The Mormons

W4lter, say yes

this is who its from

Y'know, under old ILX I could've hilariously logged in as "Norman Mormon" five minutes ago, but I'm fucked if I can be bothered to set up another googlemail account.

what a shame

practicing Zoroastrians do drink AFAIK

http://www.exmormon.org/ is great for some post-Mormon haze hilarity - especially any thread having to do with tithing and disposal of the one year supply of food. This one is great

Ok, once I went to Price Club or one of those jumbo stores with my whole Mormon boyfriend's family. So they all just started stocking up - the idea was to refill all the stuff they had used.

When they got to checkout, the bill was something like $1700. The checker looked at them and said, "Is this a Y2K thing?" His father just sorta joked, "No, not really. It's a six-kid thing."

Then they got home and were unpacking, and his mother was in the kitchen looking at this HUGE bag of pancake mix they had bought. She was sitting there counting on her fingers for a minute, then looked up, dismayed, and said, "We have enough pancake mix for over 3000 pancakes."

Later that day, she was on the phone to the customer service department for recipes that could be made with the pancake mix.

They also used to laugh at people who stored wheat. "What are they going to do? Drive back and forth over it with their car?"

My dad has a big-ass wheat grinder out in his garage so his barrels full of wheat will not have been purchased in vain.

That is a great site. :D

Study Shows Utah is Most Depressed

Utah is the most depressed state in the entire country. A nationwide study released by Mental Health America ranks Utah high in depression and low in treatment of the illness.

This study is certainly a wake-up call for Utahns and our mental health care system. It examined levels of depression in each state and outcomes for those who sought treatment.

A local psychologist says he thinks mental health counseling should be more accessible in Utah. "I think, because of the economy and what not, a lot of our local mental health programs are cutting back on their staffs for lack of money. It's sad," Dr. Wil Higashi said.

The survey claims that Utah has the highest percentage of people reporting unmet health needs. Utah ranks in the bottom 10 states for its shortage of psychiatrists and outpatient clinics. The study suggests more can be done to break down treatment barriers that are associated with high rates of depression.

Higashi also believes another reason for Utah's high depression rate is the massive involvement in structured religions. "All religions make people feel guilty if they're not performing to the teachings of their church and their religion, and that causes a lot of depression too. Guilt is a big one," he explained.

The study also links the depression rate with a lack of health insurance. Lawmakers invested $2.7 million last year to treat mentally ill Utahns who are too poor to afford health insurance but earn too much for Medicaid.

State Health Director Dr. David Sundwall says the governor is about to propose health insurance coverage for all Utahns. "I think I'd look forward to details when he gives the State of the State address. That won't be too long from now," he said.

Higashi also says, despite Utah's low rate of treatment, it's a state that has lead the nation in antidepressant use.

The study names the least depressed state as South Dakota, and it's no surprise what state comes in second: Hawaii.

Burning swine 4 U.

You cannot afford to spend your time listening to unworthy music

Mormons OTM. And the Garden of Eden was (and IS!) in Missouri. It's near Columbia. I've been there.

no one has disproven my original thesis

are people from utah really called utahns?

Rhymes with Futons.

Utahds.

Out-of-staters are Utaren'ts or Utaints.

Utahns, yeah, and some have hugely wacky names like Ammon or Birdeen (my grandma) or Ephronia (another relative).

Q. Why is Idaho so windy?

A. Because Utah sucks!

The derogatory regional slang for Utahns is "Carrot snappers."

Carrot snapper doesn't know good meat

Ryan Tannenholz must be a city boy because there are hunters who hunt for meat, which is a lot of work when you shoot 'em, dress 'em out and cut 'em up, then put 'em in the freezer.

They're a lot better meat than Tannenholz will get at McDonalds or any other places like that. As for hunters who hunt for and don't take the meat, we should hang 'em.

So I agree with Ron Gillett — get rid of the wolves. If Tannenholz likes wolves, maybe I'll shoot one and take it to his place and we can barbecue it — unless he's a carrot snapper.

i'm glad ILX is back. i can begin my assault anew. mormons suck.

NURSE

http://www.slate.com/id/2178568/nav/navoa/

these people must be stopped. god i hate romney, mormons, etc

lived in utah all my life, wouldn't want to live anywhere else. it's a beautiful place. 'utahn' sounds about right

Not much of an assault, u pretty bad at trolling.

i miss utah.

i don't really miss mormons though.

Utah is completely gorgeous and within its arbitrary boundaries is an INSANE amount of fantastic geographic diversity, from sublime mountains to George Herriman-style rockscapes. But I wasn't very happy living there.

on the other hand, i might take them over certain miracle mile residents.

i was home over thxgiving getting soup and chai at salt lake coffee roasters and a mormon double-date was standing behind me. one of the guys was talking about the sport of extreme sledding and the other guy was happily incredulous while the girls were being pleasant. they got hot chocolate and then left pretty quick. i tried to be annoyed but my heart wasn't really in it.

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i would never consider living anywhere else in utah but salt lake, and only in certain parts, and maybe only in theory.

I lived in SLC and I was very bad but that could have been crippling depression.

they think the garden of eden was in missouri. until recently they officially believed black people were damned.

im sure the state of utah itself is wonderful though.

:( i was back for two weeks this summer and got pretty down. it was probably because i had nothing to do.

then there's PROVO. i went along with my family to Movies 8, the provo dollar theater, to see 'stardust.' they were showing something called "Road to Zarahemla," which i'm now morbidly curious about. 'stardust' was packed and the audience loved it. i think it's going to be the next 'princess bride' for byu coeds but with more coded messages about eternal marriage. i haven't had that much fun at the movies in a while, even if it was a little bizarre.

x-post hey you read a pandering slate article, congrats, your input is valuable

doesn't mean the article isn't true

For fucking real, strng! And those Mormon-specific comedy movies like "Singles Ward" and "Baptists at the Barbecue" are surprisingly funny. (To me.)

really, they are a punkass cult that has bent over for the US government several times and radically changed their core beliefs through incredibly convenient "revelations". I don't care how nice some of them are, on some level they are all jerks.

they think the lord's kingdom will be in missouri and they never believed black people were damned and they're a crock of shit. any other questions or are you done here? x-post

jesus, find new talking points, Mormon doctrine has 42,398 other weird fucking things.

liiiike... the ocean is satanic!

native americans are now inherently good

tell me more about the ocean being satanic

my brother's now ex-wife rented 'singles ward' one night and i sat down with them and watched that and a friends episode. in manhattan. not a fun evening.

i think i'd like it now though. i took a class from the production manager once and i probably know some of the people in it.

How abt: demonic spirits will decline to shake yr hand.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/snakemang.gif

x-post something about satan having stewardship over the ocean and jesus getting land. and it used to be the other way around, but they traded.

(Preface: I'm not making veiled generalizations about any group, I disapprove of organized religion but am not confrontational unless the other party is. That said...)

I once had a gaggle of Mormons working with me in a restaurant once. They were all really nice, but really really REALLY dumb. Of course being in a mexican restaurant alcohol sales were (supposed to be) high, and one of them was asked what kind of Merlot we had and they responded "Chardonnay".

The best was (and I was friendly with this guy, but the wheels just weren't turning) when this one server got stung by the cops--ya know, where an undercover cop comes in with a guest who is under 21 and the guest tries to order a drink.

The dude does the SMART thing and takes the dude's driver's license..SEES the birthdate and that the kid is SIXTEEN YEARS OLD...leaves the table...AND BRINGS THE DRINK AND SETS IT DOWN IN FRONT OF HIM. Escorted out of the building in cuffs and terminated!

They used to try to preach their religion to anybody who'd listen. I always found an excuse to walk away.

KOLOB

x-post bjo otm!

Haha those stings were always GREAT at my restaurant. Suspicious dude comes in, sits down. The kid would come in two minutes later, obviously Mormon and clearly not know what the hell abt drinks. "Uh, yeah, can I get a plain beer? To go?" *bartender sighs* "Let me see your ID." Kid denied, cop leaves 2 minutes later. CLASSIC.

yea you'd think they'd never work but two people at least in my duration in restaurants got canned for it.

BTW I JUST SAW 'ORGAZMO' DOES THAT MEAN I HAVE HEARD THE VOICE OF GOD