With simple frocks and elaborate hairstyles reflecting femininity carried as a burden, fundamentalist Mormon women face the media earlier this month.
I'd say that the key source of the above is spiritually rooted.
Hence, that's why the ministry, Truth in Love ministry to Mormons, based in Idaho, established late last year a billboard campaign aimed at Lds women.
See these three articles:
Religion: Group targets LDS women
Source: Rexburg Standard Journal, Dec. 2, 2009
Local billboards target Mormon doctrine
Source: Idaho State Journal, Jan. 9, 2010
Nampa pastor leads drive to convert Mormons
Source: Idaho Statesman, Dec. 27, 2009
**must not make fun**
**Must not tell lame joke**
Tips on reducing stress does not belong in the “Religion” forum, no matter how desperate you are to stretch it into a controversy.
With simple frocks and elaborate hairstyles reflecting femininity carried as a burden, fundamentalist Mormon women face the media earlier this month.
When my aunt (LDS) was stressed she told me that she looked around and realized that when the kids were grown they would not thank her for a clean house but because she took them to the park. I never forgot that. It was good advice. (Ok, she hired a cleaning crew that came every other day but she was right in theory)
DRTTV thread—no thanks.
Well according to the April 28, 2010 Mormon Times: Brownies a favorite at Women's Conference :
"And the BYU brownie is apparently the favorite way to satiate that hunger. More than 12,300 brownies -- mint, regular, with or without nuts -- were sold during the two-day conference in 2009. During a typical week on campus during the semester, only 1,705 of them are bought. And during the five-day Education Week in the fall for 2009, there were 8,178 brownies sold. "Traditionally, the women's conference food is typified by the brownie," said Dean Wright, director of dining for BYU, who provided the statistics to Mormon Times.
(Yeah, I'd say; so, a typical week with hungry male students & young coeds yields 1,705 brownie purchases (246 a day). The women come on campus and the average purchase skyrockets to 6,150 per day almost a 2500% increase!)
And if you think it stopped at brownies: "Other favorites include ice cream, chocolate milk (which is my grandmother's favorite) and doughnuts, but none of those beat out the Education Week totals for those same treats. Nearly 6,300 doughnuts are sold on an average week, while 732 are sold during Women's Conference and 2,901 during Education Week last year."
Well, all I can say that they do know how to make good doughnuts in Utah! (Ya gotta give that to 'em)
But where does the "Word of Wisdom" come in on Brownies & Doughnuts, again?
.... So, Colofornian ...when you apostasized from the LDS Church did you get a 10% raise and an extra day off each week?
Let me guess...it was this conference that dumped Mitt Romney's book being #2 in the Deseret Book publisher list on April 21 and replaced it with the book, Women of the Book of Mormon a week later -- a book Deseret Book publishing bills as offering "new insights into the temporal and spiritual lives of our ancient sisters."
(Better believe they are "new"!!!)
Why is that? Well, to learn why, ya need to play, Book of Mormon Jeopardy on Women
Book of Mormon Jeopardy on Women
Time to hit the Jeopardy category of “Women in the Book of Mormon.” (For those who don't know "Jeopardy," the answer comes first)
Answer: 2%
Question: What % of the 250 or so characters in the Book of Mormon are female?
Answer: Once
Question: How many times are “sisters” even referenced in the Book of Mormon? [The only reference I've found is 2 Nephi 5:6 – and even then these sisters of Nephi are unnumbered & unnamed]
Answer: Sarai
Question: Who's the only wife mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon?
Answer: Abish
Question: Who's the only daughter mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon?
Answer: Don't Exist
Question: Who are the sisters mentioned by name in the Book of Mormon?
Now that we know the BoM marginalizes women, how can we tell if it trivializes women, too?
(1) Leading off the lineup of Mormon women, we have the unnamed daughter of Jared (Ether 8:8-12). What goes through her brain? Why she wants to dance before a man so that she'll seduce him into marrying him; then this household can properly commit patricide. Nice.
(2) There's an unnamed Lamanite queen in Alma 47:35. She's easy to defraud.
(3) There's another unnamed Lamanite queen in Alma 22:19-24. Let's see. This queen sees Aaron & servants @ foot of a dead king's bed. She jumps to wrongful conclusions. Then in all her decisiveness, she's going to massacre them for guilt-by-association. Then she started to back down from her heavy-handed executive authority. Why? Not because of justice, but because of fear – her servants were fearful. So she was, too (v. 21). Aaron, seeing that this woman was no match for kingdom authority, elected, instead to do the “easy thing.” And what was the easy thing in comparison to trying to deal with this queen? Why, he raised the king back from the dead (vv. 22-23).
(4) And since the book of Alma in the Book of Mormon seems to carry the predominant mention of women on behalf of the entire book, how do the earlier chapters introduce such women?
Here, read it yourself:
“And now, may the peace of God rest upon you, and upon your houses and lands, and upon your flocks and herds, and
[“and” = covering things you haven't yet covered...so what you seen the next line applies to what follows -- not what was preceding]
and all that you POSSESS, your women and your children,
according to your faith and good works,
from this time forth AND FOREVER
And thus I have spoken. Amen. (Alma 7:27)
(Well, last time I looked, forever meant forever)
Other than that, when women are mentioned in the Book of Mormon, they are good for toiling, spinning, working (Mosiah 10:5; Hel. 6:13) and having kids (1 Nephi 17:1), which the prestigious clans of the Book of Mormon were good at having by gobs of millions...supposedly.
And even when we get to the grandest of stories about women yanked out of the Bible, even Joseph can't get it quite exact. He references an unnamed virgin in 1 Nephi 11:18 -- who Smith identified as "the mother of God." Now the RC among us might say, "So?"
Well, the Book of Mormon "editors"...
...those who made almost 4,000 changes from the original Book of Mormon...
...(who'd have thunk that "the most correct book on earth" according to the Mormon angel would have need "editors"?)...
...then inserted the words "the Son of" into the text. Hmm. Those words -- were they there in the original gold inscribed text? Why did they add them? Why isn't there at least a footnote at the bottom of the Book of Mormon page saying, "Hey, we kind of added to the text here. Just wanted to let ya know."
Restornu: this thread is for YOU!
“God placed us here to succeed,”
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If the mormon god was really that interested in our success...
then why didnt he just leave us where we were successful ???
She suggested adding two words to a working vocabulary: “Who cares?”
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Now theres a woman who is about to be invited to a “court of love”
I think the stress is related to keeping the future god happy so they get “called up” and not left behind
LOL just when I thought I’d seen all that anti-Mormons could come up with....
Anyone curious about the truth regarding the LDS faith do yourself a favor and don’t look just on this board. It is infested with anti-Mormon propagandists with an agenda that does not preclude quite a bit of deception.
Check out some other sources and even talk to some LDS people yourself. You won’t find the truth on this board. You do want the truth don’t you?
Man, I hope you didn’t pull a muscle with this stretch of an article...slow day at Anti-Mormon Central?
Isn’t the real way they relieve stress have something to do with them having so many children?
I recommend frequent masturbation. But then I recommend that for pretty much everyone.