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5 hours ago, zil2 said:
(I don't know why they were so amazed and astonished, except perhaps as a cultural thing. Perhaps it would be like speaking to an American and substituting "liberty" for "riches"... I don't know. I do know that it's awfully hard not to "trust in riches" - I mean, in theory, I could sell everything but the clothes on my back, give the money to the poor, and then get on my knees and say, "OK, what now, God?" - but I don't have sufficient faith to do that (especially not on December 8th in the northern hemisphere).
I like to think that if I were to give up all my, ahem, wealth, I still have a handful of people who would look out for me and help me and my family out.
I agree that it's hard to not trust in riches. We are often told to attempt to be self-sufficient, are we not?
As has been said elsewhere here, it's easy to completely miss the message.
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The other day I had to end a class early because a 5-year-old girl was mourning her pet tarantula who had passed.
I hate spiders. Years ago, when I was running a nature lodge at camp, staff would bring some of their pets. One kid brought his tarantula. I told him he was completely in charge of caring for it.
Within two weeks that little guy rode around the nature area on my shoulder. We were good friends.
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17 hours ago, Carborendum said:
Out of curiosity... what happened in the case of this study group?
A couple of kids were getting mad at the people weren't coming. A few were insisting on weird interpretations they got from family members. One person wouldn't let someone ride in his car to go to church on Sunday. Some bullying started up.
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One time, at Scout camp, where we happened to have a large number of church members teens/young adults, there up started a little scripture study group.
It was amazing how fast it got out of hand.
People start up stuff with the best of intentions, I'm sure. I don't know if I blame the adversary or just the chaotic nature of humanity and maybe that road to hell they talk about, but I think there is wisdom in not letting your followers of a creed go complete nuts in name of creed.
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18 minutes ago, JohnsonJones said:
LIahona Prep Academy - I'm not sure how full of a home education program this is. It appears it could also be a local type school. It is from Utah. It strives to produce a gospel focused secular education.
Ensign Peak Academy - I do not know how connected it is to the actual Ensign Peak, but it's reference is unmistakably towards the Church owned Ensign Peak.
These are both private schools, though ones that provide distance education. Good options if a family is willing to move away from a more pure homeschool idea.
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31 minutes ago, zil2 said:
This was my thought, but I said I'd ask.
If you, or anyone, have links, I'm sure my friend would appreciate them. (Not asking you to go hunting, but if you happen to know a few, that would be great.) Thanks!
The one that immediately comes to mind is The Good and the Beautiful.
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I'm quite sure it's just a rumor. I believe the Church has yet to release its official church-sponsored homeschool curriculum. Honestly, I think it might be tricky to do, as different states have different education and homeschool standards.
That said, there are a few curriculums that are certainly LDS-friendly.
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1 hour ago, zil2 said:
Because of a lost password to a specific software? That's absurd.
The best they can figure at the point is that some configuration is resetting the password and they want to look at the computer (Which is actually fine with me, I think I'm due for an upgrade).
I just want to get into my Google drive is all... (it's not as simple as getting into Google, it's getting into the company program that happens to use Google)
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15 minutes ago, zil2 said:
First, the tech support people's job is to help you do your job. It doesn't matter how difficult or tedious their job is, it's there job. (There's a reason they call it "work" and there's a reason they pay you to do it.) So don't worry about calling tech support - they're getting paid.
Next, if the tech support person doesn't know how to reset a password without those security questions, something's wrong. Does this tech support person work for the software manufacturer or your employer (assuming they are different entities)? If for your employer, they should have some other way of verifying your identity and userID and should be able to then do a password change on the account (and either trigger the software to email you the new password or just tell you what it is and wait on the phone while you log in and then change it yourself). If for the software manufacturer, the hoops for verifying your identity may be more difficult, but there has to be a way. I guarantee you're not the first person to forget the answers to those idiotic "security questions".
(Of course, finding the person who knows the above can be a challenge - some tech support people can't do more than read the flip cards, others actually know the software. And it may take a system admin rather than tech support to resolve the problem. Finally, some people design really, really lousy software.)
Sorry I can't tell you more. If you want to PM me to discuss specifics, I'll see if I can help any further - seems unlikely, but I'm willing to read whatever free / public info is available on the software and that might let me give you more pointers.
I did place another call today. We may actually be at the point where I may have to send my computer in and possibly get my employee account duplicated.
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Today I spent three hours over two different calls on the phone with tech support for my work. The gentleman spoke with great kindness, patience, and intelligence towards my troubles. Passwords were reset over and over. Caches cleared. Notes jotted down. I eventually gave up in weariness with the hope of a new day. There is still an account I cannot get into.
My heart is weary, my soul tired. I have finagled a few backdoor tricks to enable me to do my job that should give me a day or more. Perhaps I will even see if I can make it to Thanksgiving break this way, for I dare not call back the kind tech support guy who cannot solve my problem. My pride is too great.
You know what would solve my problem? Somehow remembering the answers to my security questions. Yes, this is the issue three hours can't get us past.
So, my question: is there some sort of program that could just run through every possible answer, perhaps based on a deep knowledge of me gleaned from the Internet, until the correct answers are generated?
I swear I'm only slightly off-kilter here.
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26 minutes ago, LDSGator said:
I’m still not sure we’re bitterly divided. When I go out to Gators games, Disney and just around town I see people of all political stripes and ethnicities doing mutually enjoyable activities with one another. If we were truly divided that wouldn’t happen.
Like all of us I’m a social media user big time but the world is nowhere near as divided as we see it.
I tend to agree with this for the most part. Generally I think people are more alike than not.
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@Just_A_Guy's hypothetical is extreme, but there's a point to be made, and I'm interpreting my own things. Are we getting so politically divided that some might reconsider a moral/ethical situation just to snub the opposite party?
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1 hour ago, Carborendum said:
I always knew you were a thrill seeker.
I spent Saturday morning in the laundry room. Folding clothes, organizing the shelves, watching Harry Potter theory videos on Youtube while I did all of this.
It was wild.
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On 11/6/2023 at 6:44 AM, Carborendum said:
Wait, wait, waitaminute...
So, you're saying that staying up to all hours of the night and sitting in a single position just staring at your phone for 15 minutes wasn't entertaining?
Yeah. Go figure.
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7 hours ago, zil2 said:
You missed it. It happened this morning while you were asleep and the clocks when from 01:59:59 back to 01:00:00 (rather than ahead to 02:00:00). The bad news is that you can experience it again in spring when the clocks go from 01:59:59 to 03:00:00 (skipping right over the entire 02:00 hour). And then again next fall, and then again....
Oh my goodness. I actually experienced it this morning so I can totally have an opinion. I usually sleep right through it. But I was curious to whether or not I truly had experienced it so I sat watching my phone for like 15 minutes to see what happened after 1:59 am.
Was it entertaining? Eh...
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On 10/31/2023 at 1:44 PM, NeuroTypical said:
That said, the two liberals in my ward are universally beloved and protected by all of us. Someone messes with one of them, you mess with all of us.
Not my ward but the ward/stake over, the bishop would probably be in some hippy communist commune in the woods if it weren't for his love of guns. He's the most liberal man I know (friends with his wife). And yet he is still a bishop of a ward in Utah.
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On 10/30/2023 at 5:09 AM, Jamie123 said:
Social conventions have changed.
There was a time when, if you took a young lady out, you were expected to open the car door for her.
Nowadays you're expected to have sex with her on the second date.
At least that's the impression I get from the TV shows I've watched over the last 10 or 20 years. Is it true? Or is it just a myth of the media?
P.S. and the church isn't "The Church" anymore. It's that building with the funny windows which you have nothing to do with except when you want to get married or have your baby baptised - unless of course you're one of those religious loonies who goes there every week, like me, or like Sheldon's mum, and even she (since she's a "goody" in the show) needs to get cold-shouldered out of the place by the "the Christian hypocrytes" ("the baddies") coz her son got a girl pregnant and isn't going to marry her.
I legitimately think there is, at least in some social circles, an expectation to have sex early in the courtship. I even heard someone say that a girl not interested in sex on Date 1 was a red flag.
That being said, I think there is a positive with the more recent cycles of sexual expression where this idea of early sex is being pushed back upon if a person doesn't want it.
I kind of laughed at your anectdote about what the local "Church" has become. When I was working for the Scouts back in the day, our office was located on a hill off the main highway, and the Catholics decided to build this gorgeous-and-huge church across the street from us. Now that is perfectly visible from the highway, and it looks like a church! Stained glass windows, a steeple, a cross, what more do you want?
So when I was on the phone trying to explain to someone where we were located, I was surprised to find that saying "and when you see the big church, turn" just confused people (and no, saying the actual name of the street didn't work, either).
Now, it's probably because this was in Utah, and this church didn't look like the local ward chapel. But I feel something has been lost in the cultural/community definition of church.
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In a lot of ways I'm all about that "relationship with God first" but I think there comes a point where it's like, what's the point of a church, then? And that's not the best place to be. I'll go out on a limb and say that many members of their churches have their pet focuses and quirks, but when I truly think of "Protestant Mormons", the ones I've interacted with have the gospel watered down so much that the resulting church isn't anything special or remarkable.
I've certainly heard my share of people going off the rails with their own personal interpretation of everything, but if not more so it seems their personal revelation is that much of our doctrine is simply a story or tradition. Book of Mormon isn't real, temples are just a fun little thing, etc.
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14 hours ago, Vort said:
Congratulations! Very happy news!
Thank-you!
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8 hours ago, Phoenix_person said:
A couple of boomer scholars first called us "Millennials" in 1991. The name is a reference to the fact that we came of age in the beginning of the new millenium. The world changed so rapidly during our adolescent and early adult years that some of us were given the distinction of being a "micro-generation", the Xennials (because many of us relate more to Gen X than Y) or geriatric Millennials. This is where I fall.
I also recently learned that kids born from 2010-2025 are being identified as Generation Alpha. I'm guessing that the following generation, which is a few years away from being born, will be Generation Beta.
I'm only a Xennial depending on some retaliation in the numbers, but I think I honestly do related more to Gen X, so I go with it if I must divide and conquer the years.
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17 hours ago, Carborendum said:
Uhmmm... Given that this was a response to *my* post... Uhmmm....
As you probably ought to be.
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2 hours ago, Vort said:
FWIW, I think the whole generational division and naming is absurd beyond words. I'm technically (by the above definition*) a Boomer, and my wife is technically a Gen Xer. She derives great enjoyment telling me and others about how I'm from the generation before her. I wouldn't want to ruin her fun, but it's a good illustration of the ridiculousness of the generational naming that media has given us. Something else to divide us.
*When I first heard the "baby boomers" label, it was strictly applied to those born between 1946 and 1962, an 18-year period. Since I managed to avoid birth until just baaaarely after 1962, I was happy to be safe from the ridiculous "boomer" label. Until they relabeled things, that is.
I'm trying to figure out what we're trying to achieve with the generation labels. I like to think it's an observation of values and behavior over time, but that seems such a spectrum...
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2 hours ago, Carborendum said:
LOL!
My wife was pregnant with our fifth child. And the midwives were trying to inquire about the last cycle to project a birthdate for our son.
While my wife was humming and hawing, I told them the date of conception. It had been a couple months, so they were bewildered how I knew.
It was my birthday.😁
So, despite two forms of birth control, I am currently pregnant. Conception date? My dad's birthday. I'm a little weirded out by it.
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1 hour ago, prisonchaplain said:
Boomers were a large cohort and fairly entitled. I believe it's the first generation that reached 50% divorce. TIME Magazine did an article on this generation and one of the quotes was "Ronald Reagan stuck around longer than my dad."
I shouldn't have laughed, but that's funny.
Another Utah influencer arrested, or, pride cycles
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I was sick when I read said details.
I'm quite sure Hildebrandt made things worse, but she was only working with what Jodi was already doing.