Re: Staying friends with a Landmarkian?

I see, I see...

Wow, how manipulative, and, you, being a person of conscience felt 'obligated'...

Jeez, are they clever, and, pathetic, at the same time.

I will swap stories with you...

So, I really, really, wanted to work with this Japanese psychologist...who had been my sort of partner at a consulting firm. Issue, he is a Mormon...

I thought, I can transcend this, find a bridge.

I attended two LDS services with him, really tried to be open, take an interest, suspend judgement.

A culty is a culty...

They live by other rules, and really shitty rules...

They have given UP basic human dignity...but, they are exceptionally good at inducing other people to do same.

I got love bombed, found home-backed cookies in my mail box...(I did not know they had my address).

I tried to communicate my faith to them, and they listened, oh so respectfully...tried to establish some common value system.

At the end of the day, these people will kill you...

Big mistake to ever love what cannot love you back.