After seeing many other typified responses to Michael Brown's article in the Christian Post (linked below), an after conversations with a few friends I decided to provide some of my own responses.   https://www.christianpost.com/voices/... Timecodes:  Intro - 00:00Question 1 - 3:00Question 2 - 7:17Question 3 - 12:11Question 4 - 14:05Question 5 - 17:03Question 6 - 22:35Questions 4-6 interwoven - 24:35Question 7 - 27:56Cartesian Rationality Poem - 29:55Outro - 32:02

A TikTok compilation of some discussion of the wording and language the church and exmormons use to talk about the same stuff while trying to make different points.

does this episode accentuate my compensation?

What does it mean to Thrive?

To the Corporation of the President; and to all Saints in view of Christ; current and former.  Introduction 00:00 The Artificial Mind Over The Natural Man 12:41 Construction 40:00 Deconstruction 52:37 Reconstruction 1:03:01 Nonstruction 1:16:31 Consider the Lilies 1:29:02 Benediction 1:37:00

A common trope in the LDS community is that Former members can leave everything they once firmly believed and held dear, but they just can't seem to leave it alone. For these members it confirms the validity of the underlying truths of their gospel.  The leaders of the church wearing latter-day masques of warmth and love does not entitle us to forget what their religious doctrines and policies are like when they think they can get away with it; current and generational. 

In September 2020, Brad Wilcox was a guest for the Sunderland England Stake Fireside Series. One of his remarks sparked a campaign in the ExMormon TikTok community. I used to wonder about this topic a lot, and my Skousenite upbringing had me curious... 

Here we are with Anti-mormon Literature, Chapter Six. Thank you to all who supported me through this experience and process. 

With no plans to write much of anything after chapters three and four I was inspired by the prophet to say some more after he gaslit the sisters in his discourse, "Embrace The Future With Faith." This rhetoric was compounded upon the following conferences as he coined the lazy-learner mormon memetic. 

In this chapter and episode I read through chapter four of Anti-mormon Literature: Essays They Warned You About. It reflects on the nature of self and the For The Strength of Youth manual.