u/trownaway90

IK BEN NIET GEK! Ik ben niet gek! Ik weet dat hij die nummers heeft verwisseld! Ik wist dat het 1601 was. Een jaar na de slag bij Nieuwpoort. Alsof ik ooit zo'n fout zou kunnen maken. Nooit. Nooit! Ik kon het gewoon - ik kon het gewoon niet bewijzen. Hij - hij verborg zijn sporen, hij liet die idioot in de copy shop voor hem liegen. Denk je dat dit iets is? Vind je dit erg? Dit? Deze zwendelarij? Hij heeft veel slechtere dingen gedaan. Dat billboard! Vertel je me dat een man toevallig zo valt? Nee! Hij zette het in scène! Gerbert! Hij poepte door een schuifdak! En ik heb hem gered! En dat had ik niet moeten doen. Ik nam hem mee naar mijn eigen advocatenkantoor! Wat dacht ik? Hij zal nooit veranderen. Hij zal nooit veranderen! Zo was hij al toen hij 9 was! Kon zijn handen niet uit de kassa-lade houden! Maar niet onze Gerben! Kan niet onze lieve Gerben zijn! Ze achter hun rug om bestelen! En hij wordt advocaat!? Wat een gestoorde grap! Ik had hem moeten stoppen toen ik de kans kreeg! En jullie - jullie moeten hem stoppen!

So there is a book fair in my town and a church there is joining it with a stand in their building. Which it seems to me breaking the Fourth Commandent. Like I don't buy anything on sunday. That a church essentially facilitates sunday shopping seems to be questionable to me.

Another objection is that I see this as a violation of Mark 11:17:

And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’

For context this a very progressive church, they have LGBTQ-exhibtions and celebrate islamic festivals.

I think is it a shame the Church changed the way new names are decided

Until recently temple workers gave every patron the same new name in the temple according to the name of the day.

On the site Fuller Consideration there is a list which name was used on a certain day. According to this site, temple workers stopped doing this. Probably because the Church figured out that people were finding out how these names were given.

I think that is a shame, because I always wanted to tell the temple worker the new name during the pre-ordinances before he told me. I also knew according to the former system, which temple names the people in my ward had. I guess I could still call them (in private) by their temple name.

So I am PIMO for a while, and I have learned a lot about the Church and it's history outside of it's own narrative, why I cannot believe in the Church anymore. I think I reached my tipping point.

At night I received a message in the ward that a man would be baptized soon. This is usually not big news, but I happens to the longtime husband of a woman who has been a member for a very long time. This man probably never joined along side his wife, because he saw through the nonsense.

A important detail is that man has been suffering from dementia for a while. I heard that she can't leave alone anymore. This explains his sudden 'conversion'. I am pretty sure he 'agreed' he doesn't know what he agrees because of his disease. And his TBM wife pressured him, because he wants to be sealed while he still alive.

I asked him why he wants to become a member, but he couldn't say why. During the service he didn't gave his testimony, but apparently his wife.

I am furious hearing about this, especially when I had grandparents who had dementia and he knew how vulnerable they were. And I know that the Church targets vulnerable people, like in my ward a convert who has a brain disease. If I had more courage I have would shout to my bishop this is no way how a church should gain members. Especially a Church who braggs about 'agency'.