john doe

Hello

Congrats you two! If you're reading this and it has been less than a week since the wedding, shame on the both of you.

Excellent advice. A lot of people don't realize that what you say, type, send or print can eventually come back and bite you in the behind.

Welcome back Skal.... er, Marc.

I dunno about this kind of thing. Yeah, it's nice that they are doing something nice for people who have come upon hard times, but it seems to me that in this real estate market they could have found an existing empty home that would have fit the needs of the people fairly easily. I know it defeats the purpose of the show to just buy an existing home and give it to the family, but it seems to me to be a bit wasteful to build one and give it to them just to say you built them a home. Or maybe I'm just being cynical knowing that they won't be building me a new house for free anytime soon. Personally, I would like to see them go to Joplin MO and just start building house after house for people who lost everything in the tornadoes. But then that wouldn't be very good TV, would it?

And you do a mighty fine job of it too.

I just joined the 21st century by getting an iphone. I'm finding that there are tons of apps out there for it, but there don't seem to be many filters that tell you whether an app is worth downloading or using. What are some of your favorite apps or games to use? I've downloaded a few fitness and exercise apps, but have found that some are kind of clunky. Nike Trainer looks like it may be interesting. What about picture apps? Good games? The previous owner had Angry Birds, and it's okay. Productivity or note apps? I'm cheap, so I won't pay for an app unless it promises to be awesome.

Since this thread is based on a joke picture, and you want to draw parallels with it, are you saying that your thread was a joke?

Keep it up! One thing that will help get a marriage through the rough times is a great sense of humor and the ability to be positive in every situation.

Hmmm I originally read the title as 'hitting a millstone', and immediately remembered you are getting married soon.

Wow. The short time period does sound strange, but it may be new reaction based on criticisms that people have waited years or decades to be removed from the church rolls. Good luck to you in this new phase of your life.

Here's the thing: When someone decides that they no longer want to be a member, and are determined enough to go through the whole process of having their name removed from the Church's membership rolls, it indicates that the person really wanted to go through with that process. So when a few months later, if that person has a change of heart and decides that they really do want to be a member of the church and that they have a testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel, the leaders need to be sure that the person is really serious about that decision. They want to make sure that your testimony of the gospel and your commitment to living the commandments is sufficient that the next time you have a crisis of your faith, that you are not going to run back and demand to be removed from the church rolls again on a whim. They want to see you attending all your church meetings, and outwardly showing your commitment to living the standards of the church for a substantial period of time. They probably also want to hold regular interviews and ask probing questions about your faith and testimony. They want to know that you understand the gospel and what it takes to live it long-term. When it comes down to it, a year really isn't that long. If you put your mind to it and determine that you really want to do this thing, then the time will fly by, and when you are ready, your bishop will know it, and you will have a greater appreciation for and commitment to the gospel when the time comes for rebaptism.

Two big concerns we had, among others: Sexting and trolling. You would think that people would come to LDS chatrooms to discuss various aspects of the gospel, but there were a lot of unsavory conversations going on as well. You would be surprised the kinds of things some people talk about with complete strangers when they think they are not being monitored. And in the words of Forrest Gump, that's all we're going to say about that.

Hello and welcome to the site.

Let's settle down boys and girls. If you don't like a thread, it's best to report it with the reasons why, and then leave it alone. Going into attack mode every time you don't like a topic can become aggravating to mods who are trying to determine whether a violation has occurred.

Honesty is the best policy.

And for very good reason.Why don't you go out to the orchard and cut me a nice willow switch?

I know you're excited, but you don't need to tantalize us with lurid, kinky tales of your alternate lifestyle choices.

You're new here, so I'll let this slide, but I encourage you to read the site rules. I especially encourage you to reread rule #6. The fact that I am a moderator does not affect my response, even though you wish to browbeat me with it. Because your second sentence brought up the fact that you are new here, and then you immediately went into your criticisms. If you did not mean to include this site in your observations, you could have made it more clear. You did not clarify that this site was not included in your observations, and since those observations immediately followed your statement that you are new here, I assumed that you were talking about this site. For that miscommunication, I apologize, even though I think you could have been more clear in your criticism of other sites. I tied the two things together because one sentence followed the other. Sorry, my fault for linear thinking. Just curious, what was your mother's username? Maybe one of the old-timers here remembers her. I'm sure that, being your mother, she would evoke fond memories for those who knew her. Just for the record, vort is a man. He doesn't mean to be misleading with his avatar, but sometimes new people don't realize it for a while. Again, I apologize for tying one sentence you wrote to the one directly after it. I'll try not to let it happen again. Perhaps because she also made the same mistake I made of thinking that one sentence following another means the second sentence relates to the first one. I apologize for her, and will have strong words with her for this outrageous behavior. Yeah, I know what you mean, this seems to be a strange and unexplainable episode of mistaken identities and intentions. Please feel free to point out your criticisms of other sites in the future, though. I know I will remember that you really don't mean that they apply to us here........

Okay guys, let's lighten up and call it a night before someone says something they wish they hadn't.

Please link on this site to where an LDS member showed signs of being offended by a member of another faith stating that they are committed to living their religion. Please link where a member of the LDS church on this site stated that God does not answer the prayers of non-LDS people, and that the board consensus was that this belief is correct. You'll get no argument from most on this board on this point. Some may not understand what you just wrote and find fault with it, but most here will not. Agreed. However, you may not be aware that those who have been here a little longer than you have seen a few people come and go. Our visitors have run the gamut. Some have come honestly trying to understand our beliefs or come to a common ground where we can find an agreement, some have come to gently show us how we are mistaken, some have come come to 'witness' to us. Others have come to destroy or tear us down, with the mistaken belief that the only way to show a Mormon that they are wrong is to destroy his beliefs. Others have come as former members with ulterior motives, mainly to prove us wrong. They have lost their faith and won't rest until we have lost ours as well. The thing is, those who come to destroy generally use the same argument lifted from the same sources that their forebears have used for decades. Those who have been here for a while have become very familiar with these types and patterns, and have dealt with them many times over. Frankly, we grow tired of dealing with the same old arguments time after time after time, especially when someone comes in here throwing it around as if they just discovered water in the desert. We are pretty quick to recognize them for what they are, and point them out. We also have rules against that kind of behavior, and send them on their way to other sites which are only too happy to rehash the same old junk to their hearts' content. We view the mission of this site to be uplifting and confirming of the LDS lifestyle and beliefs. We also believe that people are free to debate the other stuff elsewhere. We don't feel that we have the responsibility to entertain every guy or gal out there with an axe to grind against the LDS Church. We do and have talked about most troubling topics concerning the Church, but do so within the rules of the site, and try to do while maintaining our self-respect.

No, it's where your argument turns from being silly to being absurd. The vast majority of people who attend sporting events don't go to 'oogle and lust after' cheerleaders, they go watch an athletic performance. Now, I could kind of see your comparison if you had said they were attending a Lingerie League game, but you are making a direct comparison of Hooters, a restaurant which focuses on serving wings and breasts, with a sporting event where a peripheral portion of the ambiance is cheerleaders who, truth be told, are dressed no more skimpily than many of the attendees. The cheerleaders are not the main focus of the event nor a big reason why people go to those events. You will rarely see a sporting event where attendance can be traced not by the wins and losses of the team, but by how scantily their cheerleaders are clad. But people will still go to Hooters to eat merely to enjoy the view, no matter how bad the food is. I can actually agree with this, if the intent of the father is attending the game to lust after the women on the sidelines who have no bearing on the outcome of the game. He would be going for the wrong reasons. If a man goes to a football game to look at women he is doing it wrong, and more expensively than he needs to. But if he is going with his son to bond with him at an event where exciting athletes are displaying their skills, I'm not going to judge the man poorly if there also happen to be cheerleaders urging him to cheer when his team does well. I'm not sure how you can not see the difference between the two things. If in your mind there is no difference, then I suggest you stay away from both places. Personally, I go to athletic events to watch the athletes, not the cheerleaders, female or male. I choose not to go to Hooters because I hear the food is not worth it.

The OP was pretty unclear. If you had stated you were talking about that particular time, it would have helped if you had mentioned it. Not all of us are mind-readers, even though we play them on the internet.

This is not the first time I've wished for that.

Usually success is a good thing, not a crisis. I don't have a problem with being successful in what I try to accomplish.