JimmiGerman
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New member and im a LDS convert but im loosing my faith.
I'm not losing my religion if I said, that might loose plagues upon you.
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en tout cas vous avez l'air très sympa!
Pour la cédille "ç" c'est pas grave, je vous pardonne lol
Merci beaucoup. Aimes-tu aussi le popcorn? Je préfèr le grand sac.
D'ailleurs... le pop-corn sert à illustrer une chose importante en la physique -
à la prochaine.
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This may seem harsh, but to get into God's kingdom we must become perfect, I don't see how someone who did not even finish his test getting a 100% on it. I can't imagine the professor (the savior) giving you a pass that you did all you could do when you didn't even bother to fill out all of the bubbles.
I could easily be wrong though, so there is always that.
On the other hand, how can you still proceed and become more perfect when you are in a nursing home, suffering from a stroke or dementia, when you are, let's say, 80 years old, unable to make decisions, to find the restroom, being dependent on other persons, subordinated to a legal responsible person, sentenced to vegetate.
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Hi JimmiGerman!
Sounds like pride to me.
-Finrock
Maybe. On the other hand it's a question of dignity and the freedom of self-determination.
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There's been a great issue here about euthanasia. But it's still strictly forbidden, and no physician in Germany is allowed to help someone dying in an active way (i.e. by giving him a lethal drug). It's illegal and it would be to be seen as a criminal offence. In the Netherlands it is allowed. An ethic commission decides on the individual case then.
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I've just been inspired by a short discussion in an introducing thread between PolarVortex and me to open this thread facing the question of the legitimacy of a conscious suicide.
It was authentic some years ago. The person was standing here on the Köhlbrand Bridge, and officers tried to talk to him and hold him back. One tried to reach him, but then he was holding himself only with one hand and scared everyone to let lose. They were trying to do everything to avoid him to jump.Then, suddenly, he let lose and fell down. The harbour police with a boat were under the bridge and could get him out of the water, and his body was brought to land instantly to an emergency ambulance waiting there. It was on the news next morning that had died. It was said he'd been some kind of lovesick and depressing.
What about if you were in a situation when things don't make any sense to you? What about if you were old, becoming weak and insufficient, and there wouldn't be any hope to recover? You're maybe alone, weak,, and you're scared of maybe dying in a way you would say no - no one should find me one day in a way I wouldn't wish to be found - when I am dead. Wouldn't it be better, if God granted you the power, of making an end by yourself at the right moment? This is not the question of how to bring yourself to death, but of having the capability to bring yourself to death, in a conscious way, and at the moment you still can choose.
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I don't have to stop you... the city of Hamburg will. Pedestrians aren't allowed on that bridge..
The devil has told you, the devil has told you! -
Good band that Manfred Mann.....good stuff
And not the only good one by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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And polar bears will die out soon, too, because of the climate change! And you can't stop it! Ätsch!
...And this was the hijacking of an introducing thread. Entschuldigung, Herr Rob...!
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Well, we certainly can't have that.
fwiw = For what it's worth
Or I'll jump from the Köhlbrand Bridge, for what it's worth. And you can't stop me, you can't stop me! Ätsch!
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I certainly hope you don't jump, but if you do please do it in June 2017 or later. The suicide nets will be installed by then.
Okay - then I will jump from the Niagara Falls, instead. Thanks that you've given that hink to psychic wreck. And you'll be hold responsible because you've made me psychic impelled to jump from the falls instead from the Golden Gate in 2017, because I didn't want to realize my suizide before that time, anyway.
So yeah, I think contact with missionaries is very nice, provided it's done in a way that doesn't create awkward moments.Maybe. But a true rendevous with the Spirit is more worth than a meeting with a former missionary.
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Jimmi - fwiw - my husband would *love* to hear about the progress of someone that he introduced the Gospel to no matter how many years it's been and there's nothing wrong with expressing gratitude to the person/s as well as G-d.
Yeah - I won't disagree... but what means "fwiw"... please let me know, or I will jump from the Golden Gate Bridge, and you will be responsible for that.
Thanks, Jimmi is glad to see that your husband-loving-about-the-progress-of-someone-that-he-introduced-the-Gospel-to-no-matter-how-many-years-it's-been would love to hear about the progress of someone that he introduced the Gospel to no matter how many years it's been and there's nothing wrong with expressing gratitude to the person/s as well as God.
Jiiiiihaaa!
Got the popcorn jackpot! There's nothing wrong with gratitude!What I mean, is, that we never should be appreciated and grateful for a bag of popcorn as long as we didn't know if it's really containing good popcorn and if it will really taste.
Modesty and humility, not gratitude in the way we are gratifying ourselves.
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Manfred Mann's Earth Band, about 1980.
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I didn't know that mission.net existed! I have been trying to figure out my "other" missionary's name and how to get a hold of him for a very long time. I had a very short conversion process, but about a week before my baptism, one of the elders who taught me was transferred. I was really sad, as I felt a connection to him, but he was able to call me from his new spot and talk to me the day before my baptism.
I've kept in slight contact with the other (he and I are friends on facebook), but now that I am preparing to enter the temple to receive my endowments, I really want to be able to send them both a note and thank them for teaching me and helping me find the gospel and happiness in my life. I have friends who converted more recently who are facebook friends with their missionaries, but being baptized in a world before that makes this a little more tricky.
All I remember is a small piece of his last name (we jokingly called him "Sunny Valley" because of where he grew up and his last name), but looking at the timeline I think he's the guy. So thank you for posting this and helping another convert along the way!
Missourian unmarried: what's so important about the missionaries - they once were on their service and lead you to the Gospel. They did their job as missionaries, and why should you thank them years later? Thank God, the Allmighty, and maybe make a blessing for those taff young men who once have brought you to that status of knowledge you've achieved now.
Not the person is important, but he doctrine, the truth, the everlasting Gospel. Leave those former missionaries go, accept that they have finished their duty, accept that your only relation to God is important, nothing else. Don't give thanks to men, because they've been acting as a medium in the name of Jesus, the Christ, and make a step back into yourself to find out they've been giving you simply the truth, and you've to work it out by yourself, in a very personal way, in YOUR very personal way to that supernatural being, the Allmighty, the Great Spirit, the Father in Heaven. Yea.
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Well, I didn't hear "water closet" that often. Also, if you ask, "Where are the restrooms?" it does not mean that you are interested in visiting both. And it's okay to say "men's room" or "women's room" in place of "restroom" if you wish.
Just be happy that German and English share the same alphabet. I heard about some elderly Japanese tourists who were visiting the U.S. None of them spoke a word of English, and none of them could even recognize letters from the Roman alphabet. Their tour guide taught them that the shorter word ("men") was the men's room, and the longer word ("ladies") was for the women's room. It worked fine, until they visited an upscale restaurant with doors labeled "gentlemen" and "ladies."
Certainly an unbelievable disgrace for a Japanese. I'm sure they have apologized and bowed personally to each guest and the personell in the restaurant several times.
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Back to OT: Is "Ich muss verschwinden" commonly used in German? One of my friends uses this expression all the time, but I've only heard her use it.
Yes, it's commonly used between friends and colleagues or workmates. Of course, there are variations: "ich muss (ma)l verschwinden", "ich muss (mal) kurz verschwinden", "lass mich mal kurz verschwinden" (let me leave for a moment) , "ich verschwinde mal kurz" etc.
But don't say it to the waiter unless you have paid. (Just a joke)
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Thank you much for the welcomes, but I'm wondering if Palerider already regrets it?
I hope we can still be friends despite our differences.
I can see him sitting peacefully on his horse and riding in the sunset - as long as one might believe what a forum image shows.
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No, restaurants here have restrooms. But when you're groping for a word in a foreign language, you'll take anything that comes into your head. I've also heard Germans here ask where the "toilet" is, which is very jarring to Americans. It's a crude word that you avoid unless you are specifically referring to the porcelain throne.
And what would be the best way to ask for the toilets in the US? Bathroom? Restroom is more for the personnel, I guess? A guest is resting all the time, what would he need a restroom for?
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Perhaps they are translating literally and thinking it's correct. On my first visit to Germany many years ago I was in a restaurant and asked, "Können Sie mir bitte sagen, wo das Badezimmer ist?" I learned very quickly that not all cultures call it a "bathroom" outside of a home.
"Bathroom"... Would you really ask for the bathroom if you wanted to find the toilets in an American restaurant? What would you ask for?
You wanna take the opportunity to have a bath for free before leaving the restaurant...?
For me it sounds funny. On the other hand, maybe you only want to wash your hands or to comb your hair or simply want to have a look into the mirror - but bathroom is a strange word, anyway, even if we use it in German, too.
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Yes, I've noticed that. I've also noticed that German Apotheken are quite different from American drug stores. In the U.S., pretty much everything is on the open shelves and customers simply take what they want. In Germany, much of the merchandise tends to be behind the counter. You have to open a short conversation with the clerk to explain what you want, and he or she fetches it for you. In the U.S., the only merchandise behind the counter tends to be cigarettes and batteries.
And yes, they're often called "checkers" in U.S. grocery stores. "Cashiers" are found in casinos or old-fashioned banks. But "cashier" would be understood if you said it. This is not the case with "water closet," though. Many Germans pass through my part of California as tourists, and once in a while I'll overhear them asking where the "water closet" is. This term is utterly baffling to Americans who have not traveled in Europe.
Maybe it's because here are so many medicaments available only on prescription?
I think those German tourists asking that way for the toilets are ignorant and a bit silly. They wouldn't ask for the toilets that way in German, so why do they do it in English? Silly. No one here would ask "Wo ist denn das Wasserklosett hier, bitte?" Absolutely silly.
What do they think? You have sand from the Mojave desert there in your toilets in Californa?
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And, of course, he was puzzled when I broke the news that you can't drive around the Great Lakes on a single Sunday afternoon. (I just checked on Google Maps, and actually you can drive around all the Great Lakes in six hours. You just have to maintain an average speed of 320 miles per hour and you can't stop.)
Vive la différence!
If he had driven with that speed, he probably would have had less trouble with the Iroquoi, who maybe even adored him as the great storm warrior, but more with the authorities by violation of all speed limits.
I was puzzled why checkers in British supermarkets refuse to bag groceries for you.You mean the cashiers? (checkers...?) They don't do it here, either, and we have to do it by ourselves. No service like that here in Germany, too.
And maybe we Germans would even say: keep your hands away!
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Funny, I just saw this a few weeks ago. Certainly many men would be just as... um... unfamiliar with world geography.
If you're pressed for time, skip to 2:10 in the video for the important part.
But in fairness, Jimmi, some Europeans are just as ignorant of North American geography. I once met a British man who told me he wanted to fly to the United States drive around all five of the Great Lakes in one day.
Thanks for the video. She really seemed to be a bit unfamiliar with geography, but she was spot-on, anyway, and at last she managed to win 25,000 bucks!
Sorry, in the meantime I've edited my posting, because I was afraid it could have been too long mentioning Hungarian language, that spot-on lady in the video, and containing too much information on German colonial history. Thus, I thought I was waisting too much attention and would become off-topic by talking in that long-winded way.
And now the inevitable question is coming:
Have you told that British Gentleman about the Iroquois warriors and warned him they were on a warpath in that area, and he should better not wear half a melon on his head to avoid making them upset?
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