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Yeah you definitely write a book, Babe, have you ever considered it?
how many of you even know what the word "sociopath" means? I have a friend who is anti-LDS, a political liberal, in Long Beach, CA. She works as a social scientist, MSW, with prison inmates. A pretty depressing slice of life I guess. For sheer altruism, she contributes to some charities that try to help kids from some of the more problematic fundamentalist, that is to say, polygamist, LDS families. Safe houses, help finishing GED requirements or job training, finding good friends as opposed to the gangland sort. She observes that Mormonism has a distinct trend, if not a selection or training for, sociopaths. It's the "I AM GOD" notion, somehow, derived from a teaching that we can become like our Heavenly Father.
I ought to, I should, I must. . . .
I grew up in St. George, Utah.
My school classes were full of kids from polygamous families, some "Still In", some "Finally Out", with every shade of difference along the way. As a first grader, I made a judgment, and rejected "those people" as ungodly. Not necessarily the idea, but those people. I sensed they did not care to advance in modern ways, or education, and felt they were "locked in" to an ideology somehow. No, I didn't know the word "ideology" then, but that's the notion I had.
You should... life is short..
This year I spend a bit of time thinking about what we humans do each and everyday and how much time we waste doing mundane, pointless things... As I get older I definitely have been thinking more and more about what I spend each day doing and a lot of it is just pointless things... like waiting for someone, waiting for food at the restaurant, watering plants, etc...
I would love to be able to do/make/achieved at least 'something' of real value/meaning, something I can be remembered for.
When I worked in a restaurant, I realized all the waitresses were from one of the polygamous families. One really pretty girl my age, in my opinion. One of my cousins dated her, and his parents got worried, and sorta squeezed him out of the idea. Another of my cousins then dated her, and married her. I saw her a while ago, when I was visiting in their home. I don't think many people know the story, and she was uncomfortable because I do know it. So I won't tell it.
Her father was my Little League coach, and I was his newspaper kid and milkman. He made a transition out of the polygamy cult and lived up to his commitments to his wives, and successfully projected a perfectly "normal" demeanor, active in the community. He is my study of how to be a good man. He got his own conscience, and he lived up to it.
Her father was my Little League coach, and I was his newspaper kid and milkman. He made a transition out of the polygamy cult and lived up to his commitments to his wives, and successfully projected a perfectly "normal" demeanor, active in the community. He is my study of how to be a good man. He got his own conscience, and he lived up to it.