Alison Moore Smith

@tvheidihatch Heidi, stop.

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How would these mothers prepare there daughters for something **they didn’t know anything about**? My mother didn’t teach me about perimenopause because no one had ever heard of perimenopause before she died. . So you think it would make me a “decent human” to go on social media and malign her for it? That’s the decent and kind thing to do? 🤦🏼‍♀️ . I never heard about it till after I went through menopause. And my daughters aren’t close to that yet. I’m defending older people you all expected to have magical knowledge to impart to you. . The term only came into the popular vernacular in the last 10 years, mostly since 2020.

@MidlifeCredo @tracybeanz It's fascinating that your generation is perfectly capable of communicating condescendingly but couldn't just have a heart to heart to prepare their own children for how people change as they age or genetic medical history. Y'all are genuinely terrible at being decent humans.

WHY DON’T OUR MOTHERS HELP US UNDERSTAND PERIMENOPAUSE. WHY DID I HAVE TO DO THIS BY MYSELF? They never told us shit. Nothing. Nothing about the actual role of estrogen in like, every single neurological function. Not the anxiety, or itching or PVC’s and palpitations. Not the histamine reactions, or the pelvic floor issues, or the sore joints occasionally. They didn’t say a word about mood swings or how important progesterone is or what it does or what happens during luteal. THAT ENDS NOW. MY DAUGHTER WILL BE PREPARED, DAMMIT. Ladies, if you have a question I have become an effing encyclopedia of women’s health over the past 3-4 months. Holy shit what a disservice. Hot flashes? Ha! I’d trade 90% of this shit for hot flashes.

@ferrell_travis @DChadwickAuthor You are free to believe as you choose.

You are free to believe as you choose. However, multiple apostles have endorsed President Nelson’s call to use the proper name of the church as revelatory. I personally sat in a meeting and heard Elder Cook testify that President Nelson did what he did in response to instruction from “heavenly messengers” and the Holy Ghost drove that message home for me. There is no rational argument that will trump what I felt as Elder Cook shared his testimony that day.

My fellow Latter Day Saints, respectfully, it’s time to let this one go. This is an initiative whose time has passed. I know many people still deeply admire President Nelson and wish to carry on his teachings and wishes. I understand and respect that impulse. But policing people’s language in this matter, both inside the church and out, is not only rude but also intellectually disingenuous. We leaned into the term Mormon since the days of the prophet Joseph Smith. We owned it and took it on ourselves as our identity. We did that, nobody else. We call our belief system Mormonism. This is how language works. Not only that, it makes us distinct from other denominations. This was the whole point of the restoration. Joseph Smith restored the gospel away from the apostasy that had been happening for almost two thousand years. A distinct and defining term for this is appropriate. Nobody believes we worship Mormon. This is absurd. There is no confusion of who members of the church actually worship. We worship Jesus Christ. I have never, not once in my life, been ashamed of being a Mormon. And neither should we. With all due respect to President Nelson, I implore you to heed President Hinckley’s wise words on this matter. But not only his, also President Monson’s: Dare to be a Mormon; Dare to stand alone. Dare to have a purpose firm; Dare to make it known.

@PaulLew83715430 @DataRepublican @johnkonrad @ItsYourGov That’s my name, too.

@DataRepublican @johnkonrad @ItsYourGov John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt :)

I need @DataRepublican to teach me how to scrape and archive these defeatist losers so when the USS Defiant battleship launches, I can host an all you can eat crow buffet.

@latterdaylaura In the 90s, my kids were subjected to Dr. Laura whilst transporting them to and fro. (I agreed with a lot of what she said, but also disagreed with a bunch.) they still bring it up sometimes it’s a running gag.

This new generation of mothers needs their own Dr Laura to call them out. I'm happy to do it tbh

@ldsfilmguy I’m so so sorry.

I just got word my mom tried to commit suicide today.... I think I'm going to log off for a while...

In my experience, it takes missionaries about six months to normalize. In other words, to gain a baseline of who they’re actually going to be going forward. . Honestly, girls might acclimate more quickly, but that’s my experience with guys. In any case, I wish you the best in your decision and future.

I feel the need to clarify: We dated for 7 months before she left on her mission, and I decided I wanted to wait for her. We email on mondays, and we already agree that we want to get married. I haven’t talked with her parents yet, but I think I’ll be able to this summer. She returns in December. Do I wait weeks? Months? I’ve never done this before 😂 so I don’t know what is acceptable

@hunterbrady84 @wndyW1LL0w Love the entrepreneurial spirit!

My son takes brings up the garbage cans for neighbors for $5 a month. Volume is key for him. 10 neighbors - $50/month. Good little job for a 10 year old. He’s getting big enough. He’s been doing it for 2 years. He’s getting older and strong enough now where he’s now offering $3/add on to take the garbage out.

How much would you pay a 5, 9 and 11yr old neighbors to help feed your cats AM and PM for one week while you were on vacay? (they would be splitting the pay)

In his position as prophet, it was within President Nelson’s purview to change the focus. . That said, the circumstances lead me to believe it was a personal preference more than God’s will. He made the same push in the early 90s and President Hinckley pushed back six months later. Who was speaking for God then?

@DChadwickAuthor I’ll let it go when President Oaks (or predecessor) says to do so. In the meantime, I trust that President Nelson was speaking for the Savior, not himself. President Nelson might have passed on, but the Savior has not.

I don’t understand what you said. . “It was an absolutely an inspired change. Thus why antis tried to paint us as non Christian.” . It was an inspired change and because of the inspired change, antis call us non-Christian? (how would that make it an inspired change?) . Or it wasn’t inspired change because they used to call us non-Christian and since they change they don’t? (and they still call us this daily, so how is it an inspired change?)

@sweetsaintbakes @DChadwickAuthor It was absolutely an inspired change. Thus why antis try to paint us as non Christian. Its an important distinction.

@EricCMeadows Thank you. I appreciate that. This occurred for me over 35 years ago. I’m still an active member. . It’s important to me that we acknowledge the experiences of others. I don’t mind pushback or debate, but seeking for truth is a good thing. . Thanks again.

@MidlifeCredo I apologize for coming across strongly. I honestly don’t feel that Jospeh’s polygamy is as much of a mystery as many make it out to be. You obviously feel differently, and that’s ok. Again, my apologies

I question whether he was ever a missionary based on this. Has any missionary ever NOT gotten a question about polygamy during their mission?

I dud not dismiss your personal experience. I dismissed your claims about what others knew/know, your fallacious reframing of his claim, and your dismissal of my decently well documented and cited experience. (And that of hundreds of other people I have spoken to since.) . Again, he claimed not to know about *Joseph’s practice.* You reframed that as not knowing about *polygamy generally.* That is fallacious. . Perhaps you noticed in your skimming that approximately 40% of the members polled out not knowing. Perhaps you noticed in your skimming even Meridian noted that many people first learned this when the polygamy essays were published—which was well over a decade after I first learned from Mormon Enigma.

I skimmed it, but I don’t even know who you are. I’ll trust my own experience over your article. By the way, you’re dismissing my experience of everyone I know in the church, especially on my mission, did know about Joseph’s polygamy. I learned about fairly young. It was not hidden from me. You had a different experience, I guess. I can’t speak to that. And I made no fallacious statement about him. He claimed to not know as a missionary. I claimed that every missionary I know was asked about it. Simple as that. Good day.

@1000HolyPlaces Well, it was my only shot. 😂

@MidlifeCredo I'm already fluent in Pig Latin, no need study on Duo. LOL

Someone decided to try and challenge me on Duolingo. This was a very, very serious error in judgment.

You didn’t read the article did you? 🤷🏼‍♀️ You’re just going to dismiss my experience with hundreds of people. And you’re gonna claim that ward was magically unique. 👌🏻 . As for the pedophilia bit, I rarely heard such claims pre-internet. (I heard charlatan, con man, treasure hunter, mason, etc.) But, as I said, anything that was unsavory was chalked up to being anti-Mormon. And anti-Mormons made up anti-Mormon stuff just because they hated Mormons. So…dismiss. . You still haven’t explained a possible motive for what I wrote over a decade ago and what I’ve been discussing with people for well over three decades. I’m an active member. I just think the only appropriate apologetics is to search for our best approximation of truth. Not a “faithful history” narrative. . Lastly, as I said, I don’t know the guy. But to use the claim that he’s anti-Mormon in order to give a fallacious argument against his claim is still intellectually dishonest. In the long-term, that hurts us.

Again, I disagree that so many people had no idea. Your ward may be super unique, but it isn’t the norm. How often have you heard people holler that Jospeh Smith was a pedophile because he was taking young brides? It happens all the time and has ever since the Nauvoo era. This isn’t new revelation that Jospeh was a polygamist. Not in the slightest. I won’t argue you anymore on this. I refuse to defend a rabid antimormon who frequently lies about our doctrine (this isn’t the first time for him) and his background for clout.

@libsoftiktok @UMNews To be fair, we don’t know that this was instigated by these women. It could’ve been the school or the web designer who made it an issue.

University of Minnesota @UMNews OBGYN residency students have pronouns by their names Do these doctors think men can get pregnant and you can become the opposite sex? Imagine seeing an OBGYN who thinks men can get pregnant. Our healthcare professionals… Embarrassing

Why did you say this: . “Has any missionary ever NOT gotten a question about polygamy during their mission?” . It’s a strawman. . Again, why would I claim that I know hundreds of people who didn’t know? Why would I claim I didn’t know? You can read the post. There’s a lot of detail about it there. . My *entire relief society* in Boca Raton, Florida, didn’t know. When I claimed Joseph was himself a polygamist, they became *angry* with me. I had to back it up with citations over the next few weeks. . If you read through one of the linked articles, I also address walking into the Salt Lake Temple annex with other members. There were anti-Mormon protesters on the sidewalk. One had a sign that said Joseph had 27 wives. One man going to the temple alongside me, yelled at him and called him a liar. He and his wife had no idea. . FTR, few people I talk to even *today* understand the odd provenance of section 132. But that’s a different issue.

@MidlifeCredo I know what he wrote. I don’t buy that so many members never knew JS practiced it.

@EricCMeadows So you dismiss it out of hand? What would be my point in making the claim? I’m an active member. . You can read the post I linked if you want. Still, he didn’t say he’d never heard of polygamy, so at least argue with what he actually said.

@MidlifeCredo Sorry. I don’t buy that. It’s not an obscure fact that Jospeh Smith practiced it. It’s literally one of the main ways people attack the church. It is very well known

@EricCMeadows Here is the main post: archive.timesandseasons.org/2015/01/incred…

I don’t know the guy and I’m not speaking for him, but can we please stop changing his statement to be something it’s not? It’s intellectually dishonest and unfair. He didn’t say he didn’t know about polygamy. He said he didn’t know about Joseph Smith’s personal *practice* of polygamy. . I personally know hundreds of people—yes personally—who did not know that part. My awareness of this started in the early 1990s and I’ve documented a bunch of it if you are interested.