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Let's see.. my own answers 1. I believe so, as well as Endowments if I am not mistaken, unless there are extreme circumstances 2. Not necessarily. I think one mistake may be excusable, but not if you made a habit of pre-marital relations 3. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know how much leeway individual missions have with dress code. 4. If they're doing it, then it may be allowed in their Mission, but not all Missions are the same. 5. The same that stops them from phoning home on their landline. Honour. 6. I always went grocery shopping, some were encouraged to do so in shirt, tie, nametag so people knew Missionaries were normal people too. 7. Not always, also if you go on a foreign Mission, your license may not transfer. 8. The church does have help for this sort of thing. 9. Depends on what the Mission President says. Ours said no, others said yes. 10. It used to be 25, it may still be. I am not a leader or a decision maker on these matters, this is just my understanding which may be totally wrong.

It probably won't be as well publicised as it should be, as the current bent is against Extremists of a non-Christian nature. Home grown Christian terrorists, is very newsworthy. We may yet see more of them in the coming years.

My wife is composing her take, but here is my reply to your curriculum. I work all day so have limited input in to the homeschooling. What you are proposing sounds physically and emotionally draining. You will be exhausted in a few months at that rate. Formal schooling teaches habits that are completely at odds with the homeschooler's approach. If you are going to homeschool, start. Don't go half-measures. Keep your youngest out of school. It will only serve to confuse them if they go for a year, and then not. As far as the foreign languages go, it is time for your husband and MIL to speak to the kids in only the foreign languages, any other method is a disservice to them, especially the young ones, who would learn much faster than the older ones using that method. Take it easy, you can teach far more in less time than a school can. You don't have targets, and you don't have to pander to the lowest common denominator. Also, don't worry about a lack of knowledge, this is just as much about your own personal learning as your kids

There are several homeschooling support groups int he UK, I am surprised a Googles earch didn't turn them up. Education Otherwise seems to be the leadingg roup, andthere is probablya dedicated regional group. I can't offer anything by way of legal advice, as we are in Scotland, and the legalities are different in England. we didn't need to notify anyone as we never sent our kids to school to begin with. Netmums also has a dedicated homeschool forum that you should check out.

The last time I had my grubby paws on something from the Church that had direction regarding burial etc. was that the preference is for burial except where circumstances prohibit it. There wasn't anything saying you must not be cremated, or that you must be buried.

North Korea has been heading for something of this sort for a very long time. At one point, I was sure they wanted to be nuked off the face of the earth just to end their suffering. On another note, the USA is in economic freefall as far as I can see. Time to get your guns and flee to the Mountains. Oh, I forgot, Zombie Apocalypse is around the corner as well.

Come On Eileen, as done by Save Ferris. I like the added Oomph they give it

I have never trusted Internet only phone services for anything other than casual telephony. The lack of emergency services on VoIP is the main reason I would cite for keeping a landline. Personally, I like Skype as a VoIP method, with skype out and skype in, you pay as you use.

Let me see if I can remember this one.. from my Mission, I think it was spring '99. I was out in the boonies in the eastern part of the Dallas Mission. Hicks, rednecks, ranches, and poverty. Me and my companion received a media referral with an address we didn't recognise. After some hunting, it turned out to be a motel room. We went through the first discussion with the woman there, her husband and kids were uninterested. She held the BoM in her hands, one hand on the front cover, the other on the back. It was an odd meeting, but they dropped off the radar after this first discussion. She turned up about a month later, another referral. They had moved in to a house in our area, we finished the discussions, and were preparing for her baptismal interview. We had to phone the Mission President, and he told us just to alter the baptimal commitment question slightly, as she was a practicing White Witch (she called herself a White Witch). She got through the interview OK, and was baptised sure enough. We still worked with the rest of the family, they were baptized, but about 3 months after I had left the area. Now, here's the weird part. While we were working with this self-proclaimed witch, we were also working with an inactive family, who liked sharing the sort of private information that makes Missionaries, and most normal people uncomfortable. When we were discussing the baptism of the former witch, the mother's face lit up.. "Oh, I haven't seen her in ages! We used to be really good friends!" This was a bit of a shock, she didn't say how they knew each other, just that they did. We thought this would be great info, might be able to knock out a few birds with one stone. Get an inactive member back to church, and fellowshipping an old friend. When we were talking to our soon-to-be baptised convert, we brought up the name of her friend. Her response was something like, "I didn't know she was LDS! We used to be in the same coven until she started dabbling in crystals and Black Magic." Um.. yeah. We never did see the inactive family at church, but last I knew, the converts were doing quite well.

Within the Church, so long as you are legally married, you are not allowed to date, simple as that. Get the divorce, there are no grey areas here. If you want to run around with those that are not LDS, then that is your perogative.

Leaving your mission early is no light thing. You have not said why it is tha you want to go back. If you had left for health reasons, then maybe you could have continued. But a week in the field, and you'd already decided you weren't cut out for it... What makes you think things will be any different if you go back? And yes, you are asking the wrong people.

Does any of Weird Al's work count, since it's satire, not cover? If it does then.. pretty much his entire career LOL.

Something seems off about the OP, but I can't put my finger on it.. something doesn't sound legit.

Survivaltime, do you also stock SPAM?

That, for me is one of those things that going through the Temple helps to shed some light on.

It's only an anecdote, however... There was this sister on my mission, who was telling her boyfriend that if he didn't ask her to marry him, she was going to go on a Mission. Kept telling him that for months, he kept not asking her to marry him. She went through the MTC, and was in the field for 3 months before her boyfriend sent her a letter asking her to come home and marry him. She sent him a Dear John, she was having too much fun to want to stop her Mission just to come home to marry some guy that didn't know what a good thing he had.

I could get in to a technological discussion, including things like TOR, and other nifty things, but I won't. As far as I am concerned, I would much rather the App store had a walled-off area that people could go to get their smut, so I don't have to interact with it. There was a big sweeping ban of something like 5000 explicit apps, including a few that weren't explicit per se. Although, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit app, and the playboy app remained. Sounds more like Apple wants big ticket smut, not the low-end players.

The Internet is uncontrollable, and anyone can set up any site they want and call it what they want. The same is not true of Apple's AppStore. Each application is given a stamp of aproval before being allowed in to the Apple store. Some crap slips through, and some apps have been denied access for no aparrent reason. I'm not venturing in to jailbroken phones here, just what everyday people can do. Apple is THE only source for applications on the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. There is a monoculture there, and a tightly controlled one at that. People may make apps, it is true, but they cannot be sold, or installed without Apple's stamp of aproval. Having a dedicated section is considerably better than not having one. Disagreements?

By putting things in to an explicit category, it makes it easier to avoid coming across apps with questionable content. Up to now explicit content could be stumbled across in the Entertainment category, or others. By giving this kind of content it's own place to live, parental controls, and more accurate content filtering can be implemented. This way, those who want access to the explicit content can get it, and those that don't want it, don't have to be subjected to it. I don't know if iTunes does this kind of filtering or controls yet, but with the popularity of the iTunes store, I would be surprised if they didn't.

My entry, not all electric, but rather an electric/petrol hybrid.

There is, we just need a couple malware writers to get their botnets to take Italy's ISP's offline. Not legal, but possible.

Once we get a Nuclear infrastructure up and running, electricity will be more plentiful and cheaper. Right now, the infrastructure for everyone to run all electric doesn't exist, nor is it likely to ever exist. The answer really isn't one new clean way of powering our transportation. We need multiple sources. Fuel cell, hydrogen, etc for long journeys, biodiesel, ethanol, etc... We need fuel diversity. Oh, the US also needs an improved mass transit system, across the board.

I've heard everything in the article before. It, and the others similar to it are written by people who do not understand "Social Media" as it's called today. If you don't manage them, just as in your daily life, then you can get overwhelmed. Anything you say, any picture you put up, any game you play, can be mined for data, advertisers, market research. Your abusive ex can find you through your pictures and posts. Your boss can find out about the office supplies you stole, etc. Social Media is fun. There's a great site out there, failbooking.com (sometimes questionable content, you have been warned) which shows what can go wrong if you forget your privacy settings, or forget you are announcing things to the world.

In the Pearl of Great Price, we learn that our spirits were organised from intelligences that have always existed, and cannot be either created or destroyed (Kinda like Energy in Einsteinian Physics I suspect). God, has always existed, for an Eternity in the past. If there is anything outside that Eternity, then God would be one of these intelligences that was formed in to a Spirit, and achieved Exaltation, and, hence has always existed. We can get in to all sorts of fun speculation, but speculation is all that this is.

It is not so simple. That is the problem with this reform, and most things of this magnitude. They are too complex to be distilled into a few analogies or comparisons. There is no adequate sound bite to explain it all. Both sides would oversimplify it to get the public on their side while leaving out the important, complex "political" and "pork barrel" stuff out. America needs some kind of guranteed health care. America also needs for logic and critical thinking to be required skills before the age of 18.