Blackmarch

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  1. Unless youre being really active id avoid gatorade as a daily drink... Its geared more towards folks who are burning thru sugar, salt, and water pretty quickly, and its morevof a quickfix than a long term one. A good meal should be able to provide all the salts and sugars your body needs for an average day. While too much water is bad ive generally heard that americans dont drink enough of it. Ive used water plenty of times to take the edge off hunger. A good rule of thumb as well is the more color variety in your food the better. You may also wantb to look into having more mini meals than having a couple big meals in a day as well.
  2. I feel like chanting "ohm"
  3. humility isn't necessarily based on how one self-identifies. very few people actually have the chance to see a spirit in detail. also it seems to me that while in mortality the spirit is subject to the body more than the body is subject to the spirit. either way you will have to come to a conclusion with both outcomes- either he's right, or he's not. Personally I'd put God first and err on the human side. or i suppose one can leave it undecided.
  4. Medi, Social media and peer gossip/rumor. .02$
  5. I got all of tos star trek, stargate sg1 season 1 and all the MIB for christmas.... So yah im set for the month hehe. So those have been the last few ive seen
  6. Only apostate ones, or ones soon to be excommunicated. I'd wager if some disaster fell in which most the male population got eliminated it might be reinstated. But at the moment there is no good impetus for reinstating it. govermental policies had a big influence in rescinding (it was better for lds to remain in utah rather than go to war against the us, or relocate again outside the US).. However god said " ok thats enough"- whether it was only out of concern for how we'd fare under the UsS gov or other things im not too entirely sure of. Any which way onelooks at it... Being in a polygamous marriage righteously is a tall order.
  7. The left scared too many people to come out of the closet and speak up.
  8. I've always thought that such things were just a step under mobocracy.
  9. as good a guess as any. it is a fun thought.
  10. I wish. no it was bad enough watching how much just a few states catapulted her in the vote count. both with the popular and the electoral.
  11. we've had to deal with obama for 8 years- that makes for a pretty low bar for expectations. my take away from this election is that the lds population is not as influential in this state as it would appear (there were more legislative items with moral issues that the church was against that got voted in than out) yes he was the schoolyard bully (at least verbiosely) however clinton was more like the mafia. between the two i'd much rather have to suffer under trump than suffer under hillary. I htink you answered yourself here. If all your options are crappy, then you will have a crappy result. it's worse. It's not jsut the individuals but the whole party that comes with them... the republicans are terrible and the democrats are worse and it's almost nigh impossible to get a 3rd option. there's a difference between a qualified leader and a good leader. Hitler was a qualified leader. everything in the media is fluff. if you ever get to watch a lot of actual congress actions and congress time (not the news face time) you'll be willing to lynch about everyone on both sides. exactly. she promised to wipe iran off the map (2015 in a dartmouth college). trump hasn't made any promises to go to war with any specific nation. lds view lives of innocent children very strongly if you take a group of 1000 kids and killed three of them to infinitely improve the lives of the remaining 997 kids the LDS would still vote against it. there is no such thing as free money (at least not without inflation increases to go with it). free money should be raising red flags up and down the isle. unfortunately said health plan included a few elements that trumped the rest of it (ie stance on abortion). probably. however you will find that most (correction almost all laws) laws come with a load of crap with them no matter how altruistic the intent is. i would highly recommend doing a deep and comprehensive study of the US gov especially from 1900-1970s (but mid 1800s have some shining gems too). Hillary's baggage is much closer to elements that are very scary. where as having someone who is ineffectual and won't get much done beyond using foul verbiage is actually a rather blessed relief. as it was he did have to limp the rest of his life. we settled a place that the local survival experts said we were straight up certified stupid to try to settle (mostly mountain men but also a couple natives). we are still weird. Then the feds got involved. This time was different. You kept moving on, you respected your citizens and followed Jesus example, you took your leave. So now, you are willing to fight to keep your paradise. Because they were trying to take away what you have trekked through arduous conditions after peacefully moving on from your persecutors, to claim of your own in the brand new country. Shrewdly, though, you realized that you could not defeat the USA but you could join it. You made some compromises but you had that determined spirit to keep moving forward, limp or no limp. You built a beautiful state. You had a rich spiritual and religious environment, but you also had an openness to ideas. At one time, Utahns weren't so staunchly aligned with one party. One party that was especially disliked in Utah, was the party that fought against you having statehood, the Republican Party. Utah was really a moderate political state with a very strong Democratic leaning. parties change over time, and if you want to make things better for your situation you have to fight for it- in the US that means picking a side and working it for everything it has, plus lots of other people saw that utah had good land, and utah was straightly inbetween california and the rest of the US. pretty sure that has happened to some extent. Humans always develop an us vs them mentality. actually we gave the GOP a good scare shortly before the 2016 november election. I just wish we as a state could have had it realised on the day when it would have really counted. We still do move forward a lot.... however as stated before there are no other places we can physically go to. and we still get blamed for tons of crap. if i recall right i believe we are the only state that's been able to forge an equality law that gave protections to both LGBTQ and religious sides (both complain that it doesn't do enough for their side XD) the persecution still exists it's just changed format. I know how you feel. for the past decade or so i've been watching animal farm play out in politics all the while feeling like the title of the book "I have no mouth and I must scream".... altho watching the hillary campaign page on FB in november was really scary. let me thank you very much from the bottom of my heart.. especially for not ranting how stupid we are, or how we should be exterminated for supporting trump, or being right wing terrorists. my advice, first take a lot of deep breaths. second realise that no matter what FB says we've had worse presidents than the last 4(including our most recent one) at worse times in history. 3 realise that people will be truly sick and tired of him and republicans at the end of 4 years, and if not then for sure after 8... and the pendulum will start to swing the other way again. that change is happening more so out of expediency than anything else.... ironically a lot of that expediency is generated from fallout from what christian societies in the US put into law in previous generations. we're still bogeymen to a lot of people. as of a year ago i would have said the church has tons of influence upon the politics in utah... however after this last election i'm having another look at that. I would also like to go back to that open society idea.... however what's happening in the work, education, and government landscapes is that if religion gets brought in at all you are lucky if you just get roasted and skewered socially (rather than losing your job either by being fired or by being sued out of house and home). I also wish that more people would vote as well... but one must always be open to the chance that they might be in the minority in regards to the vote. thank you for sharing! it has been an interesting read! i'm out of time to go through your proposal so i hope to get to it in the next day or two thank you, you have no idea how comforting that is. I earnestly hope this is the case. i will try responding the best i can to this as i do live in utah.
  12. they look good and sound good, but i feel that this could lead a person into getting trapped into their own view to be honest (which can result in a lot of pain or conflict due to ending up not being correct or something along that line), so i would caution you heavily if you decide to go this route. I can't recall specific requirements for these sublevels of the celestial kingdom other than the priesthood and marriage are required for the highest one. the principle of justice suggests to me that not everyone can get the exact same reward. My experience with people suggests to me that not everyone will want the exact same reward.
  13. did the scripture mention whether or not it was a live or dead body? there have certainly een cases recorded throughout history where an individual has had to fight a devil for control of their body.
  14. evolution is pretty much about at the point that black holes are. intelligent design can both work within or without evolution (altho i have no idea how to support an argument that totally dispenses with evolution)
  15. people being humbled.
  16. i'd be hesitant to ask God to spell out every little detail. The israelites during the time of moses comes to mind. at the end of the word of wisdom there is a promise that if you keep it you will be able to go to the temple. Anything that you have stewardship and control over that keeps you from being able to go to the temple ultimately is against the word of wisdom. IMO.
  17. sure. if the spirit world can interact with the physical world in any way then i'd say it's possible.................. however the grand grand grand majority of the time physical events happen not because of direct spirit influence. on the other hand satan can influence men, and men have been doing stuff that in consequence can mess up health pretty badly for centuries.
  18. Sweet! Such hobby would take up too much space and the media would wear out too quickly for my taste... On the hand if you do get a bad spot the whole thing isnt lost.
  19. Wonder how close the inauguration is to the nearest town with salem, jerusalem in the name or has the meaning of zion in the name. Lol
  20. Because they want to kill the electoral college.
  21. Make that a lot of people.
  22. Interesting question For his faults nebuchadnezzar was just within his laws, and second he did give an ear to the servant of the lord. However after having witnessed the works of god and then going back to his old ways he fell pretty hard from power.
  23. While i want vidangel to win on one hand, on the other i'd rather not support the creators of content for which vidangel is necessary. ........ Bleeping entertainment addictions >.<