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Full of Beans

John — Sun, 21 May 2023 08:51:51 +0000

From the perspective of FLDS Mormon lady, Maggie Jessop Jeffs, Full of Beans is a contemplative analogy of a deplorable paradox. Written from the heart with candor, deep sincerity, as well as frequent splashes of irony, Full of Beans is a discussion of Fundamentalist Mormon identity, faith and faithfulness, religious intolerance, human rights, contradictions of law, and the cheesiness of the moon.

I was born and raised FLDS Mormon and lived forty-seven years among my people. Married twenty years, raised eight children, had many remarkable experiences, including a terrifying government raid on the YFZ Ranch in 2008 when hundreds of our children were stolen by the state of Texas. In 2012 circumstances caused me to leave my home and community and take on the world, alone. As I lived and worked in mainstream society, wherever I went, people asked strange questions.

Did you escape from that awful religious cult in Southern Utah with the horrible men?
Did your husband beat you and force you to have lots of kids?
Did you escape from Warren Jeffs?
You poor thing! You must be so happy to finally be free.

Huh? Poor me? Free?

When I replied NO, NO, and NO to such questions, I got strange reactions. Silence. Eye rolls. Head shakes. Cold shoulders. Retreating backs. Smiles of pity, and downright angry accusations.

Whaaaat?

Abusive men, stomped on women, illiterate children. Busted bones, broken hearts, darkness and dungeons. Violence, crime, fraud, fear, and deception. Exposure, escape, heroes and heroines.

Seriously?

The moon is made of cheese; the sunset is orange soda. Chocolate with caviar is the best cure for cancer, and a daily Heineken will reverse hair loss. Brett Kavanaugh attacked Christine Ford, and Darth Vader is everybody’s hero. Nancy Pelosi is a pro-life activist, and Donald Trump is actually Santa Clause. The earth is flat, and all men are Christians. The stock market is stable, and my name is Bathsheba.

Somebody is full of beans.

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Product Details

Author: Maggie Jessop Jeffs
File Size: 8604 KB
Print Length: 309 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Highroad North (January 29, 2019)
Publication Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
ASIN: B07N8G3FM2
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,119 Paid in Kindle Store

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Waterfalls in Melbourne

John — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 05:05:35 +0000

“Now feeling in her heart an overwhelming desire to help people, Kate asked, “How can those who have given up on their dreams and stopped seeing the world through a child’s hopeful eyes get excited about life again? “They need to take their glasses off. The glasses that teach them how to see the world with a negative outlook, the glasses of gloom and doom, despair and unhappiness. When people are sick, they go to a doctor, and when they don’t have 20/20 vision, they go to an eye doctor and get a pair of glasses. Right? Well when people are attacked by negative circumstances and crushed dreams, their vision for life is disturbed. Without even thinking it, they start to believe that the way they have been seeing the world is wrong, and so they sub-consciously go looking for a right way to see the world. They pick up a pair of glasses, put them on, and leave them on for the rest of their lives; some people have been wearing the same pair of glasses for 50 years! These glasses come in the form of sub-conscious beliefs, such as “Life sucks, or, I can’t do anything right, or I’ll never be happy. I’ll never get married. I’ll never accomplish my dreams. I’ll never be able to do this, that, or the other!” On and on the list can go, but every single one of these glasses are distorted versions of reality because they leave the person who wears them feeling helpless, hopeless, or depressed. Kate, whenever someone sees the world other than through the eyes of, “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me, Jesus Loves me, God is for me, Every dream, goal and desire that God put into my heart, he has the intention of bringing to pass, The enemy is defeated, I am blessed, Though I fall down 776 times, I will get back up 777 times”, they are seeing the world the wrong way, in a way that is harmful to their happiness, and eventually their health. These are the things that make sense to people when they are children. These are the thoughts that encourage people, give them hope, and cause them to get things done. People who think this way are 1000 times more productive then people who do not think in this way.”

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Product Details

Author: Mike Voss
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 13, 2012)
Language : English
Paperback : 116 pages
ISBN-10 : 1478367636
ISBN-13 : 978-1478367635
Item Weight : 5 ounces
Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.29 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #16,132,850 in Books

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John’s the resident literary connoisseur. He dissects classics and uncovers hidden gems. Expect his insights to enrich your reading journey, one page at a time.

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