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I'm a nurse, and decided to get my MBA so I could leave the acute care setting because of all of this...and more. I wasn't able to do my job. A once great healthcare organization lost their way due to greed and outside social pressures, and decided it was better to look good on the outside than to do good on the inside. Our current Primary president is a teacher, and left her job about 4 years ago due to all of this...and more. She now teaches her 5 kids at home, and according to her, the entire family has had their lives improved.

Our society is hosed. I don’t spend time in schools but I can easily imagine what the main problems are. In our hospitals, nurses are overwhelmed with paperwork, compliance and horrible patients that are either ‘entitled’, on illicit drugs, or mentally ill. Nurses used to care for patients not documentation. I have to write orders for patients to be bathed… Sometimes I am amazed that simple first aid and general cleanliness are not standard of care. I’m sure teachers are frustrated with documentation, plans, meetings, and activities that don’t give students any benefits. Teachers with tenure that no longer care. Teachers that spend the majority of their time babysitting or being a prison guard. Teaching garbage material. Social indoctrination. Sex Education. Sentence diagraming. New math. Terrible textbooks. Outdated material. Could go on and on…

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What do you think is/are the most likely explanation(s) for why every single angel that has been send to Earth and whose gender is mentioned has been male?

I could have easily misread as well, sorry about that. Yes, to a degree. I do not believe that someone can be “cured” from serious mental illness by just smoking weed. However, I do strongly believe it can help reduce symptoms of anxiety, OCD, etc. That’s really sad. From what you’ve described it sounds like it didn’t work like it was supposed to. I’m sure there are cases like that, but there are also cases where it has worked for the issues he described. If you use something as a crutch without addressing the underlying problems, the thing won’t work after a while. Again, that is really sad. But in my own experience around people who smoke pot nothing like that happens. Weed is a depressant, which means it’s chills you out. I would think it would actually work quite well with who you are describing. Nothing is 100%, not to sound cruel or dismissive. Divorce is one of the worst things in the world, my heart breaks for him. Just so I don’t come across as naive I absolutely think people misuse weed, either in recreation or medically. However I think it helps far, far more than it hurts. Breaking down what you said I think I misread you more than you didn’t communicate it well.

Sorry, I guess I worded my question poorly. I'm thinking about the impact and influence MJ has on someone. I'm occasionally told MJ makes you mellow and peaceful and less likely to be up to no good. Or MJ helps with mood disorders or anger management. So, a better question would be, do you believe that? Do you believe that random person X, with various problems Y and Z, can toke it up a bit and find their problems Y and Z are reduced? Because that guy had an impact on me. There he was, living in happy smoke filled legalized MJ Colorado. He had an unhappy marriage and a bad temper. He decided to take the advice he was given, which was something like "Marijuana helps you manage your temper. It makes you more laid back." So he got some, spent around 6 months trying to self-medicate himself and his marriage some relief. I met him shortly after the end of that 6 months. His marriage was at the point of failure, his wife had kicked him out, he realized he hadn't changed a single bit, except to be (as he put it), poorer and stupider because of the cost and time spent high. I don't automatically think ill of someone just because they do something like get high. Maybe I used to, but again, I've met enough to discover they're all humans like me. I'm down with some legitimate medical uses of MJ, like nausea treatment for cancer patients, and there's some indication it helps quiet voices in some types of schizophrenics. But as an anger control medicine? Dude eventually ended up divorced, and he's out there today, thinking if he had spent less time high, and more time working on himself, he'd still be married. Does that make any sense? (And the only thing I want to hear, is the truth. )

Honestly? Yes, and I’m sorry because I know it’s not what you want to hear. I think the overwhelming majority of people who smoke weed do so to relax and unwind. Not smoke weed then beat their spouses, stay up 8 days straight and rob liquor stores or get into fights in bars. Now, having said that, I do think weed usage can be sinful and yes, some people take it to an extreme. Having seen firsthand the agony that DUI causes (a friend lost their nephew to one. https://andrewmcmorrisfoundation.org Is his foundation.) I have no sympathy for those who do that. The monster who killed the little boy was drunk, not on weed, for the record. He’s rotting in jail thank God. However, I know too many people who smoke pot and lead regular lives. It also has to be said that I know people who are teetotalers and cheat on their spouses and are horrible people filled with hate and anger. I don’t know of anyone who smokes weed before a boxing or jujutsu class to get energy flowing. It doesn’t work like that. We’re not talking about cocaine or meth here*. *I have known of people who snort a line of coke before working out for “energy”. I find it dangerous and stupid.

Most recent numbers I could find show that West Virginia is #1 in antidepressant prescriptions. Utah came in at #16.

I've been in a few nasty fights at work with people who were "just on marijuana."

I get that you are worried about drug use, but try to remember that 99% of people on drugs for depression who smoke pot don’t kill people. Maybe the guy was just evil.

I think getting back to some good competition might be the way to go. Truly make it the community's responsibility. The noble goal of reaching all students hasn't done so much.

Talking to a pharmacist – all drugs have side effects. Psychotropic drugs by nature alter moods. The FDA closely validates prescribed drugs and their side effects but they do not monitor the side effects of mixing drugs especially with illegal or recreational drugs. The pharmacist told me that statistically of someone is taking 5 or more drugs that at least one of the drugs will interfere with one or more of the others – producing additional side effects. I asked specifically about marijuana mixed with other drugs – especially prescribed psychotropic drugs for mental issues (including depression). His response is that there is no released research data – which means that it should not be experimented with. The problem is that HIPAA has made releasing what drugs anyone is using is unlawful. I think HIPAA should be suspended when violent crimes are committed so common denominators can be identified studied so all doubts can be removed. The Traveler

I personally just wear athletic shorts and a regular plain T-shirt when I'm around the house. It's lightweight enough to be comfortable, but also "presentable" enough that if someone does drop over I don't look out of place.

Not really. TPTB are always going to find a way to fund the protesters and the woke crowd, even if it means bankrupting the US government (which is the endgame). Once that happens, then they will let everyone rot in the mess they've made for themselves.

It is interesting to me that the more the federal government has gotten involved (taken away the control and power of parents and local communities) the more public education has failed to educate our youth. In my youth home schooling and private education were for problem kids. On the other hand, public education in the USA was considered the best education in the world and states competed against each other for being the best. Several years ago I spent some time as a consulting engineer in Asia. In talking to the engineers there, I learned that it use to be that the top students in Asia went to the USA to be educated. But things had changed and only the students that could not make it in Asian colleges came to the USA now. I do not mean to be mean @Backroads but teachers today in the US public schools are not putting out the world’s best products and I do not believe it is there fault nor are they expected to. The Traveler

Isaiah tells us that changing ordinances separates man from G-d (apostasy). Some, especially critics, will point to adjustments of ordinances to societal evolution as changes. What we learn from this scripture is more about what changes to the divine pedagogical/symbols of ordinances constitutes. Which also goes along with what Christ taught – that the ordinances are sculpted for man and not man for the ordinances. The other thing we learn from Isaiah is that divine law, ordinances and covenants are all tightly coupled and that they come from G-d as a set that is not complete (perfect) with out the other parts. We most often relate an ordinance to a covenant but sometimes neglect or forget the associated law(s). The Traveler

What an absolute horrorshow of an idea. Without some sort of basic things taught to our kids, I'm thinking civics and US history, we won't have a cohesive nation. Diversity and all that is good, but without a unified voice teaching our kids that our democratic institutions (spelled out in a unifying constitution) are good and should be preserved, then, well, I guess I'll have to accelerate my reading of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to find out what happens next. I mean, dang, even the folks who teach our wokest most progressive folks, the people who believe US land was stolen and gender is a spectrum apart from biology, support our democratic institutions. The immediate community's response should be the peaceful and legal removal of whoever is floating such ideas, replacing them with serious educators. I mean even Colorado, one of the easier states in which to homeschool, gives a common-sense mandate: 172 days of instruction, averaging four hours per day, in the United States Constitution, reading, writing, speaking, math, history, civics, literature, and science.

@beefcheI'm so sorry to hear about your sister. Please accept my condolences.

Angels sent from heaven are given Priesthood assignments. I assume that, at least in the cases we have record of, such an assignment requires a Priesthood holder.

Dudes in the dating arena need some angels to be female, or else one of their most reliable pick up lines will no longer be doctrinally sound...

I take it the purple is okay.

Speaking as someone who is 5’06 tops (uh, with sneakers on) we better all be 6’04 in the next world or I’m becoming a Hindu and trying my luck with this reincarnation thing. 😜