shanstress70
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sixpacktr, I enjoy your posts and don't mean to be offensive to you. However, even if a certain issue doesn't affect me (or if I don't have a solution), that doesn't mean I can't discuss it. Polar bears don't affect me, but I just had a discussion about them in another thread.
And I know that most people believe it's true, but everyone who leaves the LDS church doesn't do so bc they were offended.
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Like Spencer W Kimball said any 2 good people can make a good marriage
Just not at the same time
Unless you take into account what Brigham Young said... or a host of others.
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Sadly you would be fighting to stay alive.A polar bear, just because I think they're great. :) Or a pampered house cat.
I have to say that as much as I love polar bears, I wouldn't want to be one. They are having a really hard time surviving bc of the ice thawing, and subsequently not being able to fish for seals. Don't know if you guys watch Planet Earth (we bought the whole series and I HIGHLY recommend it), but they had a segment about polar bears. There is no food for them and they showed one who swam a distance of 60 miles looking for food (seal pups who live on the ice). Once they swim to exhaustion like that, they just die bc there's no way they can make it back. It was SO sad! Even if they don't die of starvation, when they're hungry, they don't have the energy to reproduce.Sorry to bring this thread down!
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I LOVE fall too. Today is a gorgeous day at 85 degrees... that's a nice welcome from the 96 - 105 that it's been for the last few months. I actually stood outside after lunch without dying from heat exhaustion!
With our drought though, I'm afraid we won't have much of a leaf season. The trees are so stressed that they will probably go straight to brown before falling off.
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Yep, you're right, which is why I shouldn't even be discussing this. (Thought of that after I replied.) It's all about whether you believe that the LDS prophet is really of God. If not, it's a non-issue. I'll step aside now. :)One particular argument given by those outside the church and those that think that the church is 'out of the way' is the old lie 'well, it must be man that isn't reacting to what God wants', or 'those doddering old fools in SLC just don't get it, and are trying to keep us under Victorian ways'. etc.
Point is, we have a Prophet, yes, a PROPHET here upon the earth. Thru his PROPHET SW Kimball, the PH was given to the blacks. If the PH is ever to be given to women it will be revealed to the PROPHET to do so.
This crap that men (both the sex and humankind as a whole) are screwing it up, and that the PROPHET doesn't want to follow what God really wants is ridiculous. In fact, if you are a church member, it is close to apostasy.
If you are a member, and can't understand that, then hand over your temple recommend. I think it is the 3rd question in the TR interview. If you aren't a member, why the heck does it bother you? It has nothing to do with you...
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However, women have not been given the necessary tools to deal with both their feelings and the anguish that occur within themselves nor do they know how to help or support their loved ones who are addicted. Simply put, women have not been invited into the conversation yet.
Thank you for your time
Ah - women as victims, not capable of dealing with issues as individual sentient adults. They require that others give them the tools to cope. Poor things.
I agree with your sarcasm, Snow. It's all about the money to people who are in that industry. Women can make up their own minds about what they want to do. They are not victims, unless they are under 18.
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Gosh, I guess I work with top-notch women bc we never have any of that mess going on. We all work great together. And I can honestly say as the sole woman in management at my company that I'm respected just as much as the others - by women AND men.Well Snow, I have researched women's responses to organizing their work places, communities, and female family relationships.
One woman in a sweat shop said "we're a bunch of back stabbing b******."
Until women accept organization in their daily lives with other women, they have no discipline or respect to be in the Priesthood.
God is apparently waiting for women to humble themselves and work together.
Do women have the attributes necessary to do so?
God is not going to call women to the Priesthood one at a time; God will call them all at the same time.
I know that this is not going to be a popular response but it is a truthful one.
Sheesh, glad I'm not employed where you guys live!
Disclaimer: I love my husband tremendously!
However, if he were bishop, he would miss appts and not feel like going to all his meetings. I would have to remind him of everything. He would do a great job of getting things taken care of when he was there, and would win the friendship of many. I, however, would do a better job of being there reliably and would really help people with my caregiving mentality. And no, Annabelli, I wouldn't stab even one woman in the back! Just my crazy opinion that women and men both have attributes that would lead to them being successful in the position of bishop.
But I'm just joining in the conversation for the sake of killing time this morning, as it doesn't affect me. Thought I'd beat you to the punch, Snow.
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I have been hearing this song a lot and I love it. I couldn't figure out a few of the lyrics though so I did a search to find out. I found this website, which also has the video for those of you who don't know the song I'm talking about. The video is awesome, but if you're like me, get your kleenex ready. Looks like they are trying to do something positive with their success.
Hey Shanstress,
Beautiful website!
Love the song and the reason it was written.
I was really touched by the video "Remembering Carl (The Fray)" on one of the links.
One of the most touching parts was the etchings (by family and friends) in the cement at the base of carl's headstone.
Thanks for the song....onyx
Yeah, I started watching that video you're talking about, but had to turn it off about 30 seconds into it bc I'm at work and I'm a cry-baby! Just the song alone makes me tear up.
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Well, there went my 'warm fuzzies'. What's the point of making sure no one thinks it's an apology? Very Christlike.From The Huffington Post:
Church leaders were adamant that the statement should not be construed as an apology.
"We don't use the word 'apology.' We used 'profound regret,'" church spokesman Mark Tuttle
told The Associated Press.
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I was at work when it happened, listening to the radio when the DJ announced what had happened. I thought it was an accident... never even thought about it being intentional till the second plane hit. This happened one year before my child was born. I kept toying with the idea of going home, but my husband was working and I didn't want to be alone, so I stayed at work all day. However, I went to a prayer session at a local Lutheran church (I was LDS at the time) that was right down the road from my office. It helped to be around people and in church, even though I'm not a big church person, or outwardly religious in any way. I watched the coverage CONSTANTLY for the next week or so and was really depressed, as I'm sure many people were. It was strange living close to the airport and never seeing any planes.
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You sound like a great friend, Iggy!Inmy home, I have hot water at the ready and instant (in tea bags yet) coffee for those of my friends who like coffee. I don't have any soda- because I would drink it and then I would cramp up all over. Ever have you stomach and mammary glands cramp on you? Oh Oh Oh does that HURT!
My guests are always welcome to bring their SOFT drinks. I am extremely firm on the alcoholic beverages though. None in my home. EVER. If you show up at my doorstep drunk, I will let you in, feed you and put you to bed on the futon to sleep it off. Then I will go out to your car and if there is booze in the car I will dump it! Don't care if it is a full 6-pack, 1/2 rack or full rack or a pint, fifth or gallon or more of the hard stuff - it will get dumped! I have lost a few friends to their own drunk driving. I would rather you get royally pissed at me for dumping your liquids then to have to go to your funerals.
As for here at the forum, I really can't see anyone who will not allow you to have your coffee or tea. Yed might end up in your lap as you drink it though - she is having quite the time with her addiction to it. Perhaps if she took a cup of it and put it in a saucepan and scorched it good and proper - maybe that smell would cure her. My co-workers are forever leaving the coffee maker on and the coffee burns up. Eeee Gads that is one horrible smell. As Morning Star says - makes me want to 'puke'.
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Great insight, a-train!Trust only personal prayers. Beware of chicks, they are all psychos.
-a-train
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Just to throw my 2 cents in again...
Be careful about thinking that a man who is so giddy in love with his wife could never even think about another woman. I have dated a lot of men prior to getting married. I always fell for the romantic types who would schmooze me and who were all about writing me poems and such. A few times I found that they were writing a couple of women these poems!
And that wasn't all they were doing with other women.The man I ended up marrying is a sensible and practical man. He has never written me a poem (although he has made me numerous funny cards!), and he doesn't use flowery talk. (One guy told me that when he looked at the clouds, he saw our souls meshed together... or some crap like that. He cheated on me the next week.) I know my husband is totally in love with me and he is extremely faithful to me.
Not saying that all romantic men are cheaters, but be careful of shutting out everyone except the uber-romantics. Life isn't how it's portrayed in romantic comedies or soap operas. Love that lasts a lifetime must have more depth.
... from the wise ole Shan.
Fixed a typo.
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I have been hearing this song a lot and I love it. I couldn't figure out a few of the lyrics though so I did a search to find out. I found this website, which also has the video for those of you who don't know the song I'm talking about. The video is awesome, but if you're like me, get your kleenex ready. Looks like they are trying to do something positive with their success.
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Even if Elphaba posts at the other forum and is called a priestess, so what? Why would you open a thread about that? And you think you can go to a forum with people posting from probably all over the world and pick out one little person's posts bc of her posting style? Give me a break! Forget that she says she doesn't even go to that forum... that's irrevelent bc if she does, it's no one's business. I think this thread is SO uncalled for and I felt I needed to speak up for this one. People with different beliefs than your own exist and always will. It's rare that people with different beliefs will try to get you, Anabelli, to conform to their beliefs or to harm you in any way. Live and let live!
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Gosh, I don't know. But try this site... http://store.usgs.gov/scripts/wgate/ZWW20/...p;~OKCODE=STARTOk going a bit off topic here, but Shan do you know a good place where you can get the 1:24,000 scale USGS Quadrangle topo maps at?
The best topo maps I can find are the 1:100,000, from the software that came with my GPS (Garmin Mapsource).
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While I was in High School I worked in retail at the mall and loved being around ppl. After High School I went to college in Fashion Merchandising. The school specialized in Fashion Merchandising, Interior Design and Fashion Design. My dream was to become a buyer for a large department store but that gave way to my hubbies wishes of being a stay at home mom.....
During the early 90's, a friend and I owned a fashion consignment shop. It was totally FUN. It has a very low financial start-up and that gives you about three months to get your business going.
We were ousted by E-Bay as was nearly every consignment shop. Consignments shops earn 50% of the sales. E-Bay has many % cost to the consumer so they are not getting 50% on their sales; more like 15%.
So, the consignment shops are coming back. We have a few that have opened this past year. While I am not going back into business, I might do some business with them.
Basically all you need is a tax id to get started and that is free, a decent location with low rent, hangers, and about $2,000. It is easy to build a clientele data base. You can even create your own fashion line and sell it in your shop. It is fun.
Sounds like that would be fun. My SIL did that for a while. She would go to Goodwill Stores and other thrift stores and buy things for really cheap, then put a much higher price tag on them.
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Come on... this is not true. Lawyers get a bad rap. There are lots of good attorneys out there, and they are very useful. They aren't all out to defend child molesters or help someone sue for millions bc of an accident.Legal is a filthy world. Cleaning toilets is an admirable work compared to it. TV might make it look like big bucks, sophisticated, and intelligent but it is not. It is about representing people that you do not want to know, never wanted to meet, and dread having to spend time with.
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No, I meant that you are all probably asleep after reading my rambling about how I got to my present career.Yes, Shan I did get to sleep for 4 hours, hopefully that will be enough for today :)
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I have to disagree about not being in love quickly. My husband and I knew after a couple of weeks that we loved each other and would be married. We were married 4 months after we met... just hit 9 years. I think this is different for different people, and depending at what stage in your life you are when you meet.Good points. :)
Lust will take you many places you don't want to be....
Real Love develops over time. If someone tells you they love you right off then I believe that is a huge warning sign. Also remember that if someone tells you they love you but it is a secret, RUN and don't walk. I believe the word love when it comes to a romantic love is special and can not be divided.
And I'd like to think that someone can't be in love with two people at once, but unfortunately I know of a few people that has happened to. Not sure you can just say that 'no, it doesn't happen'. I don't see what would stop someone from being happily married and falling in love with someone else. That's why it's best not to put oneself in the situation where you can start feeling close to another person outside of your marriage. But hopefully if it happens, one will be able to put it to the back of their mind and stay faithful.
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Oh, I realized that I didn't answer the question. I got a degree in Geography with a minor in Biology, with the plans to go into Environmental Science. Not sure what I was going to do with it... those fields were just fascinating to me. In a lot of my geography classes (mostly the more technical GIS and mapping classes) I got some valuable computer experience. My first job out of college was GIS mapping for a private company. I did a lot of Quality Assurance there to make sure the maps that already existed were correct. I then moved on to a software trainer job for a software company that made E-911 dispatching software. Next, I got a job offer doing software QA that had nothing to do with mapping in the city my (then brand new) husband and I wanted to move to. I worked my way up to manage the dept, and I've been here for almost 9 years - love it.
I've never really sat down and thought about how it all progressed to where I am now... interesting to me, although I'm sure you are all asleep by now.
But yeah, I didn't really plan this career path for myself... it just kind of happened.
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So you're now thinking of going back to work, SF? That's exciting... it's pretty much open to you, huh? Go be a buyer for a dept store now if you still want to do that... never too late! You may need to take some classes now though to sharpen your knowledge.While I was in High School I worked in retail at the mall and loved being around ppl. After High School I went to college in Fashion Merchandising. The school specialized in Fashion Merchandising, Interior Design and Fashion Design. My dream was to become a buyer for a large department store but that gave way to my hubbies wishes of being a stay at home mom.....
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This whole thing is just bizarre... but whatevah!
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I just tried Korean food (including kimchi) for the first time on Friday. I really liked it and can't believe I waited so long. I had boolgok for my entree.I'm wondering if homemade kimchi counts?
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Just not at the same time
Unless you take into account what Brigham Young said... or a host of others.
Nope. We are talking about Spencer W. Kimball, see the quote. :)
I apologize for my ugly comment.