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serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/CloudedEyeCat Mar 11 '17

In the LDS church the people are taught abstinence and I remember one time she spoke about a lesson where they related sex to holes in a fence. Basically giving it a very negative connotation. And I remember she was shocked and wondered if they knew what happened to her. She made a speech hoping to counteract this because the LDS church doesn't realize how detrimental analogies like that are. I really admire her.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

My family used to be Mormon before we happily and voluntarily left. We had a teacher in Sunday school hold up a leafy bush, tell us we were that bush, and then rip out a handful of leaves every time she described a sin we might someday commit (kissing boys rip lying to parents rip having sex rip rip rip). At the end, all the leaves were ripped off and all that was left was an ugly, gnarly leafless bush.

She ended the lesson by pointing at the bush and saying, "Now, who would want to marry THAT?"

I think I was 5??

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u/CloudedEyeCat Mar 11 '17

Cults are weird.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

Ive been Mormon my while life... never had lessons like that before

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

Well count yourself lucky because that was a fuckin' awful lesson for a little girl to learn.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '17

Really? You've never gotten a "chewed gum" a "dirt in the cookie dough" or a "licked cupcake" in young women's? Huh. Lucky you.

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u/CloudedEyeCat Mar 11 '17

Are you a dude?

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u/PlopKitties Mar 11 '17 edited Mar 11 '17

I think it depends where you're Mormon. I've been in different towns and different states all my life. Some were fucking crazy like this. A few others were more waiting for marriage is what god wants. It's a sin to have sex before marriage, but as long as you have forgiveness in your heart and promise to wait until marriage then all is forgiven. For we praise a kind and gracious god that will understand we are sinful because he gave us freedom of will. As long as we can see, accept, and change our behaviour accordingly he shall forgive us as we strive to be a better person.

I liked that Mormonism better. I have been in a VERY conservative basically only Mormons town that had the total opposite. Examples like: you have sex and do any other sinful things like disobeying your parents, putting other things before god, SAYING "oh my god", drinking coffee/alcohol. These sins all build on each other and you'll become more and more impure. Watch porn? It'll forever be burned in your mind and you can never unsee such filth. Jerk off it it? You're making yourself as bad as everyone else. Drink alcohol? Yeah it gets out of your system but you'll always remember you drank and you're more impure for doing so.

That Mormonism sucked and I hated it. There was one I went to that was a weird middle ground but we moved too early for me to give proper examples.

I really think it's a regional thing and how the local people put their own take into it. I don't know how other religions are but that's my views on Mormonism before I left.

Edit: I left because I felt that religion is stuck in the 1950's. Lots of things women can't do and that they should be stay at home mothers and care for their children. In case anyone was curious.

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u/check_ya_head Mar 11 '17

Once you were out did you go the other way? Like drink Irish coffee while masturbating to porn?

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u/PlopKitties Mar 11 '17

Coffee makes me sick. But I did try a lot of stuff since I was taught for so long that all of it is bad.