mrmarklin
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3 hours ago, NightSG said:
The Church gutted the leadership training model the BSA had been successful with for years, cheapened its highest award by handing it out to kids who couldn't even meet Tenderfoot requirements, and basically did nothing in its favor except throw money at it.
Nonsense.
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It might just be a physical place, but God said it's the Promised Land.
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5 minutes ago, MormonGator said:
So true. I read before bed every night and then when I wake up in the morning, and I only read my Kindle too. The only paper books I read are comics.
Comics are also available.........virtually.
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5 minutes ago, MormonGator said:
So true. I read before bed every night and then when I wake up in the morning, and I only read my Kindle too. The only paper books I read are comics.
Comics are also available.........
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On 5/7/2018 at 11:37 AM, Vort said:
A perfect example of how technology cripples us. A driver not checking behind him because he expects his car to do so? Very, very not good. That's one reason I'm suspicious of backing-up cameras on cars.
The real problem with rear view cameras and detection is that one gets used to them and ignores all the beeps. I backed out of a parking spot and into a car waiting for a red light. Totally embarrassing.
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On 5/7/2018 at 12:36 PM, zil said:
In my experience, it's not possible to read a modern 900 page paperback fantasy novel without breaking the spine - they print too close to the spine, and the book is just too big. But otherwise, yeah, one should go to extremes to protect their books.
I haven't read a book with actual pages since I got my Kindle around eight years ago.
The twentieth century is over.......................
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Eternity is one Eternal round. One cannot think in terms of timelines regarding God as He has all things before Him, obviating time. Time is a human construct. Our human reasoning tends circular as in your analysis But I don’t think that’s the way things are.
There is a famous couplet.
As man is, God once was.
As God is man may become.
This knowledge was restored to us by means of the prophet Joseph Smith. It makes perfect sense, and knowing this, one reads the Bible with new understanding.
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I went two years ago on a Murdock guided tour. This was a Mormon moderated tour and our guide was very knowledgeable, although I did not share some of his points of view regarding what we saw.
A lot of scripture was study and discussed, hymns sung, and we covered a lot of ground.
Locations such as garden of Gethsemane are fairly well known and major cities that Christ was in are also known such as Nazareth, Capernaum, etc.
There is some sort of church at every site that’s halfway historical and many times more than one.
We went to church at the BYU chapel in East Jerusalem. They have a spectacular view of Jerusalem , floor to ceiling the audience faces during sacrament service.
This tour was well worth the $$$$$$ with nice hotels and other lodgings. Most meals included except for lunch. There was also an optional side trip to Rome to see ancient Christian site for three days. Also well worth it.
Israel is fascinating and should be on any Christian’s bucket list. It’s great.
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Don't forget that hay in Spanish is pronounced as ay or long I.
Saying hay (as in harvested alfalfa) will get you nowhere.
I took several years of German. What is taught is what is known as Hochdeutsch or high German. In many areas of Germany or Switzerland the colloquialisms are so rampant that's it can be very difficult to understand what people are saying. Luckily they understand English.
Also true in Spanish speaking countries. The worst is perhaps Argentina.
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On 9/9/2008 at 6:17 PM, NightShift said:
I have been addicted to.
Cigarettes, Cigarillos, pipe, chewing tobacco, snuff, And now I take snus (a swedish tobacco you put under your lips).
I can live without nicotine and alcohol, but I will have a hard time giving up coffee, I drink around 12 cups a day.
Do you HAVE to stop drinking coffee or is that a choice? You wont go to Hell if you do, right?
Caffeine is the addictive part of coffee. Switch to a cola product, or go Mountain Dew.
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On 4/9/2018 at 3:08 PM, NeedleinA said:
We had our stake conference here recently. The Mission president lives in our stake, so he or his wife are frequent speakers.
He shared the following (paraphrasing):Yikes.
I realize that numbers should drop off after the initial age wave/transition but to drop that sharply, yikes.
The youth in our ward are at about a 1 in 5 rate of eligible age young men going on a mission. It feels like pulling teeth over here.Back in my day, a mission wasn't a wish-wash touchy feely subject... you went.
Today, I don't get that feel at all from the youth in our stake, it is way more of an optional "if" you feel like it.
I wonder were the "optional" sentiment comes from as I don't see the parents I know of being the source of this shift?
When I went on my mission ca. 1967 there were around two million members and twenty thousand missionaries. Now there are around fifteen million members and around 60-70 thousand missionaries. As a percentage of the membership, the missionary ratio has plummeted.
That’s very discouraging if I’m running the Church.
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Saw Tomb Raider last weekend. Not a bad movie Better than the reviewers said
As as a guy I can say Alicia Vikander is enough reason alone to see this movie.
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17 hours ago, wenglund said:
I must have a carbon deficiency since I like my steaks well done--i.e. just this side of jerky.
Either that, or I am risk averse to things like worms and bacteria and other micro organism lurking in bloody, relatively uncooked meat.
Thanks, -Wade Englund-
You’re barbaric. We don’t have to be cave men any more.
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4 hours ago, Carborendum said:
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Ah, yes, the benefits of the sociality of public schools.
Sad, isn’t It?
As a Libertarian, I believe that the State should not be involved in schooling at all. Of course the promoters of public schools back in the day thought that the efforts to promote an agenda was a good thing they likely still do.
But the curricula is not what I mean regarding sociality
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She was not wearing anything unusual. But she stands out in any group, that’s for sure.
At the time she was only a friend of the family. I had no idea she would eventually be a daughter in law. She was compensated for her efforts.
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On 4/12/2018 at 8:47 PM, Vort said:
True enough. And Madison Avenue has done a bang-up job (npi) of sexualizing everything from automobiles to beer. (That's A to B...hmmmm..maybe automobiles to zirconium rings?) But sexualizing a laser-driven metal cutter is going above and beyond. And doing so by basically hiring pin-up girls to walk around, with absolutely no real attachment to the product ostensibly being sold, is pretty darn incongruous -- and therefore funny.
The point is to just get someone to pay attention. The model need not necessarily know anything about the product.
Several years ago I was at a swap-meet selling some of my model trains. I invited my future daughter in law, who is quite a number, to help me as I had a lot of tables and needed someone to help watch the merchandise.
I sold a lot of trains.
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In my mission the APs were called in order to keep an eye on them. I was actually companion to one for a while. He over slept every day.
Yes, while in the office, life was good. Movies on Sunday night after a hamburger, of course not all the time. Those were the days. (ca.1967-69) Then of course a full P-Day on Monday to do whatever one wanted. No clothes washing or clean up for us. We had maids. Life was very very good.
So in reality, many times P-Day started on Sunday after all missionary work was finished.
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I’m not sure how you’ve managed to live to adulthood without learning one of advertising’s basics.
Sex sells.
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You all realize of course that there is likely insurance to cover the Church’s costs, right?
Why this has gone on this long os a mystery to me.
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On 4/4/2018 at 8:57 PM, Just_A_Guy said:
Tribune coverage, naming the plaintiff, at
Also, according to MyLife, plaintiff McKenna Denson was formerly known as . . . June Marie Hughes.
(https://www.mylife.com/mckenna-denson/mckennadenson)
@clwnuke, well done.
Based on the little I know, the Church should have never let it come to a lawsuit. The church needs to get the checkbook and start writing checks, if necessary, get a NDA, and move on.
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When talking with someone who disagrees with me, I change the subject.
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7 hours ago, Vort said:
Which points up the difference in attitude: "Homeschooling sounds like an exciting and intriguing educational option" versus "If every other possible educational measure is out of reach, I would perhaps consider homeschooling".
Yes, it’s true. I consider it a last resort. I like the sociality of school.
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5 hours ago, The Folk Prophet said:
More importantly...let's just say I had never left Utah Valley and had no personal experience with how the rest of the world lived. Would that really have any bearing on the logic of whether to home school or not?
@mrmarklin is simply attempting to condescend in order to dismiss things he does not agree with. It falls wildly flat on both the count that it is a logical fallacy and on the fact that where I currently live is irrelevant to what my life experience and understanding may be.
I went on a tour of Israel in 2015 with a group whose members were largely from Utah Valley. Without getting into specifics, these people, while being quite admirable, and knowledgeable, were as different from this California born and raised and still living there person, as chalk and cheese.
Many missionaries that are from Utah here in SF Bay Area consider that they are almost on a foreign mission. Their words, not mine
The world is very different outside the Utah Valley
Does masterbation break the law of chastity?
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I had never even heard the term masturbation until mentioned by a Bishop in an interview. I had to ask him what it meant. That was a long time ago. I was familiar with other terminology, less polite terminology, of course.
When I was in Mutual back in the Stone Age as well, us guys used to ask each other what the term "petting" meant. it dawned on us soon enough, but even then it was very outdated terminology. Do they (the Church) still use this??
I guess I'm getting old.:-(