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  1. ...so I did this instead. Shooting Steel with 5.56 Shooting Steel with 5.56 part two
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  2. I think that “modesty” often is reduced to a sexual component, and under this rubric obviously the burden for that will tend to be imposed on females since males tend to be (as I understand it) more likely to respond to visual stimuli than females are. But I think the broader and more important facet of modesty is courtesy and not making life harder for others than it has to be. Bearing each other’s burdens per Mosiah 18. Not needlessly creating stumbling blocks for each other per Romans 14. Not insisting upon making ourselves the center of attention. Thinking of others before ourselves. The application that has been most prevalent in my mind lately (as our ward council has grappled with COVID-related drama) is this: if “modesty”, properly understood, demands that a female dress conservatively around a male; then it also demands that an anti-masker wear a mask around a COVID-hypochondriac.
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  3. Bragging is immodest. Showing off is immodest. Virtue signaling is immodest. Dressing in scanty clothing is only one (albeit obvious) form of immodesty. In earlier years, women who dressed in such a way were either too poor to be able to dress any better or were prostitutes exhibiting their wares. That today's women freely choose to dress in such a manner is a devastating indictment of their morality, and of the morality of our immodest society in general. Let us teach and learn modesty within our families, including teaching our daughters not to display themselves as would prostitutes. The words and examples of the mothers are the most effective way to accomplish this.
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  4. Growing up, I have heard many complaints that the topic of modesty is heavily pushed on girls and not on guys, that guys seem to be exempt from it. From these people’s complaints, I haven’t heard any share how it should be taught (or if I have, it was unconvincing to the point that I don’t even remember) If you were to give a full and complete lesson on modesty that includes Doctrine, principle, and applications, what all would you say are important? Would you say modesty is justly or unjustly emphasized to women?
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  5. I think "For the Strength of Youth" pretty much covers it for youth and adults. I would say that the principle applies to all and that it begins with a modest (unassuming, moderate, proper and decent) spirit.
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  6. LDSGator

    First Responders

    Trav, you really are a sweet guy. I admire that about you. The reality is that a trained first responder like @mirkwood is vastly, vastly, vastly more capable of handling a crisis than any of us are. We should thank God that there people out there like him who put their lives on the line every day so I can sit on my butt, read books and play video games. Not to mention, having untrained civilians suddenly play hero would risk their own lives and make any situation much worse.
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  7. mirkwood

    First Responders

    A first responder is a person with specialized training who shows up at the scene of an emergency to provide assistance to some sort of small or large scale disaster/incident.
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  8. You will have to train them how to endure boredom another way unfortunately. Seriously, as a teenager that went with his dad, two hours was a long time. My spiritual cup (thimble-sized at the time) was full in about 3 minutes at most and the rest of the time I was looking for ways to pass the boredom. To be fair, I also lament not being able to take my son to general priesthood meetings. My guess is that the Lord has other ways He wants to edify His young men preparing to serve missions.
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  9. -In the old ASCII character encoding, 42 represents the asterisk '*'. In many search and pattern matching algorithms, the asterisk is a "wildcard", replaceable with any character or set of characters. (In other words, "v*t" could match "vet", "vat", "violet", "violent", "vest", "vault", or "Vort".) Some people think that when Douglas Adams wrote in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that a supercomputer found the answer to "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" to be 42, he was being cleverly cryptic in saying that the "meaning of life" was '*' in computer terms—that is, whatever you wanted to assign to it. A good atheistic statement of values and the meaning of existence, perhaps pessimistic and hollow by religious standards, but reasonably clever.
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  10. Confucius say, "Woman with no principle, generate lots of interest." (with almost everybody - men and women) It would seem that "Men with no principle, are avoided. (especially anyone with an IQ above room temperature) The Traveler
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  11. Instead of "whatever you wanted to assign it", I'd translate that asterisk into mathematical terms. It is the variable "X". An unknown. Life is a big X. Life is the great unknown.
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  12. I'm watching the prices come down online. Search bulk ammo and track the prices.
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  13. I thought I had uploaded the video shooting the .22. Title corrected.
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  14. I read in the last couple hours a differing view on modesty. That we all have control and responsibility over our own thoughts, but we don’t always have control over our environment. Being modest is acting, speaking, and dressing in a way that does not distract from The righteous intentions of whatever activity is being done at the moment. Women dressing immodestly is just the most prevalent, common and impactful aspect of modesty we see today. Modesty is almost entirely about helping other focus on what is important in each moment
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  15. Also, it cuts down on the media photo-ops for gender based agitators trying to draw attention to their cause by storming into (or visibly being denied entry to) priesthood meetings—Ordain Women, transgender folk, that kind of thing.
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  16. I'm sad that I have lost my chance to take my boys to a General Priesthood Meeting.
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  17. You say that like it’s bad, honorable esquire.
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  18. A thought on the above (I hope I’m not hijacking anything) is: humans like bright-line rules whose compliance is easily monitored. @LDSGator and I can argue all day long about whether he’s being a self-centered drama queen. [Gator, you know I love you, bud!] But if he tells me “JAG, you’re wearing a sleeveless shirt” — well, either I am or I’m not; and the discussion is pretty much over. It’s easy to take one or two of the most visible symptoms of a disease and, over time, conflate and equate them with the disease itself.
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  19. In other news today: the Temple Square North Visitor’s Center—home of the (copy of the) Christus—is being demolished.
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  20. In law school (not BYU) I was told “A good speech is like a good skirt—long enough to cover the basics, short enough to keep things interesting.”
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  21. First rule of... nevemind.
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  22. Speak of our organization again and I will have to come have "a chat" with you.
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  23. I've been buying my 5 box limit of 5.56 every other day. 19,000 more rounds to buy.
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  24. But… But… I thought everything the church did was to guarantee the financial viability of the City Creek Mall?
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