Comments on: Falling Into Life: A Gay Exmormon’s Journey http://www.moesey.com/2009/01/falling-into-life-chapter-two-the-pristine-platte/ Read me. I'm fabulous. Or at least that's what they tell me. Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:23:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Peace-n-Love, Inc. http://www.moesey.com/2009/01/falling-into-life-chapter-two-the-pristine-platte/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Peace-n-Love, Inc. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:42:29 +0000 http://www.moesey.com/?p=196#comment-146 Being an ex-Mormon, modesty is still difficult apart of my being. The images of the Temple adornments... nice (expand this)... Also expound upon the visual imagery as you sit on the Platte... you relationship with your ex... Now repeat after me... "My body is a Temple, not a visitor center".... Being an ex-Mormon, modesty is still difficult apart of my being. The images of the Temple adornments… nice (expand this)… Also expound upon the visual imagery as you sit on the Platte… you relationship with your ex…

Now repeat after me… “My body is a Temple, not a visitor center”….

]]> By: Sunday in OuterBlogness: Here’s to Life Edition! | Main Street Plaza http://www.moesey.com/2009/01/falling-into-life-chapter-two-the-pristine-platte/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Sunday in OuterBlogness: Here’s to Life Edition! | Main Street Plaza Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:11:29 +0000 http://www.moesey.com/?p=196#comment-60 [...] And don’t miss Etienne’s “Falling into Life” — chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and [...] [...] And don’t miss Etienne’s “Falling into Life” — chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and [...]

]]> By: etienne http://www.moesey.com/2009/01/falling-into-life-chapter-two-the-pristine-platte/comment-page-1/#comment-23 etienne Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:00:09 +0000 http://www.moesey.com/?p=196#comment-23 Jess, of course my definition of modesty is much different now. Of course there's room for *plenty* of my kind of modesty in my brain. Modesty is a slushy term, and Christians define it most puritanically than anyone else. I think that it's used mostly to control people through religion. Religions like to use every normal aspect of humanity against itself to create a repeating guilt pattern that ensures its members will become slaves to it, basically. That's good for tithing/income and for endless volunteering. e Jess, of course my definition of modesty is much different now. Of course there’s room for *plenty* of my kind of modesty in my brain. Modesty is a slushy term, and Christians define it most puritanically than anyone else. I think that it’s used mostly to control people through religion. Religions like to use every normal aspect of humanity against itself to create a repeating guilt pattern that ensures its members will become slaves to it, basically. That’s good for tithing/income and for endless volunteering.

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]]> By: Jess http://www.moesey.com/2009/01/falling-into-life-chapter-two-the-pristine-platte/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Jess Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:34:10 +0000 http://www.moesey.com/?p=196#comment-20 My absolute favorite passage so far: "stand on the side of the Platte with my pretty green iPod and watch the candy go by and I soak up the sun. I’m wearing my awesome cool half boots and feel like a million bucks. I envision myself like a sunflower and this time of year is the hardest due to daylight savings time ending my sunshine at four o’clock in the afternoon. I pine away for the Winter Solstice, just six weeks away and I’ll get my sun back." Oh, and the part about the crying Indian. My absolute favorite passage so far:

“stand on the side of the Platte with my pretty green iPod and watch the candy go by and I soak up the sun. I’m wearing my awesome cool half boots and feel like a million bucks. I envision myself like a sunflower and this time of year is the hardest due to daylight savings time ending my sunshine at four o’clock in the afternoon. I pine away for the Winter Solstice, just six weeks away and I’ll get my sun back.”

Oh, and the part about the crying Indian.

]]> By: Jess http://www.moesey.com/2009/01/falling-into-life-chapter-two-the-pristine-platte/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Jess Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:31:53 +0000 http://www.moesey.com/?p=196#comment-19 I think it's interesting that you mention modesty. It's something that is very much promoted in the Christian homeschool community I partake in. Is there a differing view of modesty as a teenager, a young adult, and a mature male? Is there any place for modesty in a gay, ex-Mormon, grown man's mind? Or is it really just all about the shoes? I think it’s interesting that you mention modesty. It’s something that is very much promoted in the Christian homeschool community I partake in. Is there a differing view of modesty as a teenager, a young adult, and a mature male? Is there any place for modesty in a gay, ex-Mormon, grown man’s mind?

Or is it really just all about the shoes?

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