Happy Hiker

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  1. Fair had some pretty good videos. Dan Peterson is my favorite speaker. If you watch "The Protean Joseph Smith" it is really good. I have always thought the lack of consensus among critics makes Joseph's claims seem more likely to be true. It's like the Book of Mormon is so weird or enigmatic that no one can figure it out.
  2. It seems kind of weird that the area that lost has statues honoring the army that lost. That said, I think it is insane that people want to change the name of Lake Calhoun, in Minnesota. Most people that are aware of that lake don't even know who John C Calhoun was. I don't think that there are any areas besides majority white western nations that are required by political correctness to apologize for their past and their heritage. I believe the expectation stems from the post modern idea of power structures and the paradigm's inability to deal with dominance hierarchies. I'm opposed to the globalist agenda, and I was disappointed that Mitt Romney had to pile on President Trump when he correctly stated that street communist anarchists are responsible for a lot of violence we've seen.
  3. Thanks for all of the encouragement. I got the job I wanted and I'm starting soon. It is a manufacturing job with a company that owns two out of the world's three producers of hard drive reader micro circuits. The piece is the size of a grain of rice and requires over ninety processes. I looked at one through an electron microscope and it was pretty cool. I want to start a food truck and I have a pretty good idea about a new kind of energy drink I want to sell. Sorry I can't share the idea. It's actually new and different. LOL. I quit a manosphere forum I posted at with a lot of swearing, so I'm going to try to keep coming here to feel the spirit instead of feeling contention. I found out that part of why I have trouble with joining communities is because I have agoraphobia. I'm going to go to church soon, and I realize that waiting for the perfect self to do anything is a trap and a fallacy. Even though I wasn't even high, and I just had a taillight out the night I got in trouble, I am still glad that I got in trouble because I will probably learn a lot from peeing in a cup eighty times in six months. They are requiring a lot from me, including fines and eighty hours of community service. Looks like I can get my gun rights back in about a year. I don't want to use any chemicals anyway. It's time to rely on Heavenly Father. I am a proud person and I never rely on HF. At most, I just ask for the companionship of the Spirit when times get tough. I didn't make great friends when I was young, and I wasted some potential, but I'm only thirty three, so there's a lot of time. I have spent many hours learning about the Book of Mormon, and watching people explain why they believe on You Tube. I agree with Dan Peterson that when you line up all of the accounts from those days and look at the book itself, it makes more sense that it is real than fake. Thanks again.
  4. I met my wife in a singles ward and I married her in the church due to lack of worthiness. She was a young woman of nineteen when we started dating, and never lived the church lifestyle as an adult. From everything I heard she was gung ho in her teens. I am seven years older. Now thirty three. We have no kids, but last year she got a dog. She said doggy would make her feel better, and that made me very sad because she didn't need the Holy Ghost but she needed a dog. Her parents were abusive when she was a kid. I met up with missionaries about three years ago and started to feel the spirit and go to church for about a month. I felt more at peace in the faith than ever before. She said the whole bit made her uncomfortable, and one day she told me there was no way she could ever see herself becoming active again. That was the worst day of my life. I had a habit of drinking vodka and smoking a lot of grass for most of our marriage. I was a jerk at times, but she could be pretty rough on me, too. I still love her to death, and she always tells me I mean everything to her and she loves me. I don't think she knows how disappointed I feel. Even though I really love her, I drastically narrowed my dating pool to find a member to marry. I just thought that eventually I would iron out my mental health and we would be in church and feeling the spirit together. I thought the spirit confirmed to me that even though we weren't married in the temple, I was doing the right thing. Wondering if I imagined that. Eventually she told me she took her name off of church rolls. That hurt but was more expected. We have moved to a new community, and I am hoping to get into the ward, but I am very scared to roll up to the church without a job, and with a recent arrest for driving under the influence of marijuana and carrying a gun while intoxicated. My license is about to be suspended for six months and although I am a respected songwriter, I have no job prospects or education. She is working a job in a bottling plant, and I feel pretty bad about everything. I may never make a cent off of music. And it just got harder to get hired. I have a lot of social anxiety. I want to rebaptize her, but my gut feeling is that it isn't likely to ever happen. She wants to have kids with me. Signed up for the forum just to get this off my chest. Thanks.
  5. We're about to find out that race is real. Charles Murray is the Copernicus of our day. It is important that we handle the information with love and respect for all of God's children. The prevailing orthodoxy is going to tumble soon as the genome is more completely untangled.