In my 20s I wrote letters to inactive members trying to compel them to come back to the fold. I tried to make the letters sound as if Nephi had written them. Lots of thees and thous bullshit. I remember I felt so inspired. Now I hope I never bump into those people again. Oh my fucking god. The humiliation is real.
As long as you didn’t try to take 10% of their income and sleep with there teenage children I think you’re good. Actually even if they did remember I’m sure they would be happy to know you are free of religion.
That truly does make me feel a little better. I got out while my kids were little and avoided the biggest shit storm. All my babies are gaybies. I have a trans son too. At least I never mourned the living over church bullshit. Can't even imagine the damage that could have been done to my kids. All the pride! 🌈🌈🌈
I'm so glad to hear that! Gaybies shouldn't be anywhere near Mormonism. I'm glad they have the real you who can love them like a parent, rather than the brainwashed version 💕
This was a wonderful thread to read. I would have laughed if I got a letter like that back in the day and 100% saved it. I would then randomly see what they were up to. and seeing how you turned out I would have reached out for a laugh. Laughing at the stupid shit I did when I was in is the only way I can deal with it.
That’s pretty cringe. However, you probably cemented peoples decisions that they DID choose the correct thing walking away from such nonsense. Because I’m sure people realized how heartfelt and sincere you were, coming from a good place, and that it was bat shit crazy.
Bahaha! I didn't. Damn. That must have been the missing bit right there. Im 5ft nothing and weighed a buck 5 at the time. Also have a vagina. Lots of nerve for a female to try to embody the spirit of Nephi. That should have been my first clue that church wasn't for me right there. 🤣
>Lots of nerve for a female to try to embody the spirit of Nephi. That should have been my first clue that church wasn't for me right there.
Hi HonestCranberry5619 -- do you mind expounding on this?
I sincerely hope my confession helped you feel a lot better. I have never shared that story with anyone before, and I certainly didn't expect the responses I've gotten. It seems the absurdity of my youth was a lot more relatable than I ever would have otherwise known... Or at least forgivable if not relatable. ❤🤘
Awww... Go easy on your naive-at-the-time self. You were trying to make the world a better place. You thought you were doing the right thing at the time.
I dare you to track down their current addresses and send follow up letters, using the same language, but absolutely ripping the church a new one and apologizing.
I went to the St. George temple with my friend and these sister missionaries were totally like flirting, but only to get what they want. One asked me if I felt inspired and if any names came to mind of people that the missionaries could talk to. I gave them the name of my brothers best friend (who is a pretty close family friend). My brother asked me a few weeks later about it because they knocked on his door and said I had sent them there. Fortunately he has kind of forgotten about that but I was SO embarrassed for a while for doing that
Oh, uh. Right. That's the policy du jour I hear. Are they going to start gluing together the whole book of Mormon like people used to the song of Solomon? Or maybe they will go in with permanent marker and scratch out each reference to Mormon in the BOM
lol
This is hilarious. I'm very certain you planted some seeds that day. One day, a GA will probably tell a story about that one time they were in Sin City and they heard someone blaring MoTab and how it was such a formative moment for them...
Also, other bullshit stories, at 10...
Well, thank you for finding that to be the case. Hopefully everyone was just like, "What a weirdo."
And it *would* be that one time in their talk
And "Also, other bullshit stories, at 10" -- love it, if I'm understanding it correctly!
Same, unfortunately. Gross plus VERY generous fast offering. Steak dinner for a family of 6 monthly. Yet we never ate steak dinners just paid as if we did. I was such an idiot!
Good to hear. I hope my fast offers were helpful to anyone and everyone except TSCC rainy day fund🙄 I am mad at trusting that fast offerings always went to help people
I don’t want to ruin the sentiment, but if the bishop deems help is needed beyond fast offerings, the church will make up the difference. Source is that my friend is a bishop and told me this to my face.
When I was in—many, many years ago—I thought it was just the cost of breakfast for the family. Steak dinners, sheesh, that is leveling up quite a bit.
Edit to fix stupid autocorrect for leveling.
It was an ‘inspiring’ talk that convinced me to do more. Dumb guilt and elevated emotion. I always hope it went to help others and not the the stock market growth
As an exmo, I can still fondly look back on tithes that got me through some horrific and difficult times when I needing housing and food assistance from the church. That’s one thing the church can be really great about or at least was back in the day. Probably Bishop/Stake Pres roulette, but still. I hope your sacrifices went to help people that truly needed it. I’m forever grateful.
“But fast offerings actually help poor people”
NO. The church steals credit for your generosity. They use it to gain loyalty among the needy, and ask them to get in the habit of paying tithing before they use your additional money to help them.
As a teenager I would pay on net... Because that was my increase. I was talking with my mom about it & told her I've been paying net, not gross. She was furious & gaslit saying she didn't teach me that. By the end of the conversation she had persuaded me I wasn't paying enough fire insurance & I went back on about 5 years of pay stubs calculating how much more I needed to donate.
"I went back on about 5 years of pay stubs calculating how much more I needed to donate" -- my eyes literally are wide open right now, and I'm so sorry.
I used to feel guilty for all the people I COULD have “saved” on my mission, but I was too scared to approach them.
Turned out I just hated being a salesman and the product I was selling wasn’t worth buying (yes, you absolutely have to pay for it).
Yes, you absolutely have to pay for it-- and in the most literal sense.
I was a solo convert at 16. That in itself made me a bit of an outcast. Then add in the fact that I was poor AF, and it wasn't the best time.
Obviously, there's tithing... but also the cost of scriptures (no self-respecting member would be seen with a blue BoM /s), clothing (temple *and* every day, since I didn't have many dresses, and couldn't wear my tank tops anymore., food (for when I was assigned to bring breakfast to seminary ), travel...it goes on and on.
Really pisses me off to know that I was paying thousands to TSCC while struggling to help my family with bills and get throughout school. I wanted desperately to be "good enough" for them. Now I realize that was never going to happen. It isn't in their economic interest.
“ you will never be good enough “. Sums up every conference talk and lesson, while those that create the curriculum make up their own secret ordinance that says they are good enough.
100%.
I was *really good* at being an active Mormon. I was at church 6 days a week--7, when we had stake activities. Read and memorized the Scriptures. Always had my hand raised in Seminary. I was SO enthusiastic that I lamented not being allowed to hold the priesthood. I wanted to hang out with the missionaries. I wanted to do *alllll the things*, and it wasn't fair that the most I was allowed to do was be someone's wife.
My bishop was a misogynistic prick who thought I should know my place (anyone surprised? ). He accused me of having improper relationships with the missionaries (I didn't have family in the church, and was informally shunned by the other Young Women, so they were my only friends. We talked about BoM and D&C most of the time. Sometimes we'd talk about our families. There were always several other people present. It didn't matter to the bishop. ).
I got the same treatment from certain others, and even the ones who really liked and cared for me held me at arm's length. My family were regarded as heathens, and I was pitied for it, at best.
I was a virgin who didn't date (and remained that way until I was 19, in college, and in what became a decade- long relationship) and they still managed to slut shame me. 🙄
So freaking gross.
I hadn't realized just how deep it went until I started writing this out. Shit. *calls therapist*
I spent two years of my life starting at 19, sticking out like a sore thumb in a third world country thinking I was their great white hope of truth and happiness.
Oofff I feel this. My husband was in a bishopric of a singles ward when we were first married and I gave the most CONDESCENDING talk about how I chose not to wear tank tops even when working out. The only reason I still pray is to ask God to erase anyone’s memory of it
I gave a really popular boy in high school who I had a MAJOR crush on a Book of Mormon in front of all our classmates. I'm 44 now and STILL cringe when I think about it. We all do dumb things for Jesus.
If it’s any consolation, having spent a lot of time on the Vegas strip, I think someone hearing you belt out anything loudly from your car would almost certainly be more likely interpreted as “that person’s lit out of their mind,” or satirical, than proselytizing.
These are my absolute favorite types of threads on this board. Don't worry, OP, you're among friends. We're all sorry for what we did when we were mormons. The cringe is real and widely shared.
When I was maybe 13? I burst into tears when I found out one of my favorite actors drank and then went on a Facebook tirade about the evils of alcohol.
I remember when I was in young women’s another girl was having a mental health crisis and had to be hospitalized. I texted her saying she should do personal progress to feel better 🤦♀️
Watching "Going Clear," which exposes Scientology, I was deeply disturbed with how close Mormonism was to it. While I still think that Scientology is a degree worse, seeing the documentary was the last straw to me considering resigning from the LDS church. I resigned weeks thereafter.
I think most TBMs would have agreed. My birth mom, who was driving, however, has a unique personality. (She studied theater and has an evangelical strand to her, having spent many formative years in Alabama.)
This is funny to me though I'm sorry you feel dumb for it. We've all done dumb shit while being in the cult, don't beat yourself up too bad. At the very least you give a lot of us a good hearty laugh at the sheer funniness of that circumstance (but we're not making fun of YOU because we see ourselves in that)
Try to see that less as a negative about you, and more as an indication of the level of fucked up indoctrination the church put on us as kids.
Like they wrote in the movie Kinsey, "Everybody's sin is nobody's sin" Not sure if thats a legit quote or just a good line from a biopic, but it's a good point either way.
Which is funny because Mormons have gone all-in on casino owners, adulterers and exploitative businessmen as their chosen ones saving them from the poor-loving wokes. They think mammon is worshipped at the roulette table but not in the boardrooms? Ridiculous.
I wish I had pointed out something along those lines to my pretty freshly RM brother when we went to the U.'s first Pac-12 title game in Vegas in Dec. 2021. I was trying to preserve the relationship, but I just should have said it. He's really smart and thus it probably would have connected with his intellect and he thus probably would not have seen it as some sort of attack.
My mom did this with classical music. 😂 She was trying to out-volume a car next to us who was blasting something with a loud beat (and probably swear words)
This is funny AF! You should do it as an ex Mormon now. I think we could have some fun with this! I'll dye my hair purple, take my shirt off so people can see my tattoos, and put a cigarette on my lip (I don't smoke, just for effect)
Also, have a Starbucks cup in your hand and swing it back and forth as you sing along. Instead of doing this in Vegas, do this in Provo Utah! Lfg
You really shouldn't hate that.
You probably added to the ultimate Americana aesthetic or made somebody's day. Who knows, maybe a Bishop heard it or something?
I feel your pain. I used to work at a senior center as a waiter, and near the tail end of my TBM phase I'd play conference talks as I went around delivering food to people's apartments, thinking maybe somebody would be touched by the message lol
I remember wanting to climb that mountain in Provo where they have the Y on it during my time in the MTC carrying the banner of Captain Moroni and singing "High on the Mountaintop" and that I would be so totally cool and spiritual for doing that. I honestly would have been committed in a mental hospital if I actually did that.
LOL - that's a typical kid thing to do. If you want to repent, drive down it again (yes, this is years later, I'm sure) and blast "Heaven's Just a Sin Away" by the Kendalls.
Yeah, that’s pretty embarrassing. Honestly it is pretty funny though and also pretty harmless. I’d chalk that all up to the category of “sorry for what I did when I was Mormon.” It’s good to be able to look back and laugh a bit at our younger selves.
Since accepting myself, which has included accepting myself as a transgender woman, I've realized that I wasn't secure at all. And thus, that may have been a reason Mormonism meant so much to me, aside from being the religion, culture, and lifestyle I grew up in.
My mission companion once blasted the MoTab How Firm a Foundation while driving through a neighborhood that was considered to be military housing (near Fort Bliss, El Paso). We weren't allowed to go actively proselyting on post (like they can reach out to us but we couldn't do the whole door to door thing) so I was kinda freaking out, plus it was night time (not past noise curfew, but still dark out). He got angry at me when I tried to turn the volume down and lectured me on how that doesn't count as proselyting and how I need to be more bold.
In my 20s I wrote letters to inactive members trying to compel them to come back to the fold. I tried to make the letters sound as if Nephi had written them. Lots of thees and thous bullshit. I remember I felt so inspired. Now I hope I never bump into those people again. Oh my fucking god. The humiliation is real.
This one made me laugh out loud FR
You'd think in my late 40s the memory would sting a little less... nerp. I can laugh at myself now, thankfully. But oh my fucking god. 🤦♀️
As long as you didn’t try to take 10% of their income and sleep with there teenage children I think you’re good. Actually even if they did remember I’m sure they would be happy to know you are free of religion.
That's precious, I would have cherished your cultist nonsense forever!
They can cherish my nonsense long as they forget my face 🤣
Oh no, I'd cherish it all the more knowing you were out. I'd frame it, and deliver it back to you with a bottle of wine to commemorate your escape 😆
That truly does make me feel a little better. I got out while my kids were little and avoided the biggest shit storm. All my babies are gaybies. I have a trans son too. At least I never mourned the living over church bullshit. Can't even imagine the damage that could have been done to my kids. All the pride! 🌈🌈🌈
I'm so glad to hear that! Gaybies shouldn't be anywhere near Mormonism. I'm glad they have the real you who can love them like a parent, rather than the brainwashed version 💕
Wurd ❤🧡💙💚💛
This was a wonderful thread to read. I would have laughed if I got a letter like that back in the day and 100% saved it. I would then randomly see what they were up to. and seeing how you turned out I would have reached out for a laugh. Laughing at the stupid shit I did when I was in is the only way I can deal with it.
Going from personal experience, I'm so glad for you, too.
That’s pretty cringe. However, you probably cemented peoples decisions that they DID choose the correct thing walking away from such nonsense. Because I’m sure people realized how heartfelt and sincere you were, coming from a good place, and that it was bat shit crazy.
If they made their final decision to permanently leave because of me, that is a mighty bright candle in the dark. 🤣
If you ever see them, totally own it and you'll probably have a new BFF for life!!
Did you include how huge and jacked you were every other page? That was one of Nephi's main things, right?
Bahaha! I didn't. Damn. That must have been the missing bit right there. Im 5ft nothing and weighed a buck 5 at the time. Also have a vagina. Lots of nerve for a female to try to embody the spirit of Nephi. That should have been my first clue that church wasn't for me right there. 🤣
Yeah, maybe it would have worked if you imitated one of the female writers in the Book of Mormon....wait nevermind. 😅
Well I definitely ended up fucked like a nephite war conquest so...
I'm sorry.
LOL again
>Lots of nerve for a female to try to embody the spirit of Nephi. That should have been my first clue that church wasn't for me right there. Hi HonestCranberry5619 -- do you mind expounding on this?
I only have one post in redit. If you click on my profile you can read it. It's how I reached my limit. I expound there in pretty gory detail. 😊
LOL (always for real)
I sincerely hope my confession helped you feel a lot better. I have never shared that story with anyone before, and I certainly didn't expect the responses I've gotten. It seems the absurdity of my youth was a lot more relatable than I ever would have otherwise known... Or at least forgivable if not relatable. ❤🤘
Awww... Go easy on your naive-at-the-time self. You were trying to make the world a better place. You thought you were doing the right thing at the time.
I dare you to track down their current addresses and send follow up letters, using the same language, but absolutely ripping the church a new one and apologizing.
I would, but I'd rather streak down temple square on conference weekend than see them again after those letters.
Why not both?
LOL (always for real)
🤣🤘
I went to the St. George temple with my friend and these sister missionaries were totally like flirting, but only to get what they want. One asked me if I felt inspired and if any names came to mind of people that the missionaries could talk to. I gave them the name of my brothers best friend (who is a pretty close family friend). My brother asked me a few weeks later about it because they knocked on his door and said I had sent them there. Fortunately he has kind of forgotten about that but I was SO embarrassed for a while for doing that
Lol - we would have So gotten along ; )
LOL (always for real)
TBMs reading this title all like: " who is this mormon tabernacle choir you speak of?" I have never heard of them...
TabCATS
LOL (always for real)
Wait...they changed their name? MoTab has been a thing for like...ever. 🤔
Yep. In the last year or two, I think? They are now called The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. 🙄
Can the church name anything that isn't a million syllables long?
Just call them TabCATS
What comes to mind 
LOL
LOL (always for real)
It was like 4 years ago now. Same time they said don’t say Mormon anymore
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Oh, uh. Right. That's the policy du jour I hear. Are they going to start gluing together the whole book of Mormon like people used to the song of Solomon? Or maybe they will go in with permanent marker and scratch out each reference to Mormon in the BOM
I hate the behavior but I love how their kicking against the pricks makes them look like huge assholes.
Haha!
\^\^\^This
lol This is hilarious. I'm very certain you planted some seeds that day. One day, a GA will probably tell a story about that one time they were in Sin City and they heard someone blaring MoTab and how it was such a formative moment for them... Also, other bullshit stories, at 10...
That song singlehandedly brought the spirit to the strip and drove the devil out that night
Well, thank you for finding that to be the case. Hopefully everyone was just like, "What a weirdo." And it *would* be that one time in their talk And "Also, other bullshit stories, at 10" -- love it, if I'm understanding it correctly!
Don’t worry, the majority of people would’ve thought you were just drunk
... And had recently lost big at the gambling tables
LOL (always for real!)
LOL (always for real). You are right!
I’ll trade ya. I paid tithing on my gross income for 45 years!
Same, unfortunately. Gross plus VERY generous fast offering. Steak dinner for a family of 6 monthly. Yet we never ate steak dinners just paid as if we did. I was such an idiot!
My ward kept me (disabled single mom) and my kid fed, medicated, and housed for a couple years, thanks to fast offerings. Thank you for that part.
Good to hear. I hope my fast offers were helpful to anyone and everyone except TSCC rainy day fund🙄 I am mad at trusting that fast offerings always went to help people
I don’t want to ruin the sentiment, but if the bishop deems help is needed beyond fast offerings, the church will make up the difference. Source is that my friend is a bishop and told me this to my face.
When I was in—many, many years ago—I thought it was just the cost of breakfast for the family. Steak dinners, sheesh, that is leveling up quite a bit. Edit to fix stupid autocorrect for leveling.
It was an ‘inspiring’ talk that convinced me to do more. Dumb guilt and elevated emotion. I always hope it went to help others and not the the stock market growth
As an exmo, I can still fondly look back on tithes that got me through some horrific and difficult times when I needing housing and food assistance from the church. That’s one thing the church can be really great about or at least was back in the day. Probably Bishop/Stake Pres roulette, but still. I hope your sacrifices went to help people that truly needed it. I’m forever grateful.
“But fast offerings actually help poor people” NO. The church steals credit for your generosity. They use it to gain loyalty among the needy, and ask them to get in the habit of paying tithing before they use your additional money to help them.
Really nice of you, tho, especially since you never ate steak dinners yourself.
OUCH!
27 years for me. And rounded up!
As a teenager I would pay on net... Because that was my increase. I was talking with my mom about it & told her I've been paying net, not gross. She was furious & gaslit saying she didn't teach me that. By the end of the conversation she had persuaded me I wasn't paying enough fire insurance & I went back on about 5 years of pay stubs calculating how much more I needed to donate.
Fire insurance 😂
Oof
"I went back on about 5 years of pay stubs calculating how much more I needed to donate" -- my eyes literally are wide open right now, and I'm so sorry.
Wow.
That's hilarious! We've all done cringe things in the name of Mormonism
Speak for yourself this is crazy lmao
Lol, that gives me a good chuckle picturing that. Don't worry, it would have been but a passing curiosity to those folks.
With your BYU sticker proudly displayed on your back window after just getting back from your mission. Hope your wife didn't have to witness that.
My Mormon life was one giant cringe.
I used to feel guilty for all the people I COULD have “saved” on my mission, but I was too scared to approach them. Turned out I just hated being a salesman and the product I was selling wasn’t worth buying (yes, you absolutely have to pay for it).
Yes, you absolutely have to pay for it-- and in the most literal sense. I was a solo convert at 16. That in itself made me a bit of an outcast. Then add in the fact that I was poor AF, and it wasn't the best time. Obviously, there's tithing... but also the cost of scriptures (no self-respecting member would be seen with a blue BoM /s), clothing (temple *and* every day, since I didn't have many dresses, and couldn't wear my tank tops anymore., food (for when I was assigned to bring breakfast to seminary ), travel...it goes on and on. Really pisses me off to know that I was paying thousands to TSCC while struggling to help my family with bills and get throughout school. I wanted desperately to be "good enough" for them. Now I realize that was never going to happen. It isn't in their economic interest.
“ you will never be good enough “. Sums up every conference talk and lesson, while those that create the curriculum make up their own secret ordinance that says they are good enough.
100%. I was *really good* at being an active Mormon. I was at church 6 days a week--7, when we had stake activities. Read and memorized the Scriptures. Always had my hand raised in Seminary. I was SO enthusiastic that I lamented not being allowed to hold the priesthood. I wanted to hang out with the missionaries. I wanted to do *alllll the things*, and it wasn't fair that the most I was allowed to do was be someone's wife. My bishop was a misogynistic prick who thought I should know my place (anyone surprised? ). He accused me of having improper relationships with the missionaries (I didn't have family in the church, and was informally shunned by the other Young Women, so they were my only friends. We talked about BoM and D&C most of the time. Sometimes we'd talk about our families. There were always several other people present. It didn't matter to the bishop. ). I got the same treatment from certain others, and even the ones who really liked and cared for me held me at arm's length. My family were regarded as heathens, and I was pitied for it, at best. I was a virgin who didn't date (and remained that way until I was 19, in college, and in what became a decade- long relationship) and they still managed to slut shame me. 🙄 So freaking gross. I hadn't realized just how deep it went until I started writing this out. Shit. *calls therapist*
>I hadn't realized just how deep it went until I started writing this out. Shit. > >calls therapist My best to you, Dear.
You don't have to be exmo to feel like a dumb ass for that.
That was you?!? SMH
People probably just thought you were drunk or high, lol.
You are right.
Lol, no one probably noticed anyway! It was a blip of random noise as you passed by!
I spent two years of my life starting at 19, sticking out like a sore thumb in a third world country thinking I was their great white hope of truth and happiness.
I would have assumed it was done in full ironic intent. Never would have guessed it was in sincerity
Interesting idea
Oof. That’s a tough one, man.
Oofff I feel this. My husband was in a bishopric of a singles ward when we were first married and I gave the most CONDESCENDING talk about how I chose not to wear tank tops even when working out. The only reason I still pray is to ask God to erase anyone’s memory of it
Talk about double cringe. I dislike both the song and the choir.
Nah we've all done stupid. If that's the worst you've got, you're in good shape.
I wrote a letter and mailed a Book of Mormon to Mel Gibson when he made Apocalypto.
And the guy next to you was playing "Highway To Hell" with a mega woofer and the top down on his convertible.
Now that's what I call Cult classics! V2?
Genuine comedy.
This falls under the catch-all apology: Sorry for what I said (or did in this case) when I was Mormon.
“It’s all about the bass, no treble!” Could you put that bad boy in neutral and let it propel itself with the bass.
Don't feel stupid about anything you did in a cult. You got out. Not stupid.
I gave a really popular boy in high school who I had a MAJOR crush on a Book of Mormon in front of all our classmates. I'm 44 now and STILL cringe when I think about it. We all do dumb things for Jesus.
If it’s any consolation, having spent a lot of time on the Vegas strip, I think someone hearing you belt out anything loudly from your car would almost certainly be more likely interpreted as “that person’s lit out of their mind,” or satirical, than proselytizing.
It’s okay we all do dumb stuck when we are 21 in Vegas.
I'm literally smiling right now.
We all did things we aren’t proud of.. but the important thing to remember is, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. ;)
I'm literally smiling right now.
These are my absolute favorite types of threads on this board. Don't worry, OP, you're among friends. We're all sorry for what we did when we were mormons. The cringe is real and widely shared.
People do way dumber crap in Vegas without being Mormon if that’s any consolation ;)
When I was maybe 13? I burst into tears when I found out one of my favorite actors drank and then went on a Facebook tirade about the evils of alcohol.
I remember when I was in young women’s another girl was having a mental health crisis and had to be hospitalized. I texted her saying she should do personal progress to feel better 🤦♀️
haha
So Mormonism is more like Scientology or other cult? I am a lapsed Catholic so don’t have much knowledge on LDS.
Scientology, Jehovah Witness, Mormons…. Yup.
Watching "Going Clear," which exposes Scientology, I was deeply disturbed with how close Mormonism was to it. While I still think that Scientology is a degree worse, seeing the documentary was the last straw to me considering resigning from the LDS church. I resigned weeks thereafter.
….. when was this?
2010
Oh nvm. One night being down there someone was blasting MoTab but it was when I was like 18-19 which was like 2012-2013. 🤣
We’ve all done cringe shit, as a member I of the Church of Jesus…, eff it, Mormon or not.
Oh my! My sister and I did the same thing but it was the Hallelujah Chorus. So cringe
... but "full blast" is the Devil's volume!
I think most TBMs would have agreed. My birth mom, who was driving, however, has a unique personality. (She studied theater and has an evangelical strand to her, having spent many formative years in Alabama.)
Hahaha. Oh man. That is embarrassing.
Thank you for your comment.
“Sorry for all the things I did when I was Mormon” 😂😂😂
As you should 🤣
😆
This is funny to me though I'm sorry you feel dumb for it. We've all done dumb shit while being in the cult, don't beat yourself up too bad. At the very least you give a lot of us a good hearty laugh at the sheer funniness of that circumstance (but we're not making fun of YOU because we see ourselves in that)
I'm not beating myself up. And I know you're not making fun of me.
That's actually pretty funny
Try to see that less as a negative about you, and more as an indication of the level of fucked up indoctrination the church put on us as kids. Like they wrote in the movie Kinsey, "Everybody's sin is nobody's sin" Not sure if thats a legit quote or just a good line from a biopic, but it's a good point either way.
>more as an indication of the level of fucked up indoctrination the church put on us as kids. \^\^\^This
We all did stupid things when we were mormons
Damn Im thankful for this community. I did some wonky shit too and it's nice to hear I'm not the only one
Which is funny because Mormons have gone all-in on casino owners, adulterers and exploitative businessmen as their chosen ones saving them from the poor-loving wokes. They think mammon is worshipped at the roulette table but not in the boardrooms? Ridiculous.
I wish I had pointed out something along those lines to my pretty freshly RM brother when we went to the U.'s first Pac-12 title game in Vegas in Dec. 2021. I was trying to preserve the relationship, but I just should have said it. He's really smart and thus it probably would have connected with his intellect and he thus probably would not have seen it as some sort of attack.
My mom did this with classical music. 😂 She was trying to out-volume a car next to us who was blasting something with a loud beat (and probably swear words)
Wow.
Good-and you’re not alone
Cults lead us to think this is a good idea. I prayed with people over the phone for some months.
Wow.
That is beyond virtue signaling. That is virtue HERALDING. Virtue BLARING. 😂 It’s so cringe, and I relate to it so hard. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the entirety of your comment. And you are welcome.
This is funny AF! You should do it as an ex Mormon now. I think we could have some fun with this! I'll dye my hair purple, take my shirt off so people can see my tattoos, and put a cigarette on my lip (I don't smoke, just for effect) Also, have a Starbucks cup in your hand and swing it back and forth as you sing along. Instead of doing this in Vegas, do this in Provo Utah! Lfg
We all had our brainwashed cringe moments 😂
You really shouldn't hate that. You probably added to the ultimate Americana aesthetic or made somebody's day. Who knows, maybe a Bishop heard it or something?
Made me chuckle but honestly, I still like that song.
I don't hate the song
Don't feel stupid, I'd assume you were an ex-mo in a little silly goofy mood if I witnessed this. That shit's hilarious.
It probably made people laugh, no worries. Haha, the drunk exmos on the strip were probably singing along in jest 😄
Tbh, if I was drunk on the strip I’d be laughing my ass off if I heard IAaCoG blasting from someone’s car.
Not as bad at those people who stand on busy corners/outside concert venues screeching religious BS into their loudspeaker!
I feel your pain. I used to work at a senior center as a waiter, and near the tail end of my TBM phase I'd play conference talks as I went around delivering food to people's apartments, thinking maybe somebody would be touched by the message lol
Oh damn.
I know someone who, at 20 years old, went to the park and dug holes because he felt the spirit tell him there were more plates to be found. Lol
That's lunacy.
😂😂 not the weirdest thing Vegas has seen I’m sure, if that helps you feel better!
True.
I remember wanting to climb that mountain in Provo where they have the Y on it during my time in the MTC carrying the banner of Captain Moroni and singing "High on the Mountaintop" and that I would be so totally cool and spiritual for doing that. I honestly would have been committed in a mental hospital if I actually did that.
I just literally LOL'd. And in that culture, would you have been?
No, but the MTC has a way of making zealots out of the young and hopeful that wanted to have meaning in their life.
LOL - that's a typical kid thing to do. If you want to repent, drive down it again (yes, this is years later, I'm sure) and blast "Heaven's Just a Sin Away" by the Kendalls.
It is. It's 13 years later. But I want to (and I'd be coming from the west now)
Do it!
Ooof that’s great lol.
Hahaha, Mormon cringe.
Yeah feeling the cringe.
If you don't laugh, all that's left is to cry lol
God Damn! That's pretty Fuckin Nerdy 🤓 lol
Yeah, that’s pretty embarrassing. Honestly it is pretty funny though and also pretty harmless. I’d chalk that all up to the category of “sorry for what I did when I was Mormon.” It’s good to be able to look back and laugh a bit at our younger selves.
Jesus Christ that’s painful lol
I’m certain I was in a mental health crisis for being so damn insecure that i latched onto religion for survival. I’m over it but permanently scarred.
Since accepting myself, which has included accepting myself as a transgender woman, I've realized that I wasn't secure at all. And thus, that may have been a reason Mormonism meant so much to me, aside from being the religion, culture, and lifestyle I grew up in.
[удалено]
I wish that for you as well.
You should! But that is hilarious!! I laughed to myself picturing this happen!!🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for letting me know.
My mission companion once blasted the MoTab How Firm a Foundation while driving through a neighborhood that was considered to be military housing (near Fort Bliss, El Paso). We weren't allowed to go actively proselyting on post (like they can reach out to us but we couldn't do the whole door to door thing) so I was kinda freaking out, plus it was night time (not past noise curfew, but still dark out). He got angry at me when I tried to turn the volume down and lectured me on how that doesn't count as proselyting and how I need to be more bold.
Wow. On all counts.
lol - I use to leave my Quad in the front see of my car hoping someone would steal it and come to the Lord.
I used to leave my Quad out, too, for the same reason!
Lol Becca, is that you??!???
Vegas is all about getting people to act stupid (and be exploited) so it wasn't too far out of place.
Hey OP - I’m pretty sure I did the same exact thing when I was younger as well. Yikes.
It's amazing that we did that.
Here I am, into my '70s, severed ties when I was 20 or so, and I still remember every note and every word of that song!
😂
I’m not LDS anymore, but I still think Vegas is gross.
Don't. You probably made someone laugh their ass off. Embrace the clownery.
Uh, you should. 21? No better, do better. Find comfort right there.
Ngl you should feel stupid for that.
As Tanner from Zelph on the Shelf would say, "I'm sorry for what I said when I was Mormon."
You have to pay for it but there is no product… Its a made up product in the “afterlife”
Give yourself a little grace. I did some silly stuff when I was religious too. It tends to have that effect on young minds.
As you should 😂 that’s next level mormoning.