Am I Target?

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I wouldn’t touch Facebook for controversial issues with a ten-foot pole. Period.

[Anonymous]

cwald wrote:

Heavy_Laden wrote:

NOM sounds like a Lehi’s dream with the “A great and spacious building, symbolizing the pride of the world.” It was a site that I didn’t feel comfortable navigating. No offense to the people running it or those who like going there, it is my POV.

Really? Are you sure you are not thinking of MAD or LDS.net?

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Hey!! I’m on lds.net. In fact, I usued to be a mod on that site until work got in the way. It’s a good site, but yeah if you post anything sort of moderate, the ultra TBM’s go after you. The mandate of that site is to provide church sanctioned answers to investigators questions. If it isn’t on lds.org, mormon.org, or any other church site, it’s anti in the view of most there.

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Meh Mormon wrote:

cwald wrote:

Heavy_Laden wrote:

NOM sounds like a Lehi’s dream with the “A great and spacious building, symbolizing the pride of the world.” It was a site that I didn’t feel comfortable navigating. No offense to the people running it or those who like going there, it is my POV.

Really? Are you sure you are not thinking of MAD or LDS.net?

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Hey!! I’m on lds.net. In fact, I usued to be a mod on that site until work got in the way. It’s a good site, but yeah if you post anything sort of moderate, the ultra TBM’s go after you. The mandate of that site is to provide church sanctioned answers to investigators questions. If it isn’t on lds.org, mormon.org, or any other church site, it’s anti in the view of most there.

Aaaah, but there’s so much on LDS.org/Mormon.org/josephsmithpapers.org (all official church websites).

The quotes thread in “support” are almost entirely taken from LDS.org. Most of church history (the awkward stuff) can also be found somewhere on there. It’s like a little treasure hunt.

For anyone who is a universalist, who thinks it’s more important to think for yourself instead of being spoon-fed by the leaders, who wants study and embrace the sciences, who wants to respectfully consider the prophets fallible and have evidence to back it up… It’s all available

LDS.net was a safe place for me once. I appreciated it when I was a TBM and needed advice in a couple of rough patches in 2010/2011. It’s a place for the absolutists. I respect their need for absolutism. It works for them. It doesn’t for me. So I’d rather not go and taint their experience and community.

[Anonymous]

Meh Mormon wrote:

cwald wrote:

Heavy_Laden wrote:

NOM sounds like a Lehi’s dream with the “A great and spacious building, symbolizing the pride of the world.” It was a site that I didn’t feel comfortable navigating. No offense to the people running it or those who like going there, it is my POV.

Really? Are you sure you are not thinking of MAD or LDS.net?

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Hey!! I’m on lds.net. In fact, I usued to be a mod on that site until work got in the way. It’s a good site, but yeah if you post anything sort of moderate, the ultra TBM’s go after you. The mandate of that site is to provide church sanctioned answers to investigators questions. If it isn’t on lds.org, mormon.org, or any other church site, it’s anti in the view of most there.

Were you involved in getting me banned?

🙂

I don’t have much patience for sites, or churches, that ban people who don’t fit the mold.

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I am such a N00b.. I just spent the last half hour roaming the threads of LDS.NET. Hey cwald, I don’t think it’s too hard to get banned from there! :crazy: It seems that if you get annoying or going against the grain, you join the “Ban Buss”. I realize they may be the biggest LDS forum out there and they need to keep order, but still. If I posted that I am a LDS person going to a CofC Church (and liking it), I would have been shown the door so fast I wouldn’t have even hit the Submit button yet!

I like you, Brothers and Sisters better! :clap:

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cwald wrote:

Were you involved in getting me banned?

🙂

I don’t have much patience for sites, or churches, that ban people who don’t fit the mold.

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Nope. It was long before that (2008ish).

[Anonymous]

I just spent some time in LDS.net.

Wow.

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[Anonymous]

I have heard some people caution that what is written on FB can impact your job or job applications. They caution about what you write, unless you don’t care about the job.

Same would apply to church, unless you don’t care about having the TR, then it is a non-issue.

It would be sad to have a TR pulled over a difference of opinion. But it can happen, because they have the authority to do it. It’s their club and their rules.

I like to believe that with patience, and a soft tone, efforts to communicate can help bring an understanding of ideas and a reduction of fear about others being untrustworthy.

My real life experience in marriage and with bishops and SPs is that it takes 2 to come to an understanding, and I can’t make them see things my way, and they will have a choice to react to what I say even if I try to patiently explain it. Especially with church leaders that take an authoritative position. (By the way, the policeman that gave me a speeding ticket the other day also had no interest in hearing what I had to say).

Head Above Water wrote:

I cant’ tolerate people being descriminated against or second-class citizens or the tyranny of the majority. As a result this has put me at odds with some of the church’s political positions.

That one side of the scale seems to be weighed against the following on the other side of the scale…

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I like going to the temple with DW. I go when I want to and I do find meaning and goodness in it. I like Baptisms For the Dead and being with my children when we do that for our ancestors.

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I think if I lose my TR it will be a big barrier in reconstructing my faith and it will be a major barrier in strengthening my marriage.

If you can’t have your cake and eat it too…which of these options you are thinking through in your head are the most important to you?

What can you learn about how to navigate in a situation where you do care about your conscience and the tribe’s practices?

What are options to reduce the negative consequences and maximize the best outcome in this situation.

You don’t need to check your brain at the door and be a drone, or never fight for what you believe is right. How you fight matters.

But compromises help sow seeds of progress. I think you have options. Sleep on it.

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