Comments on: A lifetime ago …

By: GBSmith

GBSmith — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:05:44 +0000

Nobody likes to be cut adrift but once you reach land, it gets better. Not like before but better.

By: Lauriston

Lauriston — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:40:00 +0000

That has been getting me back either from February 2003 when I got to the temple for the first time, inside the provo temple. IT’S BEEN a great experience for an innocent young boy over 22 years old. But I am not allowed myself to be sad, in spite of being sad I laugh to myself. This is what every one should do and get going. Something is to be remembered but it’s not really the essential. Some memories are to be killed to keep life going. Never mind!

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Main Street Plaza » Sunday in Outer Blogness: Rape Edition! — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 07:25:25 +0000

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By: Ray Agostini

Ray Agostini — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:56:10 +0000

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” – M. Scott Peck.

Every brickbat that hit me throughout life – only made me stronger. You only have one life – and there’s no point looking at it in reverse, or “what might have been”. A continuing belief in God is necessary to properly interpret what we experience. When that is gone, we hang on to the past almost in despair, as if God will lose interest in us, and our divine destiny, because we could no longer agree and adhere to “creeds” and “traditions”. When one door closes – another opens, and thus, even when “un-churched”, I feel like everyday is a new beginning, and that all I’ve experienced “shall be for thy good”.

By: cl2

cl2 — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:35:53 +0000

As the others have said–keep writing. You put into words what others of us feel.

By: FireMountain

FireMountain — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 03:03:54 +0000

Thank you for that post. It has been 15 years since I withdrew my membership, but the sorrow and anger of loss of what once was so dear still lingers. Lost innocence, lost trust.
I struggle to understand how thinking people can continue to stay in and even defend an institution, a “church” in name only, which long ago quit caring about them as individuals. Perhaps it is all those years of being lied to and learning how to lie which inhibits their ability to discern. Maybe it is Stockholm Syndrome.
I could not go to the Joanna Brooks event tonight at Sam Wellers because of such thoughts. I was afraid that I could not behave myself while listening to “Mormon intellectual” apologists.

By: postmormongirl

postmormongirl — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:04:36 +0000

We’ve all been there. It can be such a trade-off sometime – having to deal with the fall-out of leaving, the loss of community, the loss of innocence. And although I am happier now, it is a bittersweet sort of happiness.

Keep writing – you articulate what many of us are going through.