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Sheesh. Asians. ::SMH::

When I told my brother about this, he did suggest that I should write them a letter and ask who they had in mind.

No idea. I woke up before the date.

On the deadbolt into someone's house?

Hmm. The closest I can come to that was one wherein Elder Holland and Elder Bednar were trying to set me up on a blind date with someone.

So, you don't like Lysol on your salad?

I guess it's time to put up the third wall and dig the second moat. Sigh.

Before I discovered fantasy, I wanted to write espionage, thus, learning lock picking was required. Decades later, my brother decided to try it out. Master locks are notorious for being easy to pick:

Exactly. Further proof that ballpoints are useless. You can, however, pick a Master lock with a zip tie.

For the record, I would never have a bumper sticker on my car. I even make the dealer remove his name before I'll buy.

Actually, this is our fourth attempt. We almost lost the south wall in the first attempt. But don't worry, there are larger pumps on order.

This is kind of like today's software development lesson (you know, the sort lesson you re-learn when you try to test code that you haven't implemented into the test environment): You can't include an include in an include. Instead, you must include the content of the include you wish to include in the include in which you wish to include it. (This statement is true for the development tool I'm using.)

And the problem with the argument that previous prophets were wrong (for not doing it the way we do now) or that current prophets are wrong (for not continuing to do things the way we used to), is that we have no evidence whatsoever that either was wrong. Doing things differently now than we did then is not evidence that either was wrong. I have yet to see the evidence that the differences are actually differences in doctrine. They are only differences in policy / procedure. ::sigh::

Aren't we all.

Well, first, you have to know a guy who knows a guy...

This reminds me of this article I read not too long ago (emphasis mine)... ...pretty much the same thing, I think - forgiving, learning to love without demanding someone first become lovable.

I'll be sure to skip the next shark and gator feedings - we'll want them nice and hungry. (Swore I already posted that, but it appears to have disappeared.)

Shhh. He'll get jealous when he finds out how easy it is to get anti-tank missiles.

I did that - except I stopped at learning to rake. My brother actually picks locks - I don't really have the patience. Unfortunately, a ballpoint is no use for this kind of "keying" - yet another thing it's no good for.

Reason has failed in this thread. JJ is endorsing extreme prophet-following1 by suggesting acceptance of SSM as the test. Why not use human sacrifice as the test? That would be a closer comparison to SSM than the priesthood ban, but I doubt he can see that because (a) he appears to think mass acceptance of wickedness may actually be a predictor of what's right, (b) he seems to see all these only from the "how the human feels" point of view (packing the sinner in with the righteous who were made to await priesthood blessings), and (c) he can't seem to follow logic. 1And then in the same post, he suggests we can't trust anything found in scripture or past prophetic statements - because they might all be wrong - and he uses the priesthood ban and procedural changes to some unnamed temple ordinance (as if it would kill him to just say "endowment", "initiatory", or "sealing") as evidence that some past prophet must have been wrong, and if wrong on these, why not wrong on the fundamental nature of God, reproduction, the family, or pretty much anything else. It's as if he thinks one cannot trust those truths which have been taught from the beginning, not even the ones that have been taught in abundance from numerous different angles. What's more, he's created a Catch-22: Follow the prophet, but because we can't trust that prophets are right, be prepared for him to do a complete 180 on anything and everything we've ever been taught by prophets. Huh!? All rational thought has been tossed out the window in favor of "follow the prophet, who might prove that it was a mistake ever to have followed a prophet"!

Meanwhile, anyone who would use a pen to key a car should be locked up for pen abuse! Unless they were using a ballpoint, then they should be locked up for keying someone's car.

I agree. I didn't point that out to suggest we should get rid of sports, just that everyone should try to (help others to) maintain some perspective.