(August 27, 2012 at 9:16 am)greneknight Wrote: Hi,
Thanks and welcome too (since you're new too).
I'm sorry I'm quite ignorant about many things. I'm still in school. What's a tran man? Did you mean "train"? He works on a train? What's a Mormon? I know I should do a search on google but I'm really lazy to do that. Isn't a Mormon one of those chaps who wear a white shirt with a black badge and they go round preaching but they are very nice and good-natured?
Guess some of this is lingo and some of it is kinda regional.
Simplest answer is that a trans man is a man who used to be a girl. Do you know who Chaz Bono is? That's what I mean.
Mormonism is a branch of Christianity that I think is mostly American, centered in Salt Lake City. Their official name is 'Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints.' Yeah, I think they're the people you're talking about in there. Ever heard of people talking about magical underwear? That's them (although they call them 'temple garments'). We have a presidential election going on right now where one of the candidates is Mormon, and if he wins, we'll probably hear a lot about the LDS church from that. They have their missionaries that go around, preaching to everyone. I'll admit, on a personal level, they are pretty nice and good-natured, but their political/social beliefs are ass backwards and can be dangerous.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama