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Agreed. For church anyway. :) Oh and hey walmart is my fashion boutique!

shrugs. maybe that is why. :)

Well I am not fond of parking police either other than that it gives people a job. ^^

If you are not used to it then it is going to hit a person harder. Some people are just more susceptible anyway.

It really is a hard, probably impossible problem to solve. I really do understand about the false accusations. One of my brothers got a divorce. the mom was afraid she was going to lose custody and got her oldest daughter, very young at the time, to say he had sexually abused her. Years later its hard to know if it was true or not even though the daughter has said it wasnt. I doubt it happened yet its still in the back of my mind. For me I would rather a grown person had to deal with it than a child.

the thing i run into the most is buying prepared food at the grocery store. you would be amazed at the number of things they dump wine into.

Making laws like that is just asking people to not respect laws. It's a mockery of lawmaking in general. I can just see the idle police running around ticketing people for that. I am sure they know there are more important things for them to be doing.

Not knowing is not a sin. :) Reminds me of a friend of a friend who made spaghetti once. They sent some over to us but we didnt eat any. Later we found out that they were happy and joking how they had made us sin because of the wine they put in it. The sin would not have been ours even if we ate it. The sin was on the person making it and sending it to us hoping to make us sin. I would have stopped eating the shake as well. Once I knew it had coffee in it. If I had continued then......

Yes it is. Of course moving to a new town can help them. That is a terrible price. My husband has moved all over the place but he still has his flashbacks along with all the other problems from being abused. But he was a kid. He maybe should just get over it especially after all this time. My husband is a stranger to you. You only have my word anything happened him. You only have my word anything ever happened to me. Still its important to realize that the man who molested me, the men and women that abused him have to be considered. There is no evidence that we are not lying is there. We dont want their lives to be touched by this.

Oddly this was my thought on it too!

Oh I agree that is not right. Still it means that most abuse cases will never be dealt with. Is there an answer? I just dont know. I do know lots of kids are out there not being helped. Every morning I wake up next to a 70 year old man that is still trying to sleep in the breaks between flashback nightmares of things that happened to him when he was a kid. Not one person ever came to his aid and he was abused horribly. Much worse than the boy in this book. We have been married for 40 years now and believe me I will always be on the side of the kid. The damage done is so beyond imagination to those kids. How do you think we should help them?

The consequences of abuse taking place are much more serious and its more serious to children, who cant defend themselves. What evidence is needed? If its only a child's word against an adult we just let it go? I know there are false allegations out there. I also know there are kids being abused because there is no evidence. There is NO evidence that I was molested repeatedly at 7 years old. I am quite sure I am not a unique case.

oops......

He has a number of things to deal with, not the least of which is pain. Speaking from experience the meds given for that can be very crazy making. Adding in bipolar and thats a volatile mix. I am wondering if is he using street drugs to help with his pain. That also adds in another 'med' to the chemical mix. One thing I can tell you for sure. He needs stability in his life. It takes a lot longer to sort things out without support.

I am interested in most of it. What ever strikes my fancy at the moment. :)

I have had a thought, amazing I know, reading through here this morning. If a person is a skeptic when a man says he was abused as a child, are they skeptics when they hear about someone being abused now? Even if someone is being abused will they just say its none of my business. I have seen this so many times and I mean not 50 years ago. Kids are still being obviously abused and no one will 'see' it. If you do report it what happens? I know I reported one once. A man was attempting to rape his step daughter in the middle of the night. The wife was yelling at him. It woke everyone up in the neighborhood. So what happened? The wife convinced the police I was hot for the husband, who was a squirrely faced freak, and he walked away. The girl, who by the way locked herself and her sister in their car every night, attacked my daughter physically at school. Yep it seemed like everyone could see the obvious truth when they looked. No one knows but the kid and the mom in this book but sometimes it looks like people spend more time denying than helping. Same as in real life.

? Your non LDS friend went into the temple and had a good experience? I am confused to say the least.

Well that link sent my son into a ptsd episode. Makes me think its not so hot!

Its immoral to treat women the way they do and the clothing is a symbol of that. Seeing women is supposed to cause men to have uncontrollable urges that cant be blamed on men because its all womens fault for being visible. That is one example but hardly the only one.

The clothes are a symbol of the way women are treated in those countries. The rights that women have fought for in western countries is not allowed there. I would rather not go down this road. No doubt its just one more thing we dont agree on.

I think its more basic in this case. By saying you are going to 'eat, drink, and be merry' and repent after you die is thumbing your nose at God. It speaks of a rebellious and carnal spirit, a few more things to repent of. By the time life is done there may be so many things to repent of that it would take forever to do it with that attitude. .

yes, if it is in deference to an immoral meaning.

Yes she does to the point that she can morally. Scarves are worn in both our culture and theirs so its seems a decent compromise.

lol!

I kinda like this planet. It has pretty flowers and butterflies. Lots of grass to walk barefooted in and warm water to swim in. Cute kittens and funny puppies. Beautiful mountains and amazing skies and tons more things. Yep. I like this one. :)