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I can about guarantee that if you're in a "Gun Free Zone" anywhere around where I live, it ain't gun free. Concealed means concealed.

On my mission in the Dominican Republic we used soda a great deal to hydrate, and indeed were instructed to do so as needed if purified water was unavailable. While the soda may be suboptimal, you do a lot better on soda for hydration than you do with water that is going to cause diarrhea so severe that you can't absorb water fast enough to not die of dehydration. According to several horror stories told us in the MTC, that had happened. There were also stories of permanent disability caused by some of the various critters living in some of the water Soda is a safe source of water. It has to be pure water or strange things can happen. In the MTC they also told us of an experiment where soda was deliberately laced with various parasites and pathogens. 24 hours later everything was dead. There are 2 takeaways here. One, soda can't be that good for you. Two, if there isn't any clean water, you can get something from soda.

I would agree with you for a general family ward. You're supposed to be an adult and be able to figure out how to do things in a new area. It's part of life. In a ysa ward, you have a bunch of kids away from mommy and daddy for the first time in their lives. In such a situation, something that helps them feel welcome and gives them some practical help might be a bit more useful. It's even less about the information, and more about letting people know that "we're here if you need help."

My guess as to why most of the Apostles are American is because of geopolitics. Unlike seventies, Apostles have to go to pretty much any country. Let's appoint an African Apostle, whoops, he's the wrong nationality or ethnic group, and can't go into over half of the African countries. Let's appoint a Latino Apostle, Same problem. The simple fact of the matter is that someone with a U.S. passport can get into almost every country on earth with little to no effort. People who look American (white), and act American, can enter most places easily and are fairly safe. Others may not be so much. When I was on my mission in the Dominican Republic, the the Americans could get in pretty much anywhere. The Dominicans had to wait as long as a year to get a valid Visa to enter Guatemala to attend the temple (I was in the DR when their temple was announced). For an American on the rare occasions that an American went, it was a matter of grabbing his passport and going in as a tourist. Now the Lord calls whom he will, and then qualifies those, but if you think that certain realities of the world don't enter the equation, you're frankly wrong. God can do a great deal, but the one thing he is prohibited from doing is interfering with free agency. The scale of miracle it would take to make it possible for an Apostle called from certain places to go anywhere in the world would assuredly do so.

I knew there had to be some, but couldn't think of any. Thanks.

It seems I was wrong this shooter killed himself as soon as he saw the cops. http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/03/us/oregon-umpqua-community-college-shooting/ Every shooter I can think of has killed himself almost immediately on encountering armed resistance. Such would indicate that the number of deaths due to friendly fire in a shooting incident is going to be smaller than the number of deaths due to the shooting itself since statistics indicate that the vast majority of mass shooters will kill themselves almost immediately on encountering armed resistance.

Since when? I've purchased all of my guns legally. If you live in a free state and have a concealed weapons license, you can go in fill out the form 4473, show your permit and they don't even need to make a phone call. I think the longest time I ever spent purchasing a gun was my SKS, that took a couple or three hours, but that included wandering around the gun show for an extended period of time. Of course I live in Idaho, I can (and have) legally purchase a gun at a yard sale.

Come to think of it, this is the first time I can remember (I may have missed some) that the mass shooter did not shoot himself almost immediately on encountering armed resistance.

The problem with this question is the term "gun violence". It automatically assumes that violence, even deadly violence, that comes from something other than a gun is somehow OK. When guns access is restricted, those wanting to commit crime either get guns anyway, or use something other than guns. In one mythbusters episode, they toured a supermax prison as part of investigating a myth about whether or not a convict could manufacture a makeshift crossbow in prison. They were shown a small exhibit of makeshift weapons made in the prison. One such weapon was a 9mm small machine gun made from plumbing parts. Indeed you can get about 90 percent of the supplies needed to manufacture an M3 small machine gun as used in WWII (replaced the Thompson SMG not because it was better but because it was less than 1/10th the cost), at Home Depot, more if you're willing to forego the accuracy of a rifled barrel. While yes it is true that there is more gun violence in the U.S. than in most other countries, it is not true that there is more violent crime in general in the U.S. It is also true that the cities in the U.S. with the strictest gun control are the ones with the most gun violence. I can't remember the exact numbers, but if you removed the top 4 cities with the strictest gun control in the U.S. from the figures, the U.S. drops about to about 100th in overall violence.

The problem is that I almost killed myself more than once because I listened to that tripe. If that was the best life got, I didn't want to even experience the rest. At a minimum it is willful endangerment.

I'm pretty sure I shared this here before, but when I was three I was more articulate than most three year olds, I can remember sitting on the bench and smelling something horrible. Let's just say it was pretty close to my dad's particular 'flavor'. I'm not sure when it was during the meeting, but there was someone up talking at the stand and I was under the impression that it was a prayer. Let's just say the odor was bad enough that I lost my decorum and belted out "DADDY FARTED!" at the top of my little lungs. From what I heard later the person at the podium about choked trying not to laugh. After he was done, the bishop got up and said "Don't we love our little ones?" Of course the worst part is that it wasn't my dad. We never did find out for sure who it was, but my mom told me that the lady one row in front of us turned a very bright shade of red. To my father's credit, I'm still alive.

I've always felt that telling people that high school is the "best time" of their lives ought to be a capital offence.

I skipped my 10th many years ago. As far as I could tell, there was no 20th. My wife thought I should go, I didn't care.

It sounds like it is to me. The bolded part would seem to refer to a particular member who is saying she has received visions that this particular eclipse will mark "the beginning of the end".

That was cruel, I was eating and everything.

I think a lot of the problem with hydrogen is that it can be tricker to store and transport than things that are liquid or more easily liquefied. There also isn't nearly as much energy in a given volume of hydrogen. While hydrogen has the highest energy density by weight of any combustible (you get more power out of a pound of hydrogen than you get out of a pound of gasoline), hydrogen doesn't weigh much so you get vastly more energy out of a gallon of gasoline than you do out of a gallon of hydrogen stored at any reasonable amount of pressure. The other problem is a false aversion to hydrogen. We all know it was the hydrogen that caused the Hindenberg explosion (it probably wasn't, but we all "know" a lot of things that aren't true), so most consumers are somewhat averse to driving around in a mini Hindenberg. It doesn't matter that what they're thinking has no basis in reality, when it comes to producing salable products perception might as well be reality.

From what I understand, far more than the oil. While they CAN be disposed of safely, like everything else they aren't always. Moreover there are problems if you get in an accident. First you can rupture a battery. Second, you now have some much higher voltage lines going places in the car. If rescue personnel cut one of these wires while trying to rescue you, they can die. It could conceivably electrify the exterior of the car etc. Still as noted above, if the battery in the hybrid goes bad the car still works with worse mileage, negating the only legitimate reason for getting the hybrid in the first place. The other reason would be to feel superior for having a hybrid, they don't have to know if it's getting just as bad of mileage as a non-hybrid because the battery is dead. As far as the full electrics, no thanks. When you can get me a battery electric that has a 400 mile range and can be recharged for another 400 miles in less than 5 minutes like my gas run non-hybrid Sonata, I might be interested.

I'm probably late to this, but one reason you get a lot of pushback on the "hard" questions and treated like an anti-mormon when you start asking them is that it can be difficult to distinguish between someone truly wanting to understand and someone posing as someone wanting to understand but actually trying to preach an anti agenda. Both use the same sort of language at the start, and try to sound conciliatory. The true seeker stays that way, but the anti will slowly turn hostile and contentious. Such an individual generally seeks to sew the spirit of contention wherever he goes. Since most of us have had more run ins with an anti pretending to be interested but having some questions about some controversial bit or another, than someone actually interested, we tend to be a little put off. As for intellectualism, it depends on what you mean. “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” ― George OrwellOrwell wasn't exactly an intellectual slouch, but there is a lot of truth in his statement. If the intellectualism isn't tempered by actual life wisdom and life experience, it is less than worthless. Or as it's put in 2 Nephi 9:28-29 28 O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken notunto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish. 29 But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God. In other words, there is nothing wrong with being an intellectual, in fact it is good, but only as long as you don't mistake learning for wisdom and believe that you know more than God.

Any old cell phone can make 911 calls. I doesn't need to be active. Just plug it in with a charger somewhere she can get and leave it there. An old dumb phone will work fine and doesn't cost anything extra.

You don't. The batteries have to be replaced periodically, just like your regular car battery, and with the fairly high cost of both the hybrid and the battery replacement you don't generally get ahead during the lifespan of the car. I remember reading a forum a few years ago where someone with more knowledge than me in the subject figured out how expensive gas would have to get before a hybrid was a good financial investment. I can't remember the exact figure he came up with, and it's probably gotten a bit better since, but I do remember that it was well over $10.00 per gallon. That took into account the mileage, battery replacement, and the expected useful life of the car, and it wasn't good. Again things have probably gotten better, but I doubt they've gotten a lot better.

Keep in mind that by his own admission, prior to his conversion Abinidai wasn't exactly keeping to the commandments all that well. He could have easily had more than one wife. After his conversion he would need to do something, and simply turning out other wives after such a conversion would not exactly be a good thing either. Since the law of Moses does in fact allow for polygamy it could have easily been handled as a one off situation. "You can't have any more wives, but you don't have to divorce the ones you married in ignorance or misunderstanding of the law."

So what would these people say about the teenagers that instead of calling the police and waiting 15 minutes while an intruder with unknown goals is in their house simply go get a gun and dispatch said intruder, then call the police.

While I'm still not sure I like the idea of a loyalty oath, This was a rather good argument.

If you follow her, I can about guarantee you that after you've given up your mission she's going to dump you, probably for the abusive boyfriend you fear. She has to make her own choices.

For people who spend several days a month struggling with a strong desire to end themselves over NORMAL life ups and downs, a false accusation along these lines and the associated loss of relationships, jobs and prestige would likely be more than enough to push them over the edge.