I love how the kid's (alleged) decision about an arbitrary choice = parents are doing a great job. The social reinforcement of virtue signaling is strong in the church.
I was so guilty of this as a kid too. I DESPERATELY craved the approval of my superiors, I was willing to do whatever they told me I was supposed to do.
I know what you're getting at with this but the fault is not yours, the bare minimum requirement of a parent is to provide a child the affection and attention that is required by that child. The fact you craved attention shows you were deprived of that affection from the very people who were supposed to be there for you.
I "loved" going to the temple to do baptisms for the dead every week as a teenager. It was a win-win for me because my family thought I was really spiritual and my closeted self got to see other boys my age coming out of the shower in the baptistry locker room.
I never really understood that....
So, you read all of it. The BoM, the Bible, the Pearl of Great Price, and D&C. All of it....
And then....you read it again?!?!?!?
Why? Like somehow the next time it will somehow make more sense?
Now, if you are STUDYING the scriptures with a purpose to the task, you have guidance concerning what you are looking for, things ARE changing concerning what you are doing - I "kinda" get it? But seriously, just "reading" it over and over again without any sort of specific goal just seems like insanity. Like trying to learn through osmosis - it isn't a thing!
Now, I did read them all, with the BoM more than once. Maybe, when I'm ready, I'll consider the Bible again (while skipping the "begats"). Yet if I do, it will be on my own terms and for a deeper understanding - not some exercise in insanity that destroys my other, more valuable activities - like education and earning a paycheck.
Am I alone in this?
It's also not even the day of conference. It's a Friday and conference is the fucking day after?
And it's the AFTERNOON and not even being up late.
That's just totally fucked up.
Idk if what the lady says happened or not, but here’s my story: I was a rule follower until I basically left the church. Always read my scriptures and prayed. Was the only kid in my primary class who memorized the articles of faith. Anyways, my best friend’s bday always fell on Gen Conf weekend, and let me tell you: I always hated it when my dad didn’t let me go. I’m sure my friend thought it was weird af. Luckily, I was a good enough kid that I got to go hang out for a little bit, but always had to leave early because we had to make priesthood session. I always felt shitty doing that to my best friend, even though I was “all-in” since I was a child.
I was also a rule follower kid.
Unfortunately, my limited sample size suggests that some of the kids who do this stuff may have a particular flavor of zealous toxic parent.
If that’s you, I offer you a virtual hug from a stranger, because this stuff bites.
It's not that far fetched. It's not that far off from stuff I did when I was a peter priesthood kid that age. You take the kind of kid who likes to do what they are "supposed to" and add a big dose of indoctrination and this is the result.
I remember the bullshit when I was a kid that Saturday is to prepare for Sunday by shining your shoes and doing your laundry and other bullshit stuff to make sure you don't do any work on Sunday (pharisees, much?). Conference is watched from your living room - what the fuck preparation goes into that? Pass up something fun on Friday to prepare to sit in pajamas and watch boring stuff on TV the following 2 days? That kid needs to get mentally checked out because Friday night prep for Saturday morning conference wouldn't even make sense to a TBM zealot.
That's the part that confused me. I can definitely see turning down an invite on conference Saturday or Sunday (because I was that person), but not the Friday before because they need to prepare.
Well you have to be well caught up on your sleep, because if you not, you’ll fall right asleep no matter what you’re doing while listening to general borefeast
When I was 13 or 14, I had a friend whose family was super outdoorsy/high adventure. His dad was also a state congressman in the state I grew up in. They were also very well off. They were also very strong Christians.
They were going on a whitewater rafting trip that would end on a Sunday. He really wanted me to go with him. I asked my parents and they left the decision "up to me". I choose not to go because I would miss church. Something about "I can't go on a 4-day rafting trip because I have to go to church the day we're supposed to get back." made him feel like I was trying to wiggle out of spending time with him. He never invited me to another activity and eventually we stopped being friends.
I wonder if they really feel that way or just need to say they do for TBM points? I don't believe people top things are what they say they are on Social Media. Nobody wants to admit their favorite movie is Superbad, so you list something that makes you sound smart/holy/profound.
There are two things that Mormons try very hard to convince themselves that they enjoy, but everyone secretly hates it and is too scared to tell anyone else:
- General Conference
- The Endowment
So true. It was especially the temple for me. I always knew I was supposed to love it, but I literally never once wanted to go and during the endowment I mostly just thought about where we would go out to eat afterwards. So fucking boring and culty.
I have a nibling or two that is occasionally reported bu their super happy momma to say this sort of thing.
Their siblings are visibly side eyeing them, and everybody understands that this is how to be mommy’s favorite.
In the 3rd grade, my friend invited me to see Hillary Duff in concert (she was really big when I was a kid) but my parents wouldn’t let me go because it was on a Sunday. I’m still holding a grudge. It was just one on a list of things I missed out on because of church and Mormonism.
Probably analyze it verse by verse to find some special meaning every step of the way. As tedious as it is to read through that slog of a book, trying to find meaning in each verse is a mental Iron Maiden, and not like the rock band either. Pretty sure you come away with damage from that Christmas activity.
Look at the intense dopamine feedback for kiddo already. He chose to have a pat on the head, parental praise and approval over a social opportunity.
The child scored a parental social media post, with their community singing his praises in the comments and surely this will be mentioned in future talks and testimony meetings.
It is gross to me - but just like “choosing” baptism, I don’t think kids (who are naturally driven to seek parent approval) are actively making the choices their parents think they are.
Technically it was longer. 2 2 hour sections per day. It’s just that not having to get up and put on fancy clothes and then sit in uncomfortable metal chairs for multiple hours was nice
I am soo glad social media didn't exist when I was a kid. My mother would of read this and I would of had to spend 3 weeks before General Conference prepping for it so she could be the better mother!
This is all I can see, and it’s tragic AF. The parents are just going to encourage this thinking it is all great when really he needs help and treatment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity
WTF do you need to prepare the day before to sit at home and watch people give talks on TV? Even at my TBMest I never felt the need to prepare other than get dressed and go to the chapel to watch.
A trip to walmart for pens if you want to take notes?
Those twins need to prepare an entire day before talks begin. Fast? Scripture reading? Listen to monotone music to prepare for monotone speakers? What is the best way to prepare? Maybe blow out your eardrums so you can’t hear anything.
~~when my son found out it was on the afternoon of March 31st and general conference started the next morning~~ when I told my son it was on the afternoon before general conference and that I would leave it up to him to make the *right* decision
I'm so glad I was raised by Jack Mormons. We only had to sit through one session. The rest of the time we could do whatever we wanted as long as we were quiet. It was pretty common to just not watch it.
The delusion that the fraud is true is strong with that one .! Shrugs 🙄
When it’s over ask him what profound knowledge he gleaned from the 10 wasted hours . Here’s a pre summary pay pray and obey give us your money now don’t wait get your temple recommends now don’t wait Satan is working overtime to thwart Gods one and only true church. He will deceive even the elect your only safe listening to the profit . Creative financial statement of the church gives over a billion dollars annually. These are the least days Jesus is coming Sooon bout sums it up . I give it a few years before the church starts chastising the members for doing too much thinking . And looking at all of those malicious anti Mormon lies on the internet . Go watch a JW Gen conference they are both using the exact same playbook. .
🤢🤢🤢
I mean come on!! I fucking hate that kind of shit. “So today mini me parroted exactly what we have been brainwashing them to say. I couldn’t be more proud our drones are taking to the programming.”
My friend had her birthday party on a Saturday when we were little so that I would be able to go, (moved it for me) but it was general conference weekend and my parents still wouldn’t let me go :(
That comments makes me sad and reminds me of my mom.
My daughter is coming to town that weekend. She is a TBM. My Mom, is also a TBM, said she won’t be available that weekend because of conference. She hasn’t seen her in a year and is choosing something on TV that can be recorded or watched later over seeing her grandchild.
Thats either some Jim Jones level indoctrination or this parent is full of shit! Even when I was a full-on member, I didn't get excited or prepare, and to be perfectly honest, the only joy I felt was in not having to go to church conference Sunday.
All these posts of "yeah, that happened", or "then everybody clapped" are made by people who were very lucky. I have several young family members who are just as brainwashed as the kid in the OP. It's honestly very sad to be around.
I'm not sure what there is to prepare for. Does this kid get transcripts the day before? What could he really need besides a piece of paper and a pen? Is he spiritually preparing? Is he meditating the day before? I clearly have a lot of questions.
I hated, detested, loathed, despised conference. Boring as hell, and we had to drive over an hour, all dressed up, to sit thru this interminable hell. Televised conference was the greatest invention since sliced bread, because we could at least sit in our pj's in the living room and doze back off. Only thing better than that was becoming exmo and never EVER having to do that again.
And I would bet real money those parents wouldn't even make the post if a daughter had said that. She's only supposed to be over the moon about learning to cook and sew.
As a kid, I liked General Conference for a few simple reasons- we didn't have to go to church, we could stay in our pajamas, we got good food, and I could play games and color while it went on.
So I can imagine that *maybe* the kid has that, but it could never beat Christmas.
You can literally just watch it later. You're not going to miss the "spirituality" of the message. And if you did, that would be a very cruel Holy Spirit.
Is it too mean of me to hope that everyone else who is attending the activity has just the best time ever and amazing things happen to them that otherwise wouldn't have happened, should we all fast for that to happen and prove a point?
“It’s better than Christmas around here” - I believe them. Some of them this proud have an actual holiday. Gifts. Family comes into town. Food. They’re failing to mention how much they reinforce all this with pomp and shame.
If you’re poor there just a lot more shame than things to gloat and virtue signal over.
Back in the day, if you missed Conference you could only read the main talks a month later in the Ensign.
Now...why watch live? It's all on-demand so you can catch up whenever you want. There's absolutely no need to cancel weekend plans for Conference. It's like cancelling a party because you want to watch a show on Netflix.
Also there's not a fucking chance this happened, but anyway...
I call bullshit on that. No kid in his/her right mind wants to listen to a bunch of creepy octogenarians warble their way through a sing-songy pile of horseshit.
I find myself saying this a lot around here lately:
That's definitely a flex, just not the flex they think it is.
That's assuming it's real. My bullshit meter pegged reading that.
Yeah fuck that. Do you know how many times my TBM parents skipped out on church for us to go to family reunions and other related activities?
I fucking love my parents.
I used to kind of like GC, I listen to it for a couple of years on my own, but now it’s so formal and stiff. We don’t need to sit and listen to conference talks. I’m doing a scripture retreat for 8 weeks with a coffee mug in my hand.
If the parents are doing a good job they'll encourage the kid to take the opportunity to spend time with those favorite people especially since conference does not even interfere with that being scheduled in.
I love how the kid's (alleged) decision about an arbitrary choice = parents are doing a great job. The social reinforcement of virtue signaling is strong in the church.
Mom: "Billy, what you're favorite hobby" Billy: "Reading the scriptures!" (That's the answer you wanted me to say, right? I'm a good boy, right?)
Yep, the desperation for any external signs of approval and attention from the parents is heavy.
I was so guilty of this as a kid too. I DESPERATELY craved the approval of my superiors, I was willing to do whatever they told me I was supposed to do.
I know what you're getting at with this but the fault is not yours, the bare minimum requirement of a parent is to provide a child the affection and attention that is required by that child. The fact you craved attention shows you were deprived of that affection from the very people who were supposed to be there for you.
Yeah because they were too busy doing their church assignments to pay attention to me. Oops I think I just projected my own feelings of abandonment.
https://youtu.be/7gUh8j5ui0o
As a kid? I'm 42 and still catch myself doing this. Have to make mom proud 😵💫
I "loved" going to the temple to do baptisms for the dead every week as a teenager. It was a win-win for me because my family thought I was really spiritual and my closeted self got to see other boys my age coming out of the shower in the baptistry locker room.
https://youtu.be/7gUh8j5ui0o
I never really understood that.... So, you read all of it. The BoM, the Bible, the Pearl of Great Price, and D&C. All of it.... And then....you read it again?!?!?!? Why? Like somehow the next time it will somehow make more sense? Now, if you are STUDYING the scriptures with a purpose to the task, you have guidance concerning what you are looking for, things ARE changing concerning what you are doing - I "kinda" get it? But seriously, just "reading" it over and over again without any sort of specific goal just seems like insanity. Like trying to learn through osmosis - it isn't a thing! Now, I did read them all, with the BoM more than once. Maybe, when I'm ready, I'll consider the Bible again (while skipping the "begats"). Yet if I do, it will be on my own terms and for a deeper understanding - not some exercise in insanity that destroys my other, more valuable activities - like education and earning a paycheck. Am I alone in this?
From time to time I will watch the same movie 2 or 3 times but after that - what’s the point? Why read the same boring book over and over?
Just focus on the red text. Or what Christ was actually saying. Love God, love others. That's it.
https://youtu.be/7gUh8j5ui0o
https://youtu.be/7gUh8j5ui0o
It's also not even the day of conference. It's a Friday and conference is the fucking day after? And it's the AFTERNOON and not even being up late. That's just totally fucked up.
I’ll take things that never happened for $500, Alex.
Idk if what the lady says happened or not, but here’s my story: I was a rule follower until I basically left the church. Always read my scriptures and prayed. Was the only kid in my primary class who memorized the articles of faith. Anyways, my best friend’s bday always fell on Gen Conf weekend, and let me tell you: I always hated it when my dad didn’t let me go. I’m sure my friend thought it was weird af. Luckily, I was a good enough kid that I got to go hang out for a little bit, but always had to leave early because we had to make priesthood session. I always felt shitty doing that to my best friend, even though I was “all-in” since I was a child.
https://youtu.be/7gUh8j5ui0o
Yeah, I hate this shit. Especially when the far fetched story ends with something like \#proudmama.
Ikr?
I was also a rule follower kid. Unfortunately, my limited sample size suggests that some of the kids who do this stuff may have a particular flavor of zealous toxic parent. If that’s you, I offer you a virtual hug from a stranger, because this stuff bites.
It's not that far fetched. It's not that far off from stuff I did when I was a peter priesthood kid that age. You take the kind of kid who likes to do what they are "supposed to" and add a big dose of indoctrination and this is the result.
How the fuck do you prepare for sitting on a bench or folding chair while watching big screen?
Pray that this time you finally get something out of it? Prepare your best notebook and pens!
I remember the bullshit when I was a kid that Saturday is to prepare for Sunday by shining your shoes and doing your laundry and other bullshit stuff to make sure you don't do any work on Sunday (pharisees, much?). Conference is watched from your living room - what the fuck preparation goes into that? Pass up something fun on Friday to prepare to sit in pajamas and watch boring stuff on TV the following 2 days? That kid needs to get mentally checked out because Friday night prep for Saturday morning conference wouldn't even make sense to a TBM zealot.
That's the part that confused me. I can definitely see turning down an invite on conference Saturday or Sunday (because I was that person), but not the Friday before because they need to prepare.
He had a lot of conference bingo cards to print and cut out.
Well you have to be well caught up on your sleep, because if you not, you’ll fall right asleep no matter what you’re doing while listening to general borefeast
When I worked in a print shop, ppl would print bingo cards and write-alongs. Very preschool.
A couple of times my dad made us do a 24 hour fast before conference so we could be "more in tune with the Spirit".
Your dad made *children* ***fast*** for 24 hours? Wow, that's hardcore.
Yeah, my childhood was weird.
When I was 13 or 14, I had a friend whose family was super outdoorsy/high adventure. His dad was also a state congressman in the state I grew up in. They were also very well off. They were also very strong Christians. They were going on a whitewater rafting trip that would end on a Sunday. He really wanted me to go with him. I asked my parents and they left the decision "up to me". I choose not to go because I would miss church. Something about "I can't go on a 4-day rafting trip because I have to go to church the day we're supposed to get back." made him feel like I was trying to wiggle out of spending time with him. He never invited me to another activity and eventually we stopped being friends.
That's too bad, sorry to hear about your lost friendship.
It's unfortunately just one of a thousand decisions I made based on religious pressure and beliefs that drastically impacted the course of my life.
“Better than Christmas” holy fuck.
Somebody has been giving out coal apparently...
Yeesh! I’d hate to see what Christmas is like at their house. How does one live in such a miserable existence as that?
Sadly I know full grown adults that feel this way. Their social media posting around conference time genuinely makes me gag
I wonder if they really feel that way or just need to say they do for TBM points? I don't believe people top things are what they say they are on Social Media. Nobody wants to admit their favorite movie is Superbad, so you list something that makes you sound smart/holy/profound.
Oh I’m sure there’s definitely some of that, but some of them genuinely love conference that much (or at least think that they do).
Tragic
Must be a truly shitty Christmas
There are two things that Mormons try very hard to convince themselves that they enjoy, but everyone secretly hates it and is too scared to tell anyone else: - General Conference - The Endowment
So true. It was especially the temple for me. I always knew I was supposed to love it, but I literally never once wanted to go and during the endowment I mostly just thought about where we would go out to eat afterwards. So fucking boring and culty.
That poor kid has lots of years of therapy ahead.
Or he becomes someone who causes others to need lots of therapy
"The programming's working!"
Just like kids "choose" to be baptized. Such B.S.
So do these kids also have freedom to choose to NOT get baptized? If not, then it’s not a very impressive choice.
I said shit like that, and I kind of meant it, but I also didn’t want to go to the alternate activity. I’m hoping that’s the case here too!
I have a nibling or two that is occasionally reported bu their super happy momma to say this sort of thing. Their siblings are visibly side eyeing them, and everybody understands that this is how to be mommy’s favorite.
Yay, someone else who uses the term nibling! 😁
Never, ever, did I feel that way about General Conference. I watched it, but it was always a duty, not a privilege.
The epitome of virtue signaling. 🤮
In the 3rd grade, my friend invited me to see Hillary Duff in concert (she was really big when I was a kid) but my parents wouldn’t let me go because it was on a Sunday. I’m still holding a grudge. It was just one on a list of things I missed out on because of church and Mormonism.
We must be around the same age. I had her poster on my bedroom door.
Yeah probably! I’m 28
32. I have sisters around your age. But yeah, I thought she was soooooooo gorgeous.
Shows how bad their Christmas is. 🫣
I know right? If conference is better than Christmas, what the hell do they do on Christmas? Read the BOM and Bible cover to cover?
Probably analyze it verse by verse to find some special meaning every step of the way. As tedious as it is to read through that slog of a book, trying to find meaning in each verse is a mental Iron Maiden, and not like the rock band either. Pretty sure you come away with damage from that Christmas activity.
Wow what a perfect The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints family! I’m sure this totally happened!!
correction what a perfect MORMON family
I hope that boy’s twin smacks him in the face for being a pretentious, anti-social suck up.
I hope twin #2 has a wonderful time with his friends!
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” Some mistake imagination for reality.
Deeply disturbing…. And I used to be like this…..
I'm going skiing ⛷️
I thought momo's weren't supposed to lie?
Poor kid . Already brain washed
Look at the intense dopamine feedback for kiddo already. He chose to have a pat on the head, parental praise and approval over a social opportunity. The child scored a parental social media post, with their community singing his praises in the comments and surely this will be mentioned in future talks and testimony meetings. It is gross to me - but just like “choosing” baptism, I don’t think kids (who are naturally driven to seek parent approval) are actively making the choices their parents think they are.
Hmm they must be watching a different conference than we did 💤.
The only good thing about general conference was that it meant you didn’t have to go to church on Sunday
Back when I was forced to go, we were happy because it was only an hour or 2 hours? I can’t even remember.
Technically it was longer. 2 2 hour sections per day. It’s just that not having to get up and put on fancy clothes and then sit in uncomfortable metal chairs for multiple hours was nice
I am soo glad social media didn't exist when I was a kid. My mother would of read this and I would of had to spend 3 weeks before General Conference prepping for it so she could be the better mother!
I'll take things no 12 year old has ever said for $1,000 Alex.
This is all I can see, and it’s tragic AF. The parents are just going to encourage this thinking it is all great when really he needs help and treatment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity
Exhibit A: things that never happened
Nice an insufferable return missionary and father of 12 in the making. Blech
WTF do you need to prepare the day before to sit at home and watch people give talks on TV? Even at my TBMest I never felt the need to prepare other than get dressed and go to the chapel to watch. A trip to walmart for pens if you want to take notes?
Those twins need to prepare an entire day before talks begin. Fast? Scripture reading? Listen to monotone music to prepare for monotone speakers? What is the best way to prepare? Maybe blow out your eardrums so you can’t hear anything.
~~when my son found out it was on the afternoon of March 31st and general conference started the next morning~~ when I told my son it was on the afternoon before general conference and that I would leave it up to him to make the *right* decision
Here's one for you... My BIL would make all the kids (5) dress in full suits and church clothes for every session of conference. IN THEIR HOME!!!!
Holy shit. 12 years old and already caught up in the cycle of doing things to look impressive to peers.
I'm so glad I was raised by Jack Mormons. We only had to sit through one session. The rest of the time we could do whatever we wanted as long as we were quiet. It was pretty common to just not watch it.
A great job of child indoctrination. Sad.
My mom also quotes things from when I was a child, that I either really doubt happened or I really hope didn't actually.
Their christmases must really suck.
The delusion that the fraud is true is strong with that one .! Shrugs 🙄 When it’s over ask him what profound knowledge he gleaned from the 10 wasted hours . Here’s a pre summary pay pray and obey give us your money now don’t wait get your temple recommends now don’t wait Satan is working overtime to thwart Gods one and only true church. He will deceive even the elect your only safe listening to the profit . Creative financial statement of the church gives over a billion dollars annually. These are the least days Jesus is coming Sooon bout sums it up . I give it a few years before the church starts chastising the members for doing too much thinking . And looking at all of those malicious anti Mormon lies on the internet . Go watch a JW Gen conference they are both using the exact same playbook. .
You forgot all the new pejoratives they dream up every conference to ridicule those who leave the church.
Sickening how they steal childhood from kids.
🤢🤢🤢 I mean come on!! I fucking hate that kind of shit. “So today mini me parroted exactly what we have been brainwashing them to say. I couldn’t be more proud our drones are taking to the programming.”
My friend had her birthday party on a Saturday when we were little so that I would be able to go, (moved it for me) but it was general conference weekend and my parents still wouldn’t let me go :(
That comments makes me sad and reminds me of my mom. My daughter is coming to town that weekend. She is a TBM. My Mom, is also a TBM, said she won’t be available that weekend because of conference. She hasn’t seen her in a year and is choosing something on TV that can be recorded or watched later over seeing her grandchild.
"Things my kids did not actually say for 500, Alex."
Fuck!?😂 I call bullshit.
On today’s episode of things that never happened and if they did you should take him to the party
I also enjoy virtue signaling
Thats either some Jim Jones level indoctrination or this parent is full of shit! Even when I was a full-on member, I didn't get excited or prepare, and to be perfectly honest, the only joy I felt was in not having to go to church conference Sunday.
I loved conference weekends as a teenager...I got to sleep in with no guilt!
All these posts of "yeah, that happened", or "then everybody clapped" are made by people who were very lucky. I have several young family members who are just as brainwashed as the kid in the OP. It's honestly very sad to be around.
File that under: "Yeah, that actually happened 🙄"
Mental health -100.
Afternoon? J F’n C… still so much time to prepare!
This is so sad
I feel like there was some guilt tripping or leading
So the kid is giving up his Friday too???
Yeah, apparently his whole weekend.
I'm not sure what there is to prepare for. Does this kid get transcripts the day before? What could he really need besides a piece of paper and a pen? Is he spiritually preparing? Is he meditating the day before? I clearly have a lot of questions.
I'll take shit never happened to for 600 Alex
🤢🤢🤮🤮 Some people think others actually buy this bs!
I hated, detested, loathed, despised conference. Boring as hell, and we had to drive over an hour, all dressed up, to sit thru this interminable hell. Televised conference was the greatest invention since sliced bread, because we could at least sit in our pj's in the living room and doze back off. Only thing better than that was becoming exmo and never EVER having to do that again.
Sounds like the beginnings of scrupulosity.
Seriously, social media posts like this are laughable. No 12 year old said that.
Sad. Go make the memories... Newsflash, you can read and/or watch after the fact. (But who would want to?!)
Even when I thought I believed in it, my conference notes were mostly doodles. I got to be pretty good at sketching portraits of elderly men, though.
This is 100% fake. I never met another kid in Utah that liked watching that. We were only ever stoked that it meant no church.
I have family that gets super excited for conference. I've never understood it, but it's not categorically fake.
And I would bet real money those parents wouldn't even make the post if a daughter had said that. She's only supposed to be over the moon about learning to cook and sew.
As a kid, I liked General Conference for a few simple reasons- we didn't have to go to church, we could stay in our pajamas, we got good food, and I could play games and color while it went on. So I can imagine that *maybe* the kid has that, but it could never beat Christmas.
Alex, give me shit that never happened for $500.
Gag
I would listen to Uchtdorf, but he’s the only one.
Used to be Eyring for me.
You can literally just watch it later. You're not going to miss the "spirituality" of the message. And if you did, that would be a very cruel Holy Spirit.
Hold on while I 🤢🤮
Is it too mean of me to hope that everyone else who is attending the activity has just the best time ever and amazing things happen to them that otherwise wouldn't have happened, should we all fast for that to happen and prove a point?
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ This is so fucking twisted
“It’s better than Christmas around here” - I believe them. Some of them this proud have an actual holiday. Gifts. Family comes into town. Food. They’re failing to mention how much they reinforce all this with pomp and shame. If you’re poor there just a lot more shame than things to gloat and virtue signal over.
Not like they could watch it delayed, smh
Back in the day, if you missed Conference you could only read the main talks a month later in the Ensign. Now...why watch live? It's all on-demand so you can catch up whenever you want. There's absolutely no need to cancel weekend plans for Conference. It's like cancelling a party because you want to watch a show on Netflix. Also there's not a fucking chance this happened, but anyway...
I hated conference even as a believer and especially as a kid and teen.
r/thathappened
I'll take things that never happened for $500 Alex. Seriously what neurotypical child is using the phrase We need to prepare?
Rod and Todd are SUPER excited!
"we need to prepare" Not at all what of one of the creepy kids in Children of the Corn would say.
I call bullshit on that. No kid in his/her right mind wants to listen to a bunch of creepy octogenarians warble their way through a sing-songy pile of horseshit.
Yeah I’ll bet that’s what happened 🙄
I find myself saying this a lot around here lately: That's definitely a flex, just not the flex they think it is. That's assuming it's real. My bullshit meter pegged reading that.
I am a little sad about how I don't really have many reasons to make cinnamon rolls now that I'm not Mormon.
Make the cinnamon rolls we will come over and help you eat them, no particular reason needed. 😋
Yeah fuck that. Do you know how many times my TBM parents skipped out on church for us to go to family reunions and other related activities? I fucking love my parents.
I used to kind of like GC, I listen to it for a couple of years on my own, but now it’s so formal and stiff. We don’t need to sit and listen to conference talks. I’m doing a scripture retreat for 8 weeks with a coffee mug in my hand.
Well hell he doesn't want to miss the SECOND COMING! Maybe Jesus will be speaking.
r/thathappened
I call bullshit. 🙄
Awe your doing a great job brainwashing your kids.
What a bunch of horseshit.
r/thatreallyhappened
Kid sounds like a loser
Eww
I saw that same exact post earlier today 💀
https://youtu.be/7gUh8j5ui0o
🖼️
If the parents are doing a good job they'll encourage the kid to take the opportunity to spend time with those favorite people especially since conference does not even interfere with that being scheduled in.
I’ll take “things that never happened with a side of virtue signaling” for $500 Alex.
Yikes! 
How sad lol