#exmo stuff

So this man's name is Dennis Schleider and he is a gay Mormon. Apparently the LDS church is probably planning on excommunicating him?

But anyway this video has to do with a possible economic collapse and how the church has been acting recently like there's going to be one (remember, they sit on a $300B hoard of wealth and have always encouraged members to store food for disaster so this is odd for them to finally start using it)

In Dennis's opinion the church is just trying to help people but as an exmormon... I'm lowkey suspicious. Would a collapse just be their big break to round up more vulnerable people into their cult (especially after a stagnation trend in membership)? Might the leaders keep their word on gathering back in Missouri for events interpreted as the end times? What's the catch? What's the incentive? That's what I'm wondering.

Like he quotes the Bible in a way I’ve seen mormons do, but he quotes the parts I wouldn’t ever expect them to quote. If I could describe the people I grew up with in one word it would be passive. In two it would be passive aggressive. Joshua is just plain aggressive in a way that feels very un-mormon (almost like some general fire and brimstone protestant, which is just funny because mormons don’t even believe in fire and brimstone. Literally almost everyone goes to heaven, including hitler).

He also ONLY quotes the bible, which from an outsider perspective is fair, but there is genuinely so much that he could have pulled from the book of mormon that would be relevant to the white-legs conflict. I’ve definitely noticed mormons tend to try and make themselves seem more like your average christian around non-mormons by almost avoiding d&c and the bom which is what makes me think the writer had exposure to mormons but isn’t mormon themselves.

He’s also just really cold to the player, which is weird because literally every mormon is endearing. We’re almost taught to be super nice and endearing so that people will want to associate with us and come to church.

i used to believe that this life was only a blip, like the blink of an eye, in the scheme of eternity. in that eternity i would be with my family, surrounded by loved ones and pursuing greater knowledge. it is actually a very interesting theology, the plan of salvation. i won’t get into the details rn so, iykyk.

anyway, this life was a test, and all the really good stuff came after. or at least that’s what i believed for the first ~24 years of my life. in my early 20s i would start to realize that i’m bisexual, which really spurred on a deconstruction journey. i started to pick apart my “beliefs” and assess them one by one. some of them i still carry with me, but a lot of them didn’t hold up well under scrutiny. i did a complete overhaul of my belief system in just a couple years. i'm 29 now and some days i still don't know what i believe, but i guess that's the nature of agnosticism.