FunkyTown

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  1. This is not a 'mess'. You have an obligation to your daughter, man. Your son needs help. Your daughter needs protection. Your legal obligations are the least of your concerns. The fact that you're asking what repercussions YOU will face is horrible and bad and you really, really, really need to sort things out for your daughter. Gah. The fact that this is your very first post here makes me think this is not legitimate at all and just an attempt at attention-seeking, since I sincerely doubt that anyone would create a new account on a new website to get information about an unrelated topic when their daughter was being molested. If so, this is tasteless. If you legitimately decided "Hey. My son is molesting my daughter. I should see if there's a random website out there with other random members of a group that I'm part of to see i I can get advice on this", then you are a bad person who needs to immediately get off the internet and help your daughter. And if you are offended by this and want to get on here again to try to goad me in to an argument by telling me how offended you are by me, then know that you are prioritizing an INTERNET ARGUMENT over your DAUGHTER'S MOLESTATION. That will tell me enough about you to make my decision about whether this is legitimate or not.
  2. It's now been one month since we asked our questions and still haven't received an actual answer to any question we asked. Just thought I'd put that out there.
  3. That actually sounds more like paranoid schizophrenia than testimony challenges, man. And that's all right - We all have our issues. For some, it's mental health. Just continue to take your medication and you'll do all right.
  4. Yeah. But that's still not an answer. Even insanity covers a kind of internal logic - Did he think his home teacher was offensive? Thought he was better than him?(Spoiler alert: He was). Did he think his home teacher was a maniac demon possessed by an international consortium of mind-control devils?
  5. Who shoots someone in Sacrament meeting? Did this ever get explained? Why did the guy want to kill a specific person?
  6. Maybe you should find out what culture your fiancee is from before you marry her. I can't find anything suggesting that's a marriage ritual for the two tribes you mentioned. I'd suggest talking to your fiancee more. If you don't know even the name of the culture she comes from, it suggests you don't know her well enough to marry her. Just.. Take some time getting to know her. Look up marriage rituals for that tribe and try to include her culture in it. Were I a suspicious man, I would think this wasn't a real thing, but I am not and so I think you should try to learn more about your fiancee's culture.
  7. Right. That still doesn't answer my question: Which culture is it where you have to sleep on the floor under a blanket, touching each other before you get married?
  8. Just so you know, man... Don't eat the poop. Throw away the poop. There will literally never be a time when you think, "Oh, no! If I don't eat that poop, my wife will have to." Like... Ever. That will never happen. As an aside, what culture is it where before marriage you're expected to sleep under a blanket together on the floor.
  9. This stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of joy and pleasure. Pleasure is mere sensual gratification while joy is a fundamental happiness implying contentment with the state of the world. A food addict can eat a pie while feeling shame. Same with a sex addict. That is pleasure and not joy.
  10. Talk to your bishop. Pam's right - We don't know what will happen, but excommunication isn't devastating. It's not even bad. It's just the chance to work through whatever you need to work through. You'll eventually be able to come back to the temple even if that happens. Honestly, excommunication isn't a punishment. It's just a chance to work on you.
  11. A heroin addict shooting up in a dirty alleyway pining away for a family, job and life he has abandoned for a cheap and pleasurable 'high'. Pleasure - Not joy.
  12. Yes, yes she did. Did she know that not following God's word was evil?
  13. I'm pretty sure there are a few stories about this very thing in the bible. Didn't Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego have this exact same conundrum? "What? Worship an idol of the king? Sounds good to me!" I believe they said, followed by the life-affirming "Yeah. We cool. I get why you did that." I'm pretty sure that was the whole thing. Also Joseph and Potipher's wife. And the whole Daniel and Darius thing. Didn't the King take Daniel to the zoo or something when Daniel agreed to give up all that he thought was moral so he could keep his job?
  14. This is a great question! Did Eve know the difference between Good and Evil when she committed to the act?
  15. I don't know what 'insensitivity' means in this case, so it's hard to say. We're commanded to love one another, and that will ultimately decide if our action was right or wrong, but that doesn't necessarily suggest that saying something that might offend the other person is wrong. On the other hand, if you find that you're becoming bitter and resentful and lashing out at the person, you might have a toxic relationship. If you find yourself becoming a worse person simply by virtue of being with the other person, maybe you need a little bit of space to let that relationship blossom and grow again. Ultimately, there isn't enough information to tell anything more than that.
  16. It's okay. I was in a similar position when I joined the church - The amount of misinformation out there is surprising. I joined and it was the best thing to happen to me. It led me on a path that has brought me a tremendous amount of joy. I don't know what specific issues your sister or mother have with the church - Ultimately, it doesn't matter - Just... Pray. Listen to the spirit and do what you know is right. Don't let fear dictate to you how you should live your life. Love your sister. Love your mother. Live your life.
  17. England won! Everyone is pretty happy since it will have been 50 years since England had the cup. But you're not doing it right. I learned that the key to understanding European Football is to pick a really obscure team nobody knows anything about or cares about. Mine's Luxembourg.
  18. @mordorbund @zil @Sunday21 Since we're none of us going to get our answers, we should write a story. Like I'm wondering why those people who time travel don't just look up old Lottery numbers, go back in time and buy those.
  19. Yeah. I don't really notice a big difference between men's garments and women's garments. If the lack of a trap door isn't a deal-breaker, I don't see why you couldn't wear them. It's not like you're wearing them because they're women's clothing because - Spoiler alert: Garments are ridiculously unsexy. If you feel you have to wear them, wear them. I've been a member for 15 years, now, and it wasn't until about 5 years ago that someone told me that I didn't have to fast for breakfast/lunch and that it was just as acceptable to fast dinner/breakfast. 10 years, I was part of the church before someone gave me an option that didn't leave me sitting at home on a Sunday afternoon, desperate to eat something and getting steadily grumpier with nothing to do. Sometimes, obvious things aren't so obvious until someone tells it to you - I really wasn't getting anything out of Fasting for over a decade. Now, I really look forward to it and all it meant was I had to take the huge sacrifice of having some quiet time by myself while the family ate Saturday dinner, relaxing and maybe reading, and then devouring stuff when I came home. Now I get to cook sunday dinner while the other people in my house avoid the smells of cooking and I get to snack and eat all through the process. Hooray! Long story short: Ask your bishop. I imagine he'll say yes when he hears the reason. It ain't a titillation thing and I would be shocked if wearing garments for any sex was considered titillating.
  20. The Gospel Doctrine teacher's manual. I miss being YSA Sunday School teacher. Just got released and called as Gospel Doctrine. I'm still in mourning, since that was my favourite calling I've ever had.
  21. Yeah. The men aren't really stepping up with regards to this. It bodes ill for what will happen in the next little bit.
  22. Right - Just know that you still haven't answered either mine or @mordorbund's questions and concerns. We don't want to be forgot about.
  23. He has not made an ethical choice, I submit, and because of this, the consequences are irrelevant to how we judge him as a person. That leaves me with 2 more questions, if you will indulge me: Person A hates homeless people. He finds a random homeless person and beats him to death, hiding the body so no one knows the man ever existed. The man has no family who care about him nor any real friends of note, so the man gets away with it entirely. The catch: It is 1924 and the homeless man is Adolf Hitler. Is Person A a good person for accidentally saving millions of people or is he a bad man for deliberately finding someone helpless and beating them to death?