UrbanFool

We still have a Constitution?

Smell it! You can't miss the smell of bad potting mix. If it smells like clean dirt, it's probably fine.

The original post smelled bad to me, and it's getting worse with each response.

My first thought was to be appalled, but I have to agree with some of the posters here and say it's the sad truth that some kids don't even take a remote resemblence of sustainable food for lunch. And look where it's at. My grandmother was the cook for the high school cafeteria here, and I have her recipes now. They don't look anything like the regurgitated mystery in that photo.

I'm so boring. The "weirdest" thing I've eaten is goat meat. And that won't even be weird to half the world.

My best friend in the church went to church by herself for nearly 10 years before her husband decided to join. I also know many women who are active in the church while their spouse is a non-member or inactive. Sometimes these men become active or join. I think you should live according to the gospel, and perhaps your husband will follow along later.

That's one of the first thing I looked up when I became a Mormon. Everyone kept talking about them and I was too embarrassed to ask. Thank God for the Internet!

I would think it would be a no-brainer to not have sex books in a school library, but I guess that's just me. I never thought about how which books got chosen for our school libraries, but I assumed (I suppose) that a bunch of parents and teachers got together and made a choice. Obviously there are not as many selections as the public library, but a choice of some kind needs to be made somewhere. I don't think that one crazy parent protesting a specific book should dictate what everyone else reads. When I was in high school, I often went to the university library for a larger selection (the public library was dismal), but I sure wasn't looking for sex books, and could not tell you if they even had them. The point remains that due to limited space and funds, a choice needs to be made as to the books a library carries. And I would hope that parents who care would seek to be involved in that choosing process. I do know that today, a lot of these things are protested out of a need to shock everyone else, or sheer boredom. I'll read pretty much anything I can get my hands on, it's just the way I am. I'm sure I've been through a whole list of banned books, and I'm still here to tell the tale.

The tone of your post is coming off holier-than-thou. Although I would not go to the big city myself, I would certainly go with a friend. I know lots of people who would do that alone though. And I don't bother with fancy underwear, but again that's just me. I know a lot of women who just like to have something special on under their regular clothes. It makes them feel more feminine. I recommend you guys go to counseling. Neither of you are temple ready, but you're asking an anonymous Mormon forum for moral advice? None of us knows your wife, and you seem to just want a bunch of people to agree with you. You need to figure out that line where the deal is broken, and work on yourself. You've obviously had a rocky marriage, so maybe you should work at being a good and decent husband, and chances are she'll follow. Right now you're looking for things to blame on her (which you are going to find), and a bunch of strangers to agree with you that your wife is behaving inappropriately based on information you've posted and slanted in your direction. They say that if you look for the bad, you'll find it. I used to work and travel with firefighters. I did nothing inappropriate, but my husband could have had a field day if he decided he wasn't going to trust me. (key word is "decided".) You aren't in a good place right now, but I think you have some cleaning up to do on your side of the street before you put this much energy into your wife's.

They do not have candy canes in Ireland. I don't know if that is something you can get at this time of year though.

Awesome. It must have recently become available. I just finished Season 2 of Dollhouse, Pillars of the Earth, and I'm watching Season 1 of Heroes now. I've missed all kinds of stuff in the past several years. I think Joss Whedon is brilliant.

We have a little carpet that runs along the wall, but something tells me she wouldn't bother with that.

Yeah, the silver stilettos make me cringe.

I wouldn't notice someone grabbing the pulpit because my eyes are closed. I seem to miss a lot of things because my eyes are closed to pray, and it's giving me the willies.

Don't forget service. Are you active in the Relief Society? Maybe helping to plan events, or going to some events will help you fit in. We're having a Heritage Faire this weekend that I'm avoiding like the plague. We were talking to one of the members yesterday and he was saying that our ward wasn't always as welcoming as it is now. They used to be really cliquey and unpleasant. I can just say that thank goodness it isn't like that now or I would probably not be a member.

He turned himself in to his Bishop if I recall correctly, not the authorities.

I was just called to Ward Historian. It does seem as if information is few and far between.

If you can get Netflix, it is totally worth it to get the entire X-Files series, Buffy & Angel, Stargate Atlantis, and many others. I know Lost is unavailable for streaming video, and some others I'd like to see, but I think it's a matter of time before everything is available for streaming.

When I was baptized, my feet flew up straight in front of me. I was able to right myself before splattering half the crowd though. My missionary was shorter than me.

Oh my goodness! That's got to be hundreds every day. How could they keep up with that?

If you go through the LDS Addiction Recovery book/program, step 8 is seeking forgiveness. In that step you'll be making a list of those you've harmed and be willing to make restitution. Your parents may be included in that.

I don't remember the paper either, and I'm pretty new. I had to quit drinking coffee and smoking to get baptized.

I miss coffee.

Some parents define themselves by their children. There might be a very good reason all of your siblings left the state. If I were you, I'd stop discussing it with your mother since she takes it badly, have fun at college and make your plans when it's time to do so. Tell your mother you love her, but you need your own life. Anything you decide to do right now isn't likely to last forever. I wouldn't trade my 10 years in San Francisco for anything.

This thread reminds me of a corny LDS movie I watched that I can't remember the name of. It was a teen movie with a high school girl who played tennis, the bad boy, and was listed as based off of Alma the younger. In that one, the girl saw the guy drinking, so when it came time for him to be priestified, she didn't raise her hand to sustain him. The bishop spoke to her afterward and she told him why. Isn't this pretty much the same situation? Was it her place to report to the bishop that the guy had been drinking and was not ready for the priesthood?