My mother: "Dad and I want to go on a mission when (disabled grandchild) enters middle school, because we know it will be a such a hard time for him. So we're waiting until then."

My heretical self: "You're waiting until he and his mom need you most to leave town?"

My mother: "Elder Featherstone promised our kids and grandkids will be more blessed while we're in the mission field than we could possibly imagine, and we think he'll need the blessings then."

Does anyone else hear the sound of a cartoon cukoo clock in their mind whilst making the obligatory mother's day phone calls??

Well, that's certainly a sign of someone who truly believes it.

Mormonism - it's all about families.

That's how the early saints were blessed too. Joseph Smith sent them off on missions and married their wives and daughters while they were away. Oh the blessings!

When my step son was on his mission people would come up to us and tell us they were jealous of all the blessings we were getting.

My husband would say to them: My father is dying, my wife was diagnosed with cancer, if he doesn't come home soon my entire family will be wiped out.

They would give him a dirty look and move on. It was all true though. We refused to take the bad things that were happening and try to turn them into a FPS. We were viewed as flawed because of that. A lot of sick and twisted thinking going on in mormonism.

FPS?

For Pete's sake!

anotherheretichereagain Wrote:
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> Does anyone else hear the sound of a cartoon cukoo
> clock in their mind whilst making the obligatory
> mother's day phone calls??

I often hear cuckoos when MORmONS try to get preachy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YEMX0VooD4


"Elder Featherstone promised our kids and grandkids will be more blessed while we're in the mission field than we could possibly imagine, and we think he'll need the blessings then."

AND I promise that Elder Featherstone guy is a PHONY SUPERFICIAL POLITICALLY AMBITIOUS SOCIAL CLIMBING POS with ZERO credibility, just in case you were wondering.



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Ask your mom who the fuck Elder Featherstone is and what he could possibly know about your family's situation in life.

"Family...isn't it about...time?"

I don't know why anyone would espouse the idea of God being such a jerk that no matter how hard people work, they will never be able to be more happy and blessed than the two years (times however many babies they make - bonus blessings!) when they have a child on a mission.

Things were not better because our kids were out on a mission!

It was a sick elevated social status that had nothing to do with us...any blessings recieved was from hard work and a lot of luck ( being in the rich place at the right time)+ skills

I had a dear TBM friend at BYU who dated one of Vaughn Featherstone's sons back around 1980. They were very serious and talking about marriage. He went away for a weekend somewhere and when he came back he was engaged to someone else.

She was heartbroken but in retrospect very fortunate. She left the Mormon church shortly thereafter and married a nice Catholic guy.

Sounds like a real MORmON in action to me !

And THAT is what I would call dodging a bullet for her!

Just a question. But it seems that corporate used to traught out the most disabled members that could complete a sentence and make them "Motivational Speakers". I have not come across this in a while. What's up?

oldklunker wrote: "It was a sick elevated social status that had nothing to do with us..."

Well put; lots of families thrive on the social recognition of having someone "in the field" so they can pretend to be "so blessed" like they are some sort of pioneering mormon families spreading the word to the vast unwashed masses and they can play the game of "My family sacrifies more than your family, so we're more holy."

Promising blessings is the way that the LDS church gets people to do things that make no logical sense whatsoever. Pay your last dime to the church so that you can have blessings even though your kids are starving. Leave your grandchildren to serve a mission so that you and they can have blessings. Get married in the temple and leave your non-member/non-worthy family out on the steps so you can have blessings. And it goes on and on and on.

That God is one heck of a jokester, telling leaders to split up families in their time of greatest need.

I remember when one of my sons was on his mission I had someone tell me how blessed they were when their son was one. Their house burned down - but noone was killed. their car was wrecked - but noone was killed. and one more tragedy I can't remember but noone was killed.

Wow - thanks but no thanks.

I believe when people speak of hte blessings they get with missionaries out, it is a matter of selective recollection. Only count the good things and not the bad. The score sheet is much higher that way. Like at Vegas. Only count the winnings and not all the money you plunked into the machine to get it.

Isn't that like what the Willie handcart company was told as they were leaving for Utah a bit late?

They were also told a similar thing when they were asked to sacrifice some of their best cows to feed the much better provisioned missionaries, who were speeding past them in horse drawn buggies.

Yeah and to ditch their clothing to lighten the load. Haha.

and they claim Not to be a Cult...
sparty: + a Zillion!


cult cult cult


family Loyalty/service means NOTHING to CultCorp.

This is when I get particularly angry with the top 15. They see and hear this stuff being said just like the rest of us and refuse to speak up and stop it. In my opinion they have a lot to answer for.

BKP "..sometimes the truth is not very useful."

anotherheretichereagain Wrote:
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> My mother: "Elder Featherstone promised our kids
> and grandkids will be more blessed while we're in
> the mission field than we could possibly imagine,
> and we think he'll need the blessings then."

My reply woulda been "Fuck Featherstone! He won't be the one picking up the pieces when your relationship goes south or when (grandkid) resents your absence!". That would be such a release.

Featherstone? Isn't he the pirate from The Wiggles? What do pirates know about blessings?

I just posted this in another thread, but I was assured by church leaders that my family and I would heal from the pain of my mother's suicide attempts if I would just serve the Lord by going on a mission, so I went.

Since then I have experienced the horrors of PTSD, as have at least two of my siblings. One put a gun in his mouth after having a psychotic break, and if it hadn't been for a military buddy intervening he would have blown his brains out in front of his wife.

My sister is in a long-term relationship with an abusive man who cheats on her. Several members of my family became drug addicts. My father has almost completely checked out of reality, and has so little care for his own well-being he can barely walk or control his bowels.

Going on a mission doesn't help anything. In my experience, it just makes life more difficult.