more of the broad canyons that follow the Colorado River
from web site
Considered nudism was a amazing,
Favorable thing well worth removing
For an hour, the burning congarments for---certainly more benetinued, never relenting.
ficial than the mere recreational pasIf someone had come
integral, close part of nature. I
time of swimming, which is considalong clothed, I would
felt so right being there without the
ered a perfectly fine time to remove
have believed they were
artificial covering of clothes sepa- violating this sacred place.
garments.
Standing me from God's creations. If
Eventually, he pulled out the big
guns.
would have felt they were breaking this sacred area.
imagine President Gordon B. Hinckley
I ended up hiking about two miles before turning back. The
doing things nude. (I couldn't, but there were many other
powerful burning eventually subsided, giving hunger and thirst a
Matters I could not imagine him doing, either.) He inquired what I
chance to kick in. I fought to get back. My legs became
thought the prophet would say if I asked him about naturism.
ergy to return safely to my vehicle. As I walked, I recognized
it.
that---albeit unintentionally---I Had been fasting from food and
I finally determined to play my trump card. I bore my testidrink when that experience had hit me.
mony of the encounter I had in Moab---how the Spirit of the
I'd planned on staying another day or two in Moab, but
Lord had witnessed to me that nudism is a positive thing. I
anything after that experience would have been anticlimactic. I
knew he couldn't resist my strong assertion of testimony.
returned home at the same time, ready to share my encounter with my
family and naturist friends.
deception from Satan and blown off it.
There was no doubt in my head I Had had a religious experiMy bishop decided he needed to escalate the issue to the
But I also felt it was
Position president. I met with the president and my bishop toa divine avowal of my approval of naturism, and a
gether, but I said as little as possible. I understood it'd be a
calling of forms to share my beliefs with others---to go ahead
The position president explained that if my inspirawith the strategies I'd been contemplating.
https://login.aup.edu/cas/login?gateway=true&service=http://voy-zone.com was in contradiction to his inspiration and that of my
bishop, I should consider myself on shaky ground.
ND NONE TOO soon! Just a couple of weeks afterwards, my
By that stage, I had studied, meditated, found, experibishop called me in to his office. He had found out I did
enced, and prayed for three years about naturism. They had
things naked.
spent, at most, an hour or two, praying---simply praying---
I knew he wouldn't understand any more than I understood
making no effort to study or comprehend naturism. I could not
before I learned about nudism, but I also knew that, because
understand how that put me on shaky ground.
it was so clear and apparent to me, I could explain it.
It didn't work.
LDS naturist needs living a double life. As a naturist, you reand I needed repair.
veal your beliefs on nudity to fellow Latter-day Saints at your
own peril. It's one of those subjects for which rational discussion
every Young Women's lesson and permeates the BYU honour
seems hopeless. The notion of nudism is so foreign to the
code. I explained my perspective that modesty is a relative thing
orthodox Mormon mindset that there's little common ground
to build on..
culture, from time to time. I explained that modesty is in the
I expected that disciplinary action would be brought
heart and in the mind, not in the amount of cloth we drape
against me, but nothing ever happened. I eventually went
I explained to him how nudism had helped
away from that ward.
diffuse the intense lust I could feel at the sight of an appealing
next bishop knew I was a naturist, but I went twice more
female because the body had been divested of its mystery and
and managed to escape my standing.
titillation.
munity (yes, there is a community) have not consistently fared as
A
well. One buddy stood before a stake-level disciplinary council
and made a heroic attempt to clarify nudism. When he finished, they confessed they couldn't come up with a workable
Motive to condemn nudism, but they just didn't feel right
Favorable thing well worth removing
For an hour, the burning congarments for---certainly more benetinued, never relenting.
ficial than the mere recreational pasIf someone had come
integral, close part of nature. I
time of swimming, which is considalong clothed, I would
felt so right being there without the
ered a perfectly fine time to remove
have believed they were
artificial covering of clothes sepa- violating this sacred place.
garments.
Standing me from God's creations. If
Eventually, he pulled out the big
guns.
would have felt they were breaking this sacred area.
imagine President Gordon B. Hinckley
I ended up hiking about two miles before turning back. The
doing things nude. (I couldn't, but there were many other
powerful burning eventually subsided, giving hunger and thirst a
Matters I could not imagine him doing, either.) He inquired what I
chance to kick in. I fought to get back. My legs became
thought the prophet would say if I asked him about naturism.
ergy to return safely to my vehicle. As I walked, I recognized
it.
that---albeit unintentionally---I Had been fasting from food and
I finally determined to play my trump card. I bore my testidrink when that experience had hit me.
mony of the encounter I had in Moab---how the Spirit of the
I'd planned on staying another day or two in Moab, but
Lord had witnessed to me that nudism is a positive thing. I
anything after that experience would have been anticlimactic. I
knew he couldn't resist my strong assertion of testimony.
returned home at the same time, ready to share my encounter with my
family and naturist friends.
deception from Satan and blown off it.
There was no doubt in my head I Had had a religious experiMy bishop decided he needed to escalate the issue to the
But I also felt it was
Position president. I met with the president and my bishop toa divine avowal of my approval of naturism, and a
gether, but I said as little as possible. I understood it'd be a
calling of forms to share my beliefs with others---to go ahead
The position president explained that if my inspirawith the strategies I'd been contemplating.
https://login.aup.edu/cas/login?gateway=true&service=http://voy-zone.com was in contradiction to his inspiration and that of my
bishop, I should consider myself on shaky ground.
ND NONE TOO soon! Just a couple of weeks afterwards, my
By that stage, I had studied, meditated, found, experibishop called me in to his office. He had found out I did
enced, and prayed for three years about naturism. They had
things naked.
spent, at most, an hour or two, praying---simply praying---
I knew he wouldn't understand any more than I understood
making no effort to study or comprehend naturism. I could not
before I learned about nudism, but I also knew that, because
understand how that put me on shaky ground.
it was so clear and apparent to me, I could explain it.
It didn't work.
LDS naturist needs living a double life. As a naturist, you reand I needed repair.
veal your beliefs on nudity to fellow Latter-day Saints at your
own peril. It's one of those subjects for which rational discussion
every Young Women's lesson and permeates the BYU honour
seems hopeless. The notion of nudism is so foreign to the
code. I explained my perspective that modesty is a relative thing
orthodox Mormon mindset that there's little common ground
to build on..
culture, from time to time. I explained that modesty is in the
I expected that disciplinary action would be brought
heart and in the mind, not in the amount of cloth we drape
against me, but nothing ever happened. I eventually went
I explained to him how nudism had helped
away from that ward.
diffuse the intense lust I could feel at the sight of an appealing
next bishop knew I was a naturist, but I went twice more
female because the body had been divested of its mystery and
and managed to escape my standing.
titillation.
munity (yes, there is a community) have not consistently fared as
A
well. One buddy stood before a stake-level disciplinary council
and made a heroic attempt to clarify nudism. When he finished, they confessed they couldn't come up with a workable
Motive to condemn nudism, but they just didn't feel right
