"Cougarboard" is a very busy site, and the largest forum discussing BYU sports. The great majority of posters are very active LDS.

Currently there is an interesting thread: "how many in your ward actually attend Elders Quorum Meetings". Outside of one ward of BYU Idaho students that has about 60 attendees, nearly all others are reporting extremely low numbers. Several quorums are only seeing 4 or 5 Elders. And by several accounts, the reason is because of boredom and very poor lesson material. Apparently many that do go, just play on internet with cell-phone, etc.

This is, frankly, an surprising admission by these active LDS sports fans. It appears many priesthood holders are just barely going through the motions.....IF they even attend meetings...

The LDS world is the only place where "Cougarboard" wouldn't be a hook-up site.

That's what I was thinking, LOL.

With middle-aged & older LDS women ... If ur hubby isn't a HP, they (women) feel like yesterday's news.

LDS women are socialized to be shadows of their husband.



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We stopped attending just before smartphones became commonplace but I bet that LDS chapels are full of people staring at their smartphones during meetings.

Aren't phones supposed to be shut down during meetings?

A ringing phone would really fuck up some dry councilman's important speech would it not?

The last time I attended LDS services (a year or so ago, while visiting relatives), a lot of people had their noses pointing at smart phones. In theory, they are using the LDS app or looking at scriptures. In practice, I bet they are doing what people do when they're bored.

Like reading Mormonthink or RfM. Or playing the latest friendly bandit app. A fool and his money...

Blame it on porn, that's what the Brethren do.

They're looking at bare shoulders. The apocalypse is upon us.

:)

I posted about this previously. My friend found out about some of the church's scandalous history by surfing the internet during sacrament meeting because he was bored. He started with "faithful" sites. One click leads to another, and before you know it an innocent Google search brings you to Mormonthink.com or a similar site. It doesn't take much time on the internet looking for church stuff before something "bad" comes up, so the more smart phones at church the better.

I set my phone on vibrate during meetings I am forced to attend

A vibrating phone during testimony meeting would sure get a rise out of me. The Boner.



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I had a conversation about this, this morning, with a TBM friend. She says most of the men are on their cell phones. They think they are fooling people, and they hold their phones to the side, or low on their lap, or in papers or a book. She said that they don't use earphones, though. That's where they draw the line. I left so long ago, that the men were using their little day-planner devices. My daughter and I used to draw cartoons for each other, and often one of us would giggle--the only bright spot in our entire Mormon existence.

Covert cell phone use- Unless you are a Deacon, smiling at your crotch for long periods at a time is a dead give away.

Hmmm. Utah may be a market for cranial Bluetooth implants.

I like this concept, but what I suggest is mammary Bluetooth implants--one surgery two benefits.

If this is LA, why are they all so white?

I had an incident in ELders quorum.

Some previous ward member, a real a hole apparently, decided to visit to show off his expensive watch and glasses frames. Then he had to mention how he could not be expected to obey the Sabbath any more because his raging business success dictated that he had to go to New York City for business quite often so most of his Sunday evenings were spent flying on air planes. He wanted everyone to know just how very important that he had become. Then he quipped that he specifically should not be expected to strictly obey the Sabbath because things were not the same as 100 years ago when it was simple and easy to obey the sabbath. At that point, because I hate BS excuses and phony pretentious people, I had to quip that IF anyone from 100 years ago was around that they would happily trade him places so he could chop wood, milk cows, feed live stock, shovel coal on his Sunday evening in their place while they happily took his place on a cushy ride on the flying machine instead. My comment really ticked off that guy, because it totally discredited what he had said. I could tell that he was so angry that he wanted to punch me in the face for what I had said.

IF a person no longer wants to go to whatever church meeting then that is fine with me, But do not come to church and tell me that you are better than me or anyone else to the extent that you no longer have to follow the program because you have become so great that you can no longer be expected to follow the program. That is BS move and I hate people who operate that way.

SO, I ended up sitting in MORmON priestDUD meeting wondering if that ass hole was actually going to be stupid enough to say anything else or to try to punch me in the face. In a larger context, that incident pointed out to me just how stupid that it really was to bother with going to such a stupid meeting. That was the LAST time that I ever went to priestDUD meeting.

I was still attending MORmON sackerment meeting. One sunday, my wife at the time asked me to go to temple recommend interview to get a temple recommend. being the total asshole that I am, I went to the interview at her request. The bishop's counselor conducted the interview. He said there was a big problem because I only attended sackerment meeting and skipped all the other sunday meeting, so he was going to refuse me getting a temphole recommend until the problem was fixed. I knew there were other people in the ward who attended meetings less than me but the chosen approach to dealing with them was to coddle them. As coaxed by the counselor who was expecting more from me, I agree that my only attending sackerment meeting was a problem. As coaxed, I agreed with the counselor that I was going to work on the problem that he had pointed out. In fact, I gave the counselor my personal assurance that I was definitely going to resolve the problem that he was concerned about. The counselor said my assurance to him made him feel much better about the situation. I told him that I felt the same way about my promise to him to solve the problem that was bothering him. That sunday was the last sunday that I ever attended only sackerment meeting .......or any MORmON church meeting as a regular ward member. I resolved HIS problem with my attendance to MY satisfaction. That was over 20 years ago.

I did attend this MORmON church meeting as a visitor back in 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AVj0lSQ_Yg

It was hardly an incentive to go back to ( CRAPPY) MORmON church meetings. MORmON meetings SUCK. The real surprise is that anyone is stupid enough to actually go to them, not that attendance is down.

How could you hear anything over the noise of all those kids? I'd forgotten how unruly Mormon meetings were. Even if I'd agreed with him, the meeting is anything but relaxing.

I've noticed that they resent Exmormons, not because we rejected their beliefs, but because we rejected the yoke. They hate most things about Mormonism and feel it an obligation. Many on CB have said they wouldn't do all the stuff they do if they didn't believe, and think Exmos are taking the easy way out. They view Mormonism as another job. Many seem to take having kids and being married the same way.

I quit EQ long before I quit going to church. I thought it was tedious and irrelevant to my life. After 2 hours of church, I'd rather go home early or chat in the halls. At BYU in the fall, I'd leave to go watch the Dallas Cowboys play rather than listen to RMs scripture bash.

I'm not surprised they don't like going. They don't like hometeaching, or leadership callings, nor going to the temple, nor paying tithing. Once your faith slips, you realize that these chores are of no benefit to anyone but LDS, Inc.

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> I quit EQ long before I quit going to church. I
> thought it was tedious and irrelevant to my life.
> After 2 hours of church, I'd rather go home early
> or chat in the halls. At BYU in the fall, I'd
> leave to go watch the Dallas Cowboys play rather
> than listen to RMs scripture bash.

The worst NFL/NBA game that I ever saw/watched was still better than the best MORmON priestDUD meeting /sackerment meeting I ever attended.

My TBM In laws openly admitted that church meetings suck for the most part and that they are to be dutifully endured in spite of their unpleasant content. The pleasant surprise is the rarity of when they had a speaker and /or a lesson that actually worthwhile.

Here is a brief glimpse into Hell or IF anyone finds this to be inspiring then they are mentally ill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn7boTBtn3w

I was talking to a friend of mine last night that's in the EQ presidency, and he brought up that there were only a handful of men in EQ...the presidency and a couple other guys. I stopped attending around the time the essays were being released and they had 20-25 each week back then. Men were bad-mouthing friends and family members that were leaving the church in those EQ meetings every single week, and it was unbearable. I wonder how many left because of those discussions. I know a few men that left around the same time, and one that only still attends because his wife threatened divorce if he didn't shut up and toe the line.

When my LDS co-worker and a believing, mainstream Christian co-worker decided to go to each other's meetings for a look-see, the non-Mormon was dismayed to find the guy sitting next to him in EQ meeting shopping for firearms on his smartphone.



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