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You don't have a right to drive. It's a social contract governed by taxes and licensing and whatnot. Government builds and maintains the roads. The Govt issues the Driver's license. You have a right to own arms. Government doesn't grant you the right, government is there to protect and preserve the right, and is constitutionally limited in ways it can mess with that right. You're smart Traveler, you just asked this question to see that someone knew the correct answer, right?

Depends on who is responding. Most people who train can draw and engage long before a shooter gets off a magazine, unless they're just mag dumping.

What is the racial breakup of the current crop of Canadian immigrants? (Not trying to be rhetorical here; I sincerely don’t know.) If they are 4/5 black, do any portrayals or the crisis nevertheless have to use a white actor in order to avoid being accused of racism? Or are complaints about a broken/unsustainable immigration regimen racist per se? I don’t think the ad is particularly effective; but this jump to “if I don’t like it, it’s racist” is getting quite silly. But, par for the course for HuffPo, Vice.com—and apparently, for a country that seriously contemplated throwing Jordan Peterson in jail. :shrug:

Many encounters but this was my favorit. I was backpacking in the high Unitas in an area called Elk meadows. I was with others but I like to set up my tent off by myself. It was early in the morning and I had gotten up early to watch the sunrise and fix my breakfast (oatmeal, and hot chocolate) on my little camp stove. I was sitting in front of my tent almost ready to eat when a cow moose and her calf wandered into my camp. Realizing it is best to remain seated and not to startle either mother or calf I just sat there and remained quiet. The calf walked right up to me and the mom came to make sure it was alright. Partly to keep the calf from getting burned on the camp stove I placed my hand above the stove and the calf nuzzled my hand with its nose. The mom came over and sniffed me and my breakfast. Way cool The Traveler

I have a Hotmail account somewhere...so no...not the last person on earth with one... Maybe one of the few left on Earth that actually use it. I think at least one Hotmail account I have was converted to an outlook account or something like that though, I logged into that one recently, but only because it's there for security validations or whatever they have when I log into yet another email and they want to validate that account. I don't like giving my phone for the double validation they ask about. So many of them have been hacked...that's like asking for them to give out my phone number so I can get even MORE robo calls!!!

The government not being forced to protect a right doesn't mean it isn't a right. The government deciding they can take away, or regulate, a right also doesn't mean it isn't a right. Do you think innocent people didn't have a right to freedom because we legally enslaved them?

Depends on training and mindset.

MGF. I believe that is the More Good Foundation, who run and/or own the site.

Can I just say that 3 years after getting home from my mission, I still get up between 4-5 am and expect myself to exercise and study scripture before the work of the day begins? I have read scriptures every day since my mission ended, not all are great studies, in fact many are pitiful. I don’t swear, I keep the WOW, pray regularity, read scriptures and pray with my family with little failure, have weekly FHE. I LOVE callings and fulfilling assignments. In fact, I asked for a teaching calling the first Sunday I got to my new ward and I now have it! I am pretty dang perfect in my ministering assignments (in the maintaining contact portion at least) and was perfect in my home teaching back when it was a thing. I attend the temple every week too (I sometimes miss). I have 53 different Book of Mormon scriptures memorized (which btw only took me like 3 weeks) and am working on Doctrine and Covenants scripture memory now. I also read at least one self help book a month. Last month it was “Atomic Habits” It was absolutely incredible! I recommend it to everyone. I am the sole provider for my wife and 1, almost two kids (little Lainee is due next week ) My wife doesn’t work because we feel God needs her to be at home to raise our children, btw I am only 23. My wife is all these things and more. But you know what, I still have many short comings. Pornography is still a HUGE temptation in my life and I am often reaching out to others in times of weakness. Only by the grace of God Am I able to withstand those temptations. you know what else? I just dropped $2,000 on a sweet new gaming laptop with an RTX 2080-maxQ and I can now play BFV at ultra settings WITH RAY TRACING!!! I am going to be modding the ever living heck out of Skyrim and putting another 1000 hours into that great game too . I am also madly addicted to Super Smash Bros Ultimate, I play it with my friend EVERY chance I get (which admittedly is only like once a week )... sometimes well past midnight. We MURDER the online scene!! OH!!! And the new Season of iZombie just released on Netflix and I am binge watching it hard, it is SOOO good. Every other Saturday I play D&D with my friends. We also take every opportunity to play board games. Our favorite is Betrayal at Baulder’s Gate (a D&D version of betrayal at house on the hill). I recently rediscovered Greenday and am enjoying their new music (as well as the old). I played on my college Drumline for two years and loved every second of it so many great memories, invited one of my buddies three different times to meet with missionaries while drumming too, never took me up on the offer. I disk golf regularly. Southern Utah has some INCREDIBLE courses! So ya... I don’t know what people mean when they say I’m “robotic”.

If it were publicly accusing, I’d be more inclined to agree. But I believe we’re taking specifically about internal thoughts. Knowledge of truth comes after investigation, which comes after suspicion borne of an observation of an idiosyncratic event. If a parent comes to court, and they’re a little wobbly on their feet and keep falling asleep and have slurred speech, and I wonder if they’re high on heroin (or even ask the judge to order them to take a drug test)—I may be right or I may be wrong; I may be mean; I may be mistrustful; I may be heartless; I may be unforgiving. But I’m not sure I’m a liar. And I realize you found the Nazi comparison problematic; but the underlying principle is the same: when you see someone acting like, or displaying the preferred insignia of, members of a problematic group; you’re naturally going to want to investigate to see whether the person in fact associates or agrees with with that group. The AllEnlisted ruckus was an absolute game-changer on the pants-to-church issue; and not for the better.

Well, I’ll bet you’ve never seen an Amish woman wearing pants to church . . . I don’t think “dishonest” is quite the right adjective. “Suspicious”, maybe even “paranoid” (assuming one’s memory doesn’t go back to 2012-2013) . . . But “dishonest”? I’m not seeing it.

No. My wife still uses her Hotmail account.

I apologize. I was too quick and insincere in that post. Perhaps. Only you can judge that. But you were right about many things. I do not believe I was a hypocrite in what I wrote, but I certainly was sarcastically condescending. In that, I would do well to take an example from many of my betters here on this list. Here's a little private introspection that I'll offer up publicly. Please skip it as soon as you find it boring. I tend to be very sympathetic and patient toward those Latter-day Saints who are young in the gospel (regardless of age) and who are fragile from painful experiences (and those non-Latter-day Saints who are sincerely seeking to understand what this "Mormon" stuff is all about). I have far less patience toward those self-proclaimed Latter-day Saints who openly defy their covenants or who seek to undermine the Church or the revelatory testimonies of its members (and those non-Latter-day Saints who seek to pull down the kingdom of God and its leaders or who feign interest in the gospel so as to ask disingenuous and often biased and flawed "questions" to further their efforts to destroy the Church and its members). But what about when you can't really tell a person's motives, which, let's face it, is most of the time? What of those who are less than pure in all their motives, but who sincerely (to some degree) wonder and question some things, and who sincerely (to some degree) do want to understand some points of doctrine that trouble them? Are they to be fully accepted at face value with the truly sincere, or are they to be ignored and discredited along with the antiMormon riffraff? I think the Christlike thing is to bias oneself toward the former. I sometimes think I might be generally biased toward the latter, especially with those I don't know well (like others on a near-anonymous internet-based discussion board). I admit this as a possible one of my many imperfections. But that is not without reason. When I was much younger, I had sincere questions, based in profound ignorance, that I struggled to resolve. I listened to many of these voices and, as a result, formed a sort of "protective shell" of prideful beliefs which I believe did me significant and lasting spiritual harm. I was one who might well have made fun of "sheeple", had that term been coined when I was a teenager. At 19 years old, while preparing to serve a mission, I came face to face with the choice of how I would live my life, and I decided to give the gospel and the Church (which I foolishly separated in my mind) a real chance, thus allying myself with those very people I had long considered foolish, immature, and unthinking. Only my discovery of real scripture study on my mission, my attendance at BYU, and the efforts of my leaders and teachers, along with significant effort and humbling on my part (for which I can take only partial credit), allowed me to rise out of the quagmire I had been in. Today, I see many of my loved ones caught in that same quagmire, and after decades of their struggles, I see the evil fruit borne from such actions and attitudes in their own lives and magnified in the lives of their children. It breaks my heart. So when I see people who seem to be promulgating such attitudes, I get my dander up. It's a defensive reaction toward my loved ones of my generation, toward my own children and those encountering such trials now, and maybe even to some degree for my younger self. I'm okay with honest ignorance, as it's the common condition of all men and women. I'm much less okay with deception, lies, and half-truths masquerading as sincere questions, and with those arguments (and the people who make them) that tend to pull away from the pure gospel teachings and instead encourage rebellion and pridefulness. If Sister Coppersmith had been my own sister or daughter, I would never have publicly berated her column or called out its many flaws. Doubtless the fact that I don't know her personally played a big part in my reaction here. Doubtless the fact that I'm fairly anonymous to the casual reader (though not to anyone really committed to finding out who I am, which wouldn't be very hard for someone who really wants to know) plays a big role, too, since I would probably be much more judicious in what I write if my name were openly attached to it. So there is certainly some amount of self-serving bias in what I write here. Perhaps I have done real harm to Sister Coppersmith, or Amy Keim, or David Snell, or other TH columnists whom I've occasionally taken to task here. I certainly hope not; even at my least pleasant, my intent was never to cause personal harm (emotional or otherwise) to the authors, but rather to warn others not to take to heart ideas that I considered dangerous and counterproductive.

1. Ok, so let’s put that back into the discourse of race that opened the topic. Are there any moral considerations about (white) first-world outsourcing these alleged burdens of declining population to (brown) third-world countries that would find depopulation even more economically devastating—particularly when the first world has created its own population crisis through selfish family choices? Isn’t that sort of immigration policy just another form of racist oppression? And if the Canadian economy is suffering so much from depopulation, then why are people willing to spend thousands of dollars to come halfway around the world to settle there rather than in Europe or any one of dozens of non-war-torn nations in Africa or Asia? Also, I note you didn’t engage with the rest of my original question. Will any people do for your economy/society, regardless of the relative function or dysfunction of the cultures from whence they are drawn? 2. Sounds like the assertion here boils down to “We made this law, but we won’t enforce it. Honest!” Winston was a free man, as soon as he declared he loved Big Brother. The existence of Room 101 didn’t matter; because people who played nice didn’t have to worry about going there. 3. As @Vort says, it sounds like your position is that anyone who has concerns about the Canadian immigration status quo is per se racist. Given your statements, the only alternative interpretation I can think of would be the absurdity that a pro-immigration-reform poster must contain *only* illustrations of US/European immigrants who represent (if the numbers you cite are accurate) fewer than 10% of the people who are actually immigrating to Canada.

3) That ad would not be okay if it depicted any other visible minority or recent immigrant So how can someone create an "okay" anti-immigration ad? Or is an anti-immigration attitude considered racist prima facie? If the latter, then please explain how Canada has anything like "freedom of speech".

Wow, Rush sounds NOTHING like abba.

I am advocating empathy which I think will help put the situation in perspective. Volunteer writer needs some experience and needs to put something on their cv. Writes article about women wearing pants at church. Yes the article needs to stir up controversy but... 1) Writing such an article is a ploy. Newspaper headlines often pose a question to which the answer is generally ‘No’. Eg should you always allow your relatives to stay at your home? The answer is ‘No’. The purpose is to: raise eyebrows, get you thinking, have you explore the possibility of an unusual situation. Eg Grandma is a pyromaniac. Don’t let her stay! These ploys are not intended to be taken entirely seriously. The silliest instance that I have encountered recently was an article that asked if you should break up with your significant other if they are rude to their electronic personal assistant eg Alexa. No one would actually believe that anyone would actually break up with someone for this reason. The article seeks to entertain by being a bit silly. In the article it discusses the importance of habitual politeness so that we don’t become accustomed to rudeness. This last is a good point immersed in a solution of silliness. 2) The writer is a volunteer, an amateur. She is learning. Of course the article is a bit amateurish. This is job experience and she is desperately trying to meet a deadline while commuting, going to school, working a number of jobs. Have some compassion 3) It is unlikely that she feels any opinion expressed as strongly as is being interpreted. She is ondeadline and is doing the best that she can. 4) Pitting one group against another is a cheap ploy like using baby pictures or kittens in ads. Don’t allow yourself to be manipulated. Let it go. These types of articles are a bit tongue in check like Phone ads that ask ‘When was the last time you phoned Mom?’ or Hallmark card commercials that tug at the heart strings. They are exaggerated views of reality. It is expected that you are in on the joke. You are not meant to take the controversy entirely seriously.

Yeah. I didn't mention mindset. While I believe training can typically minimize mindset, you don't know how a person will react until they're looking through the sights at the life they're about to take.

Yep, I have 3 gmail and 2 yahoo. Used to have a hotmail until it got hacked. There is only 1 account that is my "home" account with my personal info. All others have fake name...Like my first name is "First" and last name is "Last." Or first name is "A" and last name is "Bacon" or something like that. I use several accounts just to sign up for websites. For example, to use Pinterest, you need to have an email account. I don't want to get blasted with stupid spam email so, I use one of my "fake" emails to sign up. That email account has thousands of unread messages since I don't go into consistently.

I have. However, the more social the breed the more likely a particular breed will spread rabies. The Traveler

I must have 15 gmail accounts. I certainly have WAY more than five. I try to keep all my things separate.

I don't know which story to tell. Growing up in the woods, doing stupid things in water, fighting forest fires out west, and general buffoonery have left me with a plethora of animal stories. We did catch a raccoon and let it go in the fraternity house once to keep it as a pet. Bad idea. Lasted a few months, though.

The Sixth Sense, 1999. Awesome movie, actually. I saw it for the first time only a few years ago, and it totally worked on me. I didn't even like Bruce Willis, but I have to admit he did an outstanding job. And the little boy was heartbreaking. Very much worth a watch. It's not a horror movie at all, but there are tinges of that. More of a psychological thriller. It's on Netflix, btw.

Question: What should an LDS bishop do if a kid turns up to mutual wearing a Pepe the Frog T-shirt?

Ok I do not know who MFG is. Looked at original article no info on that...but honestly if they DO care, they need to get a life or even better a demanding calling. These people need something to worry about that actually matters. How is that genealogy coming? Any elderly neighbors who need a ride to the doctor? Do something real.

As I have said in the past, I do not care at all if a sister wears pants. If sweet ole sis. Jones comes into my office looking for a temple recommend and she is wearing pants, I will give it to her. If rebellious sister Johnson comes in for an interview, regardless of if she is wearing pants or not, I will question her on her views of the church and make sure she isn’t against the church. It is incredible how incapable you and others are of seeing past the silly topic of wearing pants to church.

I just double checked and can confirm that I have five active gmail accounts. I use one as my main account, one as my job search & interview account, one as my spam account, one as my app developer account, and one as my person0 account in case I decide to use the moinker for something else down the line.

It is perplexing to think that if you are a Bishop you will be going around checking if women are wearing pants and ask them if they are rebelling. What? It is absolutely absurd. And... your ward must be doing really well if as a Bishop you have that kind of time.

And Roe v Wade and Obergefell v Hodges and... which is still not to the level of people's voices being ignored. The people did manage to elect Trump.

Your list is still very superficial because you forgot to include the two greatest commandments. Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:36-40) M.

The elect are the people that seek to do all those things and more. They seek exact obedience in all things. Their personality, enjoyments, friendships, need for attention or assistance (or lack of) does not matter. I didn’t add “loves being around people and play board games”, “easily cries to a good chick flick” or “favorite video game is Smash Bros” because those things don’t make someone worthy of exaltation or not. Sure they are important to the individual and to God, but whether someone cried at a funeral or not isn’t going to effect their exaltation.

I don’t appreciate your inability to think past what you read. If I were to describe a cake as “chocolate”, would you think I’m saying the whole cake was just a big hunk of solid chocolate? Based in your comment, it sounds that way. Personality, tragic experiences, emotional capabilities and enjoyments play 0 role in in whether someone is elect. God is not a respecter of persons and I suggest you repent of that racist and prejudice thinking before it’s to late.

I think you've described Mary Poppins (practically perfect in every way). But seriouly, your list sounds like you are describing a robot. I'm not clear on the Latter-day Saint's definition of elect of God but to me it doesn't seem this elect has a heart or soul. Does this elect cry or laugh or fall ill or even require help or friendship themselves. Your list of do's and don'ts seems superficial, there's no humanity or love behind either. M.

Are you thinking of the version of Penzance with Kevin Kline as the Pirate King and Angela Lansbury as Ruth? I love that movie. And it does have a crossover scene with Pinafore. I used to sing the "Englishman" song to one of my old cats - Ginger - whom I used to call "Gingy-Boy". He's now long gone, but fondly remembered. My words were a little different: Ginger would meanwhile look at me like I was mad. I haven't got a picture of him to hand, but he looked somewhat like this:

I don't believe there is any reason why someone can't acknowledge his imperfections and shortcomings while striving to overcome them, yet still be happy, jolly, and content. I think that's the way God wants us to be. Tell your friend he doesn't have to abandon one for the other.

Not sure I can disagree with any of that. But your list condemns me and many of the people I most love. At the bar of judgment, I will be wholly dependent on Christ's grace, or else lost forever.

I'll echo the MYOB statements, and also add that when her records get transferred into the ward, the bishop will know immediately how old she is (and probably her family composition, too). Don't worry about it.

You shouldn’t. It’s none of your business.

You should visit Glacier National Park. It is immensely more beautiful with its massive sheer cliffed mountains, beautiful glacier valleys, turquoise lakes, AND wild life. we saw a massive grizzly, stopped my wife from excitedly charging a moose, a herd of big horn sheep, and tons of mountain goats. I’ve been to a ton of parks, and It is my all time favorite national park, my wife and I actually went there on our honeymoon.

How things change our lives.

Yes.

I'm fairly certain that a lot of us believe that, not just mirkwood.

Seems like you are not getting a straight answer here. I will give you one. No the LOC was not violated IF as you are saying nothing happened. No need for alarm and no mission will be postponed. Frankly I would never mention it to anyone and make a mental note to never put myself in that kind of position again.

That’s been my experience as well—other than with law enforcement officers, of course. There’s very much a “NOTICE ME!!!” component about most of the schlubs I see doing it that goes beyond their decision to carry a gun.

We have deer living in the green spaces right here in town. They're pretty, but sometimes a nuisance. When we lived in Pennsylvania, you couldn't get away from the deer. My brother-in-law was killed a few years back when he hit one on a Pennsylvania highway. Don't know if it's true, but I've been told that there are more deer (and more forested area) in the US today than there were in 1776.

Another story: I was working to automate a jet engine factory in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was morning, but that far north it was still dark. I had parked my car and was walking into the factory all by myself. There was no one else in the parking lot at the time. I was walking between a row a parked cars when a cougar came running past me, within about 10 feet. He came from behind me and was running at full tilt. I never heard or noticed a thing until he was passed me. It took a second for me to realize that I could have been in danger and by time I had a near heart attack - he was gone. And another. I was with my wife in Yellowstone when we came upon a traffic jam. Since we were parked in traffic, I decided to get out of the car and walk a couple blocks up to see what was going on. There were park rangers and emergency medical that was blocking the road. A bull moose was about 100 feet off the road behind a fence. Being Yellowstone and tourists; many cars had stopped to see the wildlife. One, not so brilliant fellow decided to get a picture of the moose. He had climbed the fence walked up to about 12 feet in front of the moose and taken a flash photograph. The moose immediately charged and killed the photographer and then injured about 6 others that attempted to come to the aid of the photographer. The park rangers were in the process of putting down the moose when I walked up. The Traveler

Banff National park. In a teeny tiny car - early November. Sudden cold snap. The park was deserted. Me and hubby drove to the bison paddock. Drove around. Not a single bison. Typical! Probably removed the bison in the stupid paddock area! Authorities must have left the sign up and sold the bison to some meat packing plant in the States! Sad! Useless park. Useless country. Heat did not work in the car. Cold and miserable, I pulled into a wooded area. We ate our sandwiches while my english hubby listed all the things he hated about Canada, the weather, the politics but most of all Banff and the rotten lack of bison. And then. I heard this low rumbling. The ground began to shake. Suddenly there were bison! How many? Fifty? Most bigger than the tiny car. Some little bison but mainly large, furry, and not very gentle looking! Milling about and just surging through the area. If any of them had begun to move towards the car, I do not know what I would have done. Drove back to hotel in silence. And then there was the time that I attending a conference for a week in the park. There was a shuttle from the hotel to the conference Center. I walked though and skipped the shuttle after all it was a nice walk through the woods mornings and evenings. Last day, I was informed that the shuttle was for the protection of guests due to bears. I had spent a week walking through the most dangerous route at the most dangerous times of day. Why? Because I am an idiot. I have had had warnings about bears and talks about bear safety since I was a toddler. I know personally several people who have lost limbs to bears. When I entered the park, I was warned about bears and given a pamphlet about bears which I read on the last day in fear and trembling. I do not deserve to live!

Are you Amish?

Pornography use will be approved. You heard it here first!!!!

I saw part of HMS Pinafore once, when watching Pirates of Penzance.