Lakumi

Oh you never want to touch me, especially when I am giving a cheerful rhyme but seriously that would be bad. I always felt if I said I know people would ask me "how" and I can't know. I can only believe. Knowing to me is seeing, and I've never seen God (or heard, touched, etc), so I can only believe.

Quinn I would be shocked and almost horrified if there was a ward out there with people like me. I mean for starters those like minded sorts very seldom are married and have families. How do you have a ward with a bunch of single people? Does that exist? I know it could but the culture doesn't seem to care for that from what I have heard. It took me until I was in my 20s to make friends and they're not the kind of people you find in a church. I of course don't blame the LDS church for... well anything. There are things I disagree with, but I am like that with everything. I would be afraid of something I agreed with 100% and would assume it was trying to brainwash me.

Oh no one could trick me, I am very suspicious lol More to the point, what does a single, crazed, introverted individual have to offer a family culture anyway? Oh I remember I had to be less well slinky because the missionaries never knew I had come so I always felt they started their day off kind of bummed out then realized to their shock and amazement (and I could see it on their faces) I had been there the whole time. It was like stepping into a whole other world of people, I even held my hands differently (the Namaste style). The only true craziness was me, and it's far (well as far as something can be in a large town). I was suddenly reminded about a talk a friend and I had, and how she said the church would boot me out and I remember saying how I'd want any talk that I might have given to rhyme...

Very true, very true...

One could argue you can live those teachings elsewhere, I also wish they had later services in the day, I hate mornings and when I do work my average hours are 2-10pm, or some variation within that frame. I usually wake up around 11 am and go to bed round 2-3 am, The time frame I enjoy is not only because its when I feel most awake, its also the best time to get hours in a lot of jobs. People don't like to work those hours, especially on weekends. But if that was my only issue then this would be a far less indepth discussion.

i understand why you'd not want to get bogged down by such things.

To set the record straight, yes I do have social problems, diagnosed and all, my introverted nature came later. I can enjoy social situations in certain places. Some people, yes are just shy, I actually have issues.

No it was what selfishness could cause (murder, breaking of commandments), I admit fully, I am a selfish human being, I dislike a lot of things and am very unmoving in my thoughts. But I don't use others, I have respect for most people I come across, I liked the other articles but this one, not so much. I don't see my introverted nature as a plight, it is just another part of who I am.

Okay this was a kind of a darker article

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my facebook is for a doll, not Lakumi the doll, another doll... there's seldom serious anything there. Usually for BJD roleplay, I can just imagine some poor missionary getting caught up in all that. You don't baptize a faerie. That's never happened yet so I am glad.

I don't fit in anywhere, and would be sickened if I did, that means I've changed for others and betrayed my true self. But really at the end of the day, I am largely not interested in the grand social circle, dating, everything like that. I get uncomfortable when people talk about dating and relationships around me. It draws me away from the things I love and creates nothing but problems. I have my BJD friends and see them here and there. It's fine for me and fine for them. Otherwise, I like my solitude.

I was never given that line, mostly because I think I'm the only one there of my age group (mid 20s) that's single. Though I have made it very clear those are still not good odds for me lol I mean they wouldn't want me in a million years, Mormon or not. I don't fit the mould so I am glad I wasn't given that line because I would have scoffed at it and called it pointless.

I had told the missionaries no one was ever to come to my home since my family are...well not too keen on religious visitors. I dislike unannounced guests and could be in a bad frame of mind, though I think the missionaries thought I was embellishing about that, but I wasn't. But ultimately it came down to something pretty simple- the church is very social and I am very not. I mean I can be insanely difficult to deal with too...

Oh no, don't fit that

I have a heckton of technolgy, but I'm a 25 year old male, its kind of expected lol

To the tri force! (that's what I call my scriptures)

I agree but I still think the internet is a good doorway, arguably the best one-but you are right the internet cannot baptize, cannot enable you to do temple work, and be a part of it. Closest to an internet ward I could see is online gospel classes type thing. You kind of have to be there for the rest of them.

Very true, but the internet is a good, arguably a far better system then going door to door, I read it in an article that a missionary I believe said "people don't think who they add on facebook, they get real defensive when you go to their door" And its true, most people have hundreds and its real easy for a missionary to just go up to a ton of people on facebook and try and spread the word and have some sort of system that could let the local ward know if they're interested... I donno, but I am sure there's a good system that will either be thought up one day.

Does that include Micronations? Because Clovania will stand to simply spite that lol I get it now...internet certainly makes that easier. Or does it mean like with physical people going there with physical books?

God's work being...what exactly?

What is the definition of the work moving forward? Is it positivities for the church or what?

I'm not here to impress you, I could care less what anyone really thinks. If I did care I would have died long ago. But as I said before, I make jokes like that all the time, I have a darker/stranger sense of humour, sometimes I say I tell jokes for me and not others.

nature is a beautiful thing

Kids are sneaky human beings, they're like cats or emu. My parents found rather quickly they couldn't outsmart me when I got smarter then them, and I did. Sometimes kids get smarter then the parents but... I donno that's not too common, certainly gave my parents a harder time that's for sure.