SpiritDragon

Out of curiosity, was the surprise that I come across as much older or younger - or just the plain amusement of being close in age?

Now if you think that's bad, imagine staffing a team where 9/11 happened before they can remember, so it's just a history lesson to them - It made me feel old real fast.

I was in bed when the first tower was hit. My dad woke me up and told me something terrible had happened and I spent the majority of the day glued to the television in my pajamas (I was just out of highschool and not yet on my mission - didn't work that day) flipping through News channels watching the towers get hit over and over again and listening to news casters give updates as they came in. Incidentally, in 2007 I was at an airport in St. Paul Minneapolis waiting to fly home on 9/11. There weren't many people keen to fly that day.

I, too, am a fan of run, hide, fight. I didn't know the church subscribed to the idea. We should almost have a combined fifth Sunday training on it. You mention "almost" in conjunction with favourite, is your preferred method, "draw, point, shoot?" Perhaps, just a traditional "ready, aim, fire?"

@unixknight I'm happy to hear that you found something that seemed (seems?) to work for you. This is largely untrue. Carbohydrates are the cleanest burning fuel source in the body and the preferred fuel source of the brain and muscles. Furthermore, fruits and vegetables are some of the richest sources of nutrients of a broad spectrum, and they are primarily carbohydrate foods. Legumes are also high in carbohydrates and yet are associated with health and longevity. Whole grains offer a wide array of useful nutrients including vitamin e and fiber. The most likely reason the Paleo diet works as well as it does is because it cleans up the diet a lot which helps to correct hunger cues by avoiding over-processed food-like items which allow for immense caloric values to be consumed without the nutrients, fiber and water necessary to trigger satiety. This helps control calories without counting them. This is only half true. Simple sugars do trigger insulin response, but so does protein. Excess fat in the blood stream gums up insulin receptors leading to insulin resistance. Excessive sugar consumption can eventually be turned into fat which can also gum up the receptors. insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are conditions of excess calories period. Blood sugar levels can be controlled by limiting carbohydrates, but they can also be corrected eating plenty of carbohydrates when they are eaten in a whole-food setting allowing for proper satiety, avoiding excess and not gumming up the insulin receptors with fat. Either way increased physical activity is very helpful because sufficiently vigorous exercise can not only improve insulin sensitivity for a period of time after each bout, but can also lower sugar levels independent of insulin activity. We also as a culture don't follow the guidelines we're given very well at all. It's true that the food pyramid, MyPlate, Canada Food Guide and many other national eating guidelines are not ideal, but it's also true that the vast majority of people would actually be a lot healthier if they followed these guidelines. Relatively few people actually consistently eat more than 3 servings of fruits and vegetables every day, nevermind 7-10+. Most people don't restrict themselves to servings of meat the size of a deck of playing cards at a meal either. Indeed, certainly not many follow the WHO recommendation to limit added sugar to <10% of total calories or approximately 6 teaspoons or less per day. People are eating more fat, protein and carbohydrates than ever before. It's no wonder they are getting bigger. Instead of blaming imperfect, but useful guidelines, the blame almost surely rests more squarely on the media always eager to report on any new finding that may appeal to peoples eating preferences leaving the vast majority confused. Are eggs good or bad? Red meat? It's the gluten, people! Nope, it's avoiding gluten. This hype and confusion is enough to have everyone throw there hands up and say it doesn't matter - moderation in everything. Only moderation isn't really defined, so this is code for, eat whatever you want. By and large or society does and it shows.

Wow. It's been around four years since this post, any updates? Was it sustainable for you, have you continued to lose weight?

Indeed. This is why I would figure that either the bones were part of the unorganized matter that became part of this creation, which could also account for dinosaurs and the like, or that we aren't understanding something about the timeline accurately. Are we dating bones as much older than they truly are? Did the Fall happen much farther in the past than we suspect. One problem with the idea that the fall took place farther back though is that we believe we are in the last days and that the saviour came in the meridian of time only 2000 years ago. So unless we believe the last days will be prolonged for thousands of years this particular point doesn't work for me.

@JohnsonJones It was terribly kind of you to remember me in your post. I'm often left out of such things, no doubt because I don't post nearly as prolifically as others... or don't merit accolades of any kind. @mordorbund You seem to truly weigh the human factor into posts and don't merely spout off counterpoints. I admire that you seem to want to make the community a better place and actually seem to care about people here as opposed to arguing talking points. @Vort There is something about you that makes a person want your approval. You are obviously an intelligent person and seasoned in the doctrines of the gospel of the restored church. @NightSG I admire your passion for cycling and martial arts. I sense from the tone of your posts at times that you haven't had the easiest go in life and are somewhat jaded, but that also helps you to share some different view points that can be interesting to consider. @Anddenex You've always been one of my favourite forum members. You seem to radiate a love of the gospel and a solid foundation in true principles and church administration. Your posts tend to be very even-handed and resonate well with me. @Just_A_Guy Thank you for the work ethic you put into finding sources for all kinds of interesting topics. You really are a wealth of knowledge and resources and treat everyone with the utmost respect. @MormonGator I appreciate your comic relief and accepting attitude. Perhaps one day I will develop sufficient skills to earn a place at that compound of yours. I lack the penmanship skills of @zil and don't have the survival skills or musical taste of @mirkwood, but I may be able to carry more water than @LadyGator up from the well. @Maureen & @prisonchaplain I admire the way you put up with the lot of us coming from a different faith entirely and keep coming back to enrich our community with your unique perspectives. @Traveler I enjoy your thought processes as they unfold and may even have a little nostalgia for the long back and forths you used to have with @Seminarysnoozer @jerome1232 I haven't seen you in quite some time, but I've always found your profile picture to be happy and have enjoyed many of your posts. @Midwest LDS You come across as a genuine person making posts with the sincere intent to help others. I find that noble. @Sunday21 You're a sweetheart. You have a great sense of humor and seem to be a very interesting person... I mean that in a good way, you have a lot going on that is fascinating. @Backroads I feel that you are willing to share very personal experiences, not afraid of being vulnerable, which helps you to come across as a very real person with very real triumphs and struggles. That's brave. @skalenfehl I don't encounter you very often, but I have felt that when i do come across your posts they are well thought out and balanced. I admire your knowledge of fitness matters and sense that you take good care of yourself in that regard and I respect that. @classylady I've always found you live up to this moniker. You seem to me to be a real class act. @Overwatch I like your fire for the gospel and zeal for sharing interesting snippets such as you advice for husbands. I sense a strong testimony from you, and yet somehow picked up the idea that you're not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (are you?) As strong as the fire of the gospel burns within you and fuels your desire to share it with others, I sense a dignity and humility from you that is comforting.

Yeah, drugs. It's a hot button topic in our area since opening a supervised consumption site and needle debris being left everywhere. A kid got poked by a needle in the spring and another one apparently brought one home from school in his backpack. I usually have to call to get one picked up once a month that I find on my walk to and from work. It makes me nervous to let my children play at playgrounds. This picture was recently shared on facebook of a playground my daughter loves. That's a syringe poking down through the drainage holes in the playground.It's not the community we're accustomed to with these types of things going on. Sad.

That's one way to grow the ward! Are you in charge of hiring or simply trying to recruit people to Manitoba? How bad is the drug issue there? In Lethbridge (Methbridge) it's getting pretty bad.

And that's why it's sometimes referred to as Winterpeg.

I suppose as an Albertan this means I need not apply?

To be honest I don't think about pre Adamites. However, since you asked, I have thought about it a little recently. In simplest terms, I don't believe in mortal predecessors to Adam and Eve. Any human bones thought to predate Adam I would reconcile as either remnants from another creation or faulty understanding of dating bone on the part of man. Doesn't matter to me to either way. It's not something that eats at me and cankers my testimony. One other option I have considered, but am less inclined to believe is that we simply don't know how long it's been since the Fall. I'm pretty sure that there has been some modern revelation speaking to the timeline of this earth's history, but I can't remember anything off hand so I should look into it, I suppose.

...tears of joy! They are walking in the path of truth and righteousness 😋

I mostly get along with my parents-in-law. My Father-in-law can get a little long-winded retelling the same old stories and can tend to always want to grouch about everything, so he isn't exactly fun to be around, but we know we can always count on him for help in an emergency. We have very little in common, but I respect him, and I think he respects me. My mother-in-law is wonderful in many ways, unfortunately her memory is slipping so conversation can be taxingly repetitive. She also can tend to have an unfortunate habit of bringing over stuff we don't need or want, that makes it harder to purge our already over crowded house. The pack rat tendency in my wife's family is something of my nemesis that makes me think of my wife sometimes as my rattle snake - I knew what she was when I picked her up. I was optimistic that my cleanliness habits and standards would rub off on the family, unforunately the inverse is true. I am no longer as tidy and organized as I used to be and had a sense of pride from. So this is getting off topic a little, but I will say it affects my social life because I am not comfortable ever letting anyone see inside my house. It makes ministering brothers and sisters a burden too, because I really don't want anyone to see the never-ending mess. As for my wife's brother, he doesn't talk to anyone it seems. He had a marriage end badly and moved back in with his folks and doesn't seem to ever leave his room in the basement where he presumably is playing video games. My sisters-in-law and their husbands are alright too. The younger of the two couples we'd be close with if they didn't live close to 1000 km away. The others are pleasant enough when we have family get-togethers, but my wife and that sister were never close and despite efforts to change that her sister is just not very involved in our lives and seems to often pass up invitations to do things together. As far as in-laws that married into my family, I have a really neat brother-in-law who is loads of fun. I also have a sister-in-law who is a great addition to the family. I have two other brothers-in-law that don't ever want to be around with family things and when they are forced to by my sisters they resort to hiding out away on their own, so I really don't know them that well even though they've been part of the family a little over and a little under a decade.

Perhaps it has something to do with musical preferences? It can't be the pizza topping selection, because they seem to share the aversion to pineapples... Which I would have 100% supported until some time around age 15-16 when I decided they weren't so bad.

That is unfortunately too often the case. The moment someone brings up legitimate concerns about vaccine safety, efficacy, or necessity as the case may be they are lumped into the category of antivaxxers. When really who wouldn't want safer more effective vaccines. If no body stands up to the status quo to help push change and no one is held accountable for any collateral damage from vaccines, there will be no progress on the issue. Vilifying everyone who has a different position serves no useful purpose and certainly doesn't win anyone over to a different point of view.

These are some of the very things that have caused me confusion over this issue in the past when requested of church membership to use the full name and then the church seems to turn around and default back to promoting the term in other ways. It starts to make it seem like perhaps it isn't that big of a deal to use the full name. It will be strange though if names like the Mormon Channel change to the channel of the of the Church of JCoLDS. Perhaps since the channel and the websites aren't direct references to the church itself, but merely useful names for finding information, they aren't important to change as well? It will be hard to distance the organization from a moniker that it continues to use for PR and advertising as it were.

I haven't read through yet, just the beginning and have to admit that I don't care in the context being discussed. However, if pressed for an answer I would say yes I believe carbon containing products such as crude oil can evolve into more pure products like gasoline 😄

Indeed, herd immunity is a misnomer and a largely flawed concept. The protection offered is merely by breaking the chain of possible contagious carriers of the disease. It only protects by reducing the odds of exposure, but doesn't actually offer any immunity whatsoever. If one of the herd who is not immune comes in contact with the contagion they are likely to contract the illness. This protection even sounds great, and would be if vaccines offered it, but that isn't likely to be the case. It used to be assumed that vaccines offered lifelong protection, but relatively recently more and more it has been discovered that vaccine immunity wanes over time. In fact, adults considered to be adequately vaccinated against disease is estimated to be between 5% to 60% depending on the targeted disease. Furthermore these numbers are on the upswing suggesting that historically the adult population (representing around 80% of the total population IIRC) has not had immunity to these diseases anymore, and yet we haven't all been wiped out by these diseases even though the numbers needed to create so-called herd immunity would require a greatly increased forced vaccine campaign among adults to get this protection that is implied we have enjoyed for the last half a century. It makes the whole picture of vaccine efficacy appear correlative rather than causative. In any event, how silly would it sound for any other medication to only work if all your neighbors take it too? Other reasons to doubt herd immunity being plausible include vaccine failures. Merck has been undergoing trial for fraud for years now for allegedly falsifying vaccine efficacy at 95%, while field test have been finding closer to 80%. Now this is all alleged, so fair enough, but the problem is real that in a certain proportion of the population vaccines fail to create immunity and when they are expecting to need 95%+ to create herd immunity and recognize that a certain portion of the population shouldn't be vaccinated for whatever reason (immune compromise mainly I imagine) then the vaccine really needs to be darn near 100% effective to stand a chance. So while the blame continues to be put on people who choose not to vaccinate for whatever reasons they do (not many of which arrive at that decision lightly) for outbreaks it is entirely possible the blame rests every bit as squarely on higher than promised levels of vaccine failure. Then there is also the issue of vaccines such as the pertussis vaccine which we don't even know if they actually prevent contracting the disease, but simply alter the course of the disease so that symptoms are milder or non-existent but the bacteria can spread. This makes for everyone vaccinated against this threat a potential carrier of the disease at any time and they won't even be the wiser to quarantine themselves.So much for protecting the herd there. https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-015-0382-8 http://www.pnas.org/content/111/2/787 It is an ingenious marketing concept though to put pressure on everyone else to undergo a procedure for the good of everyone else.

I just did a search for it, but it appears not to be in the Amazon Prime video library in Canada right now. That's alright though, I'm sure I can find it.

Yes the people still have a choice, but it is a greatly constrained choice. Not everyone has the means to simply homeschool children and not everyone receiving child tax benefits is an unemployed bum. The idea of punishing citizens for opting out of medical procedures completely undermines informed consent and self-determination. Honestly, how would you feel if the government started making all medical decisions for you and if you failed to comply you would be hit with severe financial penalties. It should be concerning to anyone regardless of there view on the treatment if they believe in a human's right to choose for themselves or those in their care. Edit: I thought the Church was pro-agency

Such a mercenary approach they've taken to force people into making medical choices against their will. I fear where this type of thinking stops... The medical scientists know what is best for most people, most of the time so let's just have them make decisions for EVERYONE and forget individual autonomy over treatment choice and certainly avoid pesky ethical ideas like informed consent. Let's just coerce everyone into getting the treatment we decide on against their will and penalize them financially so that only the independently wealthy have much chance at making their own decisions. What if this ideation spreads into other areas of medicine so that a heart disease patient simply must go on statins or calcium channel blockers or whatever treatment du jour or they aren't allowed to work. I think more than the fear of vaccines for many so-called anti-vaxxers is simply concern over loss of freedom to make important health choices for oneself and one's family. I have yet to meet the person who would honestly want all vaccinations to disappear and not even be an option. They just want to know that proper safety measures are being taken, that accountability is in place and that the treatment actually works. When something is considered 99.99% safe and effective it sounds pretty great, but everyone has different risk /reward cues and tolerances. Some might think that 99.99% sounds like a sure thing while others will look at it as playing russian roulette with a high-capacity cylinder. Some see the same thing with not vaccinating. Both are probably right to an extent. Other things to keep in mind are treatment choices. As many have talked about HPV is largely preventable by avoiding certain forms of physical contact. Some may prefer this method to a vaccine. Their is risk either way. On the one hand someone may opt to have sexual relations and become exposed to the strains of the virus that the vaccine may have protected against. On the other hand someone may be quite promiscuous figuring they've been vaccinated and not to worry and find out too late that they were among the percentage of those where the vaccine didn't create effective or lasting immunity (in which case their cancer will still likely just be considered to have come from another cause, because their record will show the vaccine history and HPV protection will likely be assumed). Other diseases like measles and chicken pox and the flu also have effective treatment and prevention possibilities such as sound nutrition and hygiene. One real travesty is the lack of investigation into massive doses of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). A Dr. Fred Klenner had amazing results using doses far higher than those used in typical vitamin C trials. He has case reports of children recovering from Polio routinely with high enough doses and being able to make chicken pox dry up and measles go away predictably. Unfortunately, studies that have investigated these findings have either not been done or used much smaller doses that were insufficient to overcome the diseased state.

I confess I get so busy in my own world I can't say that I was fully aware this movie existed. Your mention of Arrival had me thinking of the ABBA album, although watching it would be different. Thank you for the movie review. I really haven't watched any movies in the last three years since having our first child - date night at our house is watching an episode of "Call the Midwife" on Netflix lately. Should I venture out of our current routine I'll have to keep this movie in mind.

When I lived in the states short-term, being born and raised in Canada, I found it very entertaining that Hawaiian pizza calls for Canadian bacon - It seemed so strange to have a tropical sounding pizza with a frozen wasteland sounding pig on top of it. I had never heard of Canadian Bacon until I was twenty years old and maintain it is just a marketing ploy used in the States to make ham sound more exotic. I've actually been to pizza joints where they offered a ham and pineapple pizza on the same menu as a Hawaiian Pizza and I was perplexed thinking, "Isn't that the same thing?"