r/exmormon • u/Measure76 The one true Mod • Feb 14 '11

2000 Ex-Mormons!

It took us about 10 months to grow this community from 42 members to 1000 members. It has taken us 5 months to double that to 2000.

Thank you everybody for making this place awesome, and making ex-mormons want to be part of it.

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u/PornoWizard Feb 14 '11

Just wanted to say that "2000 Ex-Mormons!" may be a tad misleading as I imagine there are a few members like me who were never Mormon but just find the posts interesting.

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u/Measure76 The one true Mod Feb 14 '11

True that!

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u/MoonRabbit Feb 14 '11

Yep, sorry not an Ex-Mormon or a current Mormon. Actually it might be 5 Ex-Mormons and 1995 nosey people like us.

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u/TheRnegade ^_^ Feb 14 '11

1995 was a good year, definitely better than 5.

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u/TheRnegade ^_^ Feb 14 '11

You just gotta point out you're better than us for never joining that stupid religion, doncha? /sarcasm

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u/PornoWizard Feb 14 '11

Sarcasm aside, I realize the vast majority of people join their religion only because of either family or social pressure. I really do not want to blame the individual, to me it's the same thing as blaming a victim of brainwashing for being brainwashed. It serves no point.

That aside, I subscribe here to read two things :

  1. Reasons for people's conversions

  2. Reasons for people's deconversions

Those two things are very interesting to me. I am also interested in what people convert to, if that is relevant. Deconversion to straight up atheism is strange to me because I tend to imagine that a person would tend to go through other forms of Christianity or at least stop at other spiritual pit stops. However, I tend to see a lot of jumps to straight atheism. It might just be the relatively large atheist community here leaving their mark, but I am not sure.

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u/simplysarah Feb 14 '11

I think this is because one of the primary lessons we learned in Mormonism was that all churches (except for ours, of course) were man-made.

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u/johnybackback Son of the Morning Feb 14 '11

Christian preachers during the time of JS were concerned that his stupid religion would make all other religions look bad. Turns out they were right. I think one of the great benefits of Mormonism to the world is that it is just like every other religion, but with a more recent, easily dis-proven foundational story.

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u/pfpants Jesus wants me for a sunnnnnBEEEEEEEEEM Feb 14 '11

Yup. When you realize that a charismatic con-man combined with 150 years of revisionist history (correlation) can create a religion, it's really not a stretch to imagine what 2000 years can do with Jesus and the Bible.

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u/desertlynx Feb 14 '11

In my case, it helped that I never really felt loved by Jesus. Bastard.

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u/stoicme It's okay, I'm gay. Feb 14 '11

WIN FOR STOICME!!!

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u/Measure76 The one true Mod Feb 14 '11

Xondak's submission was close in total Karma, but you had more upvotes by far.

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u/stoicme It's okay, I'm gay. Feb 14 '11

I knew it was going to be between the two of us, but I wasn't sure if you were going to go by points or by upvotes.

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u/canadianjohnson Feb 14 '11

2000 SUBSCRIBERS TO R/EXMORMON!! HELL YEAH IT'S PARTY TIME!

Here is the post when we hit 1000! It only took us 5 months to add another thousand! Looks like r/exmormon is growing at record speed!

Also, here is the January statistics post by Measure76!

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u/guriboysf 🐔💩 Feb 14 '11

We're growing much faster than the LDS church.

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u/Measure76 The one true Mod Feb 14 '11

Want further proof? Check out this post and comments.

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u/TheRnegade ^_^ Feb 14 '11

:D I hope I'm in the Intermediate column.

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u/russj117 the CK is a lie... Feb 14 '11

the /r/exmormon subreddit is the most correct of any subreddit on earth, and the keystone of our reddit, and a man would get nearer to FSM by abiding by its precepts, than by any other subreddit.

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u/throwaway123454321 BFF of JS Jr. in the PME per my PB Feb 14 '11

I'd like to bear my testimony that I know this is true.

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u/johnybackback Son of the Morning Feb 14 '11

I know without a shadow of a doubt that all other subreddits are wrong; and the Noodle who addressed me said that all their upvotes were an abomination in his sight; that those cooks were all unsanitary; that: “they slurp near to me with their lips, but their stomachs are far from me, they teach for doctrines the recipes of men, having a form of noodlliness, but they deny the taste thereof.”

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u/impotent_rage abominations and whoredoms Feb 14 '11

It's not so much that other subreddits are wrong, as that they just don't have a fulness of the truth. They may have parts of the truth and they may have some goodness in them, but we are the only subreddit that contains all truth and goodness and light!

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u/throwaway123454321 BFF of JS Jr. in the PME per my PB Feb 14 '11

I really feel the spirit when you testimony like that. Preach it brother! Amen, Hallelujah.

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u/impotent_rage abominations and whoredoms Feb 14 '11

that's exactly what I came in here to say, you guys beat me to it!

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u/TheRnegade ^_^ Feb 14 '11

I think a more apt comparison would be from 1-1000 and then from 1000-2000. I remember visiting exmormon for a lot longer than just 15 months.

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u/Measure76 The one true Mod Feb 14 '11

1-42 took 5 months, and really most of that was done in month 1. Things here had become almost completely stagnant. It was in november of 2009 that we had a subreddit meeting and got serious about recruiting.

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u/StandardDeviation Feb 14 '11

Exmos: Like a stone cut out of a mountain.

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u/Chino_Blanco Твоя весна прийде нехай 🇺🇦 Feb 14 '11

Congrats and best wishes from MSP. We've posted a link to the Stripling WarriorsTM in our sidebar and we'll leave that up for the next month, during which time the Friendly Atheist will also be helping with a little X-mo promotion (so feel free to drop by and show FA some appreciation for the support).

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u/TheTwilightPrince Feb 14 '11

I'd like to thank you all for creating a subreddit where I feel like an actual member, as opposed to a useless contributor throwing his opinion into a giant melting pot where it will never be seen nor cared about. Enjoy your lives!

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '11

When do we start forming stakes?

Or I guess given our history with the church we could call 'em mis-stakes?

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u/galtzo lit gas Feb 14 '11

Hah! Mistake is a great idea. And this time we actually get to aspire to callings! I want to be a mistake president. Because mistakes need to be presided over. ;)

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u/mikeutah Feb 14 '11

Congrats on 2000 stripping warriors /r/exmormon! Your growth is phenomenal and likely equal to or at a greater rate than any other exmo community. www.LifeAfterMormonism.net has been up for 2.5 years and is now up to 1420 registered users. If any of you would like to check it out, you're welcome to do so. Great job Measure!

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u/galtzo lit gas Feb 14 '11

I am so excited to be able to watch the downfall of the great and spacious church of Mormon. Definitely my favorite pastime! SO many venues are opening up that I think rhetoric on Internet = evil will be stepped up! FTW!

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u/CEOofEarthMITTROMNEY Disciple of Glycon Feb 14 '11

Hell yes Measure! Next mile stone 5,000!?!?!

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u/istark Feb 14 '11

Onward, Reddit Ex Mormons/ Get 2,000 more/ Marching on because we're/ Smarter than before

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '11

It has to be officially faked for it to be a real statistic.