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from Dan (/dust/1997/09/voices-from-the-dust-september-1997.html)
1 Sep 97, 6:47 p.m.
Well, I know why apostasy takes so long... I'm sitting here in gridlock on The Road to Apostasy thinking, "We need to get a construction company out here to widen the damn thing!"
=)
Come on. You and I both know that the only thing a construction company is going to do is sit around drinking coffee all day and turn the jackhammer on from time to time so it sounds like something's happening. Or am I thinking of UDoT? Good heavens, if I let them take over, then the darn thing won't get done for six years!
from an anonymous reader (/dust/1997/09/voices-from-the-dust-september-1997.html)
2 Sep 97, 3:11 a.m.
I really like the site and I hope you get up a new episode of "The Road to Apostasy" real soon.
I am a recovering mormon currently attending Arizona State. I have seen several references on your site to the church's great PR machine and I thought you would be interested in what my brother had to say about working in the motor pool in the Mississippi mission. It turns out that the church has even researched what CARS people will accept in different areas. My brother wasn't allowed to buy japanese cars for the mission because southerners don't trust people who drive them. I couldn't fucking believe that. Even major corporations don't do that much marketing research.
Just something I thought you might be interested in.
Please don't post my name as my family thinks that I am not going on mission because I want to "think about things for awhile" (the lies I tell to get my tuition paid for!) but feel free to write me back if you are so inclined.
I'd be happy to write back, except for the fact that you submitted your letter anonymously -- without an email address. Keep on having fun in the sun, and don't let those campus mission recruiters get to you!
from an anonymous reader (/dust/1997/09/voices-from-the-dust-september-1997.html)
7 Sep 97, 6:52 p.m.
I was just wondering what state you are from cause most Mormons are from Utah.
As of 1992, there were about half a million Mormons in Utah. Out of 9 million Mormons worldwide, I'd say that hardly qualifies as "most." Nonetheless, I did grow up in Utah, though I was born in California and now live in New York.
