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Discussion Thread 🦙 Saturday 30 May (aussie.zone)

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[–] TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Certainty, even a false certainty, has a deep attraction for the troubled or lost or otherwise disconnected. Under those circumstances, it really wouldn't take much to get sucked into a religious (or other) social vortex. I hope all goes well for her - the Mormons are not the worst, though I find their attitudes to femininity to be not very wholesome. And they do do a lot a doorknocking etc.

[–] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

She's had a lot go on in her life so I'm not surprised she has gravitated towards something like this, it's just odd she ended up at the Mormon church of all places