I receive ketamine infusions every eight weeks for nerve pain in my entire lower body. The infusion provides significant relief for about two to four weeks.

There’s no hate quite like Christian love.

Salvation coffee? Exit door out cult please

I relate to you to a T here 16:54 - maybe I should look into it!

I grew up Mormon in California, teenager in the early 2000s. Super active in youth conferences and dances. I didn't learn about EFY until I was 17. I was so jealous of people who had gone because it sounded like so much fun, like it would have been the epitome of the active Mormon teen experience.

Tara you are BEAUTIFUL!!! Thank you for sharing your perspective and story!!! 💜💜💜

My ex's dad basically proposed to me in a personal priesthood interview as my priestcohrum leader when his daughter was 18! I was a 22 year old RM who grew up in the same ward, and felt real pressure to marry her less than a year after returning, in fact her dad designed, bought, and gave me her ring to just pay him back for... I told my bishop I had prayed about marrying her and never felt good about getting married, and he read me a quote from Kimball that said any 2 temple worthy people could be happily married, then asked if we were temple worthy, and told that was my answer after answering yes... we divorced less than two years later...

Well besides the handshakes and things, the symbols on the garments... a compass, a square, and a ruler are literal masonry tools used while performing masonry, which makes sense given the story behind the free masons who the story goes were masons building the Solomon temple and witnessed what went on in the temple and incorporated it into their ritual, which we actually know can't be true but at least the story makes sense why they then use the compass ruler and square as their symbols which you see on all free mason temples... what doesnt make sense is if Joseph Smith was restoring what originally went on in the temple, even if he used the masons to discover it if we assume the story of them actually witnessing it and had parts of the true ritual, but why use their symbols? Clearly the free MASON's symbols of masonry tools came from the masons and not those they witnessed in the Solomon temple, so why are mormons putting a ruler, a compass, and a square, MASONRY TOOLS USED IN MASONRY, OR BUILDING WITH BRICK, ON THEIR GARMENTS... which are apparently so sacred you have to cut them up or preferably burn them before you can chuck ur underwear and without which holy garments turn to rags you can use to wipe up your counters and shit.... anyway, if you think about it, even if we assume the impossible actually happened and the free masons had parts of this sacred ritual Smith then took and restored, again to the ritual performed by those the masons who built the solomon temple witnessed, using the masonry symbols the free masons use by putting the same ones on mormon garments makes no sense... clearly the mason tools the free masons use as symbols came from them and not those they witnessed while building the temple... so why put them on garments, let alone make them the sacred parts of garments which turn to any other old rag without them? Also I always found it odd that the church is fine with being a free mason and several card carrying mormons are... its okay to go perform the tokens for example with non members in your men's club?

My mission was a terrible experience too

I wonder if Mormons baptise in olive oil or something, was John the Baptist dunking Jesus in a river of dust or something?

Waters are not aligned with the accuser.

Evolution s describes the gradual change and adaptation of various forms of life. Science has vague theories about biogenesis or the actual beginning of life but it's theories about the necessary conditions have not been recreated or proven in any way. The book of Genesis is widely considered to be borrowed from Sumerian and other previous cultures creation stories, the flood and all that good stuff in particular.

Idk. Could you imagine being responsible for the suffering that occurred on an entire planet; see Earth for more.

Maybe Douglas Adams Ghost wrote some of these ideas

Sirius is referred to as the dog star, maybe it's where furries originate 😉

Tara!!

I understand the other complaints about garments, but I don't understand how garments contribute to UTIs. I've worn them for 14 years, and I've never heard that as an issue until recently. They're loose-fitting and there are different fabrics to choose from. Anyway, it's a bummer that you had negative health experiences with them.

2 questions Why is AOC talking about bishops? Why is a Mormon girl wearing a necklace?

My Mom is not even Mormon. Yet when she lived in Thailand she would take the Elders and Sisters out for lunch once per week. It was a way of connecting with me when I was living far away.

I'm stuck in Utah!

I believe the logical fallacy you're looking for is "No True Scotsman", as in no true X would do Y, Z does Y, therefore Z is not an X.

Eloquent, indeed! Thank you, Tara. I thought of the line from The Highwomen: "We carry the sons you can only hold."

I’m a EXmormon , at 84 years old which I joined at 17 years old married at 19 in B the temple held many callings and raised 6 Amazing children !! I’m so Blessed to have done researched watching Mormon stories and the CES letter and reading church history the Big one was the temple that ripped my heart into and had my name removed 🙏🏻❤️

So excited for this one. Loved Tara’s Mormon Stories episode and have been wanting to hear more of her story!

It's so good to hear these important issues laid out plainly and clearly. Thank you for sharing!

Hehehe...19 years ex-mo and I still haven't gotten this question from anyone. Another obscure not very pop-culture reference to Kolob is in a mobile game called Terragenesis (simulates terraforming real and fictional planets), where "Kolob's Warmth" is a randomly generated suggestion for a city name.

Is there a way your ads can be more related to your views?? Legitimate question. There was a concealed carry ad, which for me is fine, but seems against your liberal values… just a bit confused….

Huh. We adopted a black child via ldsfs too. And then a brother and sister from Guatemala.

Thanks for this. I'm an Ex-mo man married for 18 years with two special needs kids. I've always tried to do my share of chores and child-rearing, and more recently my share of the mental labor (previously unaware of that concept and how much of it my wife was doing). Final frontier is taking on my share of the emotional labor. Work in progress. Hope more men see this and do better.

I can tell my patriarch didn't find me attractive (convert, curvy, wasn't into makeup back then), because he goes back and forth on if I would meet a "worthy son of Zion" in this life or the next.... Like he was afraid of getting my hopes up. Even my ex-RM husband clocked it! 🙄🤣

55:54 (I commented on this earlier but I think it deleted because I added too soon after another comment) the only times we were robbed (knife and gun point) was when we had goals to meet ‘X# of people’ in a given week/day. We were following the rules, and it was just before curfew each time.

My story is much less intense than the stalker story but gives me the same vibes about MPs not caring like they should about safety or emotional safety. I had been out for about a month and we baptized this guy. Shortly after his baptism he called us and I answered. He asked to meet with me privately without my comps so we could have seggs. He said, "How old are you?" And when I said 19 he said, "You carry yourself like you are older." He was 45 or 50. I told the Bishop in the ward and my MP and they told me to stay 6 feet away from him at all times. But no attempt was made to help me process the very confused feelings I was having. I was a VERY naive barely 19 year old and I thought that this was a trustworthy person because he had just gotten a testimony of the gospel. I didn't even think something like that could happen to a missionary. I felt kind of dirty about it. And the way they handled it did not make me feel supported or safe although I didn't really realize at the time what I needed. Now I know. I needed a mature adult to actually talk with me about it and what it meant and that it wasn't my fault and maybe ask if I wanted to be transferred and also hold the guy accountable.

0:42. It’s always ’the winter of our discontent’ somewhere? Sry, I’ll see myself oot

Simplistically, people leave the church because they don’t like the version of God that is presented to them. They are looking for a God that suits them and the life they want to live or even no God at all. What is exactly you are trying to convert people to? What are you offering?

My two cents: What if healing doesn’t mean just from illness but spiritual healing? Our souls are our bodies and our spirits. Spirits need healing too. Also, you are going to get sick or injured more than one time in your life, you are a human. It is a blessing to be healed of things for your entire life, meaning you won’t be plagued by the ailments that bring other people down. There is no fear mongering, I think you just looked at through a lens of fear. It doesn’t say you won’t ever get sick or hurt, just that you can be healed. That’s is why it is called a blessing, not a “you better watch out or else curse.” God loves all His children no matter how they choose to engage with Him.

58:02 self-love is innate self-loathing is learned WOW

One of my sisters friends served in Mexico. While he was gone, his parents informed us that he and his companion had been robbed of 80 US$ at gunpoint, BY A COP!!!

If only they put as much effort looking into church history as they do the lives of exmormon content creators...🤭

Hayley!!! This is crazy that young innocent unseasoned girls and boys are going into strangers homes. Your big wigs are desperate for paying parishioners to a dangerous level.

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Betty is so lucky that you won't put her in a box. She doesn't have to have any direction or guidance from you because she's free to live here best life.

I am an exmo from a Muslim majority country who grew up with very liberal (agnostic) parents (I joined on my own when I was a teen) the trauma left me thankfully but the part about prn, fantasies, threesomes that she talked about....I needed to hear so much for the sake of my current relationship! Thank you so muh Aimee....

I was almost ready to submit my papers when I met my husband. I’m so thankful every day I did not go.

My wife is good friends with an LDS neighbor, she told us that her daughter was raped while serving on her mission.

Wow thank you for sharing your story gabby. This was so raw and vulnerable and brave. Wishing you the best and sending you and your kiddo love ❤

I have so many stories like these. In Japan there are whole trains dedicated to just women. I was not on one of those cars and it was just my comp & I and this man put his arm around me with out a word . He smelled of piss and 💩and I just said “I’m no thank you” in the most stern voice I could muster. I don’t think I realized till now how wrong that situation could have been (my comp fell asleep across the way from me. It was just us and him in that car. The next stop he jumped out and ran away. So effed up

Hi from winter in Sydney!!

not to diminish the context here, but i was an exchange student for a year and then a volunteer in a subsaharan country for a year (think peace corps), and these issues are pretty prevalent for any organization who sends a bunch of often young, helpless, and untrained individuals to a place where they have no supporting infrastructure. the peace corps has a huge sexual assault problem that never really makes it to the mainstream media (as well as coping-related drug/alcohol abuse problems). portrayals of extended travel abroad almost always gloss over how incredibly challenging it is in so many ways.

Ahhhh now I want to check on the sisters in my area.... 😮

I think you should start a new channel with all missionary stories! We can’t get enough! I love your style of talking about issues and telling stories!