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Just wondering if anyone has experience with software or a website that improves the usability of Familysearch. I want to do more family history work, but I'm always put off by the fact that each generation of my family tree takes forever to load.
Anyone know of a better/faster way to to use the information in Familysearch Family Tree?

If I were not LDS I would almost certainly be atheist, or possibly agnostic. The LDS church is what has helped me find faith in God in the first place.

If I were not LDS I would almost certainly be atheist, or possibly agnostic. The LDS church is what has helped me find faith in God in the first place.

If I were not LDS I would almost certainly be atheist, or possibly agnostic. The LDS church is what has helped me find faith in God in the first place.

Agreed. I remember that when I was a missionary, I had the idea in my head that my the choices my investigators made somehow reflected how well I was doing as a missionary. If I was doing my best and being as obedient as I could to mission rules, then of course people were making the right choices. When people didn't make the right choices, this lead to me searching for what I was doing wrong.
The reality is that people have agency. Obviously Heavenly Father is doing a good job, but look how many of his children choose to do wrong. I firmly believe that we will never really know the impact of our missions in this lifetime. All of my converts are now either less active or have left the church, and it's only been 4 and a half years. Its discouraging at times. But the truth is, I have no idea when those people might come back. Maybe they'll eventually be strong members. Maybe their unbaptized children will grow up, have families, and remember the missionaries that used to come over when they were kids. Maybe that will lead them to let the missionaries into their own homes.
We just never know what impact we might have had. I would say that no well-served mission can be considered a waste.

I feel like this concept is degrading to both men and women.
Its degrading to women because its like saying that a victim of rape is at fault for the rape because she dressed provocatively. Sure, it probably didn't help things, and it may have made her a target, but she certainly isn't at fault. Likewise, women who don't dress modestly may make themselves the target for inappropriate thoughts, but it certainly doesn't automatically make them responsible or at fault for those thoughts.
Its degrading to men because it teaches them that they have no control over or responsibility for their own thoughts. That is as laughable as it is false. The only one who can control your thoughts is you, meaning that the only one responsible for the things you think is you.

Agreed. I remember that when I was a missionary, I had the idea in my head that my the choices my investigators made somehow reflected how well I was doing as a missionary. If I was doing my best and being as obedient as I could to mission rules, then of course people were making the right choices. When people didn't make the right choices, this lead to me searching for what I was doing wrong.
The reality is that people have agency. Obviously Heavenly Father is doing a good job, but look how many of his children choose to do wrong. I firmly believe that we will never really know the impact of our missions in this lifetime. All of my converts are now either less active or have left the church, and it's only been 4 and a half years. Its discouraging at times. But the truth is, I have no idea when those people might come back. Maybe they'll eventually be strong members. Maybe their unbaptized children will grow up, have families, and remember the missionaries that used to come over when they were kids. Maybe that will lead them to let the missionaries into their own homes.
We just never know what impact we might have had. I would say that no well-served mission can be considered a waste.

I feel like this concept is degrading to both men and women.
Its degrading to women because its like saying that a victim of rape is at fault for the rape because she dressed provocatively. Sure, it probably didn't help things, and it may have made her a target, but she certainly isn't at fault. Likewise, women who don't dress modestly may make themselves the target for inappropriate thoughts, but it certainly doesn't automatically make them responsible or at fault for those thoughts.
Its degrading to men because it teaches them that they have no control over or responsibility for their own thoughts. That is as laughable as it is false. The only one who can control your thoughts is you, meaning that the only one responsible for the things you think is you.

I feel like this concept is degrading to both men and women.
Its degrading to women because its like saying that a victim of rape is at fault for the rape because she dressed provocatively. Sure, it probably didn't help things, and it may have made her a target, but she certainly isn't at fault. Likewise, women who don't dress modestly may make themselves the target for inappropriate thoughts, but it certainly doesn't automatically make them responsible or at fault for those thoughts.
Its degrading to men because it teaches them that they have no control over or responsibility for their own thoughts. That is as laughable as it is false. The only one who can control your thoughts is you, meaning that the only one responsible for the things you think is you.

I feel like this concept is degrading to both men and women.
Its degrading to women because its like saying that a victim of rape is at fault for the rape because she dressed provocatively. Sure, it probably didn't help things, and it may have made her a target, but she certainly isn't at fault. Likewise, women who don't dress modestly may make themselves the target for inappropriate thoughts, but it certainly doesn't automatically make them responsible or at fault for those thoughts.
Its degrading to men because it teaches them that they have no control over or responsibility for their own thoughts. That is as laughable as it is false. The only one who can control your thoughts is you, meaning that the only one responsible for the things you think is you.

I feel like this concept is degrading to both men and women.
Its degrading to women because its like saying that a victim of rape is at fault for the rape because she dressed provocatively. Sure, it probably didn't help things, and it may have made her a target, but she certainly isn't at fault. Likewise, women who don't dress modestly may make themselves the target for inappropriate thoughts, but it certainly doesn't automatically make them responsible or at fault for those thoughts.
Its degrading to men because it teaches them that they have no control over or responsibility for their own thoughts. That is as laughable as it is false. The only one who can control your thoughts is you, meaning that the only one responsible for the things you think is you.

I feel like this concept is degrading to both men and women.
Its degrading to women because its like saying that a victim of rape is at fault for the rape because she dressed provocatively. Sure, it probably didn't help things, and it may have made her a target, but she certainly isn't at fault. Likewise, women who don't dress modestly may make themselves the target for inappropriate thoughts, but it certainly doesn't automatically make them responsible or at fault for those thoughts.
Its degrading to men because it teaches them that they have no control over or responsibility for their own thoughts. That is as laughable as it is false. The only one who can control your thoughts is you, meaning that the only one responsible for the things you think is you.

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I feel like this concept is degrading to both men and women.
Its degrading to women because its like saying that a victim of rape is at fault for the rape because she dressed provocatively. Sure, it probably didn't help things, and it may have made her a target, but she certainly isn't at fault. Likewise, women who don't dress modestly may make themselves the target for inappropriate thoughts, but it certainly doesn't automatically make them responsible or at fault for those thoughts.
Its degrading to men because it teaches them that they have no control over or responsibility for their own thoughts. That is as laughable as it is false. The only one who can control your thoughts is you, meaning that the only one responsible for the things you think is you.