GingerGolden

Make sure you look at all seven things Pray about it...

Someone, ummm... was that you Darvin, mentioned defining rights. I defined mine and added so on... I'm not going to argue my rights, I know what price were paid for my rights, I learned them while living with them... My right of being happy is the same as the pursuit of it as well as all my other listed rights, they are being pursued. I suppose, right now, as I really don't feel well anyway is too, just sit here and look pretty. I'll catch up later... Oh, you can drive your car, I'll have to wait for some kind soul to help me out with his mechanical skills to do so though... ...and so on...

I'm thinking that this side of it is called fellow-shipping. If I'm wrong, some correct me.

I most definitively reserve my right not to be murdered and so on...

*joins the Happy, Happy Springtime Dance*

I feel your hurt and frustration. I'll say, leaving the church isn't the answer. It's ok to vent, as we all need to vent in some manner. These four people on the phone, they care enough to call. Perhaps you can call them, tell them that you need help. It hurts to get swept into the cracks, but the squeaky wheel gets the oil. Speak out to them and let them know how they can help you. Call your Relief Society President and talk with her, make your needs known.

Speaking as a female, girl, woman... My rights include being happy, helping others be happy, being safe from any harm, especially when I intend no harm, having the ability to use my voice as well as my ears and eyes and other facilities and so on... My rights to protect myself and my children, as well as those of others from any intentional harm from others, for whatever reason if there were foreseeable hazards, harms and probable fatalities and so on... My right to have what is mine, while fully understanding anyone's right to their own things, uses and properties. Whether it is mine by earning or by inheritances and especially when inheritances. And upon my passing, passed on to my heirs, either that which I have made known or as shared between them as is fitting them suitably and so on... My right to good sense enough to choose what I do with my body as well as what I might allow someone else to do with it. My right is to know everything intended to me, which includes not being hoodwinked by someone who may be masquerading as decoy by either appearance, words or deeds and so on... My right not to be mishandled in any way, whether physical, mental, physiological, emotional or spiritual. My right to put a stop to anything that is unbalanced and harmful to my general all-over well-being and so on... My right to vote not to vote if that is my choice as well as choosing which side of any political fence I am influenced by; if I so choose, the rights of vote are personal as well as civil and so on... ~Speaking of voting... ~* Glenn Close for President*~ BTW, since I'm new and ya'll don't know me, the above presidential nomination is my humor and when she runs, I'll vote for her. :) Let's see... My rights to have a peaceful home and so on... (the so on... could fill a book or two...) *edit (The above are the rights I reserve, herewith & forever, with open ended cycles of sensibility as well as reservations and changes of mind which is the rights of all females throughout this world and the multitudes of worlds beyond)

It is my understanding from studying some of this that it is the women who decide whether or not the tribe went to war, that one of the reasons the white man was told they could not buy any of the land from a "man", because it was the females who owned the land or the tribe if they owned the land, although they actually didn't feel the land was theirs rather that they belonged to the land.Of course, I don't know everything, but what I do remember makes a lot of sense and I respect it for what it is. every tribe was different, I sure they vary from one to another in some way, and well to find out more about that subject you really do need to do some research into it. But, yeah, this is not the first time women have had rights and respect for their deeds and opinions.

...and I thought you were telling us you talk too much...

This weekend, my oldest decided that she wanted to have a slumber party here with some of her friends. 9 teenage girls got off the bus yesterday. I had forgotten about this thread until I walked out on the front porch and found several of the girls standing outside, texting whomever. I asked them, "Ya'll aren't sexting are you?" They looked at me strangely and some of them said, huh? I said, "Ya'll only send text messages, right? Ya'll don't send naked pictures back and forth between each other do you?" The response I got from them was, "Ewwww! No! That's just nasty! Why would anyone send naked pictures to someone? Yuck! No! We just talk..." LOL! All I can say is "Thank God, their all Country Girls!" True GRITS! These teenage girls were just as surprised as I was to hear about this type of occurrence. Lot's of folks may make fun of slow country people, but I'm gonna tell you now, there is a lot to be said for not being so much into the popular know that goes on in big cities. Of course, not all is perfect in the country either. But I was thrilled to find that these children had no idea what I was asking them and they all thought it was yucky to be sending such over their phones. Personally, I have no problem with nude bodies, but I have great respect for them. Although, nudity does not bother me so much, I am modest, but when it comes right down to it a butt is a butt is a butt...Hopefully we all have them and they are healthy.

I agree, we women are sometimes strange in our own individual ways, but so are men... Me, I'd say something like. "I'm not sure exactly why you are upset with me. If you let me know why then maybe I could explain what I meant..." Also, I do agree, that if she isn't giving you the opportunity to figure out or know exactly what the problem is, well, just tell her your sorry and go on about your business. If you meant no harm and feel no ills towards her, it is her problem, especially if she won't even give the chance to find out what is wrong with her or what is bothering her. I am also curious... YoungMormonRoyalist, do you share a computer with anyone else who may have used it and sent her a message? If not, well, just give it time. Nose into your studies and time will heal her feelings.

That is an absolutely beautiful new mother and baby story. Goes to show that even when gifts are late, there are mother's who do appreciate the thought and gesture as well as gifts that are good, useful and welcome.

* just one little tiny note here, concerning women and pms... Not all women get mean and grouchy while pmsing. There are women who do not get mean and grouchy, those are the ones who actually get more melancholy, meaning tearful and their feelings easily hurt. And then there may be women who react even differently than those two sorts mentioned above. Personally, I fall into the melancholy gal category. (just wanted to let some know that pmsings does not always mean every woman will react the same to hormonal changes, or that all women are the same, as we do differ.) So, you could have some that get grouchy and you may have some that are weepy and then there may be some that...??? So, if you did mix them together, you may have a cat fight to contend with at times, but there may also be some of those gals sitting and crying for a bit... lol! Sorry, for following the derail Fiannan, but I felt the need to point this out, since it has been mentioned. ...carry on...

Yep, Elgama's right about the size thing. Also, I remember while mine were little, even though they had cute clothes and I would put them on them so that they wore all their new things, that for the most part, my babies wore the little long nightgowns and the onesies a great deal of the time. * I just love those little night gowns, they are so sweet. Coolest thing about those gowns is that no matter what gender the baby is (and especially if the gender is a surprise or you don't know...), if you are buying for others or even your own baby, that you can't go wrong with getting those that are white, green, blue or yellow, since either boys or girls can wear those colors. The gowns with prints are also cute!

Well, February was only a few weeks ago, so yeah, I'd say send it on to the baby. It should be able to wear 0-3 months clothing now and 3-6 month clothing later on. Actually, it seems most of the time that babies are way smaller than their clothes are when they are newborn (or at least mine were although I carried them both for 10 months rather than 9.) Yeah, send it on! If you are worried about them being to small for the baby, then if you can pick out a cute stuffed animal, kids never outgrow those...

I just realized this part of you comment. Once about, hmm...16 or so years ago. someone had one of those, stick in a electric outlet testers. I took ahold of the two pieces that you stick in the wall plug in (outlet) and the needle did move a bit, the man who had the tester seemed shocked and told me that he had never seen anyone do that before. Of course, I hadn't either until then. It did seem that the harder I concentrated the needle would jump. thinking *move* and it did... I do think though that anyone should be able to make the needle move, but I'm no scientist. it just makes sense to me that if I can, you can and you can and everyone else. It was just a thought that came to me, when I saw him with the tester. Oh, ok, then yes. 1. I think that they are referring to our electromagnetic fields. Since our bodies are our outer covering, the vessel that contains our spirits somewhat... (of course this can go very deep really, or I think it does. For instance, while we sleep, our spirit is in a meditative state while the body rests. Our spirits can actually move about, without our bodies and may move about while we are sleeping. some people call this astral travel, and that it is something that happens naturally for all of us...) Our bodies are our gloves over our spirits. Our spirits hold our electricity. Our light of truth. "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine" Our electromagnetic fields have to do with our spirits. Our spark of divinity. We all have an active spirit that is many things, including electricity. Is this also the aura? (electromagnetic field = aura, Moksha?) 2. What is the difference between our electromagnetic field (magnetic force) and the influence of our (magnetic sense) senses/our feelings/emotional energy vibrations that we send out and pick up on? I'm not sure I understand this question. What is the difference between our spirit and the influence it has on our own body and senses? We are conductors of that which we sense... (???) The light/spirit comes from our Heavenly Father and radiates from him and from us back to him in a circle/cycle of energy. We all have this... Perhaps, it depends on our own awareness as to how we each reflect the energy we get from on high to the world we live in, the people, issues and things we associate with as well as back to the heavens... I have no real sense of time, distance, depth, age and so on...I instinctively know day from night. Morning noon and night, but not one hour from another, in those times... If it were not for clocks and calendars, I'd not even be in time with the rest of the world. I do know that children are children and that adults are adults, but to know whether someone is 10 or 12, 24 or 34, 45 or 55, 66 or 96, well ummm, not really. I was told once from a native American that I was on Indian time, not white people time (makes sense to me the way they explained it as I recognized the things they told me in myself, and I am 1/8 Cherokee {all maternal bloodline = me> mother> grandmother> great grandmother and she of course was pure blood Cherokee }). Hemi, you have a very interesting quote there in all those words. Our spirits are "spirit is made of fine or pure matter" *snip/edit* "of light, or intelligence." or Our spirits are made of fine and pure matter of intelligent light. We are all different and at different levels of understanding all things. We each have talents that we have developed from our all our senses, including the sense of feeling. ...I think...

Hi Moksha,I have tried to see auras and it makes my head and eyes hurt, so I don't try any more. I've never seen my own, but I have seen a white aura around a friend of mine, which actually made me jerk back while trying.

Seems my computer is giving me a hard time loading stuff, so I haven't been able to read the whole thing. I can't find the footnote your talking about... I'm wondering if you mean our electromagnetic fields... Everyone has an electromagnetic field. I do know that I have a high electromagnetic field. I cannot wear a watch since after about 2 hours it will stop working. I know that if I set my clocks in the house that eventually they begin changing their time. One may be at the right time, one may be 5 minutes off and the next 5 minutes different from the last. I know that I can interfere with regular television and radio stations just by moving around in the house. I've had my dad and my ex husband both fuss at me to either leave the room or get somewhere to not interfere with the broadcasting waves. I know that while living in an area where there were those great big electric poles, the large metal ones, that I kept a headache that never went away until after i moved away from the area, that I had not had before moving close to them. I also stayed ill more often, with my bones and joints being more painful than they normally are, even though my skeleton is in poor shape because of accidents or abuse. I know I can mess up a perfectly good and brand new sewing machine as well as old ones that run quite well for others. It seems something to do with the bobbin and the needle area. Mom can fix them sit down and sew and just shortly after I do they clunck up and make a big knot in the bobbin area and I've not done any thing differently than she has. I am an extra sensitive individual. I have always had what I consider now to be dreams of the future, the not so good ones where there are buildings blown to pieces and dead or dying people all around me as I'm walking through the area. When I go to funerals or family reunions, I always know who is the next person to pass on. So much so, that I've stopped going to these family get together's altogether, since I do not like seeing what I see in those individuals and well, I just do not want to know who is next. They either glow, or there is something in their eyes I can see or either they come to me and start talking and then start repeating everything I say to them back to me and they always go to telling me of things that they have done in their life that they would never tell anyone else, which seems a bit uncomfortable. it took me a while to know what that was all about, but that's what they do... I also see, hear and feel spirit people. (and have done so since childhood) Sometimes i can hear others thoughts depending on how much concentration they put into their thoughts. I am an empath, meaning, I do feel the feelings of others, which can be awkward, especially when I was younger, just having a hard time trying to realize that all the feelings I feel are not just my own feelings, but feelings of others...Still have to work on that now as an adult. May sound strange to some, but it is just life for me...and I do know that a lot of it is because of my high electromagnetic field and think that a lot of it does have to do with it. I'm not sure if this is what you mean or not, but hope it helps in some way. Everyone has an electromagnetic field, some are just higher or lower than others

Ha Ha! You are just too funny! Seriously! That is funny! Ohhh, Look! I found the smilies!

Yes, I knew you were joking, I was just playing along joking as well...

* just a thought... Perhaps, it may be that women are more apt to share with others than men? So, Connie, do you think you would mind sharing Mr. Fraser with other women? You may not have to give him up here, if you could share him. lol

I think it has to do with simple multiplication, really. One man a father. Women - mothers. When you have only one man for a woman or in this theory more than one woman. You know who the babies belong to...(if everyone is faithful, of course) When you have more than one man sleeping with a woman and that woman becomes pregnant, it could possibly cause great confusion as to whom the father might actually be, especially if the woman isn't keeping account of her cycle as well as the various occurrences of coupling. So, if a woman has no idea which man is the father of the child before its born, it could put a lot of unnecessary pressure on all concerned, even the unborn child. It just makes sense to me that the answer lies in knowing who the father is in such a marriage as what you are speaking of. ~~~ Although, I know from having my own children that there is no mistaking who the father is as soon as the child is born just by looking at the child. In my case, when first holding my baby, she looked just like her dad, and within seconds she looked like his dad and then like my own father in the face. (I did know who my child belonged too, to begin with, but I was truly amazed to see all those men's faces in my newborns face right after she was born. It was nearly the same occurrence with the looks of my 2nd newborn.) At least this is my own experience, I can't talk for anyone else, but I figure it's bound to be likewise with other mothers and their children. Seeing their fathers face in them, I mean... ~~~ As far as having a multitude of spouses, I don't think I could handle trying to keep up with more than one husband. Can you imagine trying to keep up with all their laundry, favorite foods, and other personal details? It's bound to be much easier for a man to have more than one wife, all he'd need to do is plant a big flower garden (and some of the other manly things that men do) and many of them would be thrilled. Besides, think of all the helpers that you would have, who could help with any chores... One is enough for me if he is a good man! To be quite truthful, it seems to me that it is more natural for there to be a man with multiple wives than it would be for a woman to have more than one husband...

LOL! Branden is a cutie, isn't he! LOL!

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!

I always enjoyed going to the church dances, of course this was back in the early to mid 80's. We always had a wonderful time! I love to dance, and enjoy many of them, but I do have to say I do love a good polka! What fun! I was really looking forward to attending more of them now. I am a bit disappointed to hear that in some areas the quality of the dance has fallen somewhat. I hope this area has good quality dances for us to enjoy!