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Whenever I hear people saying we need to stop global warming or that mankinds influence is a big factor that needs to stop I like to look at these charts This one shows the temperate changes for nearly half a million years. The human influence is a tiny tiny dot at the very end. It would appear the earth has been happy reeling from one extereme to another long before we had any influence on the matter. Then there is this next one It only covers 11,000 years (since the last ice age) and man kinds influence is a slightly bigger dot at the very right. To make the claim that we can somehow stop this process that has been going on for thousands of years without our help by capping our CO2 emission and freezing our progress is simply stupid. Instead of trying to stop it, we should be preparing to adapt to it.. which is wildly different from what the current political agenda is

The daily quote section is not a place for debating. To keep this thread from continuing its spiral in the wrong direction I am closing this thread

The problem you are having with your Brother-In-Law... is a secondary problem to your main one. Your main one is that you and your wife are not united in this course of action that is being taken. I would state that you and your wife learning to work through your difference and being able to come to a mutually agreeable plan of action is much more important (to you and your wife) then worrying if you are enabling your B-I-L. Now you have made your case to us, but we can't talk to your wife, we can only talk to you. That presents a problem. If we agree with you and disagree with your wife (as you have presented) then we risk polarizing your situation with your wife, we risk encouraging your into an "I'm right stance" when you need to be in a "Lets work through this" stance. Now if we disagreed with you it would be less risky because we can talk and reason with you... but in the end it is not us that need to convince you or have you convince us, it you and your wife that need to have that discussion

Oh I wish... It would have saved me from messing up my sons baptism the first time I tried it. I took a lot of time and effort to help him understand and know... then I mess it up.

In that case you want this... About half way down Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood: Basic Manual for Priesthood Holders, Part B Lesson 5: Performing Priesthood Ordinances

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If they want to have a automatic ban process for someone that trips over the word filter that is their right... It seems a bit harsh to me, but I know I'd really love an automatic spammer banner so I can also understand to have more automation and less work. Here we have a simple pattern recognition for questionable words... Its not context sensitive at all. This creates some problems with more common uses of the words. Like talking about the comic book, and movie character Dick Tracy, or the breed of dog known as Cocker Spaniel and others, but we put up with it because its a more trivial annoyance to what it blocks. The filter however doesn't decide (nor protect) someone from getting banned or infracted for swearing, that is a judgement call made by the mods based on context. Even if you are creative or clever enough to get pass the filter the post is going to be judged on if you broke the rule or you were just trying to have a conversation and the filter was being annoying.

I'll answer this in a general 'most likely happened this way' that can hopefully answer without give you details you don't want to know. We get spammers in all parts of the system, and when they show up it falls to a mod to clean it up. This includes the PM system. I am not someone that can read PMs but I still have clean up duty. I learn about someone spamming the PM when someone who has received a spammed PM reports it. When I get a report I can act to delete the user account and all PMs that user sent. All while never seeing any PMs but my own. I can also monitor the overall system activity. If we normally have 30 PMs in a day and when I check and see that we are at 230 and climbing... well that is a big red flag. Then I can check who is currently in the section of the website for composing PMs... I can't tell what they are writing just that they are there. If they are new, if they are there forever, if they are the only ones there, and the PM count keeps rising... then I have a pretty good suspect, but I still don't know. I have to raise the flag to one of the people that can check. Then I have to wait... wait for them to come online and check or wait for a report from an affected user. When we can act the user gets deleted.. Meaning the profile goes away, PMs go away, blogs go away, pretty much everything but the forum posts they might have, goes away. All without looking into anyone's PMs. They become marked as guest in the forum posts and your PM box might still say you have an unread message, which you can't clear because the message is gone.

I can't help but notice that all the problems related to polygamy are also directly related to the 'natural man.' That is going to be a chronic issue Which could very well explain why it only gets commanded to be done under very special circumstances.

And that is enough rule breaking in this thread

Washington DC 94-96. I got there right as the Baltimore Maryland mission broke off. I understand that it made us one of the smaller missions geographically with just DC and southern Maryland. I suppose one of my fondest memories was when I got to shake President Hinckley's hand. The Prophet had come to town to take care of some business. (which if I remember correctly included giving the then sitting US President a book containing his family history) The whole mission was granted permission to leave the mission boundaries and go to a chapel in Arlington to here him speak. It was a late evening meeting. There was a speaker before him. On any other occasion the first speaker would have been great to hear from, I think it was another apostle that was traveling with him, but we hadn't traveled to hear from an apostle (although that would have been a great reason to) we had traveled to hear from the prophet, and I simply don't remember who the first guy was. I do remember President Hinckley getting up saying to his companion that he had been assigned as primary speaker and that usually meant speaking for 20 to 30 minutes, which he had done considerable less then. Technically I suppose it was a rebuke, but it came off as a ribbing between friends. Personally in my totally biased opinion I think that man choose the better path. Because we then got to hear from President Hinckley for the remainder of the time. Before going, my mission leaders were careful to try to manage our expectations. They told us that he had arthritis in his hands and that shaking the hands of hundreds of missionaries (multiple missions were involved) could very well be beyond his physical ability. So after flying in, spending the day working meeting with various political leaders and power brokers then in the evening giving a much longer then expected talk to a horde of eager missionaries, he could have called it quits and everyone would have been happy. But he didn't. I can only assume he did it because he knew how much it would mean to us. For him I had to appear to be just another missionary face in a large group of other faces, and yet for me it is a fond memory and brief personal experience as to the kind of man he was.

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The OT has been posted for 2 years the NT for one... So adjusting for time the numbers are closer 60,000 to 50,000 or 30,000 to 25,000.. depending on if you cut the OT in half or double the NT numbers to make up for it. Of course this assumes a steady rate of views

Wikipedia has a decent summary. Mormon views on evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I like the section on the Roberts–Smith–Talmage dispute on the subject. If some notable General Authorities can have very different opinions on the subject, it seems only fair to let more Lay member have their own too

Another way to look at it would be to realize you are coming out of a self imposed excommunication/disfellowshipment. Sure it wasn't official but just about everything a Bishop would want to see from someone that was officially done he is going to also see in someone fighting their way back from inactivity. Just like with them he is going monitor your progress and step up your involvement through callings and temple blessing depending on how you are progressing. Once you can see it from this view point, then you can understand how rare it would be for a bishop to decide to follow up with an official action. The bishop is not there to punish, he is there to help you find the way back.

Congratulations As for the missionaries... they are trained an instructed how to help people get baptized. I am reasonably sure that is not an option in your case. In your case it sounds like they are helping with fellow shipping and reactivation, which while it is important, is not what they've been trained for. So they could be a bit out of their depth on how to time things. If this is the case then give them a hand, if you would like the lessons (which are not required if I understand correctly) then ask about them. They should be more then happy to review them with you if they know you are interested.

I would say you are already feeling the effects of this right now. All the worry, all the stress, the fact that it is taking up a lot of your thoughts. What you are feeling right now is a form of this. You have two choices... You can choose to not go to the bishop... in which case you are left to struggle on your own. To either try to deny or justify your actions as not being that bad or already being taken care of. How much peace this brings you really depends on how well you can convince yourself. Your other choice is to go to your bishop... To do whatever part of church discipline is found to be necessary to get out from under these feeling. So that you will be able to stand confident before the Lord in your own mind, knowing you have done what was necessary, and take advantage of Christ promise to heal the troubled soul.

I would suggest as a first thing is to gain a testimony (if you don't already have one) that your bishop however flawed or imperfect he might be, is Called of God. That the Lord has chosen him. That he is the right person, in the right place at the right time to be your bishop, in spite of all his flaws. This will help you have the right mindset. That you are there to help a fellow saint struggling with a huge burden (bishop is huge calling). This means doing your calling as best you can and JudoMinja has some good suggestions to help him if he struggles, but that is really all you can do. In the end he is the bishop and has the authority to over rule. Should he make poor choices he will have to answer for them.

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I'm going to agree with Anne on this one. I think you are missing the lost potential. First of all your ex has had a huge impact on your life. Despite that impact being mostly negative and you needing to break free, it left a huge void in your life. The mind is a interesting thing in that it will try to predict the future and fill in the blanks it can't see. It does so by using what it already knows. Thus your ex is popping up quite easily. This should fade as time passes, and more distance is gained from him, and you begin to redefine your life without him being its focus. This will give your mind other ways to fill in the blanks.

Blocky you have the same root problem as was discussed here http://www.lds.net/forums/how-do-i-questions-forum/42906-account-problems.html Your symptoms are a bit different but the root problem is the same. And the fix is the same. Follow the directions given to Cneve and we will work to get you full access. Please use that thread to further discuss the issue so we don't further derail this one.

All the post here service to point out that their really isn't a wrong answer to this question. There might be a 'wrong for you and your situation' answer, but that is a personal thing and should not be universally applied to different people to whom it might not work for.

When I first read my blessing it seemed to say something very much like this... But as I studied it more I came up with a few ways that it could work without meaning it will happen in my life time

Well.. you just judge now didn't you?

Oh please... you are jumping from one extreme to another... and the true path is in the middle... You made the claim and you got corrected on your mistaken assumption. Now you are swinging the other way.There are alot of things that happen on this forum that are not what forum is for, but they are allowed if they don't interfere with it. For those of you who might have missed what the forums purpose is you can find it here About Us » LDS Social Network