Eternity of Cats

Secular Mormon. (ex)Mormon feminist. Atheist. UU-curious. Analyzing Mormonism and figuring out my spiritual life. #exmormon #postmormon #postmormonparenting

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@aureliawelde This is what happens when you don't have enough copy editors. 🤦‍♀️

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@ReformedMormon Yeah, with this one, I just have to respond with a spin on the Nephi quote--we don't understand all things, but we're supposed to be able to feel God's love, so at some point, we have to be able to judge whether love is compatible w/ whatever horrid thing is supposedly God's will

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UU history Documentary: The Great Awakening was a reaction of conservative preachers against what they thought were the evils of liberal religion.

Husband: it's interesting to hear this history from the other side. They're like, "and then these conservative f*ckers..."

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@ApostateAbish @andynewmanlpc @melonakos believe that their kids are evil or stupid, or that the Church is wrong, so it's hard for them not to blame themselves.

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@ApostateAbish @andynewmanlpc @melonakos Yup. And Proverbs 22:6. And the implication, whenever GC talks reference someone's kids serving missions and marrying in the temple, that those results were due to parental righteousness. Ppl pay lip service to agency playing a role, eg, Laman and Lemuel. But ppl can't +

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Relative: check out this school! It's Christian but not overbearing.

Me: ...their site says that helping kids form a relationship w/ Jesus is the basis of their curriculum.

Other relative: Well, they can't be *that* Christian if they're running a preschool.

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@emilykmay Birth? Like, a woman is partially nude in public because she's *giving birth in public,* and modesty is her concern here?

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@aureliawelde @ldsfootnotes To be fair, Elizabeth II is like my fourteenth cousin twice removed, so that's pretty meaningless. Double-digit cousins is most white ppl in the US.

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@REirikr @GiveMeYourYous @emilykmay Omg, I love this litmus test for who patriarchy is set up to benefit.

[Like a Gay Viking and a sad Librarian had a baby @REirikr]

@GiveMeYourYous @emilykmay If you can't afford to buy a SENATOR you are NOT a patriarch and the system is NOT designed with your benefit in mind.

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@Swilua @hightokolob Whew. I knew BYU was a breeding program, but I wasn't thinking through the eugenics lens 😬

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@tessiebabes That's probably your best bet, but I don't know that you can predict the dynamic. Our young male cat that we got to keep our basically pacifist female cat company tackles girl-cat a lot and is never dissuaded by hissing 😂😭

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@LunaTheMoth Same! Specifically, though, I want to have my usable organs donated and then have the rest of me composted and used to fertilize a community memorial garden. Small bricks or stones or something on the sides of paths can be inscribed with the names and life dates of the dead.

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@OliverCowd Does she not just...tell you what she wants? Do you have to guess?

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the garment changes and understanding why it makes me angry. My friend sent me this post by @FemiLinzi that was shared on FB and she sums it’s up perfectly.
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@AprilcotTree I think we are all the Hermione Granger in our lives in some way, and we relate!

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@twisterqueen831 as they appear to be.

So... yeah. I think there's a lot there.

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@twisterqueen831 to forge new neural pathways or whatever (The Sexual Healing Journey talks about how some survivors can only orgasm, etc., when imagining horrifying scenarios).
-plus all the other stuff in our culture that portrays such men as hot.
-sometimes the "good" guys are not as good+