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vicemag: Mormon Lost Boys: Lorin’s Story (VICE on HBO...

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:09:43 -0700

Mormon Lost Boys: Lorin’s Story (VICE on HBO Extended)

Lorin Holm was excommunicated from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints in 2011 following an edict from imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs. He invited us into his home for a first-hand look at the house he once shared with his three wives and 25 children.

Watch more at here and check out VICE on HBO every Friday at 11 PM.

It’s been like 75ºF and hella beautiful here for weeks so I haven’t wanted to be in front of a computer at all. STILL DON’T. Next week maybe

trenthead: To and fro.

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:31:17 -0700

trenthead:

To and fro.

Hah scene queen huh? thanks. now here is a troll of me yay!! -...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:07:15 -0700

Hah scene queen huh? thanks. now here is a troll of me yay!! - Kollene

OMG KOLLENE KINGSTON IS LITERALLY TROLLING MORMONHAIR

This is such an honor! Thank you so much! Big hair respect!

Holy Polygamist by Bailee J Huff

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:35:11 -0700

Holy Polygamist by Bailee J Huff

Warren Jeffs at bat in the 1996 Alta Academy Yearbook via

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:56:46 -0700

Warren Jeffs at bat in the 1996 Alta Academy Yearbook

via

trenthead: Sunday drive

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:57:50 -0700

trenthead:

Sunday drive

trenthead: fence sitter

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:18:26 -0700

trenthead:

fence sitter

trenthead: Photographs from a church service held by former...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:22:36 -0700

trenthead:

Photographs from a church service held by former followers of Warren Jeffs’ FLDS church. These people, led by William E. Jessop, were kind enough to welcome us in to document their group. To my knowledge, this is the first time a religious service has been photographed by an outsider in Short Creek. I say that not to brag, but to point out the lengths that these people had gone to in letting me in. Thank you for your openness.

You know you’re back in St George when… by Lindsey...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:40:31 -0700

You know you’re back in St George when… by Lindsey Jenkins

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:36:13 -0700

What are the boys doing in the back? it looks like the classic...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:24:13 -0700

What are the boys doing in the back? it looks like the classic Richard Nixon peace sign pose but would they even have a context for that?

I like the ginger girl with her arms crossed best

This is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 04:12:19 -0700

This is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

Ran into the polygs at Costco today by Chris M Olsen

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 07:44:54 -0700

Ran into the polygs at Costco today by Chris M Olsen

That’s the face I make when someone tells me to smile

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:48:28 -0700

That’s the face I make when someone tells me to smile

Photo

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:36:28 -0700

HAND HEART Like over ten years ago I was at a show at Gilman and...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:24:27 -0700

HAND HEART

Like over ten years ago I was at a show at Gilman and there was a screamo kid with a hand heart tattoo on the back of his arm, I wonder how he feels about it now that it’s Taylor Swift’s signature move

Cutest Couple yearbook winners

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:12:27 -0700

Cutest Couple yearbook winners

The same ghostwriter that worked with Elissa Wall on her book...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:05:00 -0700

The same ghostwriter that worked with Elissa Wall on her book Stolen Innocence also worked with Jenna Miscavige Hill (the niece of David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology) on her new book, Beyond Belief. Lisa Pulitzer is the go-to gal for cult confessions. I really liked Stolen Innocence, but I was never super interested in Scientology - until I read what Jenna Miscavige Hill wrote about her life growing up in Scientology:

I didn’t sleep in a warm house with food cooked at home by my mom. I didn’t have sleepovers with friends or a toy box, much less toys to fill it. My parents were high up in the Church of Scientology, and from the age of six, I lived in a boarding school for children of church executives. I shared a dorm room with seven other girls; it was attached to a bathroom we shared with the neighboring dorm which also held seven girls. Where a TV would have been (if it were allowed) instead stood a picture of the founder of Scientology, seemingly watching and judging our every move.

Our days often began with military close-order drilling, followed by four hours of labor, which could be anything from hauling rocks to build walls, to digging irrigation trenches, to painting the exteriors of the compound’s buildings. This was all part of the Church’s philosophy. We were taught that only criminals got things for free, and our work was our way of giving back, in exchange for the food and beds we were lucky to have.

We were taught that we were spiritual beings called “thetans” who lived many lifetimes, and had been around with different bodies for billions of years. For that reason, despite our child bodies, we were treated as adults, both physically and mentally. Imagine a group of seven-year-olds being spoken to as though they’re adults, and expected to work to that level! But this was my reality, the only one I knew.

My parents lived about 20 miles away, but I rarely saw them. In our belief system, no thetan or spirit could give birth to another thetan, and so the family dynamic was merely temporary and a distraction to our parents’ mission to save the world.

Really weird. Now I wanna read that book

My only experience with Scientology (besides antagonizing the people administering “free personality tests” at malls and street fairs) was maybe ten years ago my best dude friend moved into an apartment that was formerly occupied by Scientologists, and for some reason none of their mail from the Church ever got forwarded to their new address and they never came to pick it up, so after a few months we started reading it. The letters were all about how the Church was getting ready to release “super power” into the atmosphere. It never explained what this was or how it worked, it was written like the reader should know what it meant. The letters made it really clear that you would NOT benefit from the “super power” unless you gave enough money, which was thousands of dollars. It was like a Nigerian Prince scam but even less believable. Wackadoos

Buy Beyond Belief on amazon

Buy Stolen Innocence on amazon

NY Times interview with Lisa Pulitzer

Since we’re talking about apostate fashion, the single...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:45:27 -0700

Since we’re talking about apostate fashion, the single best FLDS fashion rebellion has come from Rebecca Musser, who likes to wear bright red in her public appearances. Red is off limits in the FLDS (because Jesus is going to come back in red robes and you aren’t allowed to bite his style) and wearing it is like a big FUCK YOU back at them. I love prairie style but I will always respect a well done fashion insubordination and Rebecca Musser BRINGS IT

Rebecca Musser’s website

I always liked this picture of Flora Jessop. She didn’t...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:10:56 -0700

I always liked this picture of Flora Jessop. She didn’t just wear that for a promo photo either, that was her jacket. Biker jackets are classic signs of rebellion, pretty good FLDS apostate fashion

There’s a new television series on the Biography Channel/bio called Escaping Evil: My Life in a Cult. This Sunday is Flora Jessop’s episode about leaving the FLDS. It’s on my DVR already

Last year I posted screencaps from a special on National Geographic channel called I Escaped a Cult, I think this new show might have a few recycled parts from the special, but it is an entire hour on the FLDS (the original special also profiled the ACMTC) so there should be some new stuff too

Escaping Evil: My Life in a Cult airs Sunday night on bio/The Biography Channel. You can also watch full episodes and clips at the website. I’m sure I will be posting terrible screencaps you can look forward to as well