mrmarklin
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Going to see Donny and Marie on April 29th. We are just passing through Las Vegas for that one night to catch the show. We were planning on staying right at the Flamingo so we don't have to navigate too much around there. Not too familiar with that place. Can anyone tell me if the Flamingo is an okay place to stay with our kids for the one night? I cringe at the thought of Vegas but I do want to have the chance to see their show once in my life. Any tips to keep our stop as "clean" as possible?? Thanks.:)
The Flamingo is in the heart of the Strip, and you can walk to many major attractions, including TI Pirates, and the Bellagio water show. Trust me, you don't want to be driving up and down the Strip looking for entertainment. It's very crowded.
The Flamingo is the oldest hotel on the Strip because it was the first. It's still a pretty decent place to stay with kids IMHO. It has great pool area, and don't miss the pink flamingos in the garden in back.
It's across the street from Caesar's which has the Forum shopping mall should you be so inclined. This mall has the most sales per square foot of any in the US.
Inside Caesar's Palace is Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill a not to be missed dining experience for lunch if you like well prepared food. Unfortunately you must go through the casino to get there.
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Best advice I've ever heard is that you should BE the person you expect to marry in character, values and integrity. Character counts, don't settle for less.
The North American idea of dating is to filter people by getting to know their character and values. In most cultures worldwide this is done by relatives and many marraiges are "arranged". I know two women who went through the Arrangement process and they are happily married today because concerned family and friends did this process for them.
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I have heard it said by local leaders that it has been said that the "four most important callings in the ward are bishop, ward clerk, ward mission leader, and EQ president."
Does ANYONE have a reference for this quote? I can't find anything.
Thanks!
I don't have a reference for the quote, but the most impoprtant calling is the one you currently have.
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None of these women would ever like the real me, what I really think. I think being a home maker is great, but I miss work so very much.
1 I think if you share your feelings with like women you would be surprised at the sympathy you would get in raising a family and the stresses involved.
2 I am a successful, albeit male professional. I make a good 6 figure income, I have a good career and a good life.
BUT at the end of the day I WON'T say to myself when I'm retired I WISH I HAD SPENT MORE TIME AT THE OFFICE.
Enjoy your children, they ar gifts from God.
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In any lawsuit the attorneys sue everyne who could conceivably have any money and was in any way involved in the problem. This has nothing to do with the church, the member whose home is involved or the member lawyer. It's all SOP.
If your father was a licensed contractor and very legit as you state he would have had insurance for just these sort of contingencies. Let the insurance company handle the lawsuit.
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I have never, nor will I ever buy a dress for my wife! That would be disastrous!
Of course we don't wear garments when participating in many sporting activities.
You've got your sports, and I've got mine.:-)
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Newton was a closet Arianist, a belief that would have led to great persecution had he openly preached it to others.
The Arianist doctrine which was replaced by the Trinitarian at the Nicean council was a bone of contention in the Church for literally hundreds of years. But Constantine decided that the Trinity fit his Greek beliefs more, and the rest as they say is history................................!
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Not if you continue to drive over nails.
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Fair or not, Glen Beck is seen by some as a "conservative Mormon commentator." He may not be an official voice, but then again, most non-LDS aren't looking for such a seal of approval. So, to the question. As Beck himself has admitted, LDS doctrine is different from that of "traditional Christianity." He says that appeals to him, but he's most happy that millions are satisfied by the traditional teachings. Let's just be open-minded and tolerant of each other.
And then, on March 2nd, he encourages his audience, so many of whom are traditional Christians, to exit their "social justice churches." Even if I agreed with him, he's not the person to deliver that message. He wants traditional folk to accept him and his differences, even if they disagree. Let's see the good in each other, and agree to disagree on the rest. And then, he tells a segment of traditional Christians to abandon their houses of worship. In discussing this with friends, they suggested that this little episode will likey damage Mitt Romney, more than anything. Thoughts?
Glen Beck is first and foremost a Libertarian. Libertarians believe that social justivce is best achieved by a lessez-faire attitude that leaves social activism in the dustbin of history. I would not take his comments as anti-religion per se, but as an anti-liberal rant. Some Catholics and Protestant denominations are very liberal and activist in their beliefs, and try to influence policy in the US by force of political numbers and activism.
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Hello everybody.
I have a close friend who has been involved in a conversation about marriage last weekend where someone else told her that the church stated somewhere that one should marry someone from his or her own cultural background.
She asked me about it but I could not find anything about this in particular. Do you know any sources with a statement like this or have you heard talks or statements of members concerning intercultural marriage??
Thank you!!
Connie
There is no church doctrine AFAIK about this, but there have been statements over the years by various GAs and others regarding the "problems" of cultural differences.
Frankly, if one has married in the temple to another worthy member, isn't that the same culture??? Both share the same basic beliefs about family, religion and how to live etc, etc. So I'm not sure what "intercultural" means as applied to members unless it means marrying outside the faith.
I married a woman from another country, and we seem to have survived 35+ years so far and had 4 kids. Two of whom married persons from other countries......but then I live in California which is a big melting pot of "cultures".:)
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What would happen if there was a person who started prophesying end time events, who got them true, who wasn't a member of the Church? Suppose the Prophet never spoke of any such revelations.
I ask this because supposedly only the President of the Church receives revelation for the Church, yet, does that mean that others can't receive revelation of disasters? Would this person's "authority" be greater than the Church President? Or better yet, does the devil give revelation of future events, that are true, to warn others? If the devil does that, then shouldn't the prophet receive better revelation?
I think it's a fascinating question because supposedly this person should not have the Holy Ghost stronger than a prophet. Could something like that occur?
(Take something like, "There will be a hurricane that will absolutely devastate the US economy and kill hundreds of people in Fall of 2011. This will occur after a California hurricane." Or maybe even giving specific dates, like, "There will be a hurricane in the first week of August of this year in Virginia.")
There is no chance of this ever happening. Only One knows the future.
I can't belive the number of replies to the Troll post.
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Yeah, well no one could access the website.
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All dating an RM does is improve the odds....hopefully.
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I've been reading lately about this "Fair Tax" idea and it seems to make sense. I definitely support it and wonder what people's oppositions to it are, if any. What do we need to do to get this passed into law?
This is not a good tax system because as a percentage of income it falls mostly on the poor, who need to spend almost all their income just to live..
God's way is the best, a % of gross that falls in equal percentages on rich and poor alike. The rich pay more in absolute $$ because they have more.
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Saguaro has a point. What if your daughteer decides to marry a non member--like mine did.
I've found that once your kids reach a certain age, they are really beyond certain "controls". Ideally I would have arranged marraiges for each of them. I would only have picked one spouse out of four so far. Unfortunately we live in a "free" country, and each child is free to make their own mistakes.
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You are not a porn addict. Most guys have looked at it whether they will admit it on this forum or not. So I don't perceive that as the real issue.
In fact the situation appears to be so complex that I don't have any answers for you at all.
BUT I will say this: get some sort of counselling. A good friend of mine was divorced twice before he sought counselling, and by following the counselor's advice and correcting some things about himself his third marraige has now lasted for over 25 happy years.
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Some really good women on this forum...........reminds me of the Oscar Wilde quote........
My dear father, if we men married
the women we deserved... we should have a very bad time of it.
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Careful here. This is not some random boy likes girl scenario. They married each other, that must at least mean something. I would hope that seeing as they are already married, they'd at least love each other enough to give everything a go to make it work before deciding to end it. That's not a decision to be made lightly.
It is marraige and that's certainly important. But we are talking about Four Years of bad behavior. People don't change that readily, and bad habits are very hard to break.
Leaving can be a wake up call, and not necessarily final. It's the only lever she has left, and remember she was very young when first married.
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A long time ago I posted here claiming that I was addicted to porn. But now, I don't think I really was. I think I looked at it in bursts...like a couple nights in a row once every few months or more. I haven't looked at porn since I've posted back then either. Do you think I still need to see the bishop?
I don't think it's necessary. You have repented and forsaken the sin. I agree you are not addicted, and never were. Addicts have a behavior pattern that they will forsake all else but the addiction. Your pattern is not that of an addict.:)
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You ARE married to an immature baby. Leave him now before you have any children and find an actual Man to marry.
I don't think you need to waste a lot of time and money in counselling to arrive at a proper conclusion with this jerk.
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Time heals all wounds as they say.
My experience in the church tells me that the average LDS jumps into marraige too fast. Nine months is not very long, and I'm certainly an advocate of "4 season" courtship ie. seeing someone through an entire annual cycle of holidays, vacations and normal stressful life! Take your time. Have you dated other men since your divorce? Participated in singles activities as part of a group? Had a chance to meet a lot of other men? Talking marraige after only 9 months seems like a lack of maturity and life experience to me. You were married very young, and a lot of normal growing up over the last 4 years has passed you by. You have not had the normal life experiences of someone your age because of your bad marraige.
I reiterate..................take your time.
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Totally untrue. I take them out all the time.
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Logically one could argue that since Jehovah was a God prior to coming to Earth as Jesus Christ, he must have been married previously.
He had not yet attained perfection. That came after the resurrection.
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Since the road to exhaltation is through marraige it is logical in LDS doctrine that the Christ was married. After all the Christ was baptized so why shouldn't He have been married too?
It has been postulated that the marraige in Cana was His wedding (His mother was evidently in charge). It also strikes me as significant that the first person to see Him after the crucifixion was Mary Magdalene-even before any of the apostles!
Of course there is no scriptural evidence of His marraige, but logic says that it must be so.
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Plenty of this in the LV area. Red Rock area + Mt Charles........................etc. Even indoor place in town.