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It's that Bucket woman!

I'm thinking you should get in touch with President Monson and lecture him on his duties to be more inclusive. The Brethren clearly aren't doing it right. Set them straight.

I'm finding 31% of births being medicaid funded to be abhorrent.  The fact that it's one of the lowest in the nation nauseating. 

I'm finding 31% of births being medicaid funded to be abhorrent.  The fact that it's one of the lowest in the nation nauseating. 

I'm finding 31% of births being medicaid funded to be abhorrent.  The fact that it's one of the lowest in the nation nauseating. 

I'm finding 31% of births being medicaid funded to be abhorrent.  The fact that it's one of the lowest in the nation nauseating. 

I'm finding 31% of births being medicaid funded to be abhorrent.  The fact that it's one of the lowest in the nation nauseating. 

I'm finding 31% of births being medicaid funded to be abhorrent.  The fact that it's one of the lowest in the nation nauseating. 

I'm finding 31% of births being medicaid funded to be abhorrent.  The fact that it's one of the lowest in the nation nauseating. 

What's to keep you from seeing Church funds help people?  What's to keep you from participating yourself?  
Is it the fact that it goes into a collective big pipe and then a bunch of little pipes bother you?  Would you rather just buy something (relatively) small yourself and go "look I did this!".  If it's the big pool that bothered you, does it likewise bother you to see >$60,000 of your income tax alone go into a trillion dollar extremely corrupt and messy pot known as the US government?  
So you're complaining about how the church is too fat and doesn't spend money helping people, and then complain that is does not splurge unnecessary funds on... decorations?  
Tithing money =/= your money.
Malachi 3:8 shows Him doing just that...
How many times in this sentence did you mentions the poor any needy?  How many times did you reference YOU or "YOUR" stuff?  What is the real focus of your post here?  Not judging, just asking questions.

I was Catholic when I got married.  In Catholic tradition, it's not proper to close yourself off from Life.  Basically, you should be prepared for the gift of Life on your wedding night even as you're applying natural family planning practices.  Interestingly, though, it took us 4 years before I got pregnant.  I thought there was something wrong with me!
That's why I have a different view about "readiness" for marriage.  I consider children in the mix.  But yes, I do believe raising children while still getting finances or education in order is possible if both husband and wife are committed to the family and they have lots of family support.  Not having money to buy a crib, a play pen, a baby stroller, etc. etc. are first world problems.

I wouldn't worry too much about getting emotional during a funeral of a loved one.  It's expected and normal.  It's kind of what funerals are for.  More problematic is when someone gets emotional and starts blubbering in a standard sacrament meeting talk. That would be a bit different.

I may be an outlier, but having spent 7 years on the mission field, there was no way I would have met the financial recommendations being laid out here--even by 30. My fiancé and I were still in school, when we tied the knot, soon after my 31st birthday. I did not have a "living wage" job until three years later. We started, as our parents and grandparents did, with much hope and little means. We lived in low-cost apartments for the first five years of marriage, and bought our first home--an 1,100 sq ft, zero-lot right around my 36th birthday.  All that to say that if money is the only thing holding a couple back, then climb the latter from starting out to stable together. You'll appreciate each other early on, and enjoy telling the stories of roughing it through later on.
Absolutely be led by the Holy Spirit. However, be honest. Quite often we blame our own fears on God. Haste may make waste, but s/he who hesitates is lost. I truly cannot believe that the same God who permits the onset of wo/manhood to begin at 10-14, would expect the norm to be for us to marry at 30. It happens.  It happened to me. However, the norm, imho,would be a couple years out of school (or missionary work, if college is not in the plans).

My father has managed to bore himself to sleep. 

Ya know.  Although I've never actually watched a superbowl, when I was young, I can remember people always being disappointed because the superbowl was never that good of a game.  A lot of people turned off well before the end. Now that there are billions of dollars invested the game always seems to be a lot closer and more interesting, and always a pull it out at the last story. It is important that people watch all the way to the end.  Now I wouldn't say it's rigged, or rather I wouldn't say that the outcome is determined ahead of time, but there is a vast financial incentive to make sure that those watching remain interested all the way to the end and not get bored and tune away and miss the ads that someone paid $183,000 per second to air, and millions more to make.  Do you think those advertisers would pay that much if they knew that people would be tuning away sometime in the third quarter? Doubtful. By all means enjoy the show, but don't think that it's much more real than wrestling. 

I'm not sure how aggressively it is enforced, actually.  What I think happens more often is that conservatives, being who they are, voluntarily observe the strictures them law places upon them; and union goons, being who they are--don't.

Just leaving this here.
 

The similarities worldwide is not Right/Left (that doesn't even mean anything in the Philippines - everybody is Right, it's just varying degrees of Rightness over there which is not even generally applicable but just issue based).  Rather, the observable similarities is anti-globalist, anti-multiculturalism, anti-establishment (that peddles those ideologies in their policies).  This is mainly a push back triggered by 1.) the liberties that Developing countries took against the Developed ones (aided by the Climate Change initiative that neutered the Developed ones) in usurping trade advantages, 2.) Muslim states using immigration to decimate the culture of non-Muslim states, 3.) imbalance of power caused by a self-imposed weakness in the US (economically and militarily) and her allies causing leadership in Russia, China, etc., to flex their muscle and threaten stability making war a constant cloud over all nations.
All this caused people to demand protectionist policies from their established government.
And this is what I've been saying all along.  A weak America causes echoes of unease in the Philippines (and I would posit worldwide).  We need America strong.  Why America?  What's so special about her?  The answer is completely illustrated in that inspired act of George Washington to hand the government over to John Adams.  It is a very rare event that a person, who could have been King, would give up all that power in the name of American idealism.  And it didn't stop there.  It continued to happen until today.  This inspired leadership is what we all look up to worldwide.

Trump won because Obama failed. 
In my opinion the vileness between Hilary and Trump pretty much cancels each other out. Which leaves us with policy and the fact that Obama's was a complete disaster for eight years. His single greatest achievement has little to do with him or his policy and all the credit goes to the American people; that is putting a Black person in the highest most powerful position in the world, something that ought to heal the divide and give hope to all. Yet Obama's legacy isn't Hope, but Black Lives Matter, a testament to the racial despair and division he sowed every time he opened his mouth. Rather than give hope he chose to use fear and hatred to strengthen and seal in his base while alienating and dehumanizing his opposition painting them as racist even to his last speech. ie.."If we’re unwilling to invest in the children of immigrants, just because they don’t look like us, we will diminish the prospects of our own children — because those brown kids will represent a larger and larger share of America’s workforce." Newsflash...no one in the USA makes policy, immigration or otherwise, based on how it affects our racial makeup and many of the "brown kids" I know are getting fed up with identity politics and becoming wise to how they are targeted and used as political pawns.
While Obama didn't start any open ended war, announcing the exact date we were leaving Iraq created the vacuum that would give rise to ISIS and his bumbling action/inaction on Syria played a role in 400,000 deaths and Europe’s immigration crisis. His foreign policy was a disaster and erased any progress we were making in the fight against Radical Islam. 
His supporters us terms such as "impeccable integrity", "above reproach", "avoid even rumors of scandals", "play by the rules" to describe his Presidency but predictably forget Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Solyndra, Deepwater, Obamacare (“if you like your health care plan you can keep it”), the IRS targeting conservative and pro-Israel groups. 
Eight years of ignoring and disrespecting his opposition, failed Domestic and International policy proved not just a disaster for Obama's Legacy but a disaster for Democrats. When Obama took office in 2009, he had a 58-seat majority in the Senate, a staggering 256 seats in the House and held 28 governorships. Since then he lost his party 63 House seats, 10 Senate seats and 12 governorships.

Trump won because the Democrats fielded a historically awful candidate. Hillary Clinton will forever be remembered (among other things, for as long as she is remembered at all) as the person who could not beat the worst Republican candidate in, well, maybe ever.

Trump wasn't my first choice, but I have enjoyed watching the show. As an east coaster, a lawyer, a corporate stooge before going into academe, I know Trump types. He doesn't bother me because I know that's how those people act. It's like Chris Christie. I liked him fine because I don't have a problem with his brashness, etc. On the other hand, I know people who get their knickers in a twist because they think these guys aren't 'nice people.'  So what? You don't have to be a nice person to get the job done. That said, I've certainly learned more about Trump's niceness and generosity than I have about Hillary's (non-existent). 
I found the term 'Mormon Social Justice Warrior' to be interesting. My son has been asking me about a church to join that would support his family. Obviously, I would like him to be Mormon, but he thinks that the Church is too 'feminine,' too willing to roll over in the name of being nice (or diversity, or immigrants, or women, you name it). I wouldn't have used the term 'Mormon social justice warrior,' but yeah, it fits. We have to deal with SJW garbage almost daily being academics and he doesn't want to have anything to do with people who think that way. He's looking at the Orthodox Church because it is has stayed true to its conservative beliefs (and he is Greek on his grandfather's side, with an ethnically Greek name, so it's not as odd as it may seem.). 
Most people here can probably separate their religion from their politics. I have a difficult time doing so (hence my being attracted to the LDS because of its history in America and its generally conservative nature). Personally, I was shocked when many of my RS sisters said they would vote for Hillary, who was in favor of 3rd term abortion and other matters that are so anti-LDS. I don't know how they could do that. Politics and religion are interlocked, but maybe that's just me. I'm going to do some thinking about Mormon SJWs and what that means.

Also as aside, you and your husband should visit a clinic and get tested.

Also as aside, you and your husband should visit a clinic and get tested.

Also as aside, you and your husband should visit a clinic and get tested.

Also as aside, you and your husband should visit a clinic and get tested.