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I’m curious about how people include the Heavenly Parents in their tarot practice.

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I put in the tags of the original post that I wanna connect with my ancestors and didn’t even THINK about our unique forms of ancestor veneration! Genealogy is so important to us. We honor our ancestors by filling out our family trees, taking their names to the temple, and listening to what they have to say in our patriarchal blessings (at least, my ancestors had something to say).

Because I’m not doing the Church thing right now I’m not exactly temple worthy anymore, but I can do the other things and give the names to my sister who is a temple worker and SHE can do their proxy ordinances.

I’m thinking about keeping those name cards on an ancestral altar or in an altar box as another form of veneration and remembering them, too.

Mormon folk magic.

Discuss.

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it actually annoys me immensely that people can't hear christians complaining about people being dicks about christianity without going "ugh stupid christian victim complex don't you know that's not REAL oppression?"

YES, actually. i know it's not oppression. i am fully aware that oppression is a different thing with significant impacts on people's lives, and i never claimed to be oppressed. i just don't like it when people are mean about things that are important to me. it's not that deep.

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gen auths telling stories about encountering deceased ancestors is my favorite thing ever

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@funeralpotatoesorbust Currently the Rider-Waite-Coleman deck but there’s this owl deck I’ve had my eye on for a couple months and there are a couple others I want as well

“your spiritual abilities are unique, personal, and innate”

thank you for the endorsement of my tarot reading practice

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General Conference is going well I think

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The fun thing about being raised Mormon is that you can almost pinpoint the LDS church's current stage in the "Nephite Pride Cycle"

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It's always been kind of hard for me to feel the importance of the Savior's Atonement when I connect it to myself. It's always felt like, "yeah cool he did that for me but like he did it for everyone I'm not that special"

But I had a thought today that he also did that for my loved ones. All of my family and friends that are beautiful and broken and flawed and amazing. He went through that for them, so that they can be saved.

Anyway I connect to it a lot more now. I'm not sure how to connect all of the dots in words but it was so meaningful when I realized that

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Dear President Russell M Nelson,

Congratulations on making it to 100. I know it was a significant goal for you and you worked hard both physically and spiritually to make it this far. I know there are a lot of things outside our control to having a long life, but it also takes work.

Thank you for the challenge to read the Book of Mormon before the year was out back in 2018. My life has been irrevocably changed for the better for following that counsel. I learned much about myself and the world and Gd’s plan for me and began a path of repentance that has brought me closer to Christ and brought joy into a life that was characterized by despair before.

And that is simply a personal way that I know you are called of Gd to be our prophet. It is very clear how you were prepared to lead the Church at this time, especially with how your responses to revelation prepared the Church for the pandemic. A pandemic following a change in policy that barred me from sharing the joy that I found by following your counsel. It is sometimes hard to reconcile the exclusionary policy that you have permitted to be put in place under your leadership with my testimony that you are a prophet of Gd because following your counsel led me to Christ and the good things that come from repentance.

It is the same juxtaposition of you having a medical degree and then claiming that life (when the spirit enters the body) begins at conception because a unique genetic code was created. Conception comes before the medical definition of pregnancy which is before the latest point identical twins can be formed. Identical twins are clearly two different spirits with the same genetic code. The truth we learn from science is giving a different truth than the one that you claimed in your press conference on the reversal of roe v wade.

Not to harp on something you said one time not even during General Conference, but I was finally pregnant after years of infertility and it seemed to mock my pain of late periods and failed fertility treatments. I came to the conclusion that you were wrong and speaking your personal opinion and not the thoughts and feelings of Heavenly Father or our Savior Jesus Christ. A conclusion that many would think contradicts my previous statement about believing that you are a prophet of Gd.

But to believe that the prophets can do no wrong is idolatry. To claim that the truth is only what prophets have confirmed first is priestcraft. This is not the Lord’s way who said: “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.” (John 7:17); “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” (Matthew 7:20). Or even Moroni closing his addition to the Book of Mormon “And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.” (Moroni 10:5) and “For behold, my brethren, it is given unto you to judge, that ye may know good from evil; and the way to judge is as plain, that ye may know with a perfect knowledge, as the daylight is from the dark night.” (Moroni 7:15).

Besides, how can we be fit for the Celestial Kingdom if we, as individuals of the Church, are to surrender our agency to you and never learn how to discern truth for ourselves. You set yourself up as the king of the Church when you say you are the only source of truth. Then all the sins of those who follow you without question become stains on your garments.

It is a difficult task to reconcile these types of mistakes with someone upholding a high calling that presumably has direct access to Gd, but then I realized that the traditions of our fathers was what made me ignore Gd telling me to repent much earlier than the 2018 Book of Mormon reading challenge. False traditions drain true intent and curiosity when you ask Gd because you feel confident that you know the answer and so you study with bias to confirm your worldview and you don’t have intent to do anything different if the answer isn’t what you expect. False traditions frame revelation so that you ignore key pieces because your mind fills in the default expectation instead of what actually exists in the revelation. In the end, I’m glad that I’m a nobody who only has to deal with the consequences of my own actions instead of being in your shoes where my same mistakes would’ve cause much more damage and would’ve been much harder to change direction when I learned I was wrong.

So I pray that your mind will be open to look past the false traditions of our fathers, to be open to the testimony of those othered by the Church organization. I pray that you realize that what you are doing is priestcraft so that you will swiftly repent and put effort into making sure you aren’t standing between us and Christ. I pray that you will repent in this life so you can share our joy.

Sincerely,

nottskyler

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seeing everything about the secret lives of mormon wives is so weird to me because

1. I didn’t grow up in Utah so some of the more cultural vs. doctrinal societal norms weren’t really prevalent

2. I have very chill parents who love the religion but also know that the church institution itself is fallible and religion/practice are personal above all else

so it feels almost alien??? Like I grew up in the church, and even though I’m pagan now I still enjoy going to church with family when I’m in town and I feel up to it. I have ties there. I love a lot of the people in the ward I grew up in.

it feels like this show is talking about something I’m barely even familiar with. Idk. It’s also frustrating because I really want someone from outside of the church to take us seriously enough to do an actual deep dive into the cosmology/culture/structure and general history of the church without affirming or outright condemning all of it. There’s so much nuance in people’s relationships with church and it makes me kinda sad that we never get that.

idk I maybe need to start incorporating some Mormon characters with actual nuance into writing projects ‘cause… I’m sad sometimes lol

(also if I have to explain one more time to someone that an institution can be bad/have serious flaws without being a cult I’m going to lose it. SOME BRANCHES OF THE CHURCH FIT THE BITE MODEL. SOME DO NOT. STOP USING CULT AS A BUZZWORD. I grew up with people saying Mormonism was a cult. I also know someone who was raised in an actual cult, and trust me, the cultish-ness of lds religious practice is based on a wide variety of factors and where you live. I personally think it’s pretty rude to just tell someone you barely know that they’re in a cult with no research or sensitivity around it.)

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ykw? this jovial visitation I am thinking about how I honestly love the inherent absurdity of doctrinal mormonism. there is a part of me that takes perverse and immense pleasure in having been born into the alleged cult of some guy who alleged to have seen an angel in his room 200 years ago and then published possibly the most inexplicable book of morality tales in existence. like yeah, it is my birthright to be an absolute weirdo who's unafraid of hell and is offensive to any and all man-made institutions. it is my right to make the wild claim that I continue to personally receive divine revelation from God Himself. it is my right to have the audacity to be unafraid of death. what are you gonna do about it? stop me??????? lol

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Human Sacrifice reports in Mormon LDS Temple – Exposing Satanism and Witchcraft

https://www.exposingsatanism.org/human-sacrifice-reports-in-mormon-lds-temple/

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The MORMON TEMPLE / SALT LAKE CITY - UTAH / USA (photo set 2).

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"you fricked up a perfectly good kid is what you did. look it him, he's got costly apparel"

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Night Vale First Ward

And now, the intermediate Hymn:

*Sister Spaulding plays a weather report on the organ*

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It's remarkable really how the Church is the same wherever you go.

Just the other day I was swapping mission stories with Sister Björnson and the Ward Librarian (who we don't talk about). Even though Sister Björnson served in the Blood Fields Mission, the Librarian served in the Space-Just-Behind-You-When-You-Go-Into-A-Dark-Basement Mission, and I served in the Southern Silent Country Mission, we all had experiences cowering from the Things That Look Like Crows But Aren't.

Anyways, I'd like to bare my testimony in the non-language of the people I served.

*Elaborately pantomimes my love of the Atonement and the Restored Church*

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Night Vale First Ward

I like to bear my testimony.

I like to take my testimony and make it a bear. Force my ethereal beliefs to become a physical snarling mass of flesh and fur.

I know the Church is true, because the Church taught me how to bear my testimony.

I love my Mom and Dad, they will be safe from my Testimony Bear.

Name of Jesus Christ amen