‘cause… I’m sad sometimes lol

(also if I have to explain one more time to someone that an institution can be bad/have serious flaws without being a cult I’m going to lose it. SOME BRANCHES OF THE CHURCH FIT THE BITE MODEL. SOME DO NOT. STOP USING CULT AS A BUZZWORD. I grew up with people saying Mormonism was a cult. I also know someone who was raised in an actual cult, and trust me, the cultish-ness of lds religious practice is based on a wide variety of factors and where you live. I personally think it’s pretty rude to just tell someone you barely know that they’re in a cult with no research or sensitivity around it.)

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Me: I am interested in judaism ONLY. Show me content about jewish life, intellectualism, history, and daily life

The Algorithm, apparently: does this mean you're interested in mormonism... how about jehova's witness............... this is all you'll get recommended by the way

[blueskittlesart]

hello! im pretty sure the reason dgs herlock isnt called sholmes is because he wasnt public domain yet so i assume they couldnt get all the necessary rights!

that’s what i assumed too when the localization was announced but like shouldn’t tobias gregson, enoch drebber, selden, etc have theoretically also had that rule applied to them??? why were certain borrowed characters left completely unchanged and others localized Like That. not that i pretend to understand international copyright law or whatever the hell the conan doyle estate is doing at any given time but that seems weird to me lmao

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

when an LDS person uses the term "mormons" vs when a non-LDS person uses it

[pjharvey-moved]

a girl i knew at church growing up went through a traumatic divorce within the last couple years with a man who told her she was “babyish” for liking squishmallows, refused to go on outings with her instead of playing video games, would only have sex with her once a month, and told her she needed to stop getting tattoos and piercings because she “knew it was wrong” and was ruining her body (all her tattoos are super small fine line type stuff too not even like mine!) and anyway i want to hit him with my car

[cheesymorgue]

i am...so normal about them...

[lettersfromthelevant]

I did not just see a self-hating jew call zionism "manifest destiny" i did nooooooot

someone made a cutesy photo that literally called for the death of israel, like verbatim, it said "I need the death of israel" and this was someone's response (right after saying, "yikes that is my peoples' homeland.") please, diaspora jews, grow a spine and attach it to your brain stem. in what fucking world are jews living in our literal ancestral homeland in any way equatable to manifest destiny? fuck you, spineless schande