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Btw, in the LDS church, tithing is a mandatory 10% of your income, donated directly to the Church. It's allegedly intended to be used to help with charitable acts, but in recent years there's been some scandals about these funds being potentially used by the church to invest in real estate and stocks. It's not actually something backed up by scripture (notably, in the New Testament Christ rebukes people for compelling a widow to donate tithing until she has nothing left, but this scripture is taught in LDS circles to promote the blessings of tithes), but it's mandatory for salvation and eligibility for ordinances.

When I was a kid I once asked if I could donate money to other charities, and I was resolutely told that was a sin; recently, the Church has released statements reaffirming that tithing should be paid unquestioningly, in potential response to various investigations in Canada and Australia concerning tax fraud done by the Church concerning tithes. It's... agitating to see a religion run like a corporation, and worse to watch everyone I know be okay with it.

Anyway, we don't have any money to donate to tithing. As it stands, working the maximum hours we have and selling our blood plasma to supplement it, we're about $300 short for rent, and even if we get that it will drain our entire finances.

Nobody will help us locally: it's a LDS college town, and there's not much available outside of religious circles. Mormon foodbanks require full tithes and/or volunteered labor before they'll give you food, all of our friends are scraping by same as us, and anybody who has the capacity to assist tells us the same things every time: "are you paying your tithing?"

Hello everyone!

As part of a long-term plan, I am writing a paper for class about the negative effects of the strict Dress and Grooming standards at CES schools.

If you attend or have previously attended a church school and have had a bad experience with the regulations (be that a specific punishment or just a restriction on your preferred presentation), I'd love to hear your story!

I'll be keeping an eye on this post and any shares for the next couple of weeks (until this paper is due), watching for reblogs with stories or messages to me. You are welcome to message me directly or anonymously, and I thank you all in advance for your help!

UPDATE: I have also made a google form for this, in order to have a more organized location for all my stories. Thanks again, everyone! I'm making good progress on the paper- I'm also happy to post it here once its complete, if there's any interest :))

If I feel exhausted or rundown, I can go get coffee.

She's not allowed to even appear to be drinking coffee.

I can wear what I want to match the weather or how confident I feel that day.

She can't wear fucking capris. (What the actual fuck is that?)

If I don't want to go on a date, no one is gonna bat an eye.

She's being encouraged to date more then she is to perform well in her classes.

If I don't want to go to fucking church I don't have to.

She's required to. (Holy shit)

My school during orientation days, had a talk about sex, sex safety, sexual assault and what to do if you find yourself in danger or having experienced sexual assault in any way. When I mentioned how happy I was my school did that she was horrified.

Because telling adults straight up how sex works, can be abused, how consent is so important, is so inappropriate!

Nah. Her school actively puts on dating seminars and games to match people up, but God fucking forbid they talk about sex, consent or other risks. Heaven forbid they tell people to please pick up fucking condoms. No Mormon would dare have sex while at school!

God fucking damn. It's insanity.

im an artist jumping ship from instagrams shitty ass algorithim and I really dont have time to make high quality reels or tik toks.

Im gonna use tumblr blaze to finally garuntee that people will fucking finally see my shit and get my webtoon out there more.

hahahahahahaaahahahaha

maybe ill start blogging about being non mormon at BYUI or just my shitty life in general.

it has always been my dream to make content for people and ive only reall been able to do it since i moved out of my parents house and started collage. however, still a new creator and havent found a way to make money off of my art and im too busy with school and work to actually draw shit besides my webtoon.