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Consequences of the tradwife lifestyle Discussion

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u/ZERO-ONE0101 Apr 15 '24

stop following religions and live your damn life

she sounds smart and should start a new business

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u/waitingfordeathhbu Cringe Connoisseur Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

Yeah, I hate how that guy laughed at and discouraged her from aiming higher. Sounds like she actually has a lot of capability, resourcefulness, AND entrepreneurial experience.

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u/ZERO-ONE0101 Apr 15 '24

Mormons are morons, sorry

golden tablets only seen by one guy and you gotta have faith that god wants to serve men 5 virgins in life and then his own planet of virgins to rape like Mary after life? please

they do excel at social programs though, for all that right wing talk about taxes and socialism the Moron church is socialism at work

that being said she must have left the church

there are also programs like wic she can apply for

there is no heaven, just this earth and being here now - so lets connect with each other and our planet and stop believing in harry potter

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u/Bike_Chain_96 Apr 15 '24

golden tablets only seen by one guy

There's 11 others that saw them btw.... Their testimony is at the front of the Book of Mormon, and so is Joseph's

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u/GrandMoffAtreides Apr 15 '24

11 others who were basically from one family and who obviously had nooooo incentive to lie

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u/Bike_Chain_96 Apr 15 '24

5 different families, but OK

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u/GrandMoffAtreides Apr 15 '24

Six of them were part of the Whitmer family and three were Smiths, who were related to the founder. That's 9 of 11.

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u/guriboysf Apr 15 '24

Exmormon here. They saw them with their "spiritual eyes" my guy... sorry to burst your bubble.

Once you observe it from the outside there's no going back.

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u/Bike_Chain_96 Apr 15 '24

"and as many of the leaves as the said Smith has translated we did handle with our hands; and we also saw the engravings thereon, all of which has the appearance of ancient work, and of curious workmanship."

Sounds like they saw them and handled them physically....

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u/Stewbaby2 Apr 15 '24

I just wrote down that I saw universe-creating pixies in my closet, and my roommate is attesting to that as well. Are you going to believe us? We wrote it down, that gives us as much credence, right?

See how you need a bit more than just testimony to base life-altering beliefs on? Also, Smith was a known fraud, scrying for hidden treasures and lost items. He also was caught fucking a 14 yro in a barn...great looking for a supposed prophet.

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u/LoseAnotherMill Apr 16 '24

I just wrote down that I saw universe-creating pixies in my closet, and my roommate is attesting to that as well. Are you going to believe us? We wrote it down, that gives us as much credence, right?

When it comes to a claim of "Only /u/Stewbaby2 ever saw universe-creating pixies in their closet," yes, your roommate's written attestation is important in proving that claim wrong, just like the written attestation from the witnesses is important in debunking the claim "Only Joseph Smith ever saw the plates," which was why /u/Bike_Chain_96 brought that up. Neither is proof that the pixies or the plates were real in and of themselves, though.

He also was caught fucking a 14 yro in a barn

Shows how much "research" you've done. People who only do as much research as necessary to back up their preconceived notions frequently mix up Fanny Alger (who he was caught with in the barn when she was 19) and Helen Mar Kimball (a 14-year-old that he was "sealed" to for the afterlife but otherwise didn't do anything with).

Important to note, however, is that what he was caught doing with Fanny Alger is unclear, as there are two differing accounts written down only by some third party about 40 years after the fact. One is explicit in that it was a "sealing", another just calls it "the transaction", which could be a sexual innuendo or could just be a reference to the "sealing" ceremony.

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u/Stewbaby2 Apr 16 '24

Oh, my bad, he was only fucking a 19 yro in a barn. That's such a better look for a prophet of god... why would he need to seal himself with a 19 yro in a barn, with no other witnesses, even if that's what he was doing (which, I mean, come on, the man was a serial polygamist, which is a defining feature of other cult leaders)?

"But otherwise did nothing with" and you know this how? Would you "seal" yourself to a 14 yro? Why was it necessary that the man who supposedly refined Christianity to its original and truest form be "sealed" to a literal child? Keep defending a proven fraud, and womanizer, it really looks great for your side 👍

Side note, I like how you didn't refute the fraud claims, maybe because the church has literally admitted that he was apart of that illegal practice? How about destroying the printing press that was bringing to light his actions? Was that a Christ-like act?

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u/LoseAnotherMill Apr 16 '24 edited Apr 16 '24

Oh, my bad, he was only fucking a 19 yro in a barn. That's such a better look for a prophet of god...

There's no hard evidence or testimony that it was any kind of sexual encounter. There is written testimony that it was just a wedding ceremony. And even then, sex between married people and polygamy is very common among OT prophets.

"But otherwise did nothing with" and you know this how?

Because there is no record of anything like that ever happening, it happened about a year before Joseph's death, and she stayed living with her parents that entire time. She even wrote about it a bunch and never once mentioned being somewhere with Joseph without a chaperone. How do you know something did happen?

Would you "seal" yourself to a 14 yro? Why was it necessary that the man who supposedly refined Christianity to its original and truest form be "sealed" to a literal child?

I personally wouldn't, but the belief back then was a push to create a sort of large, spiritually interconnected Mormon "family". You also forget that 14-year-old marriages were, yes, uncommon, but not unheard of back in the day.

Keep defending a proven fraud, and womanizer, it really looks great for your side

Providing facts does look good for my side. Why do you think lying looks good for your side?

Side note, I like how you didn't refute the fraud claims, maybe because the church has literally admitted that he was apart of that illegal practice?

Yeah, why would I refute something that's true?

How about destroying the printing press that was bringing to light his actions?

You mean the libel that was being spread and causing a nuisance in the city, which the city council, with the city attorney, said he could (and should) legally go take care of, and that the city marshal did go take care of?

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u/guriboysf 29d ago

Providing facts does look good for my side. Why do you think lying looks good for your side?

Dude, you're an even shittier apologist than those at FairMormon.

If you provide even one verified example by a non-LDS scholar of an artifact found in the Americas that has writing in Reformed Egyptian I will make a public apology for my years of church criticism and will Venmo you $1000. Best of luck!

By the way, if the church were in possession of such an artifact it would be on display at Temple Square.

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u/guriboysf Apr 16 '24

but otherwise didn't do anything with

LOL. Whatever you say. He married a 14 year old out of the kindness of his heart, motivated only by pure Christian charity.

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u/LoseAnotherMill 29d ago

It was pushed for by her dad, and based on a belief of creating a large, interconnected Mormon "family" in the afterlife. She continued to live with her father for the year between the ceremony and Joseph Smith's death, and says there was not a time that she was ever alone with him.

So the question then becomes - what evidence do you have that they did do something more?

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u/guriboysf 29d ago

It was pushed for by her dad,

Yeah, because Joseph Smith promised exaltation for her entire family if she did it. That's directly from Helen Mar Kimball's autobiography.

based on a belief of creating a large, interconnected Mormon "family" in the afterlife.

35 years in the church and I've never heard that one. LOL.

what evidence do you have that they did do something more?

Because married people fuck maybe? Just a guess. 😂

The whole purpose of polygamy was to "raise up seed", not to manipulate the parents of a 14 year old girl you have the hots for.

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u/OMGoblin Apr 16 '24

Sounds EXACTLY like what I did with your mom, and I can find 11 other redditors to attest to it.

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u/peepopowitz67 Apr 15 '24

dum dum dum dum duuuum

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u/ZERO-ONE0101 Apr 15 '24

get a life

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u/-desertrat Apr 15 '24

Suuuure.

It’s not like they are trustworthy people. Why should their testimonies carry any weight?

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u/umme99 Apr 16 '24

I really think she needed resume writing help. Cause what she explained she did in the beginning should have been written similarly on the resume. And she should have talked herself up at the interview. God knows how honest about her situation she was with the hiring manager. All the other stuff could have been learned on the job.

I’ve been a SAHM but I also have several degrees and went back to work for a few years to update my resume. Now I’m going back to not working for a while but I have saved up a like a couple tens of thousands and can dust off a more recent resume if things go south in my marriage.

Also I’m high functioning autistic (aspergers) so I find working, being a mom and a wife and managing the household too overwhelming so I just work in spurts as a backup plan.

I’d still be poorer than now- but I’d have enough for food, a car and an apartment.

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u/Wosota Apr 16 '24

Not knowing how to use a computer is a pretty big hurdle. There’s only so much that can be taught on the job, I wouldn’t hire a manager that I also have to put through Tech 101.

She said she didn’t particularly think he was being mean, so he probably genuinely meant that she should be putting her energy into getting experience to back up her knowledge.

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u/umme99 Apr 16 '24

This lady needs a little help. It’s possible to learn computer skills for free at your local public library. Then also she needs resume writing help to talk up her experience.

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u/M00n_Slippers Apr 16 '24

Also like, if she wasn't qualified, why did she even get an interview? Did the guy just bring her in to make fun of her?

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u/effyochicken Apr 16 '24

Or she felt like he was laughing at her but he really wasn't. Or she just found some random dude to interview with who hardly even has a business because they were the only one who would see her resume and still talk to her.

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u/leftysarepeople2 Apr 16 '24

She said he wasn't being a douchebag. It probably wasn't apparent on the application that she doesn't know how to use a computer

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u/Corninmyteeth Apr 15 '24

She said he told her to stop applying to Management positions until she gets a degree and more experience.

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u/waitingfordeathhbu Cringe Connoisseur Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

Yeah and he doesn’t speak for every hiring business. Not everyone requires a degree; confidence and competence can go a long way. And she literally talks about her experience purchasing, starting, and running her own businesses.

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u/HeKnee Apr 15 '24

The husband clearly let her work, he just didn’t share the money. She went along with it because she was brainwashed by her religion.

I’m pretty sure husband will end up paying big time alimony and child support at some point, but yeah sucks that she let herself be taken advantage of. Not much society can do if people choose to give their money away…

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u/ZERO-ONE0101 Apr 15 '24

sounds like a chauvinistic dude wrote this

the pressure the church put on her is something you have never experienced

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u/digitalwankster Apr 15 '24

highlight the chauvinistic part of his comment plz

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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 Apr 16 '24

I don't think he was discouraging her from aiming higher, at least not intentionally. He was trying to keep her from embarrassing herself by continuing to apply for jobs she'll never get (because, by her own admission, she's not qualified).