Lakumi

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    Lakumi got a reaction from Sunday21 in Is it okay to marry a foreign man?   
    I couldn't imagine any scenario where I could sleep in the same room as someone I didn't know really well and trust them not to murder me in my sleep
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Sunday21 in What’s the last movie you watched?   
    yeah Canada has a weird thing like that, here usually ratings are lower, in the US where a movie is an R, it can be a 14+ here, also after a certain time, our tv channels can air movies uncut, I remember Saving Private Ryan being on TV in its entirety a few years ago, and then there's the French channels... oh dear
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Janadele in Is it okay to marry a foreign man?   
    I couldn't imagine any scenario where I could sleep in the same room as someone I didn't know really well and trust them not to murder me in my sleep
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Blackmarch in What's the last book you read?   
    Dune, loved the movie so had to read the book!
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Daybreak79 in New movie "Meet the Mormons" coming out   
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    Lakumi got a reaction from faith4 in The Twinkie Diet   
    Those things are barely food...
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Backroads in Is it okay to marry a foreign man?   
    I couldn't imagine any scenario where I could sleep in the same room as someone I didn't know really well and trust them not to murder me in my sleep
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Maureen in Shunned by LDS adult children   
    My parents loved to tote the "you pay some rent after 18 if you're not in school" and going on about collage, until that time came however, in which I had a rather serious surgery in my mouth (removing 6 teeth and reparing some damage to my jaw), the job market not being very good and me not having any friends until I got to be like 22, obviously there was no collage, no one had the money for that, I finally did move out at 25 (just in July) and my parents always have said I have a home with them, regardless. I did pitch in, anyway I could and am glad my parents are the wonderful people they are.
    I mean if they weren't good people I would have no issue tossing them out of my life, I did it to most of my extended family and feel nothing.
    Had they kicked me out I'd have never spoken to them again, and had it been at 18, well I was far worse off since I would have had no support network if things got rough, no family or friends, I'd have probably died.
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Blackmarch in Shunned by LDS adult children   
    My parents loved to tote the "you pay some rent after 18 if you're not in school" and going on about collage, until that time came however, in which I had a rather serious surgery in my mouth (removing 6 teeth and reparing some damage to my jaw), the job market not being very good and me not having any friends until I got to be like 22, obviously there was no collage, no one had the money for that, I finally did move out at 25 (just in July) and my parents always have said I have a home with them, regardless. I did pitch in, anyway I could and am glad my parents are the wonderful people they are.
    I mean if they weren't good people I would have no issue tossing them out of my life, I did it to most of my extended family and feel nothing.
    Had they kicked me out I'd have never spoken to them again, and had it been at 18, well I was far worse off since I would have had no support network if things got rough, no family or friends, I'd have probably died.
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    Lakumi got a reaction from EarlJibbs in Philosophy ?   
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Backroads in Prepping and LDS teaching   
    Since I live in Canada if the government collapses there's more woods then I could ever imagine out there for me to hide in.
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    Lakumi got a reaction from notquiteperfect in Missionaries   
    I just like talking to them because of their unique insights on things, that and they can answer a good number of my questions and even ones I didn't think could have an answer.
    Nice folk, I like them.
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Blackmarch in A thought Occured to me Today   
    Then the church could simply say "we all told you! but you didn't listen...guess you'd better start coming to church"
    I could just imagine something like that done, with a tinge of good hearted humour.
    I'd be convinced with far less then all that.
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Backroads in A thought Occured to me Today   
    People would be able to see an alien if it came and said hello. Things like aliens aren't a matter of faith, if they come and start wrecking a city, they're not going away if you don't believe in them.
    God is something so larger then ourselves a lot of people can't really understand it and since they can't see it, it seems distant and strange.
    Anyone can look and study a pyramid and ponder what really made it, but there's no pondering God, in that way.
    We're not so enlightened that we can reach so high and get all our questions answered.
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Backroads in Tea/ coffee for guests   
    No, though I toss it out there should they want it, (usually beer) it is generally expected at things like BBQs and Christmas (no it is expected at Christmas 100% in my family).
    It really depends on the people, some people see beer like any other drink and offer it freely for anything, I've been offered beer while at someone's house playing Warhammer or Dungeons and Dragons.
    I remember every Wednesday after a board game I played with friends called blood bowl (fantasy football) we'd go to a pub.
    I don't think most see it as a special occasion thing, just another thing to drink.
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    Lakumi got a reaction from annewandering in I would advise people to stay away from Astral Projection   
    with all this talk about astral projection and candy... I should find my drums
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    Lakumi got a reaction from annewandering in I would advise people to stay away from Astral Projection   
    lucid dreaming is harmless, since all it is, is you are almost awake (or almost asleep) and your mind still is active enough to control your imagination.
    since most of my novels come from my untainted dreams I leave them alone
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Sali in Where is everyone?   
    I can't believe I was missed!
    Yeah... I was... not well mentally. It was pretty evident at times I had a... I donno I'd just snap. I was in my own little world, I'd go on about things and it didn't do well for anyone. I needed to step back, (move across the province) and really get my life under control, as it was just...so unhappy.
    But I'm all better now, finally gotten things under control, so felt I ought to come back and contribute a little again.
     
    I went to one of the meetinghouses here and its too big, and still with this 9:30 am stuff! lol
    I'd go every Sunday if it was, like at 11:30 lol
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    Lakumi got a reaction from EarlJibbs in How did you come to know it is true?   
    "know it is true" is a phrase I will never use, unless a whole slew of things are presented to me and I understand how difficult I can be.
    My story is a tad different, since I am not LDS but read its scriptures, pray when I can, obey most of the WoW (masala chai is something I don't think I can pry myself away from lol) I seldom attend church due to my not being a morning person, often having a...fragile mood and sometimes I really dislike leaving the house. But when I do I find it very joyful and a lot of that anger I have goes away.
    I become rather outgoing in a normal sense, there is no need for common interests to get me to speak, I feel like a well rounded person.
    Anyways, last summer I had a job working in corn fields, detassiling they call it, and one day it was a 120acre field and I, unknown to me, was coming down with heat stroke. In the field, it gets worse and worse and I am drinking water like crazy due to my throat hurting and eventually I just lay down and I remember asking Jesus not to let me die, it would have been annoying not to find out how the book ends, I remember thinking (the Book of Mormon, I had started attending church round the time I started the corn so was always in pain and always looked miserable but I would often perk up). Somehow I got out of that field, delirious and I asked some kid for water I remember.
    I would often toss aside the feelings people akined to the spirit as foolish or some such thing. I remember being quite moved when one lady gave a talk about being bullied in high school-something I struggled with a lot.
    Did the spirit come to offer the same as it did to her? Quite possibly. And it doesn't follow my distrust of my own feelings (eg getting a positive feeling means its true), that is a clear cut thing. Person sad and hurt by bullies, made happy by gospel. My mind responds well to that sort of stuff.
    I always thought I was too proud for worship and God and books like that.
    Growing up I was basically an athiest, scornful of religion and felt they were all archaic and broken things.
    And when I went to the meetinghouse for the first time, there was no malice towards me, people were kind to me-a kindess I seldom see in people. I remember saying "I hope none of them talk to me" but when they did I was happy to speak to them. By habit I sat alone at all the lunches but they found me and sat with me and I was actually in a good mood to see them and we talked.
    So maybe my idea of what the Book of Mormon is, is different then yours. But it has made me a better person, in many ways, I like to think. I had a lively discussion about same sex marriage with a Mormon on youtube, where as before I would have dismissed him as a bigot and that would be that. It started friendly and ended friendly.
    I don't feel that rage in the pit of my stomach anymore, I don't feel as unfriendly towards other people like I used to. This past month I have done a lot of thinking and reading, and I have come to the ultimate conclusion that is has helped me in my life and I donno if that is a testimony or anything but it is positive-I would think.
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    Lakumi got a reaction from jerome1232 in Where is everyone?   
    I can't believe I was missed!
    Yeah... I was... not well mentally. It was pretty evident at times I had a... I donno I'd just snap. I was in my own little world, I'd go on about things and it didn't do well for anyone. I needed to step back, (move across the province) and really get my life under control, as it was just...so unhappy.
    But I'm all better now, finally gotten things under control, so felt I ought to come back and contribute a little again.
     
    I went to one of the meetinghouses here and its too big, and still with this 9:30 am stuff! lol
    I'd go every Sunday if it was, like at 11:30 lol
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Suzie in Where is everyone?   
    I can't believe I was missed!
    Yeah... I was... not well mentally. It was pretty evident at times I had a... I donno I'd just snap. I was in my own little world, I'd go on about things and it didn't do well for anyone. I needed to step back, (move across the province) and really get my life under control, as it was just...so unhappy.
    But I'm all better now, finally gotten things under control, so felt I ought to come back and contribute a little again.
     
    I went to one of the meetinghouses here and its too big, and still with this 9:30 am stuff! lol
    I'd go every Sunday if it was, like at 11:30 lol
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Blackmarch in The message is for everyone but the culture is not.   
    No it was what selfishness could cause (murder, breaking of commandments), I admit fully, I am a selfish human being, I dislike a lot of things and am very unmoving in my thoughts.
    But I don't use others, I have respect for most people I come across, I liked the other articles but this one, not so much.
    I don't see my introverted nature as a plight, it is just another part of who I am.
     
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    Lakumi got a reaction from nightcrawler1977 in The only argument needed to preserving the male/female definition of marriage   
    Marriage isn't actually nessissary to do anything, it has as much power as you give it. It's an idea of religion, really. The idea two people who love eachother should be more special and a ritual done to... I donno make it better?
    What is the actual point of marriage, outside religion?
    And if I don't subscribe to your religion, why should yours get to tell me what marriage is (what if I was neo pagan, which says same sex unions are natural too?)
    Ultimately, I don't need to marry someone to love them, to have children or to live with them.
    It is a ritual, every culture has their own ritual and ideas on what it does.
    And if Christians want to cut out gay people of their rituals that's completely in their right to do so. It's their faith, and people ought to respect that.
    What I don't like is them trying to get involved in the government side of it, which isn't about religious rituals but tax satus and what not.
    It's a form that says my status is married, not single, and that goes on things like government forms and what not.
    I fail to understand, if I don't let God into my marriage, why he'd be there anyways?
    No religious ideas or anything with athiest couples. You don't push God on them but you push God on gay people.
    One would say being an athiest is worse then gay right, isn't the worst sin denying the holy spirit or something?
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Backroads in I have messed up everything   
    As not a Mormon, I certainly never talk to a Bishop about anything, and even if I was completely against the idea of the law of chastity (I'm not but we can pretend I am) you believe in it, and it's clearly hurting you.
    I mean I could give some spout about not caring about it, live life for you-all that craziness but ultimately you yourself stated the right course of action.
     
    Are you looking for an out somehow?
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    Lakumi got a reaction from Windseeker in Modest is NOT hottest   
    Whenever I knew someone who said they were ugly or some such thing and I'd tell them they were pretty and they said I was wrong I replied with this "no, because my opinion is most important to me-the center of my own universe, you'll have to accept my answer"
    and they laugh, I donno if anyone really gets that but, oddly it makes them feel a bit better...