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Actually, of the women I've known who couldn't have kids, most didn't want to adopt; they wanted their own biological children or none at all.

And here we have the double standard again; if a woman has a non-negotiable condition neither in direct conflict with nor demanding basic Gospel standards, that's OK because she's got to be selective, but if a man has one, it's unreasonable and selfish. He has one simple, and (at the moment) apparently non-negotiable condition of not wanting children. The reasons behind that are irrelevant except between himself, a highly potential spouse, the Lord, and maybe his bishop if he decides to discuss it there. Frankly, when asked for reasons behind a significant decision, people rarely give the reason that's most important to them first; for all we know, he may be the lucky one who's carrying a genetic condition that isn't severely affecting him, but doesn't want to bring children into the world with a significant risk of it, maybe he has a short temper with kids and doesn't want to subject them to it, or maybe he just doesn't like kids in general. Perhaps he's not physically capable but doesn't want to say that. (I'm just speculating here, with no intent to imply that any of these is that OP's actual reason.) Heck, maybe he's seen too many divorces where the father gets burned badly, rarely if ever getting to see the kids while the ex wife turns them against him, and is terrified of that happening to him; I know I am because it's happened to me once already. And it sounds like he'll make an excellent companion for one of these women - never making her resent her own inability - if he can find the right one.

Find a truly gorgeous one who wants 2-3 kids. Preferably one who's at least well on her way to being a doctor or a successful politician. Then give her my number.

At the point where they're missing meals, living out of a barely functional car or resorting to immoral means (theft, prostitution, selling weight loss supplements, assassination for hire, etc.) of avoiding those. The vast majority of people complaining about low incomes just need to learn to live within their means.

Pretty sure He was either in marketing or politics; who else could get the Jews to believe that a prohibition on bacon was actually reasonable for the chosen people of a merciful deity?

That could have saved me so much beer money in high school...uh...theoretically, I mean.

Ah, so the whole loaves and fishes thing was just Christ practicing for when it's His turn to have them over for dinner.

Remember that they'll be preaching for years, with people trying in vain to kill them before that, so there's actually a lot more advance notice. Unfortunately, that whole preaching for 1,260 days thing sounds like they might be Southern Baptists.

If you can't do better than a t shirt and jeans, you're not trying. The jeans I'm wearing right now are Wrangler 13MWZ from WalMart, and at $27, they cost more than I've paid for any of the last dozen suits I've had. Goodwill, eBay, DI, Salvation Army and plenty of others have tons of nice clothes in every size for under $20. As for comfort, I'd rather wander around all day in judo gi pants if I have to wear pants at all. However, out of respect for others, I wear jeans, slacks or cargo shorts outside the dojo or workout room.

A friend keeps an elastic-waist skirt rolled up in a WalMart bag under the seat of her car, so she can pull it on over anything on Sunday mornings.

Commanding to abstain from meats? Not sure it would be in the best interest of the Church for the FP to fulfill any part of I Timothy 4:1-3 themselves, and 4:4 sure doesn't sound like we should cut back on meat.

Yeah, but that was too big of a stretch; you had to believe that Snoop Dogg can read.

It is, but it's significantly magnified in one where people tend to measure your faith by the number of kids, grandkids and callings you manage to juggle.

It's what, six calories? If that's a normal snack for you, you might need to see a doctor.

It was Fast Sunday. They were getting whatever food they could.

Weird...first thing I did when I read the article was Google his name and the city. Saw a couple of different sites with the story and an independent mention of a Ronnie Edwards in that city. On rechecking, it turns out that Ronnie Edwards lived there several years ago, though I did still find the story on at least three different, though non-mainstream sites. I wonder if a city could sue these sites for the cost of dealing with whatever backlash they might be getting from such a story. I know various types of humor and parody get some protections, but it seems that would be limited when they go out of their way to make it difficult to recognize the work as such.

Yeah, I can remember hearing a rather loud exclamation regarding bovine effluvia coming from the bishop's office once. Never did get up the nerve to ask him which TR interview answer prompted that. I was taught that it's a matter of degree; receiving an injury is a good opportunity for swearing, while describing relatively ordinary weather is not. Unfortunately, some people never make the distinction.

I still want to know what happens if a Prophet says he doesn't sustain himself in a TR interview.

In this case, you have a public "servant" depriving a person of Constitutionally protected rights under color of law. An EO directing DoJ to deal with that is a slam dunk compared to telling them to get involved in a case that's already being handled at the appropriate level.

...because my opinion would violate forum rules, and likely make sailors blush. http://abcnews.com.co/fireman-suspended-and-jailed-by-atheist-mayor/

This. There's good enough encryption available that anyone wanting to see me naked would have a much easier time getting a spy camera into my shower than finding the "personal photos" archive from before my divorce on whichever set of backups it might still be on and decrypting the files. Considering I'm in better shape now than I was then, and have a much nicer tan, and there still doesn't seem to be much demand to see me naked, I just don't expect it to be a serious problem.

"All marriages performed by the bartender expire at noon the following day."

You married her without a second date?

I was thinking it was just casual day or something; looking around Sacrament Meeting I noticed a lot more non-white shirts than usual, and even several polo shirts. One of the deacons passing the Sacrament was even in a lavender windowpane check shirt.

Some, but how many of those 44 had relatively minor injuries? $125,000 average is still way too high considering several were likely on their way home with a bandage and a script for antibiotics and painkillers after a <5 minute talk with the doc.