SilentOne

Things you are right about: a mission is a personal decision, going on a mission is not required for celestial glory. HOWEVER, a mission IS a priesthood duty. So you are putting your personal desires ahead of your priesthood responsibility, which has been given to you by the Lord through his prophets. That attitude is what is going to hold you back.

Very true.

When I was your age, which wasn't all that long ago, the counsel was for young men not to date seriously until after their mission anyway. I just did a search over at lds.org, and it was still the counsel as of 2010: If you can't go on a mission, period - for something that is a permanent problem, not something that is just delaying the mission - well, you do say that you can't move because of current circumstances, so I still don't understand why you have to be dating now, especially dating seriously.

@anatess2 But I was specifically talking about discussions that I am already taking personally just in reading. I stay away to 1) keep from saying things I'll regret, 2) keep it from getting more personal as they start responding to me, and 3) avoid responding to things that I read into the post that aren't actually there.

@Kandee If you hover your cursor over the poster's username, a box should pop up with a 'Message' link at the bottom left.

The sorts of things she described in her experience of "listening" to the men's rights advocates have lead me to almost entirely abandon commenting on most topics that I feel strongly about. Even if I wait to calm down and re-read the points I was going to respond to and make sure I understood correctly, I'll probably get riled up again when reading the response, which I will probably take at least for a moment as a personal attack, and then I have to try to calm down again. And if the other person is also emotional and taking it all personally and reading things that I'm not typing, we'll have a nice ugly mess on our hands.

I don't agree.

I didn't get the impression this article had anything to do with working out.

@Revolve No, that's the same picture. The outfit she's wearing doesn't quite conform to our dress standards.

It was pretty good. I especially liked the "We are all enlisted" caption.

I remember being pretty... excited isn't quite the right word, but I can't think of anything better... so I guess happy and excited when Elder Holland gave his "Like a Broken Vessel" talk. I may have seen articles in church magazines about mental disorders before, but this was the first time I remembered an apostle straight out saying that mental illness is actually illness and is not something you can just get over with a good attitude.

They'd probably have to put some slightly different locations in as well. I can only imagine a problem coming up if someone tried to get ahold of their past bishops for some reason. And I guess the protected people would have to make up an excuse for why they wouldn't get on facebook, or why they weren't on it before and now never use an actual picture of themselves on their profile or cover photos. Oh, people posting pictures with you in them, not tagged, could cause some problems for witness protected people. If anybody here wants to write that book, that could be your inciting incident. And I got pretty off track from whatever it was I was originally planning to say. Something about I don't think the new made-up stuff would be a moral problem? I doubt they'd have the local clerks in charge of or even aware of the changes. I think the Lord can prevent giving mission calls that would put your life at risk.

i have a hard time calling someone a traitor for actions not taken of their own volition.

I was thinking just dial random configurations of digits until somebody answers.

I saw that, but couldn't figure out how the lack of reimbursement had anything to do with cultural appropriation, which is what the article is purportedly about. I don't see their process description as much different than developing a recipe for barbecue sauce after talking to all your neighbors about how they make their special sauces and studying the ingredient lists on the store-bought sauces before experimenting with how to combine their elements to make your own.

Pun intended?

Maybe people thinking, "I say dollars after I say twenty, so obviously the convention is wrong. I should write it the way I say it."

I guess I'll have to do some pretty extensive research into my recipe books to make sure I'm not making anything invented by a culture I do not descend from. Let's see, I've got Danish, English, Irish, Welsh, I think some French, and an unproven family story of some Native American but I can't recall which tribe. So, I can keep doing ebleskivers and probably peanut butter sandwiches, but I guess the lasagna and enchiladas will have to go. Or maybe it's only a problem if I try to charge people for eating them without hunting down and paying the families of whoever originally shared the instructions on how to make lasagna and enchiladas.

I can agree with the literal meaning of these words. Being temple worthy is not the thing that makes you good. But I would contend that it is impossible to be temple worthy and not be a good person. If you're going for the parallelism, maybe say something like holding a temple recommend does not make you a good person or having been through the temple does not make you a good person.

The £1,000,000 Bank Note by Mark Twain

a fine tuning? a continuation?

Would the proxy for that have to be somebody who had been excommunicated previously?

Every Star Trek series - TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise - has had multiple episodes involving time travel. I consider it a feature of the Star Trek franchise. Episodes with time travel in the original series include: s01e19 - Tomorrow is Yesterday; s01e28 - The City on the Edge of Forever; s02e26 - Assignment: Earth; s03e23 - All Our Yesterdays I may have missed some. Oh, I forgot about the Animated Series. I've only seen one episode of that but a quick google search suggests it may only have had one time travel episode. That Raumpatrouille show looks promising. And with only seven episodes, I sort of would like to watch the whole series.

A lot of people, especially those whose family has been in the church for generations, do descendancy work - they find an ancestor from way back then work forward through their other lines. So they end up doing their first cousins five times removed, then their second cousins four times removed, then their third cousins three times removed, and so on. Are you sure this couldn't be what happened?

Not exactly. People just aren't required to get permission from the closest living relative before requesting the work to be done after that date.