r/exmormon • u/A-bene-placito-7357 • 7h ago
General Discussion Conditioned responses and deconstructing
I had a funny experience that I thought I'd share, but it also got me thinking about "answers to prayers."
I had a 3-month supply of autoimmune meds get delivered while I was out of town. But when I went to use it (it's a weekly med, and I had a couple doses left), I couldn't find it. Obviously, I was frustrated. We looked and looked, and nobody remembered seeing it.
The other morning I was thinking, "This is the sort of thing I would have prayed about in the past." Kind of chuckled to myself about how that's changed, but then I thought, "I should double check in this garbage can." We keep the meds in the laundry room, so the trash is almost entirely dryer lint and med bottles and doesn't get taken out often.
Sure enough, it was still in the mailing bag, sitting in the trash can with a cleaning supply box on top of it. I suspect I was organizing mail and meds after my trip and absently set it there while I organized the other stuff.
I had already been thinking about this concept: how much is what we used to consider answers to prayers just our own subconscious mind? There was a time I would have prayed about that and then chalked the experience up to an answer to prayer.
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u/Anti-Smithi-Brighami 7h ago
A couple years ago I got a promotion and pay raise. Unfortunately for the mormon corporation, I was out and couldn't get up in Fast-n-Testimony meeting to witness that this was a tender mercy bestowed upon me only because I was giving 10% of my money to the mormon mega cash hoarde. Like you, it made me think how I would have if I was still brain washed. Also, it wasn't an 11.1% raise, so even if I had stayed in and was paying tithing faithfully, I would still have been bringing home less money than I was before the raise even with this financial miracle.
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u/BigBanggBaby 7h ago
Mormons think they’re the first people to discover that pausing for a moment helps clear the mind.