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Suddenly, a meteor streaks through the sky. Tania insists it’s a comet, and when Syngin disagrees she reminds him he’s not her soulmate, and no one invited science to this party. Syngin can’t help but notice that it appears to be getting closer, and with science uninvited, he might be poised to hitch an anti-vaxer. Tania says she is not going to die in a Chevy, because that’s so white it could be a Bob Seger song. It dawns on Syngin that this is his last chance to push Tania from the vehicle and floor it to the airport for a one-way ticket to Costa Rica for 30 days, where he will not call Tania drunk or sober, because his schedule will be packed with private salsa dances. Still, he’s not a bad guy, and he does love her, so he pulls over and says he just needs to use the piss jug real fast. The minute the door closes he puts down the bottle and runs like the meteor is chasing him, while Tania wraps herself in a purple shroud to wait for the maybe-comet to call her home, but not before yelling to Syngin’s dust trail that he needs to bring her black Nikes, because she has goals. What actually happens: After careful consideration, Judge Tania generously rules that Syngin’s sadness over being declared a non-soulmate is valid, thus sparing him another 30 days of solitude in the Shed of Shame. She vampires down his palpable sadness, and her sated state allows the sleeves of her pink shirt to grow. In an effort to mask her glee at his misery, Tania mines her manipulation cave for treasures from their past, and reveals the bouncers defended the club against Tania like the riders of Rohan, and still she breached the wall. Syngin, look to the North for the coming light. At the end of their origin story Syngin is apparently willing to marry her again, or he really, really wants to be an opera singer/actor/stunt man. Syngin informs us that there hasn’t been a divorce in his family in 500 years, but he’s pretty sure he can break that curse. Neither has prepared any kind of wedding vows, and they arrive at the AirBnB venue a few hours late. There’s also no wedding photographer, so Syngin’s friend volunteers to take on this task. He considers that he could have brought a better camera if he’d received some advanced warning of this, but Tania is way too goal-oriented for such things. Tania reminds us yet again that she’s normally totally organized, and the last 90 days have just been one fluke after the other. They rapidly start constructing the ceremony space and crafting center pieces. Given the limited time, some brides might place a premium on showering and not making their guests wait, over lighting candles during daylight hours and placing rose petals to go with the other rose petals, but not our focused would-be mommy Tania. Finally she starts getting ready, and something happens to her head and face, and they wrap her body in black gauze for safety, and because she’s edgy like that. Not Hot Topic or music with feelings edgy, but that one time your mom smoked weed with you edgy. In other words, normal, but afraid. The wedding happens, and the space does look beautiful. During the vows Syngin dramatically gets down on one knee and asks God to strike him dead. When that doesn’t happen, he unfurls his scroll of sweetness, while people in the audience cry that they’re letting this happen to Syngin. After he’s done, Tania manages to promise to answer the phone when he calls in the middle of a drunken night on the town, and to let her walls down. In other words, she’s still taking everything and giving nothing. #romance. The officiant works “shit” into his treatise, and expresses disbelief that this could have been a one-night stand and Syngin ruined it. Their rings are tattoos, like Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, and they opt for the Sagittarius symbol, which I’m really hoping this is a shared sign and not Tania’s latest prison-tattoo brand on her bitch. Then they’re all happy, and Tania’s mom even musters some endorsement of their union, and when I can tone down my palpable inner hater, their wedding was kind of…nice. Jasmin and Blake What I wish happened: Jasmin puts on a giant cake dress with a skirt that creates three feet of distance from other people. She spins around the park holding a bottle of champagne in each hand, and when her sister tries to intervene she chucks a bottle at her and starts crying. Her mother runs up and starts shaking her, demanding she get her shit together because she did not raise a Finnish girl to act like an American. Jasmin knows mother is right, but can’t resist drawing a wider and wider red lipstick mouth round and round and round her cake hole. Meanwhile, Blake is busy checking in on the stock market. He knew that upfront investment in Tesla would be a wise move, and he’s two years away from early retirement. He puts on a slick wedding get up, and then both get into a Tesla, and drive right off my tv screen. What really happens: Jasmin thought they were going to have a courthouse wedding. They have a park wedding instead. The main difference between these two things is about 20 people. Blake cries. Jasmin doesn’t. Vows are exchanged, and Jasmin’s parents hope they get to know each other eventually. Mother Blake hopes that Jasmin will get a job, and has questions about Jasmin’s current source of income. They think it will all be okay, so long as Blake is in charge of emotions and Jasmin serves as household accountant. Some photos happen. Jasmin’s parents hope she’ll hold on to her Finnish citizenship, so she has somewhere to flee to when the US goes full Handmaid’s Tale. Do you see how fast the Terminal Boring is spreading? Someone get this season on lockdown. Robert and Anny What I wish happened: Anny strolls down the aisle to greet Robert, who is a completely different person. Bryson waits patiently for their shocked, confused greeting to conclude, so he can kick off the ceremony with style. He signals the usher, who comes out with a piece of cardboard, and he’s immediately surrounded by a ring of men with Jheri curls, wearing half-shirts and dog collars and killer high-tops. it’s Breaking 2: Electric Wedding Goo. Guests fight with garbage can lids in the parking lot, making faces under savage eyeliner. Everyone is wearing Tania-pink off-the-shoulder shirts and sweatbands and one damn glove. Leotards are everywhere. Anny used to be a professional dancer, but who is she now? Where does she fit in with this motley crew? They’re never going to save the community center! But they have to! What actually happens: Robert’s hair is wrangled into corn rows by a committed hair stylist who doesn’t get paid enough, and the entire wedding party dresses in tribute to the Temptations, and I kind of approve, because at least that red color is popping. Robert expresses concerns about this level of commitment, when he’s used to the lukewarm obligation of children. Anny gets ready, and her friend is there, and apparently decided it was a good idea to wear a wedding dress to someone else’s wedding. Anny gives no fucks and is just glad her Porn-In-Law was uninvited. Her hair is sculpted into a style we can’t even buy at, and Bryson happily escorts her down the aisle. The officiant kicks things off by saying (and I checked this three times in disbelief): “Today you become a creation as you two come together as one, that has never ever been before in the earth. ” If I ever get married, I need this woman. Anyway, remember how last time 90DF teased that he was going to leave her at the altar? That was your warning the opposite was going to happen. He kicks off with the “I can’t do this” and just before Anny has a nervous breakdown he drops to one knee and produces a ring. Being utterly terrified is what everyone wants when they’re fully done up and standing in front of a room full of people. They’re happily hitched, and it’s actually kind of sweet, and Anny declares she’s going to have five kids to match the five he already has. Robert insists he doesn’t want to have an NBA team that he knows about. Mike and Natalie What I wish happened: The cameras show Mike slowly extracting his phone from his pocket, removing the SIM card, then donating it to a shelter. Then he grabs a disposable one at a 7-11, and stops by the barbershop and gets a haircut. Then Darcy pulls up and asks if they have a bathroom where she can shower and meet Jay for some contract negotiation. Spying Mike out of the corner of her eye, she says, “Oh MY GAWD are you my boyfriend now? ” Mike wonders what the hell is happening, and explains to Darcy that Oregon is in the United States, so this will never work. “When did it stop being in Canada? My children are my world. Tom is still my boyfriend anyway, and I think he might know it. ” Darcy starts crying, and Tom salsas into the frame, with Tania dancing quickly behind him. He tries to run, but she only salsas faster. In desperation, he turns and confesses he’s not a very good teacher. “Don’t talk to me softly like that, ” Tania declares, before grabbing him by his fragile British hand and insisting that her steps are usually more organized than this, and screaming for her tattoo artists to ready for another brand. What really happens: 90DF producers decided that one stare-at-your-phone storyline just wouldn’t do, so here is big Mike, sitting in his living room, talking his way around Natalie’s scorn. She mentions that some shit happened off-screen that made her not trust him, and the 90DF producers are reminded that they are never around when something interesting happens. When they ask Mike about his secret, he simply walks off camera. Anyone want to place bets that Mike has a criminal record that is standing in the way of this whole K1 business? Angela and Michael What I wish happened: Angela wakes up, and discovers that Michael has left a “treasure map” on the nightstand. Certain that this is evidence of another lie, Angela attempts to follow the map, and demands directions from a hapless shop owner who has made a fortune during her stay by selling her cigarettes. He points vaguely at a distant jungle, and Angela disappears into the trees, pulling at her ponytail and yelling “Michael” over and over again. Meanwhile, Michael realizes that as much as he loves Donald Trump, Donald Trump does not love him, so he decides to stick with Nigerian Prince schemes until the next president assumes office. He hears Angela screaming in the distance and notices his treasure map is gone, and as the screams grow quieter and quieter, Paul duck-runs out of the jungle wearing a belt of human hair and a condom hat, bleating for Karine. What really happens: Michael can’t get the K1 because of all those Nigerian terrorists that stuff bombs into their shoes at the airport, so they think the spousal visa is the best route. They learn about what’s required for a Nigerian wedding, and Angela needs a witness from the US of A. She knows that no one in her circle can afford it, so she’s going to have to fly back to America alone. “Tell me, ” the would-be officiant says. “Why did they give you another season so soon? Nothing has happened. ” “Two words for you: free plane tickets to Nigeria, ” Angela explains. “Now I gotta make like a pudding snack and corn hole to the airport for a Piggly Wiggly. ” At the airport Michael gives her a nameplate necklace with his name, and he wears one that says Angela, because wasn’t high school great you guys? No, it really wasn’t. Still, every couple that watches this shit together will be exchanging these on Valentine’s Day. It’s too late for me to get my dude to watch this, but it’s not too late to not make any sense. Michael and Juliana and Sister-Wife Sarah. What I wish happened: Sarah reveals that in order to find the time to study for a forthcoming test, she’s been popping caffeine pills, but then she oversleeps and misses dance rehearsal, thus blowing her big shopping mall break. Michael comes in and wakes her up, and asks her what’s going on with this sleeping nonsense, and she says she can do it, she can have it all, she can do anything. Then she starts screaming I’m SO EXCITED! I’M SO EXCITED! Is this a caffeine pill addiction? Did it really develop in 22 minutes of programming? Madness! Max bursts through the door and snatches the pills from his mother’s hand, screaming, “Dear God, no! NO! Nancy Reagan warned us about this!! ” As he races for the toilet, CeCe blocks the doorway screaming, “You could go to prison! Or rehab! Or think you’re an orange and jump off the roof! ” Sarah thrashes around on the ground, threatening everyone with shoes. Later she’s in bed wearing her favorite pajamas, knowing that she’ll be fully recovered from this terrifying descent into addiction in the next 22 minute episode. Whew. That was a close one. What actually happens: Michael brings the kids back to Sarah’s house, and Michael takes the time to thank her for inserting herself into their wedding. Sarah harkens back to the lovely day she married Michael, and how it rained before and after, but it was beautiful on the day of the event. She’s fine. Really. Then Sarah asks Michael about the prenup. He awkwardly says he doesn’t need one anymore, now that he has this hat. Sarah understands how this demand might make Juliana feel unsupported. Because she’s very, very understanding, and understands things, and she’s fine. Next week promises to be the highlight of the season, as Robert questions Tania about her soulmate fake news, Michael is revealed to be Cheater McCheaterson, Big Mike’s Big Secret finally reaches the airwaves, and in news that shocks no one, Shaun is left speechless. Thank you Patreon supporters! Find me there for more shenanigans.

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Dallin Oaks and Richard Turley were sent to confront apostasy stemming from followers of Denver Snuffer and Rock Waterman (although as usual the leaders never directly mentioned the obvious reason they were there, and denied the Snuffer/Waterman connection). As can be heard from the audio of these meetings, leaders continue to equivocate and emphasize having faith in the face of evidence, and they have been unhelpful for members in faith crisis. Effectiveness: C- Addressing the issues: C+ Lower mission age (October 2012) This move was sold as "hastening the work" to get people excited for a final big push as Jesus prepares (as he has been doing for the past two thousand years) to come back to Earth. In reality it was most likely an attempt to lock in young people to a Mormon life before they go off to college and fall away. 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The report shows unequivocally that top leadership knows exactly the problems with the correlated narrative and the harm it is causing members by continuing to downplay, spin, hide, and deny these problems. All subsequent church action can be viewed through the lens of this report. Gospel Topics essays (2014) One of the biggest moves for the church was releasing a series of essays in 2014 addressing specific controversial issues in history and doctrine, including the historicity and translation of the Book of Mormon and Book of Abraham, polygamy, racism, violence in early Mormonism, and multiple contradictory first vision accounts by Joseph Smith. The essays are undated and unattributed to any authors to easily preserve plausible deniability. They are not widely publicized, are made intentionally difficult to find on the website, and to my knowledge the Q15 has never directly acknowledged their existence in a formal setting such as conference. The intent is clearly not to actually resolve the controversies for members who have discovered the less savory side of church history and are seeking answers, but rather just to have something "out there" to make members who have struggling family/friends feel like the issues have already been resolved. Additionally, the essays are extremely disingenuous in the evidence they present and the way they use footnotes, as has been discussed in many podcasts, blog entries, and reddit posts. The essays have been effective for some members, but have also been a gateway to further study and loss of faith among many others, including its own missionaries. Effectiveness: C+ Addressing the issues: C- "Face to face" events with leaders (2014-present) Beginning in 2014, leadership began holding these events in which a small group of youth or young adults meet with a prominent church leader or celebrity in a more informal setting than a traditional fireside talk. Sometimes they involve a Q&A session, but invariably the questions are prescreened and vaguely answered. They ostensibly try to address some of the "hard issues, " occasionally answering a question about social positions of the church or troubling history, but never getting into specifics. Effectiveness: C Addressing the issues: D- Changed institute curriculum (2015) The church revamped its institute curriculum in 2015, requiring four "cornerstone" courses that are built around themes rather than following the four standard works linearly. Some controversial issues are addressed, and the manuals do include the gospel topics essays as part of the suggested reading for some of the lessons. I actually took the "Foundation of the Restoration" course myself, but at least in my class the gospel topics essays weren't actually brought up or discussed in class. Effectiveness: C Addressing the issues: D Exclusion policy and reversal (November 2015 - April 2019) In a truly stunning series of events, in November 2015 a new policy barring the children of gay parents from being baptized and automatically branding couples in a same-sex marriage as "apostate" was quietly inserted into the secret leadership-only handbook, but quickly leaked to the public. A massive backlash led to a confusing series of walk-backs and "clarifications, " including an awkward, staged "interview" with Todd Christofferson (whose brother is gay). The news roiled members and directly led to an estimated 1, 500 resignations at a protest event and followed by a steady stream of more resignations, while shaking the faith of and deeply hurting countless other members. A few months after the change, in January 2016, then-Elder Russel Nelson declared that the policy change was a revelation from God to then-President Tom Monson. The policy needlessly hurt members, damaged family relationships, and confused everyone. Bowing ever so slightly to public pressure, the policy was amended without apology or explanation in April 2019. The children of gay parents can now be baptized at a local bishop's discretion, and confusingly, "immoral conduct in heterosexual or homosexual relationships will be treated in the same way. " In a sign of the pressures and criticism he faced, Russell Nelson gave a defensive, gaslighting explanation speech to BYU students five months after the policy "adjustment" (for an excellent and thorough analysis of the speech, see the Radio Free Mormon podcast episode. Effectiveness: F- Addressing the issues: F- Ceasing the statistical report at April conferences (April 2018) The church stopped its traditional annual statistical report over the pulpit after the last one in April 2017. Instead, it now publishes the numbers online (see the 2017 and 2018 reports). No explanation was given for the change, but surely the declining numbers of missionaries and slowed growth overall were disincentives to draw attention with an over-the-pulpit report. Another possibility is that this was another hobby horse of Russell Nelson's, as the change was made for his first conference as president. Effectiveness: F- Addressing the issues: F- "Saints, " a new history of the church (2018) This is a planned four-volume new history of the church, with the first volume being released in 2018. The intent here is much the same as the Gospel Topics essays—rewriting church history to include the controversial aspects that can't be swept under the rug anymore, but presenting them only as much as necessary and in as faith promoting an angle as possible. The book is written at an eighth grade reading level, and it shows. As an added bonus, yet another must-have book is purchased by thousands of faithful members. Effectiveness: B Addressing the issues: C- Deemphasizing the Mormon moniker (2018) Shortly after taking the wheel as president of the church, in 2018 Russel Nelson announced the church would stop using the word "Mormon" to refer to itself or its members. He also begged the press to stop using the word by issuing a style guide, which most major publications continue to ignore. Church websites and materials were rebranded and members were reprogrammed to correct friends and neighbors when they say "Mormon. " In the next conference, Russel threw the not-long-deceased prophets who approved and orchestrated the "I'm a Mormon" campaign under the bus when he called use of the term a "major victory for Satan". It's clear that this has been a long-time hobby horse for Nelson over which he had sparred with more senior leaders, as evidenced by his 1990 talk on the subject which was directly rebutted by then-president Gordon Hinckley at the very next conference, saying that "We may not be able to change the nickname, but we can make it shine with added luster. " Millions of out-of-breath Mormons Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have shrugged and gone along with Nelson. Effectiveness: F Addressing the issues: F Two-hour church and new curriculum (2019) In the October 2018 general conference, and to the immense relief of closeted nonbelievers everywhere, church leaders announced that Sunday meetings would be shortened from three hours to two hours beginning in 2019. At the same time, they released a new correlated Sunday School curriculum with a focus on home study. Members were instructed to use the extra hour on Sunday to do a kind of homeschool church and study the lesson for the coming week, then continue to study the lesson daily. This move was sold as a way to build stronger faith and more resilient testimonies as The World continues to get more and more wicked. The more likely reason was to accommodate areas of the world where the church is less established and to allow for smaller wards with fewer callings as the church continues to decline. The new curriculum created an opportunity to yet again revise the narrative and whitewash/deemphasize certain teachings. This seems to be a "rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic" move. Effectiveness: D Addressing the issues: F Temple changes (2019) Among the most substantial doctrinal/policy changes are in recent memory are those to temple ordinances and policy, although despite leaders' insistence that the doctrine and ordinances never change, it is certainly not unprecedented. The biggest change was in the substance of the endowment ceremony, in January 2019, rewording the covenant script to put women on a more equal footing with men and removing the requirement for them to veil their faces. Soon after, a longstanding policy requiring couples married in a civil marriage to wait for one year before they could be sealed was amended; couples can now be married civilly with non-member family and friends and then have a sealing without any waiting period. It's impossible to overstate the family discord caused by the previous policy; by changing it the church implicitly admits that there was no "doctrinal" reason for it in the first place, and it was undoubtedly held as a control and shaming mechanism. Additionally, in October 2019 some minor policy changes were made to allow women to be witnesses in temple ordinances. An insubstantial change to the temple clothing was also made just recently. Again, the most significant change was revamping the endowment ceremony. This is a positive step for Mormon reformation, but obviously undermines the authority and doctrinal infallibility claims of church leaders, although they continue to pretend that this is just a minor "clarification" that doesn't change the covenant itself. They also refused to apologize or acknowledge that anything was wrong with the previous ceremony. Effectiveness: B+ Addressing the issues: B+ Excommunications (recurring) Several high-profile doubters and would-be reformers have been excommunicated in the last few years, including: Geneticist and author Simon Southerton (August 2005) Spiritual leader Denver Snuffer (September 2013) Feminist activist Kate Kelly (June 2014) Mormon Stories founder John Dehlin (Feb 2015) Mormon originalist and blogger Rock Waterman (June 2015) CES Letter author Jeremy Runnells (April 2016) (to be more accurate, Jeremy was not excommunicated but rather resigned his membership at his kangaroo court after secretly recording it) Anti-sexual abuse activist Sam Young (September 2018) Podcaster and former bishop Bill Reel (December 2018) (I may have missed some; feel free to comment and I will add to this list) The goal of excommunication is to fence off antagonists and invalidate their voice, as TBMs can easily brush aside the words of an excommunicated member who has "lost the spirit. " However, religious researcher and journalist Jana Riess has shown that this tactic has mixed results, with nearly 60% of Mormons saying they are "very" or "somewhat" troubled by excommunications of "feminists, intellectuals, and activists. " History has also shown that after enough time passes, the church often eventually adopts the ideas of activists it excommunicates, claiming it is revelation from God without mentioning or crediting the work of said activists. Effectiveness: C Addressing the issues: F- Announcing more temples (2018 - ongoing) Few things excite the masses like a temple announcement near their home or mission location. Despite clear evidence of slowed membership growth, and after a decrease in new temple announcements during the last few conferences of Thomas Monson's tenure, the church has paradoxically announced a large number of temples in the last few conferences: April 2016 (4), October 2016 (0), April 2017 (5), October 2017 (0) April 2018 (7), October 2018 (12), April 2019 (8), and October 2019 (8). However, it should be noted that an announced temple is not a temple under construction, and the church has no public guidelines on the timeframe or how certain an announced temple is to be built. According to an unofficial tracking website, there are currently 35 announced temples, but only 14 of those have an actual site announced. Some, like the "Russia Temple, " do not even have a city announced and sound more like wishful aspirations than concrete plans. Five are in temple-saturated Utah, where the church is able to follow the example of Joseph Smith and capitalize on increased property values after a temple announcement. Having temples nearby does increase pressure on members to keep all the rules (especially tithing) so they can conform for ward temple nights and youth trips, but does nothing to address the rot at the roots of the church. Effectiveness: D+ Addressing the issues: F- Other minor changes Combined Elders quorum with High Priests (April 2018) Home teaching changed to ministering (April 2018) Deacons ordained in January of 12th year; girls enter Young Women in January of 12th year and can participate in temple trips (January 2019) New youth programs (2020) These changes are probably largely corporate in nature, serving to streamline the institution, hierarchy, and bureaucracy. The new youth programs are a response to the recent progressive changes in the Boy Scouts of America, which now allows gay leaders and girls (although still excluding atheists, that last bastion of American untouchables). So there you have it. There is little evidence that these combined efforts have had much effect on the crisis of the church's own making. The exmormon subreddit subscriber count was at around 23, 000 when I joined in late 2015, and it has continued to grow at a steady pace, recently passing 150k. Thus there's no doubt the church will continue grasping at straws and adding to this list. Is there anything I'm missing here or corrections needed? Also I'm curious for the members of this sub, did any of these tactics delay or accelerate your exit (whether it was a full break it just mentally out)? ETA: Thanks for everyone's responses (and the gold etc.! ). I won't have a lot of time to work on this today, but there are some important suggestions in the comments that deserve treatment here, and I will do so when I have a chance. Some have suggested a website or sticky. I would love to keep this available as a living document to update the church continues its hyper reform, and I'm open to suggestions on the best way to do that.

@Y2JSin so your kinda old nowadays.



 

 

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