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Pure water is flavorless. If a person is buying a drink for the taste, why not BUY A FLAVORED DRINK?

Buy bottled water. We must preserve our precious bodily fluids.

For what it's worth, the new handbook has a clause about visiting teaching that says the reports can go to the Presidency or to assistants. No such assistants statement exists for the home teaching reports.

For you /. fans Coming forth of the Book of MormonReturn of Elijah???Second Coming!!

Speaking of Ron Paul and the TSA, he has introduced a bill on this very subject. In its entirety: A BILL – HR 6416 To ensure that certain Federal employees cannot hide behind immunity. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. NO IMMUNITY FOR CERTAIN AIRPORT SCREENING METHODS. No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a Federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives Federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), x-rays, or millimeter waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual’s body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft. The preceding sentence shall apply even if the individual or the individual’s parent, guardian, or any other individual gives consent. Doesn't sound like it privatizes flight security. Do you (generic you) think it should go farther? Or is it already too restrictive on the TSA?

I'm guessing the argument is something like, "if the universe is constantly falling into a state of disorder (S < 0), then how is evolution (biologics moving into a greater state of order) even possible?" If it isn't disregard the rest of the post. The arguments I've heard against it is that you have to be working in a closed system. The skeptic claims the earth is a closed system, but that isn't accurate. The sun is shooting quite a bit of energy our way, and that energy is currency in the biological economy.

So is the SeaTac airport screening and profiling because TSA is actively investigating a crime? Or is this really intended as a preventative measure - on par with metal detectors in court houses? If the police are just driving around neighborhoods routinely I don't see race entering into it. If they turn the corner and somebody breaks into a dead run all of a sudden - that could get their attention. Or if something seems way out of place like 3 white guys suspiciously huddled together in a black neighborhood. But even in this case, it's not the whiteness that warrants further investigation, just that they're different. The same would be the case of 3 guys wearing long overcoats on a summer day. When you walk into a federal building you aren't patted down because you're a white male like the ones responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. Why do we expect airports to be any different?

You meant Messiah Ben Joseph, right?

The handbook (linked above) specifies that you can have a home teacher or other family member do it.

It doesn't change my views on Dumbledore at all. But I've never like Rowling after she outed the headmaster like that. She should have let him call the shots as to when he would come out to his family and friends, the wizarding community at large, and the entire muggle world. If he wanted to, he could use the debut of the 7th film to prance around on screen and announce it. Or he could have quietly lived his life without telling anyone else. Just up and announcing another person's private life in a Q&A is a severe breach of confidence and just not cool.

A wheat-based coin the size of a "thick pizza"? Yeah, that's not going too last long.

Besides being "collectible", the million dollar coin is being sold for more than that because the raw materials alone are worth more than the face value of the coin. Did somebody forget to think that through?

But if YOU are the controller, YOUR HOUSE is the game box.

WWJD? Well, 10 years ago, he would have made some VERY different choices so as not to be in this situation .

From the chapter summary: I think that explains it right there.

So, to sum up, "Communism is for babies."

We certainly could if we were under new management. Elect Wingnut as Head Moderator. You may be moderate, but Wingnut is moderater. :usaflag:

In Washington state grandparents do not have visitation rights. Talk to an attorney in your state.

I hear ya. Kanye got robbed AGAIN!!

PrisonChaplain can correct me if I'm wrong, but the Christian community hasn't settled on whether the Rapture is pre- or post-Tribulation. There are camps on both sides. As to the LDS timeline, I don't recall one being actively taught. We have been given many Signs of the Times, and told that many of them are already fulfilled, and that many are yet to be. But I haven't seen a really clear line of this leads up to the Second Coming (including several visitations of the Savior), this is the Second Coming (including these simultaneous events/consequences), and this is Millenial (and it's easy to confuse start/end).

Tsem, it sounds like the number of single mothers vs single fathers is what's driving your argument. If a fornicating woman can make it to the celestial kingdom, why can't a single, non-patriarchal man?

Ezek 37 also includes a vision of the valley of dry bones. Ezekiel sees the bones connect and come to life with sinew and flesh. It was intended to illustrate the gathering of Israel, but also serves as a testimony and illustration of the resurrection. So here's two lessons for the price of one. Then we move on to the verses you're concerned about with two sticks. With the gathering fresh on our mind, we see the blessing extended to not just a gathering, but also a reunification of the two kingdoms. When latter-day prophets teach that the Book of Mormon is a fulfillment of Ezek 37, we shouldn't be startled for two reasons. 1) It's another instance where there's multiple principles taught in a single story/event. 2) The theme of gathering and restoration of the 10 tribes meshes neatly with the Book of Mormon, which testifies of its own role in that gathering.

It doesn't really go over well when you show up at the Temple and try to tell the presidency that you want to get sealed to Audrey Hepburn.

The way I read it, the screaming child got her into a fit of rage (I can relate to that) to the point where she starts shaking the baby. Some rational part of her still had enough voice to encourage her to step away from the situation and regroup. [reading between the lines now] She may have been unable to regroup because she could still hear the child screaming like demon spawn. When she returned to the situation, she was not any calmer or more rational than when she left. She was probably in a worse state than when she left.[/reading]

That's because there isn't an official Church answer. The Church teaches that we are to keep the Sabbath holy. As to what that really means, it's up to you to decide. I suspect you'd like to also hear how people interpret and live the principle. In my family, my wife usually makes the dinner, though sometimes I make it and sometimes we tagteam it. The only time we eat out on the Sabbath (or order in) is when we're away on vacation and not visiting family. When I was younger, I went to a Church college, and they had a cafeteria running on Sunday. It was staffed by students who got their ecclesiastical endorsement signed every year. So they didn't feel there was a conflict in doing their job on the Lord's Day. How is it in your family?