David13

QFT.
Standards concerning what does and does not qualify as "organic" vary so widely between jurisdictions and have so many loopholes that it's rarely worth the extra price. 

When I move into the new ward I'm looking at, I hope that you are there.
I'm also interested in working at the Temple.  And learning to use the back yard for some gardening. 
dc

my theory is that, sometimes G-d places people in a situation in which they have the opportunity to step up to the plate and change their lives. Sometimes the person does not make the right choice and the righteous lds person gets zapped. Righteous lds people exist to serve G-d. Sometimes that service is painful.

I learned a long time ago, it doesn't have anything to do with "wanting to believe".  Faith is simple, it is a choice, nothing else nothing more.  I choose to believe in God. I also learned that I need God more than He could ever possibly need me. So I choose Faith.  
And that choice has been rewarded, abundantly, yet someone who did not choose faith could look at my same experience and see it differently.  Well, that just happened by chance, by probability.
God is very good, yet we must have ears to hear him and eyes to see him with. If we choose faith and truly look, we will see the tapestry of life that God has woven with us and when we truly see it . . . it is amazing!

Part of the problem with modern society, every child has to be "special" or "important". It's not just your daughter but an entire generation who has been quite frankly raised to be spoiled brats (I am not saying your daughter is, just that the her generation is like that) with twitter, facebook, etc.  Everyone's life must be "amazing!!" . . .idiots.  They will learn eventually.  I like this article. . . .http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-unhappy.html

100 posts?  I'm not going to read them all.
Why do people leave the church? 
Because they want to.
I think it's absurd to think they left because somebody said the wrong thing, because they disagree with this or that policy, or whatever.
The decision is still that personal decision to leave all that there is to the church (which to me is a very large lot) because of ... whatever.
I think it's simple.  They just want to give it up.
dc

I can't understand why someone would think someone of a different faith is "the one".
Particularly different being LDS.
There is just so much to it.
It isn't like the Catholic Church, where you go to church on Sunday for one hour and that's it.
It is a full time deal.
I would like to remarry.  And the first qualification I look for is ... faithful LDS in good standing with recommend.
There is far more than enough difference, me being male, and she being female (2nd qualification) to give us all the "diversity" we might ever need.
All kinds of "mixed" marriages MIGHT work, and probably some do.  But I do believe it's less than half that do.  The general divorce rate is very high where they are not mixed.  Why lessen the odds?
I think you are barking up the wrong tree, and just don't know it.
Jane Doe and yjacket have set it out rather explicitly.
dc

I can't understand why someone would think someone of a different faith is "the one".
Particularly different being LDS.
There is just so much to it.
It isn't like the Catholic Church, where you go to church on Sunday for one hour and that's it.
It is a full time deal.
I would like to remarry.  And the first qualification I look for is ... faithful LDS in good standing with recommend.
There is far more than enough difference, me being male, and she being female (2nd qualification) to give us all the "diversity" we might ever need.
All kinds of "mixed" marriages MIGHT work, and probably some do.  But I do believe it's less than half that do.  The general divorce rate is very high where they are not mixed.  Why lessen the odds?
I think you are barking up the wrong tree, and just don't know it.
Jane Doe and yjacket have set it out rather explicitly.
dc

Why Organic Isn't 'Sustainable' - Forbes
Organic Farming Is Not Sustainable - Henry I Miller - Wall Street Journal
Are organic and non-GMO farming more sustainable than farming using GMOs? - From the Genetic Literacy Project
People Still Don’t Know the Difference Between “Organic” and “Local” - Time - citing a study published in AgEcon
Mythbusting 101: Organic Farming > Conventional Agriculture - Scientific American
"What makes organic farming different, then? It's not the use of pesticides, it's the origin of the pesticides used. Organic pesticides are those that are derived from natural sources and processed lightly if at all before use. This is different than the current pesticides used by conventional agriculture, which are generally synthetic. It has been assumed for years that pesticides that occur naturally (in certain plants, for example) are somehow better for us and the environment than those that have been created by man. As more research is done into their toxicity, however, this simply isn't true, either. Many natural pesticides have been found to be potential - or serious - health risks."
Again, all it takes is one ongoing brilliant marketing and disinformation campaign from a massive multibilliondollar industry, and suddenly we believe that superfoods are a thing, and juicing is something other than being hungry while drinking only juice.
 

Yes and no...  Insects are perfectly willing to eat healthy plants....  Saying that they will not is kind of like saying I would not eat a t-bone steak... (totally laughable)   But an insect trying to eat a healthy plant is kind of like me trying to eat a healthy cow (for my steak of course) it is a whole lot harder.
A healthy plant has no real problem with an occasional insect...  But if you have swarms of them the plant no matter how healthy is in real danger.
As for the whole organic thing... Many of the ideas are pretty good... like sustainability in process and materials, and eating more local/fresh foods.. care in the pest control process.  But it has bloated into money grabbing fearmongering
 
 
 

Yeah, a few things I've learned in the last year or so:
* Organic food is a $28 billion dollar a year industry here in the US.  They are best understood as "Big Organic" - a massive faceless for-profit industry that manipulates populations with misleading advertising, and lobbies for legislation meant to increase profits.  
* Words like "GMO", "pesticides", and "chemicals" have been hijacked and redefined, similar to the way other agenda-pushing groups hijack words like "homophobe", "racist", and "bigot".
* Food is made of chemicals.  So are people.  Water is a chemical.  The way we use it when talking about organic advantages, is due to a successful series of anti-scientific marketing campaigns that have fooled us into believing the word means something it doesn't.  
* GMOs rock, and they are the reason this earth can have 7.4 billion people on it.  
* Just about all commercially available organic farming uses pesticides.

I am an LDS woman married to an non-LDS man (he's an inactive Evangelical).  We are extremely happy in our marriage, and have an adorable 2 year old.  Interfaith marriages can work.
That being said, this relationship is HARD.  Every Sunday, I go to church by myself while husband sleeps in.  During 3 hours of church, I deal with a (sometimes screaming) toddler by myself.  I teach her about God by myself.  I read scriptures with her, by myself.  I had her blessed not by my husband, but by my dad.  When I need support for church stuff, I reach out to my gal friends and their husbands.   My husband is supportive of me, but as an outsider who chooses to have no involvement.  I'm preparing to go to the temple by myself- he is supportive, but doesn't remotely understand anything about it.   Some of his relatives are not supportive, if not downright hostile to little girl and I going to LDS church.
As for my husband, he sometimes thinks his Mormon-in-laws are crazy.  But he quietly sits through mission farewells, people talking about church stuff, etc, though he doesn't share the faith.  Sometime he cannot sit in, such as my sisters upcoming wedding.  We both deal with the occasional please-convert-now pressure from relatives and associates.  Thankfully, we do both agree on the many things at home (no alcohol, smoking, coffee, etc) to that's not an issue between us.  
 
 
A couple of other thoughts after reading your post---
1) Do NOT convert to be with this girl.  A person joining the LDS faith and being baptized is because of they feel God calling them that way.  If you (or anyone else) join the LDS church because of a girl and not because of God, then you are lying to God, the girl, and yourself.  Listen to what God tells you.
2) Yes, you could be sealed after your death.  This means  that if you choose to convert after death, your family (you two and the kids) can honor that sealing and be together.  If you do not choose to convert, it has no effect.
3) No, you may not give any blessing to your child as you are now.  Only a baptized LDS priest may give blessings.  It is quite similar to how in the Catholic church a non-baptisized non-priest person may not officiate the sacraments.  
4) Yes, God does want us to be happy.  But that happiness comes with us abiding by HIS plan, and not ours.  His plan for your happiness may or may not involve this girl, but it IS imperative that you Listen to His direction.

That is very good that your relationship with God is strong; we need more people like that in this decaying, sinful world. 
As a father of LDS daughters, I would tell my daughters under no circumstance to marry someone who is not a member of the Church and who cannot worthily take them to the temple. Yes, inter-faith marriages can work. I've seen plenty that do. However, quite frankly there is no point to marrying someone outside the faith.
With marriage one has to accept the other partner as they are not as they hope they will be. A marriage built between a faithful LDS woman and a non-LDS man will always be an unequal marriage. The faithful LDS woman will always be wanting her husband to become a member and take her to the temple. And quite frankly, marriage can already be extremely difficult at times, adding another layer on top of that is not a recipe for success.  
Let's just play this out; one of a couple of things will happen if you and her get married as of right now.  Option 1) You never join the church and never have desires to do so. This means that she will live the entirety of her mortal existence married to a man who does not hold the Priesthood and who cannot a) give her children a name and a blessing (and as a Father and having done this it is one of the most sacred experiences in my life). b) cannot baptism her children (again a very awesome experience), c) cannot attend the Temple regularly with her to do sacred ordinances and have very intimate spiritual experiences together at the temple d) cannot give blessings of comfort and blessings of health (again I've had many sacred experiences giving my wife blessings of health and without those blessing, well I'll just say a Blessing of Health by the Priesthood is very, very real e) Worst case scenario does not attend church with her and the children. f) if the faith is truly split, the children will be taught half one thing and half another that is not right and just for children, for their betterment they must see Father and Mother united.
Your religion is the foundational core of who we are-it is the underpinnings of how we are supposed to act and think in this world. One's religion can be Christian, Buddist or even Atheist or philosophical (yes those are religions).
Option 2) The road is very difficult and without a husband who has the same core believes as her she leaves her religion. Option 3) After much soul-searching and many years of marriage (10+) you finally join the church.
With option 1&2 there is no point in her marrying you.  Why would you want to be married to someone in this life who cannot provide the blessings of God and of eternity? Because of "romantic" love. I got news for you, "romantic love" is a fairly new phenomenon. History the world over and the basis for stable families has shown that you do need more than "romantic" love to keep a marriage together. You need Christlike Charity-which is way different than the cotton-candy fluffy gone in a wisp "romantic love".
It is not just about the temple and being sealed. It is about having a righteous Priesthood holder in the home who can provide the Spiritual and Temporal needs for the family. Just like I would not advise my daughters to marry someone who cannot provide for her and the children temporally, I would not advise my daughters to marry someone who cannot provide for her and her children spiritually.The husband and father should be the leader in all things spiritual and temporal.
I will comment on the "God wouldn't let us be unhappy".  Let me give you the absolute key to happiness in this life. No one and I mean no one is responsible for your happiness except you. Not God, not your girlfriend, not family, not friends. You are the only one who can make yourself happy in this life, it is irresponsible and immature to expect anyone else to make you happy. A mature individual (and many people across centuries and in the most horrific circumstances have done it) find happiness in whatever circumstances they find themselves in.
 

I can't understand why someone would think someone of a different faith is "the one".
Particularly different being LDS.
There is just so much to it.
It isn't like the Catholic Church, where you go to church on Sunday for one hour and that's it.
It is a full time deal.
I would like to remarry.  And the first qualification I look for is ... faithful LDS in good standing with recommend.
There is far more than enough difference, me being male, and she being female (2nd qualification) to give us all the "diversity" we might ever need.
All kinds of "mixed" marriages MIGHT work, and probably some do.  But I do believe it's less than half that do.  The general divorce rate is very high where they are not mixed.  Why lessen the odds?
I think you are barking up the wrong tree, and just don't know it.
Jane Doe and yjacket have set it out rather explicitly.
dc

Nobody is trivializing it.
Was it or was it not your decision? 
Did you or someone else make the decision?
Who can make the decision for you to come back?
You, or someone else?
dc

The reasons are varied.
The net result is the same.
They want to leave.  They make excuses to do so.
They leave.
dc

The excuses they use to leave the church are a cop out.
dc

The pattern I see is I guess the bizarro world.  The bizarro world grows and develops and encompasses all things.
Right becomes wrong, and wrong becomes right until everything is turned around, backward. 
And ultimately, Satan reigns.
dc

Not sure I'd call that paying a price; shake off the dust from your feet and focus your efforts on the ones willing to hear the Gospel.

The pattern I see is I guess the bizarro world.  The bizarro world grows and develops and encompasses all things.
Right becomes wrong, and wrong becomes right until everything is turned around, backward. 
And ultimately, Satan reigns.
dc

2 Timothy 4:3
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
 
Prophetic!

I don't agree that America has died.  It is simply being suppressed by those who don't understand what is America.
America is Freedom.  With Freedom comes great responsibility.  THAT culture of self-responsibility is undiluted Americanism.  That Americanism is suppressed by a lot of young'uns that have handed over their responsibility to the political class in exchange for "safety", "security", "guaranteed outcomes".
A Filipino immigrant to America is American first, Filipino second.  They speak English because the laws are in English - it is their responsibility to learn it.  They assimilate because it is the way to pursue happiness.  They work hard because it is their responsibility to succeed, not have the way paved for them.  They defend their freedoms through political activism.  But they go home and raise their kids with the Filipino culture of family and personal discipline, vinegar-smelling kitchen, the rice cooker, and the big spoon and fork hanging on the wall.
The Welfare System is anti-American.  The TSA is anti-American.  The Democrat Party is anti-American.  There is nothing more anti-American than handing over your right to due process because you're scared of a terrorist shooting people.  Since when is America a coward?  That's completely un-American!

Before we receive our Endowments .... we are Washed and Anointed... thus it works even in the literal sense

I cannot read thru' 140 responses.  That's just too much for me.
However, I did skim Gator and gave a thanks.  And from the first page highlights I saw Travelers response above.
There you have it.
The government proved that you cannot cure "poverty" if there is any real poverty in this country by handing out money.
The Johnson administration (a few years ago?) declare a "War on Poverty" and started handing out money on a wholesale basis. 
And today they report there is MORE POVERTY THAN OVER!  How do you figure? 
They have no idea what poverty is, nor what causes it.  It isn't that someone doesn't have enough money.  Because there is no such thing as enough money.
There is only that thing that we all need to remember, if we have, that we have 'sufficient for our needs'.
dc