Posted by:
tombs1
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Date: November 15, 2010 11:01AM
About two weks ago I gave a presenation on Mormonism and Homophobia. I talked about my experience in the church, prop 8,Boyd K. Packer's talks, and even showed some pictures of the temple ceramony.
Well there Just happened to be two LDS missonaries in that class by coincidence. They are friends with somone in the class and jsut happened to tag along with him on that day.
So I talked about a bunch of things that "I Am Not Supposed To" and these two elders were their not wearing their suits or name tags, and came up and introuduced themselfes after class.
All of the people in my group were freaked out by that and woried about me. But we figured out what had happened really quick.
So now the missonaries think it is "God Behind" our meeting and are trying to bring me back into the fold. First they tried to set up a meeting with me through their friend, but I said no thank you because I din't think anything productive would come from my meeting with them.
But on Firday, they sat next to my in the computer lab while I was reading posts on this board. They said they wanted to talk to me, and I agreed to answer any questions that they had with the condition of, no praying, or testimony bearing.
So Long story short, I told them of my experience in the church and reasons for leaving and got the whole run around from them. A few things that they said were:
1.) I lack faith
2.) One day I will stand before God and Jesus and know that I could of had more
3.) I am not happy right now.
4.) They are my friends and I don't have to cold shoulder them when I see them on campus.
I do not have much sympathy for these two guys even though they are just "doing their job" my attitude is this, Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...(its not happening again) I am sick of the love bombing and maipulation that these people use.