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Again, you have my absolute envy in that regard ( and for those fine potatoes =) ) Unfortunately we had a couple more killings. Some migrants killed people with a bomb, and an axe and some immigrated kid bought a gun off the darknet and now the before mentioned parties in question would love to take them all away ( never mind that even if it were banned, that the gunlobby would have it reversed so it could sell again ), same goes for that drunkard of a EU commission president Juncker who has no clue about what he is talking about and taking away guns from law abiding citizen will not deter pro-criminals from obtaining them and the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with another gun. Unfortunately, one has to come up with a lot of work arounds when it gets to the topic of prepping and self defense. Unfortunately I am ahead of my time as none of the majority of people believe that stocking up on food and other supplies would ever be necessary... fools. the whole lot of them. Anyway, I hope someone gets curious enough to actually start with one in order to prepare as the church recommends it ( though I think the recommendation of the church is a bit too soft on their side )

Amen, I envy you for the second amendment. my fellow countrymen are sadly soft and too content. they murmur and complain but they don´t have enough privations to stand up for themselves. But Berlin, Washington DC is a den of thieves and I hope those fools don´t kick off another war in Europe. That is our greatest concern here. Unfortunately our government is just all too willing to appease anything that your government cooks up.

I don´t understand why you have to vote for one evil if you could simply just tear the rotten house down and rebuild a better one. At least in light with "CLUMP" it would be the more prudent course of action.

I know what you mean. you are not faceless anymore. I really disliked that I could go into a church and attend and nobody would care to get to know you. but then again with every family there is also quarrel if one does not pay mind to it. But yes, I agree. There is a peace that settles on a sunday when you lay your heart out

I know what you mean. I miss a bit the solemnity that would evoke awe before the blessings and the veneration.

well, he is an equal opportunity jerk. I give him that, but for all his blustering, he is one of the kind of people that turned your senate and house of representatives into a den of thieves. It is quite insane that proven liars and covert thieves get to run for presidency. if it weren´t the US with a world wide influence it would be certainly something I would shake my head about but considering how it will effect everyone on this planet, it makes me shudder.

Thank you brother, that is most insightful. Unfortunately the laws in Germany are very restrictive when it comes to knives and guns. I for one would love to have it liberalized but the communists and greens in my country are quite intent to have the populace remain unarmed despite Germany having the strictest gun laws in the world. For aforementioned reasons, I will not state entirely what I have in my EDC but lets remain with saying it has an edge than most expected ( I would hate for a someone stumble over and rat me out with a statement that could get me in trouble )

my bad, I meant civil as in less armed. I shall edit that as I was not using the right phrase. thanks for pointing it out. I by no means intented to say that an arms bearer is uncivilized. hang on while I find the right vocabulary

probably. I am still getting used to the quoting business. haven´t been to a forum in a while. I still disagree though ; -)

well, I don´t like either approach. If all that politically correct liberal nonsense would cease people could ( and should) talk again about values and their civic responsibilities. As much as I love the US, there seems only to be absolutes and neither of them are sustainable. But I do think that wanton abortion comes with the selfish belief that personal enjoyment without consequences is a self evident entitlement.

I think his stance on that is shaky, while he still garners for voters

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@ neurotypical yeah, German migrants who left the Germany and not live there anymore for the longest time that would be like saying I know an american migrant that lives in Europe for 40 years is a typical representation of the rest of your fellow country men Well about the evidence... a lying statistics office is not open during weekends =) or for that matter in general because how would you prove the opposite ? as for you needlein, I am having a good time here. You want uplifting, then maybe you should contribute something that would help with the inital post, All you do is dismiss and when you get personal it is suddenly drama queening when it´s trown back at you. As for the US I did not say the US sucks, I for one love the US. I just don´t love the condescending dismissal of church members and their pretense that all must be good everywhere because with them it is. Unless you are telling me, the church is aiming to make everyone american in their attitude ( which the church of course does not ) so spare me the accusation that I somewhere said that the United States suck, I referred to the church in the US. I have spent the best times in US for several years. As for crying for unfair, sure you can it call it that when you go ahead and dismiss concerns but since you are all above it and have all the answer ready. I happen to mention that I am content with my life, thank you very much. maybe you should grab your own nose because a lot of posts are quite denigrating to others if you wanna claim the moral high ground, you are not doing a great job. Other than that, you are just some stranger in the internet ( as I am to you ) who I probably will never meet, which is perfectly fine as your ideas and mine don´t align and the world still turns and I am fine with, who has still an exchange with someone that sure as heck can dish out but not take it in. You ever considered that you may not have all the answers ? the both of you ? =) I will leave that with you and wish you well.

Dear Emily, as a hobbyist who ALSO enjoys gaming I sure as heck couldn´t do it all day anymore and if I do that happens like every 4 or five months with a solid interruption to bring out the trash and having to cook dinner. I do work and turning off when it matters promotes a healthy balance. Then of course you have people who immerse themselves, such as your still- husband in a selfish excess that gives the hobby a bad name. My personal opinion goes d´accord with Eowyns, pack the kids and move in with our aunt and finish your education. Your husband has clearly shown how self evident you are to him and as well as the kids and made his choice. You don´t have to preserve your marriage at all costs if the price is too high on your and your children well being for his highly selfish self indulgence. all good things in a measure. I wouldn´t call myself a gamer anymore because I have far too many responsibilities and a happy marriage to devote myself to as that I could invest a lot of time in there. Plus life does tend to have awesome graphics. The difficulty setting however takes a lot of work to master. If you work and he does not take care of the children and can´t even get up to watch the child, it is very dangerous to leave your kids in his care because we are not talking about a burnt pancake that got forgotten due to inattention. Not that I condemn him, he may have found himself gone too deeply and does not know how to stop. Maybe if you separate he comes to his senses and then I would say let him work very hard to make up for your grief ( and rent). As for the Update. Seriously, your parents in law are mad at you ? They raised him and they sure as heck could have helped YOU with him if they wanted. They way it sounds they kind of dumped their child into your capable caring hands without ever having explained to him that a relationship takes responsibility and hard work. Let alone with the addition of kids. I am delighted that things work out for you now and it is stable enough to consider where you want to head with your life.

I respectfully disagree, it is free agency and happiness does elude a lot of people because they don´t know in the first place that they can achieve it because they are not even aware of free agency. Personally it took me a great deal of loss to learn that doing what makes you happy is a hard working process but worth it.

well, don´t the media always manipulate public opinion in the US ? I mean after all, some people may not have realized that there has been other candidates for presidency from other parties that were not democrats or republicans. And I agree with you LaSellers, This whole media campaign is neither fair nor partial. Not supporting any of those two but the democrats sure fight dirty and underhanded. Your political systems needs an overhaul as much as does mine. By the way, I liked what Clint Eastwood said about people being tired about being political correct. PC is a festering cancer that promotes injustice and lying.

@Catlick dear catlick, also as a former catholic I can assure you if you do miss your old parish, the inquisition will not grab you at the doorstep of your church and burn you at the stake =) Being a member never hindered me to peek into other peoples churches or attend services for the various reasons ( weddings, funerals ... you name them ) and if you do feel like you wanna go by, go by then. You know, free agency and such =) Being a member of the LDS church is not an exclusive deal and after all, I happen to have missed the ranch indoctrination and sequestering away for some brainwashing meeting if there ever was such a thing ;-) Alas, I also commend you for taking your time with the decision to convert. I did the same albeit not two years. It is important that you feel comfortable. I needed no coping sadly as I already was very unhappy with the practices of the catholic church in Germany ( half my family being filipinos, make it a very depressing business when fervently and zealously practices ) LDS churches tend to be more open towards anyone but it is also a bit work to maintain meaningful relationships beyond sundays and in that regard the LDS church will be more involved with you than the catholic church and you will have access to a marvelous network of help and assistance worldwide. you could be dropped out of a plane in the middle of nowhere and the first ward you stumble into will happily welcome you. There is perks, certainly some hymns in the LDS church may need some time to get used to , to the catholic ear, but it makes for hearty singing and service is easy on the knees since kneeling is not really required ( which makes my broken knees happy ) . I still want to maintain, do what makes you happy and what you feel comfortable with. Just be prepared that people will be curious on either side.

The church recommends to be prepared in case of disaster or anything likely that would come close to civil unrest or any situation where the civil order is disturbed and interrupted for undetermined periods of time. While having a 72 hour kit recommended, we often sometimes find ourselves caught far away from it, either at work or in traffic or some other circumstances. Some us have one and some us are in the process of establishing it. Some may find it hard due to financial strain to get there. What I would love to suggest to those who haven´t heard of it or who want to make first steps to get acquainted with the topic, would be an every day carry kit. Something you carry on your personage that gets you home to your 72 hour kit or at least provides you with a means of not being completely helpless. It will cost significantly less then a full 72 hour kit but could still range in cost depending on your personal preferences towards material. I do recommend that you get a pouch or a small case that you can carry on your belt or in your bag ( if you are a lady) Usually I would recommend Tasmanian Tiger as it is a solid brand that is durable and of high quality. Within you can store medicine you need or should have in case something happens ( aspirin, diarrhea medication, salt tablets etc.) What I also recommend is a thermal blanket. small enough to fit in there it can keep you either from heat or cold when you get stuck and cant light a fire. Some gauze you will find in mine for minor injuries, along with a fire steel to light fires. Not to forget would be a small flash light. Very important however would still be a knife. You can obtain decent knives for as little as 30$ already ( look into Mora of Sweden) which you can carry, if you have to means and do live in a very urban environment then you would be best served with a multitool, though leatherman is a very good tool, you will find that it will cost accordingly. A middle way here would be the all known Swiss army knife, as it has for a good price decent appliances that will come in handy in the different situations. There is more to add of course however what you will it with depends on your personal need and attitude. Some kits differ from other. While EDC's can contain fire arms some are more geared towards bugging out with maximum evasion in mind for that matter ( shout out to Lehi for pointing out I was using a wrong vocabulary before my edit) , Especially if you live outside the US where laws for guns and weapons are more restrictive. If this interests you and have questions. I will be happy to assist you or provide you with the lead to follow up on your own. Naturally I will adhere to the forums rules and not post pictures that would be akin to commercial, however I am willing to snap a picture or to and upload to a place of your choosing.

Well then, let me tell you this then about my attitude. It is fine, considering that discrimination , harassment, the attempts to run me out of church, to be told not to be up to par because certain criteria could impossibly met that reduced to be seen by what I am not, while I still serve the Lord. Flawed but I still serve him while I mind the needy ( and appreciate them more then the Lifestyle members ) that I can say I am still here with him and I have a good wife that is an awesome team player especially when it comes doing our best despite people in the church and mean the nasty kind that is abundant in this part of the world trying to muck up our day. I think all in all in all considered, it is just fine and I embrace following faithfully but not blindly and that is worth certainly more than a billion bucks. I have no intention of changing the past. But I can make sure it won´t repeat itself. So while I actually admire your conviction let me some of mine in some eloquent words : “The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers I have them, the best things in life and I am content. My attitude is to preserve that state and if being unpopular by pointhings things out that are not alright and threathen those blessings , then so be it. I certainly think that I don´t need your approval, neither do you mine and I am perfectly fine with that. I just wish in a dating sense people would realise that there is little to compromise about when you are not accepted as you are ( to come back to the threads topic). People compromise too much and frankly it makes unhappy. They want to please too much and neglegt their selfworth and self respect. I maintain that daiting in the church would be less perilous if people would bake smaller roles when it comes to their selective processes and their filter ought to be retuned. Good man and women do fall through the cracks and not just dating wise, also in the previously hotly debated comments which I also will maintain. In the end I can say, you do what you do far away from where I live and at the end of day when you passed your judgement about me and turn away from the screen it will not have changed a single thing because in the end, I might just do the same while thinking that it is a good thing that through agency, the Lord can be honored through my deeds elsewhere where it doesn´t bother neither each one of you. after all, it´s the internet where raving lunatics such ourselves pound the keys to "stick" it to the other person in a selfrighteous zeal. Ah, the joys of modern "communication". I still dare you to come and see for yourself what people go through far away from the sheltered walls of doctrine in the fair US

sad as it is, I can actually imagine that this might already happen and is waiting to unveil itself in some twitter post to go viral. seee, I am not against an abortion if it serves the safety of a mother of if the child can not sustain itself due to a catastropic health condition, once born. but I do mind if people can´t take care of their bodies and wantonly create life out of wedlock and terminate it because it is so convenient to kill of responsebilty for the sake of the freedom to keep messing around like a harlot though that would not be fair in terms of definition because whore would be more accurate as a harlot is a professional that receives payment while the former does it wantonly free of charge... anyway, not to be too crass, I do think that those women have a or will have a huge void in their life when either life hits them hard or they happen by accident to grow up . I am just very sad that there is no acknowledgement of the power furnaced in the female body to create life which is an increadible feat and that it happens to be so self evident for these indivials to be so careless about. then again, I believe also that some people ought to consider hard not to contribute their share of DNA to the general genepool. it certainly would do the rest of us a service ... that said, it may be mean but saying otherwise would make start lying about it because that is exactly my cynical sentiment about it. when I also think about the pain of people who so desperately want a child and try so hard it sure is a raging injustice that some people do this.

ah that is a lovely one, but I do think you want to take that beam out of your own eye. I have seen some your posts where that one you can apply all to fitting to yourself, especially when people don´t share your your scientific excitements and you judge them ignorant as well as you just did me. as to mordorbound I extend my invitation to you to live among us and see for a change with a keener eye that there is massive problems and not just in temple recommend sense. the way all of you froth about my experience, I wonder how much of paradise everyone not attending churches in the US is missing out in that promised land of yours. So far, if you are single it is not enough prayer. if you are not good enough to be aknowledges as partner ( despite your efforts to be your best ) and still end up single it must be some divine reason or your fault entirely, not because there are inehrent problems dating within or because you are an outsider or because you don´t have the infrastructure at the ready to support chruch dating. oh and heaven forbid you happen to mention that processes and and typical behavior give people a hard time in the church ... you are an "unrealiable" wittness with biased tendencies of nationalism ... give me a break people. there is so many screw ups and if you are fine with it , then I would say you people are fans of omission and inaction. and if you wanna fix it you get decried. I even bet half you wouldnt even have the guts to call me the things in my face that you have been doing if I were standing in front of you and in a way it is assuring because it makes me think there may be still some human in there instead of the projected super saint than find no fault in anything that relates to the church while he condemns the people as ignorant as you do

mcome and live and germany and drop the everything is awesome glasses and you will see where i am voming from. besides i am german and know my people enough t habe quite an informed opinion, thank you and if you come around quoting me, do it completely. I did say the dutch have their share of problems, enough to open a topic. my wife is dutch amd can tell you how she live through church with her own unique set of experiences that would make your hairs stand up.. and talking about me in a thrid person isnt particularly nice. well it as all nice to arbitrate from afar. i do happen to be lucky to be in a good ward. as a"witness" i invite you to check it out your self before you imply that am a biased liar. which you wont do anyway, seeing for yourself that is.everyrhing is starspangled awesome and if something goes wrong the people that do have problems are deemed liars and comments like yous spring up because nobody saying something not uplifting is an apostate in eyes of people like you. if everything is so awesome in the church why is there still so much controversy and strife and i guarantee you it doesnt stem from a lack of prayer or reading the scriptures and binging on the liahona.

Nope, it doesn´t limit to any ward. That happens pretty much all over in Germany. My current ward is fine, it is also Dutch. ( not say that the Dutch don´t have their respective struggels) . Ward. I am in a ward and I mentionend already that this ward belongs to the antwerpes stake

Since you are asking, I do mean the Frankfurt Temple in Germany. I know a lot of people who simply basing on their deeds could possibly not pass if they were honest. And yes, come on, you really think people wanna give themselves the embarrassment of flunking their temple interview ? =) right. Anyway, yes! I am actually saying that a lot of people in the church in Germany are not truthful about a lot of things. There are good people of course and I met a fraction of them but mostly it is quite hard to find them since there is so few of them. I make this a personal statement to minimize the outrage. So I point out, that my experience with the people in Germany could have easily spoiled the fun of being a convert. My ward is fine, the people thy hard to do their best and our bishop works hard so what he can with good faith and an honest recommendation forward us to the stake president. I am now attending in a Dutch ward close to the border to Germany in the Antwerpes stake. Lovely ward actually, you would love it everyone is welcome and we lack multi generational drama. Going on sundays is balm for the soul.

I have actually no words whatsoever... this is pretty deranged and sad... Well, I guess such people stand out as a warning what happens if you delete your brain with hipster coffee and overdose on liberal ideas with a pinch of political correctness and entitlement.