In a copuple of days my new Blog on Mormon alternative views will be operative. It will be a  a mirrored blog (one in English the other in spanish) 

www.mormonkosherstuff.blogspot.com

www.mormonismooriginal.blogspot.com

I will be dealing with what I consider excellent Mormon material beyond the censorship of the church.

IT's been about 10 years since I decided to walk away from mormonism. However, it was long before than the doubting and questioning began. I was born in the church and was the center of my early years. I was conditioned and educated to be a TBM. I even read the BoM befor I was baptised at age 8, a the same time I was learning about the native peoples of the Americas in School. The facts never matched and I had trouble believeing th BoM stories, although it had great adventures and courageous…

I envy those who have another in their life. Ones that are close by, to love, hold, and be with. My heart cannot stand it, and I wonder about death.

My girlfriend is far away, and I am alone. My sister is far away, and I am doubly alone. I'm empty, dead, forever alone. I am without comfort, save for the little messages I get from my sister. She's trying her best, by sending virtual "hugs", but those don't work.

I want to have REAL comfort. I need to be held, to be loved. No one…

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For anyone who has been contemplating the mythical story of Christ, here's some insight. Feel free to comment!

There is one gift you can give this Christmas that will cost you nothing but mean the world to yourself, your family, your friends, acquaintances, strangers and fellow human beings. It is the gift of acceptance. Acceptance doesn't mean agreement. It doesn't require forfeiting yourself or your values. It eloquently says, "I accept you as a fellow human being, worthy of the respect you deserve to guide your own life, pursue your own happiness, and live your dreams, harming none; that you are…

The home teachers came by a few days ago and we (my mother, her parents, and I) had a lovely chat, even though I don’t agree with their beliefs. However one thing that came up struck me as odd, to understand it here’s a little background. My grandmother is what I would call a Mormon survivalist. She is 73 and has told me she won’t die, but that she’ll be “twinkled” and she oftentimes brings up the fact that one day we are all going to head back east to Missoura, yes Missoura, to build up…

In 2006, staff members working under then Massachusett's Governor Mitt Romney purchased hard drives removed from computers used during Romney's administration.  Correspondence written during Romney's tenure were destroyed as well.

An excerpt from today's article expressing the crux of this…

Hello everyone, I just thought I would share a song I wrote right after leaving the Mormon religion. Tell me what you think, take a look. It's kind of an old piece of my life, but I figured I would share anyway!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTVez0tC8cg

In 1985, three years after moving to Mesa, Arizona, I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was a popular church in the area. I had joined lots of churches over the years. Rather lightheartedly, I agreed to be baptized before my hospital shift. Little did…

earlier tonight, while watching Stranger than Fiction for the first time with my grandma, I had an experience that troubled me. I haven't the faintest clue why, it is so small and insignificant it hardly seems worth noting, but it has been bothering me for the last few hours and until I get it out it is going to continue to bother me and I won't get any sleep at all tonight.During the scene where Harold, the main character, is at the love interest, Ana's house, you get a brief glimpse of…

Take a minute to see my blog:   www.skepticalthayne.com

I have some thoughts, some rants, some philosophy, some recipes and hope you find something interesting.

Thayne

Just a little bit of rough poetry I came up with to describe the point I'm at right now. I'm thinking about using this to tell my family how I feel about mormonism. any way, enjoy!

The Cave

My whole life has been lived in a cave,

Never wondering, never pondering,

Never searching for the truth.

Lies and deceit were all I…

While I was still a Mormon I had an interesting thought cross my mind. Why do we worship Elohim? Elohim was once a man, and had a father-god of his own. Why do we not worship him, because without this God neither Elohim nor we would exist?  Better yet why do we not worship this God’s father, Elohim’s grandfather? Following this vein, why do we not worship the very first God, the ultimate creator and the guy who set all of this up? However this original God is never talked or even thought…

I'm in love for the first time in my life, and it is good. I haven't felt this wonderful in a very long time, maybe never. She is everything that I could ask for, but the downside is, her immune system has taken way too many blows when she was little, and that worries me greatly. A month ago, she had a bad cold which turned into a flu in a few days. And now? She has bronchitis, but still, I'm there for her, even though we're in two separate countries. I'm in southern California, while she is…

I wrote this for my sister, who was curious about what it was like for me growing up in the Mormon faith as a gay youth, but I addressed it to a wider audience. Here it is for general readership; maybe it'll help someone.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1br6-VvCmIgHeVVHId5o91jQoahYlntN7a5WF6RoSbS4/edit?hl=en_US

I recently stopped attending the Mormon church.  My intention is to break all ties with it.  Yet all my family are members and I don't want to ruin my relationship with them.  They've been loving, supportive and encouraging my entire life, but if they know I've left the church that may not continue.   Seems simple enough to just fade away into "inactivity."  I would like to do that, but my circumstances won't allow that.  I'm currently disfellowshipped and have been meeting with my bishop on…

NEURAL SOUL



The Brain, with all its networks,

and routes and compounds,

can contemplate the vastness of the cosmos,

and often overlooks its own condition.



This object, so small,

So odd,

a natural marvel of bioengineering.



Glia,

scrub and isolate, Like glue between the wires.

Tweaking and cleaning the tangle.



Neurons,

Billions gripping,

like little hands in a circle…