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tess replied to UTE's discussion #1 reason for leaving the mormon faith? Please share your experience.
"Congratulations!  It will be the best decision you have ever made, plus a 10% raise in your income.  "
Jul 20, 2012
tess replied to UTE's discussion #1 reason for leaving the mormon faith? Please share your experience.
"I love #2 when a man dies...  My mom found the same thing when she divoriced my dad.  The church told her not to have her temple marriage revoked, but by the way, she could never re-marry in the temple.    Never made…"
Jul 20, 2012
tess replied to UTE's discussion #1 reason for leaving the mormon faith? Please share your experience.
"I remember being taught in a "history" Sunday school class that black people were "cursed" with a dark skin in the pre-existence. (There were many of those “history of the church lessons”, seemed that’s all they…"
Jul 19, 2012
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"Wow! Half my family is still LDS so I can say for myself that I don't hate mormons--but I still left the church. Yes, I even officially had my name removed from the church records. Unfortunately. I don't think I'll just go away…"
Feb 21, 2012
tess replied to UTE's discussion #1 reason for leaving the mormon faith? Please share your experience.
"Well said,  tethercarguy!"
Feb 14, 2012
tess replied to UTE's discussion #1 reason for leaving the mormon faith? Please share your experience.
"I am 57 years old, and when I decided to leave the church in my early 20’s. Some of it was because the bishop was stalking me at work, threatening to ex-communicate me if I did not come back into the arms of the church. I was a hippy, and at…"
Jan 17, 2012
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion The nonpublic Mormon beliefs not included on MormonBeliefs.org
"Pollypinks, Plural marriage in old times or in the afterlife always was to me more about “human desire” -rules and doctrine made my human man- than spiritual.   If you have multiple wives (which always seemed to imply lots of…"
Dec 4, 2011
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion The nonpublic Mormon beliefs not included on MormonBeliefs.org
"I am just glad I had enough sense to get out in my early 20's.  I am now 57.  My family thought my life would be horrible.  My life actually turned out better than I'd hoped, without the church."
Dec 3, 2011
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion Forum Layout: Threaded or Flat discussions?
"I rather like the threaded approach.  "
Nov 30, 2011
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion The nonpublic Mormon beliefs not included on MormonBeliefs.org
"I  think back on things, and honest to goodness, if you truly believed ineverything the church had to offer and were a caring spiritual person, whywould it matter which hand you used to receive the sacrament? I mean really,what would it matter? "
Nov 19, 2011
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion The nonpublic Mormon beliefs not included on MormonBeliefs.org
"Was there a reason given for that? Using the right hand? "
Nov 19, 2011
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion The nonpublic Mormon beliefs not included on MormonBeliefs.org
"Hi Pollypinks, Here is the entire article, somehow my (or it could have been me) my computer was not doingwhat I thought it should be doing and I actually wanted folks to read thearticle.  Here is the article web site…"
Oct 30, 2011
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion The nonpublic Mormon beliefs not included on MormonBeliefs.org
"Well they slipped:  Someone actually put Unwritten beliefs on a poster, will it ever end?   By peggy fletcher stack The Salt Lake Tribune First published Oct 28 2011 10:05AMUpdated Oct 28, 2011 11:15PM Any little girl who wanted to dress…"
Oct 30, 2011
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion The nonpublic Mormon beliefs not included on MormonBeliefs.org
"  One thing I thought interesting as a teen in the late 60's and early 70's was that I was told  by my parents all of the "Presidents" of the United States were baptized into the church after they died. I guess…"
Oct 1, 2011
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion The nonpublic Mormon beliefs not included on MormonBeliefs.org
"Go to the Help Tab and then to About LAM, hope that helps!"
Oct 1, 2011
tess replied to MikeUtah's discussion The nonpublic Mormon beliefs not included on MormonBeliefs.org
"I so agree with you, and I remember being told the same thing by my mother "we'd choose the same tests."   Here Here to perfect health!  No migraines, diabetes, congestive heart failure.  I would not wish that on…"
Sep 1, 2011

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At 4:42pm on March 6, 2011, MikeUtah said…
Welcome Tess!  Nice of you to join us.  Enjoy the site and community.
 
 
 

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