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The mormons have their own bible known as the book of mormon.

Fun fact: the LDS store sells King James bibles, and the church uses them. Their classes aren't exactly like attending Harvard Divinity School, though. I think people would be disappointed to hear how little the Book of Mormon and other fantastical materials are tossed about within those manicured brick walls.

If you like wearing expensive, uniform clothing and rubbing that (and your over-achieving wasp family) in the face of those regarded as token poor and otherwise below-average members, then the church could be the place for you. If you desire sanctuary under the roof of conservative peers after doing something like ejecting your homosexual 15-year-old from their home, then look no further. If you want to whisper nastiness behind a pregnant woman's back because she engaged in pre-marital sex, then you've found your perfect environment.

If that sounds a lot like other churches, it's no coincidence.

I got to shake the hand of a bishop at my confirmation. I think they brought him over from Italy. No one could understand what he was saying but he looked like the Pope so it was good for taking pictures. I also learned how to make bread.

ours is named schnurr

It annoyed me that I had to put on a dress shirt and tie to go Sunday church. In the age of post-modernism and aggressive atheism, getting someone to even go to church is an accomplishment. God needs to at least meet someone half way and set a more relaxed dress code.

Everyone is wearing a tie.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

It annoyed me that I had to put on a dress shirt and tie to go Sunday church. In the age of post-modernism and aggressive atheism, getting someone to even go to church is an accomplishment. God needs to at least meet someone half way and set a more relaxed dress code.

dressing up for 'sunday best' tends to be something that poor people do.

Were you molested?

Weren't you a Buddhist at one point? How was that experience?

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Weren't you a Buddhist at one point? How was that experience?

I've said before that Buddhism is the last step from organized religion to Atheism.  It was a natural step for me to seek something spiritual without the built-in idea of a God (especially when I was seriously reading into Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts - he gets a little out there regarding a cosmic force, but it wasn't the same as the God I was brought up to know and learn about) before finally jettisoning that idea.  I don't know if looking back I would call my 18-20 year old self a buddhist, but i read pretty deeply on it and tried to follow some of the basic teachings.  I've always been into some vices though so I could never really find a harmony with the way I lived vs. the righteous way a buddhist was supposed to live.  And that's the same as I am now - I go on about the working class and living piously and how much i hate corporatocracy/kleptocracy, but I'm also living in Orange County, CA driving my car to my company that manufactures products in shit factories in Asia, etc. I am selfish in the fact that I don't want to severely inhibit my quality of life to take a strong stand against injustices I perceive happening around the world.  Life is a constant struggle, man.

meanwhile

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uziq wrote:

TL;DR another self-pitying white dude toys with mahayana buddhism for a while to try and make him feel better about his first-world anxieties.

isn't this basically don draper and every self-involved consumerist of the 60's?

I don't think you comprehended correctly.  Maybe you scanned the couple of sentences for a few buzz words then came out with that TLDR, or maybe you just wanted to make some pop culture reference? I wasn't self pitying when I was looking into buddhism - I was seeking something different from the religion that was forced upon me for the first 16 years of my life.  buddhism and eastern religious thought in general was a good segue to the atheism final form i ended up taking, and i think it's a natural path to go down when you're coming of age and trying to figure out what life means (or if there is any meaning, for that matter).  When I mentioned vices it had more to do with substance abuse in general and living a pretty wild life as opposed to feeling pity because i can't come to terms with my materialism.

but cool reference I guess?  I thought Mad Men was a terrible show personally.

Jay, you're a dumbo who boils everyone down to the neighborhood they are in, where they are from, the color of their skin or what clothes they wear.  It reeks of serious insecurity problems.  I'm sure you'll try to pretend it's all some joke but virtually all your commenting reflects this so maybe you should just take off your white wig and put down the gavel, Judge Judy.