Starting a Secret Society? (Prepper Oriented)

[Sawin]

I was raised Mormon and if not for the planning, kindness, generosity and community of the Mormon church, we may have ended up on wlefare, food stamps and other social programs.

I welcome any of you to tell me how if feels to have the school bus stopin front of your GP Medium tent in Montana that you lived in from July 1 until November 4 of your freshman year of high school, then bad mouth the Mormons for providing groceries (so your mom could cook them on the Coleman camp stove; gas money so your dad could try to find a job; clothes, bedding, linens so you could go to school not looking like a dumpster diver and so you didn't freeze; taking donations to help put a downpayment on a trailer house so you could have Thanksgiving in a dwelling, not a tent with wooden pallets for a floor.

I may not agree with their religious doctrine, but they are humanitarians beyond compare.

Sorry. Off my soap box.

My comment early in this thread was not meant to mock the LDS community, so please forgive its insensitve appearence.

I was honestly being serious when I wrote that. Most of the general public has no idea that self sufficiency is a fundamental aspect of their religion, so they are defacto "a secret prepping society". I have family, friends, and an ex who are LDS and I hold zero negative judgment toward them.

Your personal experience of their generosity is absolutely in line with my own and I'm sorry you had to live through such a difficult scenario to learn that about them.

I agree with you also that I may not agree with their religious doctrine (some sure, not all though) but they are indeed humanitarians through and through.

[rbeau30]

My comment early in this thread was not meant to mock the LDS community, so please forgive its insensitve appearence.

I was honestly being serious when I wrote that. Most of the general public has no idea that self sufficiency is a fundamental aspect of their religion, so they are defacto "a secret prepping society". I have family, friends, and an ex who are LDS and I hold zero negative judgment toward them.

Your personal experience of their generosity is absolutely in line with my own and I'm sorry you had to live through such a difficult scenario to learn that about them.

I agree with you also that I may not agree with their religious doctrine (some sure, not all though) but they are indeed humanitarians through and through.

I agree with both of you. Too bad I cannot agree with the religion aspect of it religion makes things very complicated in groups of people :-( .

[losttrail]

My comment early in this thread was not meant to mock the LDS community, so please forgive its insensitve appearence.

I was honestly being serious when I wrote that. Most of the general public has no idea that self sufficiency is a fundamental aspect of their religion, so they are defacto "a secret prepping society". I have family, friends, and an ex who are LDS and I hold zero negative judgment toward them.

Your personal experience of their generosity is absolutely in line with my own and I'm sorry you had to live through such a difficult scenario to learn that about them.

I agree with you also that I may not agree with their religious doctrine (some sure, not all though) but they are indeed humanitarians through and through.

No worries, I just get a bit sensitive. Still have two brothers that are LDS and I'm defensive on their behalf also.

Dad made some bad decisions financially, but it gave us the character, knowledge and ability to stand anything.

Chalk it up to the internet being a poor translator of emotion and intent. My apologies also for overreacting.

FYI - In the first 18 years of my life, 8 of them were spent using outhouses. 40 yard dash to the 3-holer in -40 degree blizzard in eastern MT in the middle of the night. Exillerating. Indoor plumbing is for sissy's.