tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902252566256208652.post2020604725622701145..comments2023-10-19T02:49:55.555-07:00Comments on Breaking Mormon : Blessing in Disguise ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00670002501316447739noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902252566256208652.post-36719565599973325632016-03-24T06:44:54.086-07:002016-03-24T06:44:54.086-07:00Good to hear you're ok again.
As for your que...Good to hear you're ok again.<br /><br />As for your question regarding accepting a blessing and then denying gods, well.. Anything that makes you feel comfortable, and I literally mean you! Not your folks, but you especially when you're sick. Anxiety elevates blood pressure and releases stress hormones in your blood stream and neither of those effects are good for recovery.<br /><br />As for balancing with my beliefs (or the lack of) to keep the peace.. well I don't. My dad is an a-hole TBM, so I don't communicate with him at all just for the because the fact that I'm sick and tired of his continuous attemps to manipulate and lack of respect for my choices. Besides my dad only my half sister and half brother are attending chuch and with them I don't bring up religious subject on the discussion. Only if they bring the subject up I might engage in 1-on-1 conversations, but never when there are several attending church goers around. On 1-on-1 they can be actually quite reasonable sometimes as then they don't need to maintain their appearances for the rest of the mormons in the room. Also 1-on-1 they are not suffering from peer pressure from the group. Having had a few such conversations I've found out that the willingness of believing church goers to initiate such has been reduced and such conversations are not common anymore, but there is still the ever present silent tension between us as people are pretending everything is ok.<br /><br />So no, I don't know how to maintain the peace with mutual respect. I doubt whether it is even possible, but I've heard some former mormons claim to have managed to do that.Antti Ateistihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12819075753925805789noreply@blogger.com