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Classylady mentioned that her husband was trying to get his sealing to a now-excommunicated ex-wife cancelled, which is what I was responding to on that topic.
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Silly addictive game won't log me in. I've tried rebooting my computer, no joy. Tried the password recovery, have yet to get the e-mail.
ETA: it's fixed. Many thanks. :)
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Pam was right about what I meant, but I think you had a point about leaving that for those who don't know the abbreviation
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Personally, I prefer the outdated 2.5 version over the newer 3.0 version.
I wish 3.0 were available for Android devices.
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April 2013: Reach the decision that I will pack up a few things for the summer whilst living with my parents whilst Husband is on active duty. Pack up everything else and shove it into a storage unit, expecting to take it all out in the fall.
September 2013: Husband is job-hunting. Move into rich grandmother's basement, which is furnished, to avoid the problem of being stuck in a rent contract.
November 2013: Still living in basement as it's convenient for saving money. Drive up to the town where the storage unit is in order to grab a few things. Can't find box of winter clothes at the risk of husband falling to his death behind high stacks of boxes. Do locate X Box.
So... I have no winter clothes. I plan on raiding my missionary sisters' closets, but I still would like my own stuff. I like to shop on bargains.
Anyone know the best place to buy a small wardrobe in one go for a decent price in northern Utah? I know this is a sillly question, but I don't shop en masse.
DI?
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Doesn't excommunication cancel the marriage sealing and other Temple blessings anyway?
Answering the OP: you're right that dating prior to the divorce being final is well out of moral bounds, and I also agree with other posters that he's rather immaturely seeking to hurt you. You have no reason to feel badly about your own behavior, so far as I can tell, and anyone who knows the real story (who even has any business having opinions) will easily be able to tell who's the moral adult in the situation. Your kids, regardless of age, do need one parent who's behaving in a Christian manner, so keep up the good work. :)
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Okay, this is a wild guess from someone who is young and non-LDS...but...if someone used to tease you about your car by saying, "That thing is so old my grandpa could have pushed to Utah from Missouri..."
That's a good one. :)
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Oh come on, I was joking.
I did find that passage very odd, though. The rest of the book was warmly constructive, cheerful, and (allow me to say) downright LDS in its friendliness and happiness. Then this jarring digression attacking poor photocopies. Whatever.
The only part of the book that troubled me was the section on ordinances for the dead. My own belief is that these ordinances are an act of compassion from living LDS members, who live and preach the Gospel so fully that it spills over into acts of generosity even for those who have died. But the book says that some LDS members go to the temple to do these ordinances and they sometimes feel a spirit of gratitude from the dead and some sort of presence from beyond the grave. Maybe the authors are citing idle folklore as fact, but I'm having a bit of trouble with this.
I have no problem with this at all, having personally experienced it.
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In preparation for my possible reactivation, I am reading a book called A Convert's Guide to Mormon Life by a Mr. and Mrs. Kidd of Northern Virginia (apparently in the same stake I once belonged to in a previous century).
It's a really wonderful book, but it contains one bizarre passage (p.42): "[F]or some reason photocopiers in LDS meetinghouses are unfailingly temperamental. If by chance you find a photocopier that is in working order when you start printing, it will probably break before your printing job is done. Use that photocopier only when there's no other option, and never assume that it's in working order."
I raised an eyebrow at various points in this book, such as the Cheerios on the chapel floor and basketball hoops in every photograph of a wedding reception. But this comment about photocopiers makes me wonder if there's more to the story. Did the Church get hoodwinked into a 100-year contract on lousy copiers or something?
And no, this probably isn't a dealbreaker for my reactivation.
I suspect some tongue-in-cheek there.
Although, having been a ward librarian, there's some truth to that, and my raised-LDS husband agrees. Heavy use by people who aren't exactly experts might be relevant.
In the ward I was librarian in, the Bishop and one of his counselors were county sheriff's deputies, and the EQ President was a Highway Patrol officer (DH and I were friendly with him and his wife). One day the copier was being a bit more of a pain than usual, and the EQP walked in. I jokingly asked him if he had his gun handy. The Bishop was right behind him, and told me he'd seen the EQP shoot and that the copier was totally safe.
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It's good to run in social circles where such things are just permanently outside of one's experience. But what Lakumi is describing, and the notions behind it, and the people who hold such notions, are most certainly still in existence.
I occasionally go to the websites notalwaysright.com and notalwaysworking.com. People post their horrible customer, or horrible customer service stories. Hardly a week goes by without one or two outrageous stories like this:
Yeah, people like this caller still exists. I haven't run into one in years, but they're still out there.
This assumes those stories are at all based in reality and are not fiction tailored to be posted to the site. I consider a lot of the stories on those sites (which I do read regularly and enjoy) to be more probably fiction (anywhere from misunderstanding through slanted writing to outright fantasy) than solid truth.
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What I was flabbergasted about is that Planned Parenthood is supposed to address a problem of teen pregnancy. Being sexually active, especially with a high number of people give you a much bigger chance of getting pregnant regardless of how good your birth control pill works.
Making these statements are counter-productive to their mission.
Their "mission", IMO, is to encourage promiscuity so they can make money from killing the babies that result from this. I don't care what they SAY their mission is, their actions are speaking much louder than all the pretty platitudes being spewed.
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My primary issue with how Mormons keep the Sabbath is just sitting around staring into space. Especially as a single person with no little kids, this is just boring and not a good use of my time. We've talked about this here before. I go to church, I avoid the store, etc. on the Sabbath, but I have no problem going to a museum or gallery on Sunday. Sorry. I think I can be observant and get some culture on the same day. Also, I am not going to make my son miss a prime opportunity for treating his mother by telling him he can't buy me a restaurant dinner on Mother's Day. Shoot me.
OTOH, by doing those things, you force someone else to violate the Sabbath and possibly miss out on worship because they have to be on the job to satisfy your desires.
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Just curious. Are you a night owl or a morning person?
I'm definitely a night owl. During the morning and early afternoon, I seem to "drag". I don't have a lot of energy, and at times I feel like I'm walking in a fog. Around 8 pm, I seem to get an energy burst. That's when I want to clean house, cook, get on the computer, etc.
I'm not the sort of night owl that functions on very little sleep. I need my 8 hours. When I had a 6 am shift at work, I'd have to get up at 4:30 am to get ready and drive my 35 minute commute. It was so hard to get to bed at a decent hour. I'd try to be in bed by 9 pm, but life seemed to conspire against me. My teenagers definitely didn't want to be in bed by 9, and there was always something they wanted me to do for them.
When I had an evening shift, and got off at midnight, by the time I got home from work it was close to 1 am. By the time I wound down, it was usually 2 to 3 am before I was in bed. My husband had a hard time understanding why I didn't come straight to bed. I was so wired after getting home, I needed time for myself and to wind down, before I could get into bed.
Even though I'm a night owl, I can make myself to go to bed at a decent hour and get up at a respectable time. But, I can tell it's not the way my body wants to function.
Both my husband and I are hard-wired night owls (in my case, there's got to be a genetic element, since my mother and her father are/were both the same way). I will respectfully disagree with some Church members I've been acquainted with who believed this to be unrighteousness. :)
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I thought of this question a while back, and have sense come to my own conclusion. Now, I post it to hear your opinions. So, does Heavenly Father have a sense of humor?
Please explain your reasoning as best as you can; I am looking for some thoughtful answers.
I'm not much on deep thought right now (cold medicine has been a food group for a few days now), but I can say I firmly believe that God does have a sense of humor. The platypus is exhibit A.
ETA: Got beaten to that one by a couple of people. I agree that the giraffe was a good argument in favor, too. :)
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I'd personally consider scanning group sheets and such to preserve the info while cutting clutter, but that's me. Definitely keep originals of important documents. Just my opinion.
It's my understanding that the Church has a multiple-backup system, since this work is so vital to salvation for so many. OTOH, I'm one of those people who prefers to keep my own backups as well, just to reassure myself. :)
I still haven't figured out #3.
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Yep, any age. I know several senior sisters (over 65) who would love to take the missionaries out, but aren't allowed to.
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In my area, single women are not allowed to take the missionaries to dinner at a restaurant, even if they meet at the restaurant. My VT companion (single retired lady) is quite unhappy about that.
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whenever I eat candies like skittles or mike and Ikes or the like I put them all together and eat them color by color.
I do that too, and eat them in even numbers. I also try to take even numbers of bites of anything else.
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So, I'm trolling YouTube again, looking at some Dave Ramsey videos. I found some vids on tithing by Christians. So far so good. Then I look on the list of available videos and I see a title 'Mormon tithing settlement, always at Christmas time. No guilt or control' I didn't look at the video because I figured it was from an anti and didn't want to waste my time. The comments alone were enough.
Well, stupid me, I always thought the settlement came in December because it was the end of the calendar year and the ward/Church needed to get its books straight as it moves into the new year. I never thought of the tithing settlement having anything to do with Christmas, taking money away from parents that they were going to spend on their kids, etc.
Am I just a dumb Mormon or are the antis really reaching on this one? Does it make anyone antsy that the settlement is in December? Would the antis complain any less if it were Jan 1, right after people had blown money over the holidays?
I'm quite sure the Church's motivation has nothing to do with limiting funds parents have to satisfy the commercial-induced "I wants" of their kids at Christmas, especially since parents should have been paying tithing all year anyway. :)
I'm no expert, but my guess matches yours. It's fiscal-year bookkeeping, and getting the statement distributed to members in step with the tax year for members to do their taxes in a timely manner come January/February.
Dravin's right that antis will always find something to whine and carp at, even if they have to actively distort facts to achieve it.
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Amusing, but a couple of the missions are a little ethically dubious. :)
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So what happens to the older kids of "never out of my sight, I'm always totally involved in everything my child does" parents when they NEED to be able to confide in another adult about things troubling them that mommy and/or daddy can't or won't deal with? Does that adolescent have NO right to privacy or any degree of independence greater than that of a toddler?
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In our ward - allergies, special requirements (have scoliosis), etc., for missionaries are announced in Relief Society everytime we get a new missionary. I'm in charge of the missionary dinner calendar, so I write the dietary requirements on the sign up sheet that gets passed around.
I'll have to find out who handles that in my ward and gently suggest this. Should also ask to have included whether a missionary has cat or bird allergies, since I do have such pets.
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I do believe that my daughter will be wearing some kind of "Monster High" outfit.
I usually wear a full-body gorilla suit and my white schnauzer wearing a banana outfit. So if you see a gorilla walking a banana on Halloween -- that's me.
I think we need pictures.
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