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Sorry William. Be strong. I want to give you my honest opinion. Your wife is most likely staying late at night with a MALE coworker to do immoral things. That would be my first guess. If she loved YOU, she would be coming to you to find comfort. I am so sorry for this. Try to work things out. Anything is possible but rely on the Lord now more than ever. Cheating, fighting swearing or things of that nature do not make things better but worse. What I am saying about your wife isn't a fact but there is NO reason for her to be alone with another MALE coworker after work is over. If she LOATHES it so much why does she stay there? I would prepare myself for anything. Good luck to you. Rely on the Lord and love Him. He didn't say we'd all be rich by paying tithes and offerings. At least how WE perceive riches. Our riches lie within promises of eternal families and happiness after this life. Work with your wife if she is willing. Love her but don't overwhelm her. If she made this decision she has been thinking about it for a while now. Just let her know you love her. Get in shape. Learn something new and be the best man you can.

girlygirl - My biggest suggestion is not to allow it in your home. Internet in ONE computer in a VERY open area. Filters help. Some people say don't put filters but that's retarded. You have to not only be on the DEFENSE but also the OFFENSE! Protect your home! Read an pray as a family. I would get your kids in private schools but this is expensive. Mainly do what the Lord has asked. Read, pray, ponder, worship, attend Church. You DON'T need cable. You also don't need internet but I find the internet to be VERY beneficial besides the wicked parts. Have one TV either in your bedroom to spend time with your husband and watch movies or have one in an open family room. Kids DO NOT need a TV in their rooms. Just use your brain. You can't control your kids. Kids grow up best when they are TAUGHT how to use their agency correctly and not FORCED to use it 'correctly'. GLTY

Social Security is retarded and it definitely is unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional because you are FORCING, yes FORCING, the population to participate in it. Anything that forces the masses when others do not wish to participate is unconstitutional. Social Security is neither social nor secure. Forcing someone to do something is not social and the fact that all government programs are totally bankrupt means they are not secure. A really, REALLY bad crisis is coming. Hold anything that is tangible especially gold and silver. The dollar is being devalued rapidly! Check zerohedge.com tfmetalsreport.com dailypaul.com and learn something.

He tasted all of our sins by suffering the consequences of them.

There is a story on a forum where a man describes his account of calling and election. He later left the Church. It seems to be sincere and if so it happens more often than you think.

Hi all. I have a quick question. When one is going to be sealed in the temple does the couple become sealed and then just legally go to the court house to receive a marriage certificate or is a marriage certificate needed before the actually sealing? I am asking this for legal issues. Nothing bad but wanting to protect my future wife and I as much as possible. Thanks for your help.

Also yes.

Yes.

That is because you lived in Casa Grande.

It is very normal for Arizona this time of year. I am 25 and have lived in Arizona all my life. This one was larger than normal but it happens EVERY monsoon season. This is about as exciting as our weather gets here. Oh and rain :)

Doctrine and Covenants 19: 15 Therefore I command you to repent—repent, lest I smite you by the rod of my mouth, and by my wrath, and by my anger, and your sufferings be sore—how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not. 16 For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; 17 But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; 18 Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—

The dollar was "as good as gold". This is why our currency was strong. It was also strong because we were growing and at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. The United States actually defaulted in 1971 when we told the International community that we would not redeem the Federal Reserve notes for gold any more. So how did the currency remain strong after this? We created the Petrodollar. Essentially the United States had an unlimited credit card, the Fed, while maintaining a strong currency but this is coming to an end shortly. Remember the saying "can you spare a dime"? Well, I was definitely not alive during that time but I know we've all heard it. At one point in our history a day's wage was roughly a silver dime. That same dime can buy you close to a gallon of gas and a silver quarter can buy you close to two. You need to understand that silver and gold are the only real money. The Federal Reserve note is a debt based currency. The dollar will continue to lose value and all tangible items will continue to rise. Your money is safe in metals. The IMF can go to you know where along with all central bank/bankers. It has become perfectly clear why and when we'll need our food storage. Accumulate food, silver and necessary tangibles and you will be able to weather the storm if you are not already prepared.

Hoosier - The government needs to stop spending! Most people don't realize that 90% of what the government does isn't Constitutional! They have no right creating all these bs agencies to control the population. You are right that they will raise taxes but that isn't the answer. Essentially the system is broken. We need to drastically cut spending. The government is so SO wasteful. Spending billions if not trillions unnecessarily. Raising taxes is futile as the very rich pay little to no taxes. GE last year payed 0 tax to the federal government. General Electric Paid No Federal Taxes in 2010 - ABC News It doesn't matter if they raise taxes because they'll just spend more. Shame on my brethren for being deceived! They've been raising taxes for years! Everything has a tax. Listen, when I got the title for my car, older car, it was literally $4 and the registration was $8. Guess what the other $30 was?! You got it! TAX! The WHOLE point of the Constitution is freedom FROM government. The Constitution permits me to do WHATEVER I want just as long as I don't injure another. Their person or property. That's how simple the Constitution is! Leave me alone! It is the same with the economy but people are so ignorant they have no idea how it works. SUPPLY AND DEMAND! Hmmmmm... sounds foreign to me? It is so simple and it works so well. If you don't believe me or understand what the Constitution was for read the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith. The Church was heavily being violated against when the Constitution protected them from such offenses. The Constitution said "Joseph, build where you please and worship how you please. Pay your debts, be fair and keep contracts." That is it! "Don't hurt others nor permit any man or yourself from limiting the liberties of others." Sounds simple?! IT IS THAT SIMPLE! God's word and His law are simple. It is man who perverts it from the beginning of time. READ ETHER CHAPTER 8!

The US has two options. Well, maybe three but the third option isn't happening. We either default on our debt or print currency to pay debts. Printing the currency is far worse and will most likely lead to a hyperinflationary depression. Defaulting will lead to a deflationary depression but much easier long term. Iceland defaulted and they have already gone through much of the pain. What people don't understand is that for you and I, debt is bad. This is the same for all governments. Why do you think the Church, or the Lord, has counseled against it? Bush spent more money than all presidents combined on unconstitutional wars and Obama is on track to spend more than all presidents combined as well. The United States gets money from selling bonds but foreign countries have curtailed their purchases dramatically so now the Federal Reserve is buying our bonds. But what people don't understand is that purchasing bonds from the Treasury is straight money printing. In fact, the Fed owns more bonds than China! The United States is in deep doo doo. No doubt about it. QE 2 is going to be followed by QE 3 and to infinity. Prepare with food storage and tangibles. Don't let anyone fool you! Use the Holy Ghost as your guide. America upholds secret combinations and the Lord said he wont allow them to fester here long. So be prepared for harder times but happier times according to President Packer. It is a sad story history. The world could be a wonderful, happy and prosperous place if wicked men didn't rule. Thankfully in the Millennium they wont and we will enjoy the Earth how it was made to be enjoyed. Oh, the third option is for the United States to stop warring around the world. Get rid of the hundreds of military bases. Pull the troops home from the over 150 countries they are in. Stop bail outs of any kind. Cut spending drastically by xx%. See if people listen to what Ron Paul had been warning about for decades we wouldn't be in this mess but a orchestrated effort has been in place to bankrupt the United States.

Men lose jobs sometime you know.

I have read that Joseph Smith, from a number of sources, wanted to go away to the Rockies. He said that it was one of the safest places in the world. I will Google and look through some of my books to find the actual quote. It always interested me.

According to a report released in December of 2008 from the US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses in state and federal prisons are over 600,000. In 2007 parole and probation violations accounted for a third of new prison admissions and while we have no exact numbers on how many are drug offense related you can be sure the number is high. Since 2000, the number of americans behind bars increased by 15%, while during the same period the US population increased by only 6.4%. “According to the US Department of Justice, 30-40 percent of all current prison admissions involve crimes that have no direct or obvious victim other than the perpetrator,” the report shows. “The drug category constitutes the largest offense category, with 31 percent of all prison admissions resulting from such crimes.” Nearly a third of all prison admissions are from non violent drug offenses! In 2007 the Department of Justice reported that there were 1,841,182 drug arrests in the United States; the report also stated that there were more drug abuse arrests than any other category of offenses. Marijuana arrests accounted for 47.4% of the drug abuse arrests. This allows us to estimate that about 872,720 persons were arrested for marijuana offenses. Eighty-nine percent of these arrests were for possession. The 2007 arrest data is even worse than 2006 when 829,627 people were arrested for marijuana (a Project Censored’s top 25 story in 2008). In 2005 there were 786,545 marijuana arrests, meaning that the number of arrests increased by 86K in just two years. Clearly, marijuana is an intense focus of police interest and activity; far more, apparently, than the less important crimes occurring at the same time on Wall Street. Marijuana Arrests Feed Insatiable U.S. Prison System | NowPublic News Coverage

Louisiana Man Gets Life for Marijuana - Repeat offender Cornell Hood gets long time in joint

I do not have an EXACT figure but the fact remains that it is asinine for a nonviolent user of marijuana to be imprisoned.

$1 Billion per year to jail marijuana users Later On Incarceration Nation — Marijuana Arrests For Year 2009 Near Record High | NORML Blog, Marijuana Law Reform

This is data from the year 2000.

It is you who has no understanding of the principles of the Constitution. If you have no understanding of the Constitution you will never understand what I am trying to say. Good luck to you Vort. Read some of what the Founders have wrote.

According to the latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice, more than two million men and women are now behind bars in the United States.1 The country that holds itself out as the "land of freedom" incarcerates a higher percentage of its people than any other country. The human costs — wasted lives, wrecked families, troubled children — are incalculable, as are the adverse social, economic and political consequences of weakened communities, diminished opportunities for economic mobility, and extensive disenfranchisement. Contrary to popular perception, violent crime is not responsible for the quadrupling of the incarcerated population in the United States since 1980. In fact, violent crime rates have been relatively constant or declining over the past two decades. The exploding prison population has been propelled by public policy changes that have increased the use of prison sentences as well as the length of time served, e.g. through mandatory minimum sentencing, "three strikes" laws, and reductions in the availability of parole or early release. Although these policies were championed as protecting the public from serious and violent offenders, they have instead yielded high rates of confinement of nonviolent offenders. Nearly three quarters of new admissions to state prison were convicted of nonviolent crimes.2 Only 49 percent of sentenced state inmates are held for violent offenses.3 Perhaps the single greatest force behind the growth of the prison population has been the national "war on drugs." The number of incarcerated drug offenders has increased twelvefold since 1980. In 2000, 22 percent of those in federal and state prisons were convicted on drug charges.4 HRW: Backgrounder: Incarcerated America, April 2003