Latter Days Guy

"The agricultural system of Skye is crofting, and for the benefit of those to whom 'croft' is a new word let us explain. It is not a building or a house as is often implied, but a smallholding or a stretch of land ranging in size from 1 acre to 50 acres or upwards. The tenant or owner of a croft is called a 'crofter'. A crofter's son once defined a croft as a small area of land surrounded by regulations." A Short History of Crofting in Skye The Cornish language (in Cornish: Kernowek, Kernewek, Curnoack) is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages (Brythonic also includes Welsh, Breton, the extinct Cumbric and perhaps the hypothetical Ivernic). The languages Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Manx are part of the separate Goidelic group. Cornish shares about 80% basic vocabulary with Breton, 75% with Welsh, 35% with Irish, and 35% with Scottish Gaelic. By comparison, Welsh shares about 70% with Breton. Cornish continued to function as a community language until the late 18th century, and was revived early in the 20th century. Cornish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aaah! I was thinking it was some kind of rubix cube thing or a new form of cubism!

Whats a Cuber?

I have no problem myself with paying a tithe, I was just asking the question about other ways of making up your tithe to stimulate a discussion on it.

It is a very difficult decision as she sees it as wasted money that could go to better use, I obviously see it as my comitment to the Gospel principle of giving a tithe. Yes at times (well most of the time) we struggle with finances but we have not failed to pay our bills etc. We also have the added pressure of an uncertain future in regards to my wifes job, she works in a bank that has just been taken over by the goverment and the future is looking pretty bad as they will probably lay off a load of staff to help them balance the books before they are sold on again to the highest bidder. Are there other ways to pay tithes other than with money, could you tithe your time by doing work for the church for example?

I've also got a question about tithing. What would happen if a church members partner was not a member of the church, has no interest/anti the church and disagrees with the paying of tithes to the church. Should the member go against his partners wishes in regards to paying tithes no matter what the conseqences? My wife is not a member of the church, she is very anti LDS and we have had a rough time since I returned to the church. The one area that we have the hardest time getting over is tithing. We are not that well off finacially, have a large morgage and two kids to bring up and she sees the ammount of money that I pay as tithes could be put to better use like paying off our debts, utility bills etc first before giving a large chunk of our limited resources to a church she does not support or believe in. What do you think is the solution to a situation like this?

From what I remember from my time at Bible college (Mattersey Hall, the AOG Bible College in the UK) this passage was taught to mean the book of revelation and not the whole cannon of the bible.

I've had a talk with my wife and we have now come to an understanding over the church and its role in my life. She said she shouldn't have told me to make the choice between her and the church and as long as I don't shove it down her throat she will not mention it again. She has finally realised that the church is an important part of my life and has said she will not stop me from attending, which is a big step for her to take after what she originally said. She told me that she thought that the church would try and steal me away from her and the kids, that they were like the moonies or Scientology. Hopefully over time she will begin to ask more about the church, but I'm not going to force it onto her. I really want us to be united together in the temple so we can spend eternity together, hopefully she will come to find out more about the church and discover we aren't a bunch of loons who brainwash people! Anyway, thank you all for your advice and prayers. I do believe that the Holy Spirit has been at work today and that it was your prayers that help. Thank you.

Thanks for the advice, I have never actively forced the church on her. I have asked a couple of times if she would like to talk about the church, usually after she has mentioned something about it, but she just doesn't want anything to do with the church at all.

Thats the problem, she won't tell me what it is she doesn't like. She just calls the people at church a bunch of nutters and that she doesn't want to be brainwashed by them. I only wish she would explain her problems to me and then maybe we could work it out but that just doesn't happen.

Since returning to the church my wife has been against me attending. She has constantly tried to get me to stop going and has tried everything bar asking me to choose between the church and our family. Well that has now changed. My wife has given me the ultimatum of choosing between her and our family and the church. I love my family so much and I also love the church, I just do not know what to do. I want to remain true to the church but I cannot face loosing my family, especially as we are expecting our second child in a little under 10 weeks time. I have tried to get her interested in the church but she will have nothing to do with it. I am at my wits end, I do not want to leave the church but it looks like that may be the only option that I can make to keep my family. I've come here to get it off my chest, as I have found that all of you at LDStalk are such caring and deeply spiritual people. You have helped me back into the church of my youth as much as the missionaries who came round at my request. Now I must make the this terrible choice, I don't know which way to turn.

I've just stuck a couple of posts up on the site and it does look like a pretty nice site I'm GB-UK by the way, just like on this site. I've left a little introduction about myself aswell on the intro thread.

I've just signed up to the new site aswell and will post on it as long as it doesn't becoming a knocking shop against the LDS church.

Actually my stats are not wrong. Gun crime in the UK is still rare with 50 deaths in 2005/2006 compared with 78 the year before. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6386085.stm The number of homicides committed with firearms has remained between a range of 46 and 97 for the past decade, standing at 50 in 2005/06 (a fall from 75 the previous year) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_..._United_Kingdom Those who argue in defense of hand guns and say they should continue to be legal and easily obtained, in virtually unlimited numbers don’t have a good response to numbers such as these: in 2006, 46 people died in all of England as a result of shooting (this includes all guns, including handguns which are illegal in the U.K.). In the same period, in New York, which has about 20 percent of the population of the U.K had 579 gun deaths in 2006. http://www.ihateitall.com/bm/politics/guns...ll-people.shtml

Because shootings are rare in the UK. Like I have previously posted there was 50 gun related deaths in the UK in 2006, now compare that to the several thousand deaths in the same time period for the US. Like someone has already said you cannot compare gun crime/culture in the UK with the US because we are such different cultures. You have the right to carry firearms, we do not. You feel safe because you have a gun, I feel save because I and 99% of the other people in the UK do not own a gun either. If it was legal for us to have guns in the UK, would I have one? Probably not, but then it would depend on where I was living and if gun crime was on the increase.

My parents house was broken into once. We were all asleep upstairs and didn't hear a thing. Fortunately the people who did it were caught even before we had woken up. Had we have woken up and challenged them they would have probably just run away. I think that is the difference between the US and the UK, criminals are more likely to make a stand instead of risking the chance of capture because they have easy access to firearms. It's very difficult to get a firearm in the UK legally, and can be just as hard to find someone to supply you with an illegal one. You cannot just walk into your local Wal-Mart and buy a weapon in the UK and I believe that that is a major problem in the US, the ease at which you can buy something that can take another persons life.

The thing is though, the police in the Britain don't want to be armed. There is so little gun crime here, or the threat of gun crime that it's just not needed. I must admit that the one thing that puts me off visiting the US is the thought of all those people carrying guns around with them. It seems to me that not a month goes by without a fatal shooting spree being reported in the news from the US. The UK is a lot safer because we have such strict gun controls, I can walk down the street without having to thing does that funny looking bloke have a concealed handgun? Unlike the US we cannot legally have guns so therefore the chances of encountering someone with one is very small indeed. OK, then what IS the answer to protecting yourself from gun violence? If someone comes into your house with a gun, what can you do? Absolutely nothing, if you don't have a gun. The damage will most liely be done before the cops get there. Alarms can possibly help, but not always, as the criminal knows that response time is not immediate. I don't want to offend anyone, but it's my opinion that you cannot adequately protect your family WITHOUT a gun. If someone was to break into my house and they have a gun, then I wouldn't try to do anything. What I do know though, if I did have a gun and attempted to use it the chances of my family being injured or even killed are going to be significantly higher. Whats more important, loosing a few possessions or loosing your family?

We don't get that type of gun crime very often in the UK, most gun crime in the UK is organised crime syndicates killing off the opposition or gangs shooting at each other. I cannot remember the last time I read or saw on the news of a police officer facing down an armed suspect.

The original poster mentioned that the police in the UK don't carry guns, this is true to some extend. The police officers you will encounter on the street do not carry firearms but there are armed response units which can be called upon and will be on the scene of an incident in pretty quick time. You cannot really compare the UK with the US, as in the UK there has not been the same level of gun ownership as there is in the US. Here it has mainly been hunting rifles and shotguns available and until about 10 years ago handguns. Handguns were banned in the UK after a shooting at a school where a lot of very young children were killed, the public outcry was such that a law was passed within a very short time that banned the ownership of any handguns. I believe that there is a severe prison sentence given in the UK for anyone caught with a handgun in their possession, I think its about 10 years in custody, but I could be wrong so will have to check.

I've done it The talk went well and even though I thought I would never talk for the full ten minutes, I got a bit of a shock when the Bishop stuck a peice of paper on the pulpit from behind me with "your times up, could you wrap up please" written on it Everyone was very supportive and said that I had done really well Now I hope the next one is a few months away.

here has been a spate of shootings recently involving teenage victims in London but gun crime in the UK is still rare with 50 deaths in 2005/2006 compared with 78 the year before. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6574617.stm I don't consider it a loss of freedom to not have a gun. And its not disarmed but unarmed, I would need to be carrying a weapon to be disarmed.

Like that works in the UK where you have no border with anyone really? It does not work there and it would not work here. Or how about Jamacia? Used to be such a lovely place... then they outlawed guns and guess what... crime when through the roof and now the cops are out gunned and the criminals control the place. Outlaw guns and only outlaws have them. Like making a "gun free zone" but Mr. Cho did not seem to follow that law either. Criminals do NOT follow the law... thats why we call them criminals. Lets also not forget for one split second that owning a firearm is a RIGHT as a free person. Yes we have gun crime in the UK, we had 50 deaths in 2005/6 that were attributed to gun crime. How many were there in the USA for that time period?

Maybe if you banned firearms sales to civilians there wouldn't be so many shootings in schools etc. If they don't have access to the guns then they cannot shoot people with them, makes sence to me.

Did she have a sex change or something? Just checked out the first video and she does look like a man, who is she/he?

Thanks CrimsonKairos, that's great advice