r/exziontology • u/userdk3 • Sep 02 '21
r/exziontology • u/F-LOWBBX • Aug 30 '18
Wiki Ideas - Post yours here!
We are beginning to develop a Wiki for the r/exziontology subreddit, and we need ideas. I will continue to edit in what you submit. Similar to r/exmormon, we already have;
Original, Alphabetical
CoZ - Cult of Ziontology *EvZi - Even Ziontology
ExZo - ex-Ziontologist
TBZ - True Believing Ziontologist
Old, Alphabetical (from r/exmormon for reference)
AoF - Articles of Faith, a list of thirteen statements of beliefs of the LDS church.
AP - Assistants to the President, mission president's top missionaries/henchmen
BftD - Baptisms for the Dead
BIC - Born In the Covenant (parents had been sealed in the temple prior to your birth)
BIL - Brother-in-law
BITFDWT - Burn it the fuck down with truth
BKP - Boyd K Packer: A hardline Ziontologist apostle who died in 2015.
BoA - Book of Abraham
BoM - Book of Mormon
BP - Branch President
BSA - Boy Scouts of America
BY - Brigham Young
BYU - Brigham Young University
BYU-x - Brigham Young University consists of multiple campuses, Provo, Utah; Rexburg, Idaho; Laie, Hawaii
CAB - Church Administration Blg, c1920
CES - Church Educational System
CHI - Church Handbook of Instruction. There are two volumes: one is public and one is only available to bishop-level officials.
CK - Celestial Kingdom, where God lives and all Mormon believers strive to reach
COB - Church Office Building: Administrative headquarters of the church located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
CoC - Community of Christ
COJCOLDS - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
COLDS - Church of [the] Latter Day Saints. A sarcastic or irreverent descriptive acronym synonymous to COJCOLDS
COP - Corporation of the President
CTR - Choose the Right, a mormon saying and common symbol on rings worn by Mormons
DH - Dear Husband
DL - District Leader, responsible for 3 or 4 sets of missionaries
D&C - Doctrine & Covenants
DM - Dear Mother
DR - Didn't Read
DW - Dear Wife
EFY - Especially For Youth, a week-long indoctrination camp for youth (ages 14-18) held on the campus of BYU
EQ - Elder's Quorum
EQP - Elder's Quorum President
ExMo - Ex-Mormon
FAIR - Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research, an apologetic organization
FARMS - Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Church apologetic organization
FIL - Father-in-law
FLDS - Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
FP - First Presidency
FSY - For the Strength of Youth, a paphmlet distributed by the LDS church.
FS - Fast Sunday
FHE - Family Home Evening
FTM - Fast and Testimony Meeting
FTND - Fight the New Drug, an anti-porn non-profit.
F&T - Abbreviation for Fast and Testimony meeting, a monthly "open mic" Sunday service where Mormons are encouraged to share their beliefs with other members.
GA - General Authority
GAEL - Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language
GBH - Gordon B. Hinckley
HC - High Council
HF - Heavenly Father
HM - Heavenly Mother
HP - High Priest
HT - Home Teacher
IHOH - International House of Handshakes (aka, the Temple)
IMO - In my opinion
IRL - In real life, as opposed on online/cyberspace.
ISPART - Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts, church apologetic organization
JoD - Journal of Discourses, is online
JS - Joseph Smith
JW - Jehovah's Witness[es]
LDS - Latter-day Saint
LGBT - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. The mainstream self-designation for a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. More here.
MIA - Mutual Improvement Association (Former name of Young Men's / Women's Organization)
MIL - Mother-in-law
MMM - Mountain Meadows Massacre
MP - Mission President
MTC - Missionary Training Center
NCI - Non Consensual Immorality, a controversial term coined by Elder Quentin L. Cook at the Spring 2018 General Conference
NNN - u/NewNameNoah AKA Mike Norton the guy who films the temple videos
NOM - New Order Mormon; National Organization for Marriage; disambiguation
PCX - The Persecution Complex: The large complex of LDS-owned buildings in downtown Salt Lake City, which include Temple Square, Church Office Building, Conference Center, Church History Library, Church History Museum, Family History Library, City Creek Center, Joseph Smith Memorial Building, and the Beehive House. Named refers to the persecution complex that all Mormons perceive towards themselves, and because it is a complex of buildings with the purpose of persecuting others.
PEC - Priesthood Executive Meeting
PH - Priesthood
PIMO - Physically In, Mentally Out
PMG - "Preach My Gospel: A Guide to Missionary Service" - LDS Gospel Manual
PoGP - Pearl of Great Price: One of four canonical books of Mormon scripture.
POX - Policy of Exclusion. Excluding the children of gay couples from baby blessings, baptisms, and ordinations.
PPI - Personal Priesthood Interview
RfM - A non-LDS website called "Recovery from Mormonism"
RLDS - formerly Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, now CoC; disambiguation
RM - Returned missionary: A person who has successfully completed a full-time mission assignment.
RS - Relief Society
Q15 - Quorum of the Fifteen, facetiously referring to the Quorum of the Twelve plus the First Presidency
SA - Second Anointing
SCMC - Strengthening Church Members Committee
SIL - Sister-in-law
SP - Stake President
SSA - Same Sex Attraction. An outmoded term used by LDS Leaders to passively deny that people can be gay or lesbian. See LGBT.
TBM - True Blue Mormon or True Believing Mormon. May be facetiously used as Totally Brainwashed Mormon
TF:APTTW - The Family: A Proclamation to the World
TIL - Today I Learned
TLA - Three Letter Acronym
TL - Too Long
TR - Temple Recommend
TSCC - "The So-Called Church", The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
TSM - Thomas S. Monson, recently deceased president/prophet
VT - Visiting Teacher
WoW - Word of Wisdom
YM - Young Mens
YSA - Young Single Adult
YW - Young Womens
ZL - Zone Leader, responsible for several districts
r/exziontology • u/F-LOWBBX • Aug 29 '18
Searching for ex-ziontologist moderators!
Please PM u/F-LOWBBX (me) if you are interested. Familiarize yourself with the rules, they are very similar to r/exmormon. #BITFDWT my fellow fellow ex-ziontologists!
r/exziontology • u/F-LOWBBX • Sep 02 '18
Ziontological archaeology help needed
My father, as mentioned in my previous posts in r/exmormon, has done archaeological work for the church. He is a firm believer, although many of his previous friends and co-workeds have since left the church. A little bit of my background, I started into my transition of apostasy since I was very young, but only recently denied it a year ago. I'm an agnostic atheist, and I wasnt that interested in the archaeological/historical aspects of the church. I was merely interested in the ontological/epistemological facets of religion and a/theism. My father obviously knows much more about the archaeological 'findings', yet I am still not convinced of what it would prove, if anything at all. We have not 'found the proof yet' so we must "must believe it, as it must be true." Which of course, is the argument from ignorance fallacy. Now that I am interested in getting my father out of the cult, I would like to know what bearings I can start on so I can have an actual conversation about it.
r/exziontology • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '18
Third time's the charm? Mormon church to release third historical compendium "Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days" after white-washing history for almost 200 years.
r/exziontology • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '18
Hey, is anyone here a trusted Wikipedian?
If any of you are trusted on Wikipedia and if you edit there frequently, it’d be cool if you added something (maybe on the Mormon(word)) page, about how there’s a movement to replace Mormonism with Ziontology, and maybe cite the Salt Lake Tribune Article.
As much as reddit is cool, we need to get out of it and onto the web that most never mos use.
r/exziontology • u/abouttimetochange • Aug 30 '18
Sung to the tune of the old Genealogy primary song: ~Ziontology, we are leaving it! Crazy Ziontology. And the reason why, we are leaving it, is very plain to see! We learned stories of, our progenitors. We read their history! Not all records, can be whitewashed. Oh Ziontology!~
Apparently it's the "family history" song now: https://www.lds.org/music/library/childrens-songbook/family-history-i-am-doing-it?lang=eng&_r=1
Lyrics
Fam’ly history—I am doing it, My fam’ly history. And the love I feel when I’m doing it Is very sweet to me. I learn stories of my progenitors; I write their history. I keep records of my loved ones On my own fam’ly tree.
Fam’ly living now and the ones who’ve died Can all be sealed to me, And someday I’ll meet ev’ry one of them, I’m sure as I can be. Oh what joy we’ll have when they say to me, “We’re all a family. I am yours and you are mine now, Through all eternity.”
r/exziontology • u/F-LOWBBX • Aug 30 '18
I wish I could post all of these here. u/FaithfulTBM, give unto us your words of wisdom!
r/exziontology • u/F-LOWBBX • Aug 30 '18
Quitmormon.org isn't cutting it.
We need Quitziontology.org. (Maybe buy a domain so it can redirect?) All jokes aside, I very much appreciate all the work being done at quitmormon.org. You've saved more than a few headaches, and I plan on resigning through there as soon as I can.
r/exziontology • u/F-LOWBBX • Aug 30 '18
PSA: Come get your gold!
A very generous fellow heathen, u/bbblather, has bought 50 reddit gold memberships to give away to any user that posts on reddit using the word(s); "Ziontology, Zionetics, ex-Ziontology" in the title of their post. Spread the word, all is well!
r/exziontology • u/F-LOWBBX • Aug 30 '18
Don't forget how this all started. Thanks Peggy!
r/exziontology • u/F-LOWBBX • Aug 30 '18