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they all seem so plastic and hypocrite.or maybe im just being too critical.
My best friend from college converted to LDS while we were sharing a dorm room. We were quite close in college and used to goof around, make jokes, and laugh and laugh until we couldn't breathe and tears were streaming down our faces.
After graduation and a few years of the both of us getting on with our lives, we got together again. She was heavily into the LDS experience and didn't have any friends outside of the Church community.
Anyway, during our visit we picked right up with the joking and laughing and the goofing around, just like old times, and she told me that she really missed being like that, and that none of the people she socialized with now ever made the kind of clever observations and witty quips that I did. Nobody she socialized with ever made her laugh so hard she cried anymore.
In retrospect, I think, "Well DUH! They are Midwestern, highly-religious Mormons!" Why on earth did you expect them to be as fun and irreverant as your free-thinking friend (me)?
Individuality in personality and behavior is not particularly well-tolerated in such groups. Neither is questioning authority.
This message has been edited by schrafinator, 02-09-2005 22:19 AM
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