john doe

I think The Beatles sang a song about you....

As long as I'm upwind of the rest of you, I don't care where I am in this little Clown Town.

I love vegetables. In fact I had a a wonderful baked potato the other night with my 22oz. bone-in ribeye from Elway's. Melted some butter on it, and I was in heaven. Oh, and I had a wedge salad featuring a huge chunk of lettuce smothered in Bleu Cheese and topped with a couple slices of bacon. mmmm, mmmm, good! Definitely recommend it, meat without veggies is a little bland.

Obviously it's the gun's fault that the man in possession of it pulled it out and pulled its trigger while defending himself from a fusillade of dangerous popcorn. That evil gun needs to be banned before it harms anyone again.

Had some people sing in church last week.

Welcome! Have you contacted your local church leaders and discussed your situation with them? They should be happy to help you in any way they can.

The Holy Ghost testified to me that he is/was a Prophet of God.

I saw one last month, played by a ward member who is also on the stake High Council. I doubt there is a rule forbidding their use as long as they are played in such a way as to invite the Spirit, not drive it away.

Oh, I'm still around. I just hold my tongue (keyboard) more than I used to. You can use your imaginations as to what I'm saying about you in my mind. Those who agree with me can rest assured I have your symbolic backs, and those who disagree are still wrong.

I won't be back coming back here until next year.

In case you didn't know, The Bunyion is a satire site similar to The Onion. The story is fake.

The Church has a number of self-sustaining for-profit ventures which are not funded by tithing. It is possible that at one time in the distant past some of these entities may have been started with tithing funds. It is just as possible, and just as likely, that these entities were funded with non-tithing donations from members of the Church. Sometimes the Church is the recipient of funds, stocks, land, and other properties from wealthy (or not-so-wealthy) members who wish to give more to the Church than just tithes. These for-profit entities do not currently receive any tithing funds, nor have they for many decades. They are run like any for-profit business and are subject to the same tax laws as any corporation or company. They are self-supporting and if they were to suffer losses, they have enough reserve funds set aside (non-tithing) to make adjustments such as closing locations, laying off employees, or selling assets, just as any other for-profit company would do to survive hard economic times. The City Creek complex in Salt Lake City was built by one of these for-profit entities. Tithing dollars were not used in its construction or operation, nor do I expect that they would ever be used. My expectation is that if that project were to collapse, it would be closed or sold off before the Church ever thought of propping it up with tithing monies. I work less than a mile from this project, and have never been there. I don't expect to shop there in the near future. I don't have any thoughts of going there to walk around and say "my tithing paid for this nice place", because it didn't. I don't walk into Deseret Book and expect a Church Member Discount or some other perk, because that isn't part of their business plan. I also don't go out of my way to give them my business just because they are owned by the Church. In my own personal experience, I have found that if I shop around a little I can find many of the same offerings other places for less money. That doesn't offend me, and I highly doubt that offends the Church or God that I don't often shop at these for-profit ventures. Sometimes we get caught up in the idea that just because something is owned by the Church, it somehow belongs to us and we have a right to entry based merely on our Church membership or our tithe-paying status. That's not the way things work. We pay tithing because it's a commandment, and once that money enters the Church's coffers, that is the end of our concern. It's no longer our money. It belongs to The Lord. We expect that those monies will be used to fund the affairs of the Church, but that doesn't mean that 14+million members all have to agree on how it is spent before it gets used. We as believing members trust that our Church leaders will be guided by revelation and inspiration as to the best way to use those funds.

Because you failed Anatomy 101? The hip-bone's connected to the leg-bone, the leg-bone's connected to the foot-bone? That part trips up many a budding medical school candidate, and they end up washing out of the program.

I have to pause here a moment and applaud the OP for the nice humblebrag. Well done, sir.

Ah, nerd humor. Only 1/2 of University of Utah grads get it.

Maybe he's asking why the animals in the Book of Mormon don't talk like some in the Bible do. The answer is that the horses did speak on occasion, but when Mormon asked his horse if he should include animal talk in the scriptures, the horse answered 'Nay'. As there were no horses in the vicinity to overturn the vote, Mormon had no choice but to delete all references to animals speaking in the Book of Mormon. It has been speculated by one person (the one writing this) that animal sermons are included in the sealed portion, but that has not been substantiated by any modern Prophets. As such, it is merely speculation on the part of the person who wrote this.

Oh, believe me, she is. And thanks everyone for the happy wishes.

Get used to it. Very few people get off this rock alive.

Missionaries are not supposed to ask for special meals or dishes. They are encouraged to eat whatever the host family normally eats and not make each dinner appointment a special cooking occasion in their honor.

Her first name is Sister. Over-familiarity with a missionary can be a distraction from the work. You don't need to know any more about her personal life or background than what she willingly wants to share.

If you spoke English I'd have some idea of what you're talking about.

My thought was that he was never actually there, but they implanted images of it in his mind while he was in a comatose state.

I have T-Mobile and recently upgraded my jailbroken and unlocked Iphone 3GS to a Sony Xperia Z. I went in fully intending to get an HTC 1, but they sold me on the Xperia because it is waterproof and I work in an environment where it's possible for a phone to get wet accidentally. Took me 2 days to get used to not using an Iphone and now I don't miss it at all.

Weird. I always thought the later movies were not true to the books, especially the last one with Ben Affleck. That one was awful.

How sad. He was my favorite fiction writer. He had a great way of educating the reader while telling a compelling story.