mirkwood

@EH12NG   Oh - I'm interested in a firsthand ghost story!   And this is a good thread to share it. 
With a little luck, we'll all act like we know the difference between a personal experience, beliefs, theology, and doctrine.

that one of our younger sisters sent him.

Klaw was lying here between me and the keyboard, facing toward the monitors. The window is behind me.  From some angles, you can clearly see outside via the reflection in the monitors.  Someone jogged past my house.  Klaw saw it in the monitor and immediately got up and looked over my shoulder out the window!   I'm a proud Meowmy.

Cosmic horror today.
 

 

r/fountainpens - it's the place to show off your new pen, new ink, new notebook, and how one or more matches your keyboard / hair / nail polish / wallet / car / dice / etc.  Alternately, you can get good newbie help, or help figuring out why your pen isn't writing well.  Everyone will be happy to encourage you to spend more money on fountain pen stuff.  And you'll get to vote on the color and name for the annual Diamine (that's an ink-making company) r/fountainpens ink.
r/Fountain_Pen_Cats shouldn't need any explanation.

Oh, I thought you said steak man.
 
 

 
 

HA!  Stabbed yourself in the head.

Very few people actually believe this and Tim Ballard had nothing to do with that thought process.
 
Oh and trafficking is FAR more prevalent than people want to believe.  FAR more.  

Hamas for whatever reason decided it would be a worthwhile venture to enter the long grass and pull a Tiger by the tail. Guess they'll have to learn the hard way. I hope Israel finds the justice it seeks. 

This statement is a pretty powerful read.   Bolding mine, as what I consider the argument ender about who is right and who is wrong here.
 

I answered and yes I have been censored.

Very few people actually believe this and Tim Ballard had nothing to do with that thought process.
 
Oh and trafficking is FAR more prevalent than people want to believe.  FAR more.  

Uncommon occurrence.  Yes it happens, not often.
 
 
A few, never had a custodial abduction.  Trafficking is not just about abductions either.  Or children.

Very few people actually believe this and Tim Ballard had nothing to do with that thought process.
 
Oh and trafficking is FAR more prevalent than people want to believe.  FAR more.  

Ok

Uncommon occurrence.  Yes it happens, not often.
 
 
A few, never had a custodial abduction.  Trafficking is not just about abductions either.  Or children.

Part of the good fight, is the fight against ignorance.   Y'all ok in my book, LDSG.
You don't need to worry about getting human trafficked at Target.   You do need to worry if your daughter goes from a straight-A student to barely hitting Ds, seems withdrawn, and you find a cell phone in her room you didn't know she had.

I had heard things were brewing, but the Trib does the service of posting the actual complaint.  So, sorting through this thing, I'm learning more ways dudes will go to weird extremes to rub themselves on women. 
The Couple's Ruse - "Hey random woman who supports the cause - I'm going undercover and need someone to pretend to be my wife.  No kissing on the lips, no touching or exposing private parts.  Bad guys will be suspicious, so we'll need to practice our tantric massages on each other to make sure we have chemistry and can fool them!  And when we're alone in our hotels, we still need to pretend because the bad guys may be spying on us.  And you're doing it to save children - whaddaya say?"
And this little gem:

Aaaand, I stopped reading at item 90, because there's more and more and more.  The women allege that all of this constitutes grooming, coercion, and therefore assault.  
 
Grooming primer every human who wants to think of themselves as a good informed human should read: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/head-games/202209/the-5-stages-predatory-sexual-grooming
Up until now, when I thought of grooming, I thought of predators and minors under the age of consent.  This is the first time I've seen it applied to consenting adults.  I mean, I get it, it's just new.  They used to call it 'gaslighting' or 'manipulation' or 'sleezy tactics from sleezy men', but ok.
Tell you what @Phoenix_person, I'm happy to think of what TB did as grooming, even potentially qualifying as assault or rape, if you're willing to read this article and think some long, hard thoughts about the endless instances of LGBTQ activists pushing drag shows and explicit books and transitioning-behind-parents'-backs to minors, in and out of school settings.   
If it's wrong when Ballard does it to adult women, is it also wrong when LGBTQ folks do it to minors?
 
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/head-games/202209/the-5-stages-predatory-sexual-grooming
Bolding, underlining, and editing mine:
 
 

Mirkwood, there was an Unsolved Mysteries on the Gurdon Light in Arkansas.  I suggest you watch it.  I am posting the video below.   The video starts at 2:10 and goes until 13:10.  It is interesting to me and perhaps supernatural.
 
 

We could spend a lot of time on this site talking about the similarities between Christians--especially Evangelicals--and even more especially Pentecostals and LDS. There are many. We mostly share political views, chastity views, and worship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We share a love for the Bible. Then again, there are many differences. It could be seen as a show of respect to admit such. I value your beliefs enough not to sweep them under a rug or to pretend they don't matter. As but one example, @Traveleroften responds to my posts by saying he respects me as a person but has serious disagreements with my content. To me, that is high regard. He values me enough to affirm character but also enough to engage with my ideas rather than diminish them. 
Okay--some Christians are dense. Their manner of communication is clumsy, unnecessarily confrontation, and too often angry. Others may seem nice but come across as disingenuous. I sometimes wish we could just agree to disagree and focus on matters we admire. However, sometimes having respectful disagreements is more sincere. 

People do a lot of foolish things--sometimes even evil ones--in the name of their God. Some of these have been Christians. Churches and individuals should want to align with truth. If a church or an individual believes that Jesus is God the Son, then would they not want to identify with the Christian faith?
Jews believe Jesus was a false prophet, so they would not call themselves Christians. Muslims believe that Jesus was a true prophet, but that God had no sons--that Jesus is not the Son of God. So, they do not call themselves Christians. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Jesus is a great prophet, a great teacher, and that he is God's son--but not equal to Jehovah--perhaps a god. So, they deride "Christendom," and want nothing to do with it.
LDS, while not trinitarian, do believe that Jesus is the Son of God. How closely the church wishes to align with the greater Christian movement remains an open question.

I wouldn't call it "Israel declares war".  I'd call it "Israel is under coordinated attack by Hamas, who has launched ~3000 missiles and conducted open insurgent attacks on multiple cities and areas all at once, with some reports claiming the insurgents have taken prisoners"
Recognizing that these actions mean you are in a state of war, is slightly different than Israel declaring war.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/292301566945218

There is not enough time or bandwidth to answer that question.