I was talking to an awesome guy once who left the church all together. I may have told this story once before. He talked about abandoning his MoHo blog because he felt like there was no point with out being Mormon. I encouraged him to change his mind, but only after my last blog post do I understand where he was coming from.
I feel like my outlook has stepped outside the bounds of what is allowed in the MoHo community so it is logical that I say goodbye to my blog which has become my friend.
If you want to keep in touch I will just do notes on facebook so feel free to add me as a friend.
Thanks to the support and love from everyone. It has been a great journey.
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Good luck on your journey!
Will you be leaving your blog up or do I need to go in and quickly read the whole thing tonight after work? Sorry to hear you're leaving, but I hope you will leave the blog up for those of us who have just discovered you. Thanks also for your friendship on Facebook. I'm glad there's a way to still be in touch.
As to your comment "I think my outlook has stepped outside the bounds of what is allowed in the MoHo community", I was not aware that we had any particularly hard and fast rules about what is and isn't allowed.
To the contrary, I thought one of our great strengths was our diversity of view points from true believing to pragmatic and discriminating cafeteria-ists, to the cultural heritagists, to the less active, inactive, excommunicated, agnonistic, athestic, etc.
What we all have in common is not so much our entire belief system, per se, but the fact that our lives are in thousands of ways shaped by our Mormonism and our gayness, bisexuality, same gender attracted genetic structure, or simply our desire to read and weep or giggle about expose's on Journey into Manhood Weekends.
So I guess what I'm doing is what you were trying to do with your friend and that is extend your welcome, rewnew your subscription, affirm your belonging, express gratitute for what you've contributed and encourage you to lurk rather than completely withdraw.
Or to put it in more personal terms, some of us are really, really needy and we'll miss you more than we want to admit.
That said, of course I respect your decision to do what you beleive is best for you. Thanks for hearing me out. Good luck and may you continue to be blessed and bless those many others who your life touches.
Thanks Konrad!
Ned,
I plan on leaving my blog up so no need to rush anything :)
I will always be around. Just not on my blog. Really for me, my blog was about finding myself then choosing a path. I feel like I have done that so keeping it seems silly because what would I write? I think the more I distance myself from the church, the more I will just not fit in.
I hope to keep in touch with the people I met here. Everyone has been great!
I'm glad the blogging has been helpful for you in finding yourself and choosing a path. I'm glad I added you on facebook if you aren't going to be posting here anymore.
I'm also using my blog to help me in finding myself and choosing a path. While I know my path doesn't lie with Mormonism, I'm happy to have a community that at least knows where I've come from. Writing and putting my thoughts out there are still helpful, even if I've lost all orthodox views of Mormonism.
Good luck and best wishes. Thanks for sharing with us your journey to this point.
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