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  1. LOL... I would suspect its because the colonies had unlimited land/ property... Just build on it, defend it, and it's yours. Heck. Montana STILL has homesteading. Meanwhile the sum total of the UK has, at various points, been in the hands of the aristocracy. Whether the Kings land, or the hereditary Lord's the K/Q has given it to, or even in later years when estates were bought and sold... We plebs couldn't own property ourselves. We lived at the discretion of our (literal) land-lord. Even long after those documents were written and even -to an EXTENT- today,.. Property holding in the UK proper can get pretty dicey. England/Wales/Scotland/Ireland are pretty small islands. Granted the commonwealth extends to Canada & Australia, so it's not desperate like it once was, and even when the US constitution was drawn up, feudalism had already been done away with, so it wasn't as bad as it had been. ________ I think 3 is an English (spoken language) thing. It has a certain ring. Be it friends, Romans, countrymen... Or Life, liberty, & the ___________... It sits well in our hearts & minds. The original sound byte. Longer than 3 requires music or rhyme to have the same bang. Other languages have other number combos. Or different linguistic tricks to make them memorable/meaningful. Even old English used a different meter. Beowulf (one of my favs!) splits lines in half, and alliterates them. _______ So.... Yah. I suspect pragmatism & prose. Q
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  2. Your son shouldn't reach 400 pounds if you don't have junk food in the house and you prepare nutritious meals. Sure, he will get some junk out of the house, but if you make your house a healthy haven then he should be fine. It would also help your husband. And if he (your husband) is the one buying it, just tell him you will pitch it. Totally reasonable under the circumstances. Here's the hard truth. Your husband isn't going to do anything about his weight until he wants to. No amount of pestering or nagging will change that and probably makes it worse.
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  3. I really loved this talk. I love the idea of letting your faith show and of not separating various aspects of our lives. "If one tries to segment his or her life into such separate compartments, one will never rise to the full stature of one's personal integrity--never to become all that his or her true self could be." I like that he makes this a matter of integrity which means "whole." If we are dividing ourselves up in these kinds of ways we can never be whole. It reminds me of the CES devotional talk by Elder Holland where he said to "never check your religion at the door."
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  4. AngelMarvel

    I wonder...

    I wonder if Dr T has checked the trash. No one likes doing dishes... and the trash is the first place I checked when I was missing utensils. lol
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  5. I picked life and liberty
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  6. I have actually come back into this thread quite a few times to read it and each time the same thought stands out for me. You said your husband was clearly overweight when you were dating him... yet you married him anyway. What was it in your husband that made you fall in love with him? He was overweight already...but, you still fell in love with him and married him. My husband is overweight...was over weight when we got married. BUT... he is an honorable man. An honorable priesthood holder. He is loving, kind, willing to please, helpful, caring, loves me to pieces, loves our children, grand children, church going, holds a calling... I could go on and on...but, those are a few of the things I love about him. His weight has nothing to do with him being all of the above and then some.His weight is HIS issue not mine. I look at it as an addiction to food. He loves to eat and I bet your husband does too. Trying to get on a controlled eating pattern is key to losing weight. All the high carbs, sugars, etc continue to make a person hungry. You are not going to change him... he has to change himself. But, pressuring him probably will just make him want another piece of cake or whatever. I guess my point is... YOU dated him being overweight and married him while he was still overweight. You loved him then... but, now the weight becomes an issue? I believe there is something far more going on in the marriage. Ask yourself, "Why now and what changed"? Try to find that out before you jump to divorce.
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  7. Not so sure about that......Lol
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  8. Hello again Traveler :) As a Catholic, I obviously don't consider Scriptures to be tainted. Neither do I subscibe to the thought that this is "unquestionably" so. There have been thousands of exegises books written on the Scriptures, and from the few I've read, are very profound and deep in their logic and reasoning. As St. Augustine says, "The New Testament lies hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New". I find the Bible to be a love letter, written from God to all of us, it is truly beautiful and moving, a living Word, and not a dead letter. To keep this short, the Scriptures are considered divinely inspired by God b/c they were written by many human authors and spanning many different generations, yet Jesus Christ fulfills over 300 OT prophecies. The Dead Sea Scrolls further substantiates that these prophecies were written long before the birth of Jesus, and were not altered to "fit" His life. "To compose the sacred books, God chose certain men who, all the while he employed them in the task, made full use of their own faculties and powers so that, though he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to writing whatever he wanted written, and no more" Dei Verbum 11. Can flaws and mistakes be found in the Bible? Typo's, I'm sure, and other simple mistakes of the like, most likely. But the message Itself? No. This does not mean however that interpretations of the Bible can be w/o error, especially in the light of so many different churches nowadays claiming that their interpretations are correct while others are false.
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  9. dahlia

    GMO Labeling

    Absolutely. We've been modifying foods for millenia, that's not the point. I want to know what I'm eating. I want to know about Monsanto's involvement in the food I eat - including its lawsuits against farmers. When I teach information policy, I include a section on consumer food information. I admit, it gives me a place to rant (and inform students about) ag-gag laws as well as GMO issues. Being in a rural state, many of my students have either lived on farms or have family members who still run farms. They are not ignorant when it comes to food issues. You see a lot of info on this on the veg*n sites, but you don't have to be veg*n to want to know what's in your food or be against animal cruelty. Last term, even though everyone in class was an omnivore, they were against ag-gag legislation and for GMO labeling. More and more people want to know what they're putting in their mouths and how it got on their plate.
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  10. I'm not surprised. Seems like just about everyone here is into Harry Potter, Star Wars and all that jazz. And why do you think they brought comic.com to Utah? Because there is enough of a following to make it successful here too.
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  11. As the heads up: I'm the "Yep. Get divorced. Yesterday." person on this board. (The lovely & brilliant Annatess my foil). My three cents? 1) Your husband deserves someone who loves him. If that's not you, please stop wasting his time, and making him feel terrible in the interim. 2) Take all the blame squarely OFF your child's shoulders. YOU control your child's diet & exercise& medical regime. Worrying that "at this rate he'll be 400 pounds by college" totally abdicates all parental responsibility, while blaming your husband for your failure to act. Don't do that. Good diet, good activity & if it's a glandular disorder, take him to the durn doctor and get his levels stabilized! 3) Some genetic lines (think Viking & Polynesian & Russian wrestling) spawn BIG people. Big HEALTHY people, so long as they keep their activity up. 350 pounds of "Never gonna be ripped like Batman, but I can make a quarterback wish they were never born" fast, strong, HEALTHY. These people are never going to be the nimble thin runners you see darting all over. These people WILL be the TANKS in underarmor (and other stretchy clothes, cause tailoring custom clothes is expensive, and their size isn't sold off the rack) who have to replace "flimsy" shoes and furniture on a biannual basis, as they make you giggle with their terminator impressions. I knew a few of these guys in the Marine Corps. (350+ pounds of grizzly bear ya never never never wanna face in a fight). Football, & hockey players, & wrestlers the lot of them. Even running 3 miles under 18 minutes 5 times a week, with about 20 hours of gym time, and 40+ hours of constant motion...my hese guys never thinned out like the rest of us. 15-20 years later... I still know a couple of them. Those who have stayed active (physically), playing sports every day, cops on the street, gym teachers, etc... Are still as healthy (and TANKS) at 40 as they were at 20. Those who moved into desk jobs & non movement? Well... They waddle a bit. If they manage to stand much at all. You met a BIG physically active guy in college. Whatever his diet & exercise program was... It was obviously working for him, as he was playing college ball. You've tried to completely change his diet, and clearly that hasn't been helpful. Have you considered encouraging your husband to go back to what WAS working? Eat as he was... But go back to training. Do something he LOVES, and is good at, and kept him fit. __________ Ahem. As a former athlete: I need 10,000-15,000 calories a day when training. Of I don't have that level, my body starts to eat itself. We're not talking "lose weight". We're talking bone loss, organ damage, heart damage. I also start stacking on weight (because my body hoarders calories) if I'm eating too few calories when exercising. It looks INSANE to people who aren't doing similar training (I remember my family -all athletes- snickering at people with jaws dropped over Michael Phelps talking about the 10k-20k he eats, all whipcord thin). In the military? Your rations depend on your environment. I never worked in the desert, I worked in mountains & jungle. Our rations were 6,000 kcal per package. 3x-5x per day. Yep. For some exercises we were stoking 30,000 calories a day. (The army moves on its stomach). Just some food for thought. Q
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  12. Why don't you just ask your daughter? M.
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  13. Just because you haven't traced your family history doesn't mean your extended family hasn't.
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