mrmarklin

If one begins with an uncertain inaccurate premise there is no possibility for a certain and accurate conclusion – even if for a time the conclusion seems a plausible explanation for things seeming to be or interpreted to be.
The Traveler

Privilege is a wonderful thing.  You should get as much as you can, for your betterment and the betterment of your spouse, children, neighborhood, and community.  
Want special advantages from God?  Enter into the Abrahamic covenant.  Be adopted into the family especially favored above all others by God.  It may not be popular to say or think about these days, but it is as valid a part of the gospel as it ever was.
The zero-sum-game thinking that if you are winning, someone must be losing, is a lie of satan, and one of the reasons our country is going to hell.  

....The real question is not so much why do Mormons leave the Church, but why after leaving, they can't leave it alone.
 
There are a lot of antis and ex Mormons out there that continue to post on LDS fora.
Why?
I have no desire to post on the fora of other religions.

Is this good enough?

Lehi

My husband and I were ready for kids when we got married.  We agreed that we will settle our religious differences before the baby is born.  5 years later, we still couldn't get pregnant.  I was starting to worry that something is wrong with me.  Then I got baptized.  3 months later I was pregnant.  A year after baptism my husband and I got sealed.  3 weeks after that the baby was born under covenant.  I don't believe this is a coincidence.  At all.

In the fall of 2015 there was a report that Norway's CPS took children away from a Romanian Pentecostal family.  The case was sparked by a principal's report that the family seemed to be indoctrinating children with a "radical Christianity."  Later, the agency insisted that spanking was the real issue.  At one point it came out that 3% of immigrants have had their children taken.  Their CPS says there are cultural issues, that the immigrants often don't understand that they are not allowed to abuse their children in Norway, and that government will defend the tikes.
Only after nearly 8 months, a lost appeal, and an international outcry, did Norway relent.  Still, those little sparks of sanity keep us hopeful, do they not? 
http://www.christianpost.com/news/norway-child-service-bodnariu-seized-children-christian-parents-164832/
 

What is with the little shreds of toilet paper women leave all over the stalls? Are they doing toilet paper origami in there? Seriously, what the heck?
My college career included a stint as a custodian, so I cleaned more than my fair share of restrooms. I won't pretend that the men's urinals were anything other than gross. But on the whole, the women's restrooms were worse, hands down. I have never talked to a custodian who disagreed with that assessment.
Women: They look all pretty and innocent, but just wait until you have to clean their public restroom.

Job is not fiction. 
 
We we are all Job. Almost all of us will have to deal with some sort of adversity. Loss of livelihood, loss of loved ones, including wives, loss of health--even at a young age. 
 
Did the Lord turn the devil loose on Job?  Sure He did. There was no other way for Him to find out if Job would be faithful.
 
But Job's attitude is the real story of how he dealt with his problems. Despite his "friends" spite he kept his faith through all adversity just as many of us will do.
Yeah, Job is real. Look in the mirror. 

Job is not fiction. 
 
We we are all Job. Almost all of us will have to deal with some sort of adversity. Loss of livelihood, loss of loved ones, including wives, loss of health--even at a young age. 
 
Did the Lord turn the devil loose on Job?  Sure He did. There was no other way for Him to find out if Job would be faithful.
 
But Job's attitude is the real story of how he dealt with his problems. Despite his "friends" spite he kept his faith through all adversity just as many of us will do.
Yeah, Job is real. Look in the mirror. 

No one is not getting what he wants. Those who claim to be discriminated against (in this matter, at least) could have gone to someone else and gotten exactly what they wnated. It's not a matter of getting it, it's about forcing others to serve them.
Why does opening a business mean that a man loses his right to freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, freedom of association?
Only a government bent on forcing people to comply would conscience such laws.
Lehi

DON'T DO IT!
 
I don't understand the need for full disclosure (not in this case), you have repented you no longer feel the desire to do these things. God has forgiven you now forgive yourself. Why would you create a problem where one does not currently exist? How do you think your wife will react? How will this revelation help your marriage? Do not allow your selfish irrational desire to puke this out affect your relationship with your wife it is not fair to burden her with this if the problem has been resolved.  You feel guilty about it? SO WHAT suck it up and live with it.
Omega

FWIW my wife is from the tribe of Dan.

Is it OK to play Clash of Clans?
 
i have two adult sons that do this constantly.

I know an Atheist who puts shredded carrots in lime Jello.  Just because the Church doesn't have a total monopoly on certain things doesn't mean it's not hogging a lot more than its fair share of the crazy single women.

Option 1. We're commanded to present our lives as a living sacrifice. If God provides a way to escape death, we generally have the duty to embrace that. To die may be gain, but the Apostle Paul reminds us that to live is Christ.

I doubt a de-emphasis, but if there is maybe it's good. Food storage is about 20% of the self reliance pamphlet but ended up as almost the only thing people perceived as valuable IMO. In addition, two years of food storage is totally impractical for the majority of the church members. Even for those that have space for this probably end up wasting most of it because food has a shelf life. People don't eat the type of food stored mostly, and it eventually rots. 
72 hours of supplies is a great idea.  But the reality is under a serious emergency, water is the most severe limitation to survival.

I doubt a de-emphasis, but if there is maybe it's good. Food storage is about 20% of the self reliance pamphlet but ended up as almost the only thing people perceived as valuable IMO. In addition, two years of food storage is totally impractical for the majority of the church members. Even for those that have space for this probably end up wasting most of it because food has a shelf life. People don't eat the type of food stored mostly, and it eventually rots. 
72 hours of supplies is a great idea.  But the reality is under a serious emergency, water is the most severe limitation to survival.

I doubt a de-emphasis, but if there is maybe it's good. Food storage is about 20% of the self reliance pamphlet but ended up as almost the only thing people perceived as valuable IMO. In addition, two years of food storage is totally impractical for the majority of the church members. Even for those that have space for this probably end up wasting most of it because food has a shelf life. People don't eat the type of food stored mostly, and it eventually rots. 
72 hours of supplies is a great idea.  But the reality is under a serious emergency, water is the most severe limitation to survival.

I see lds.org still has a billion active and relevant links on the matter.
Food Storage
Emergency Preparadness
https://providentliving.lds.org
And I see this:  Are We Prepared? - First Presidency Message - September 2014
But yeah, the most recent general conference talk on the matter I can find is from 2007.
I'm one of the more preparadness-minded folks in my ward, and they've asked me to speak in church a couple of times, but the ward is mainly in the trees, and the emphasis was Colorado forest fires.  To be sure, they asked me to give a lesson on "let's think about what will happen if we've got a forest fire", and within a year, the entire ward got evacuated due to fire and lots of members lost homes.  But yeah, there wasn't much talk on food storage, other than "how you gonna move all that wheat if the evacuation order comes?"

I would definitely agree with you that’s there’s been a great de-emphasis on food storage.  However, the greater principle of food storage is preparedness and stewardship over our Earthly things.  That principle has NOT been abandoned at all, is anything it’s talked about more- in the form of money management, avoiding debt, living within our means, having a savings fund, etc.   Why the switch in focus?  It's what's needed.

That is true.
I've always felt that the LDS prohibition on alcohol was basically a way of providing a consistent guideline for everybody.  Some people handle alcohol just fine, some don't, but since there are very few (if any) real, measurable benefits to consuming alcohol, they don't outweigh the negatives so it's better to have everyone just avoid it.

You are not allowing for the time value of money. The govt. has your money, and you are entitled yo a reasonable return on investment. That being said SS at best is only getting one's money back. The govt. is not giving a fair return. The reason for privatizing SS is to remedy this defect, so people will have even more retirement proceeds.
 
if there is filthy lucre, it's the government cheating us.

I don't experience this at all, and I eat out a lot.  Many people don't drink alcohol at meals for a variety of reasons. 
Im old enough to remember being at some very hard drinking lunches (not me!) 30 or so years ago, but it's just not that way anymore. People tend to drink a lot less here in the SF Bay Area than was formerly the case.

I answered without reading all the posts.
i had to smile a little.
I see that I live on a different plane than most of you.  One thousand dollar cars?  My payment is $1,252 per month!  You can only imagine the insurance and maintenance on a vehicle like this. No, I don't do my own repairs. Actually, I changed the air filter once.  $85 for the filter.  Labor was free!
I wont embarass myself  by discussing my housing costs. 
 
But.......no consumer debt.

Not in SF Bay Area. 
 
Average earners are are renters here. One bedroom apartments rent for $4,000 or more in SF.
Not a lot better in other cheaper areas.  Rent can suck up a lot of ones disposable income.