Blackmarch

well there is a lot of openness which would allow for all sorts of mischief, which does occur once in a great while... that being said i'm kind of surprised it doesn't happen often. i suppose one way you can view mercy and forgiveness is giving the other party another chance to hose you, out of good will towards them. I know various wards have had some interesting solutions at various times when they did have to deal with ne'er-do-wells.

only if incidents start occuring with enough regularity to require such.... Generally to me for most issues the church really gets by on the honor system. And it doesnt seem that crossdressing has become quite the popular mainstream fad.. yet anyways.

welcome welcome

Baby steps over multiple generations. You dont turn a person 180 degrees... Just one degree. Not sayin its the worst or best, just that you can't get into a river and not get affected by the flow. no it wont make you into a psycopath, but the people ive watched over the years are more willing to put up with and be entertained by crudity, swear more, angry more, having thoughts, or solutions that involve force have a tendency to show up on the list or higher up on the list, than before. Secondly if you are entertained by something it becomes harder to condemn that thing... And then association starts creeping in. Then once you hit a point the spirit leaves.

If you know Christ, you will know the Father. If you know the Father, then you will know Christ.

And to get organized religion reclassified to financial corporations....

According to the circuit that covers colorado... You have to accomodate if its been legalized anywhere in the US... Even if you dont offer that service/product. (paraphrased). A very scary precedent. Besides when you see mom and pop businesses get run into the ground by getting sued out of house and home time and again, there is a certain fear factor that comes into play.

Imo charles dickens said it best"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."

everything satan abuses was created by god initially.

No it doesnt make you worse. You cant be given the exact same punishment.... But your anger and refusal to be forgiving will cause you to miss out on the blessings of the atonement and be exposed only to justice.

Im always asking, "wait are you saying the stuff ive been eating has zero carbon content?? "

depends if they knew the gospel or not.

as far as I know. Anything that keeps you from living the covenants of the gospel will put you there. Until you accept (in the completely able to do so sort of way) christ you will be paying for your own sins.

how unique. Yes that's a concern you probably don't wan tto merely brush off.... Me I'd probably say that normal school is very traditional, and something along the lines that homeschooling a significant investment, one that some people can't make... it's also an option that isn't very well known in the public in general, beyond that people do it.

Not enough for reasonable termination unless the contract stated for the subject to be sober all the time. Otherwise i the only thing i can think of is having a definite line drawn in regards to whatever qualifies for acceptable work and how often and or how far someone can cross it before you can them. On thevpersonal level, id probably tell them next time i met them soberbis that they called pretty drunk, and ask if things are going allright with thwm or if they wanted help... Theyll probably turn down the offer, at which id tell them to be careful. Dont really have exp with having a drunk underling... Closest was having a roomie whod get drunk on weekends. He couldnt ever remember being drunk.

Let not your left hand know what the right is doing?

Dunno... If someone offered me the big red button for global armageddon, it would be really hard to resist hitting it so much that it breaks. Followed by getting popcorn, thick sunglasses, and a sunbathing chair.

I differ. While our hindbrain has various impulses that come with being a living organism, how it makes connections between that and our conscious thought and wires up throughout development is affected by many things, both things an individual chooses and stimulus from their environment play more of a role than anything one is born with. It's rarely so simple as "it just happened" Ill think youll find for most that volition came first, and that porn was instrumental for many of them. Resisting temptation is always good, but when one spends their life digging their own grave... It becomes very difficult to get out, let alone to keep any sort of progress while getting out.

Justice is not mercy. If the state has any home defense laws, if the person did not have any permission to be in the home and is not a resident of it, then the shooting is justifiable. While she did not take the christlike route, she was within the bounds of justice. Somewhere i read that on average in a crminal encounter you have just over 6 seconds before you are compromised. And she had kids there... So without really having a good understanding of what exactly went on and etc... I support the ladys decision. My guess is taht her thought process is she didnt want to leave any chance of harm coming to her kids at all.

To criticise is to oppose something. So yes it is a rebellion in words, having past the point of rebellion in thought.. And if not checked eventually leads to rebellion in action.

Unfortunately or fortunately such members probably dont have a clue.

Is the greyed text links? Normally colors are dictated by the web designer, but sometimes you can have issues between you browser settings, computer, and OS. Most greys for me tend to be dark enough to contrast easily from pure white in my experience, altho more amteurish sites tend to either be too gariish or not enough contrast. Illusion wise if the lines are thin enough and set in the right way the can appear lighter than they are.

I guess you could ask the director what theyd prefer, or the family.

I think its only a matter of time... Unless we start nuking each other before then.... Which isnt totally unreasonable either.

Its also important to keep in mind that JS was learning as he went along too- it seems to me that god has a tendency to teach you a bit then drop in the deep end of the pool.