Midwest LDS

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  1. As long as both your bishops have given you permission I don't see a problem, go for it.
  2. Quelled? Nay now I have an even stronger desire to march the US army into the UN, shouting at the top of my lungs "I say you are no more Parliam...I mean an assembly" and boot them out of New York. Except I can't leave my house this week due to quarantine. Oh well I can make drinking cups of the skulls of my enemies next week.
  3. Oh you know smiling and nodding while reading the economic parts, burning the parts that say it's wrong to conquer and pillage weak countries
  4. Blue are my favorite but only red ones have any medicinal qualities /s.
  5. Hey props to her, I would have loved to see that reaction.
  6. Hey it's your loss l. I've already made 10 billion dollars selling magic beans, and all you have to do is sign up your friends for a product they totally need. Also, my brother's, friend's, college roommate is now his own boss, and you could be too if you were just willing to alienate everyone in your life.
  7. Make sure those are red M and M's, and you have to eat them by the light of a full moon, and to the sounds of drums to get the full effect. Trust me this is one weird trick doctors don't want you to know! /sšŸ˜‰
  8. I'm a fan of the prequels too. Even when they came out I liked them (although 3 is my favorite). They weren't as good as the originals, but I wasn't expecting them to be, and overall I enjoyed them.
  9. I loved the movie Gettysburg, made in the 1990's. It's classic Civil War action, and it was good although I've never met anyone else who liked it nearly as much as I did. There were some fake looking beards, but the acting was spot on and there was genuine emotion in the film. I also liked the Last Samurai. I know cultural appropriation, white savior syndrome, blah blah blah, but I thought Tom Cruise was spot on as a veteran struggling with PTSD and I loved the action sequences. Speaking of Tom Cruise The Edge of tomorrow. The ending fell a little flat, but I've never seen an action movie about a stable time loop that was more like watching someone play a video game, and I genuinely thought the plot was fun.
  10. We have been given permission to have Sacrament at home too. I have to admit I'm excited. I don't typically get to take part in the Sacrament portion of the service myself since we usually have more than enough young men, but it's been one of my favorite priesthood ordinances to participate in since I was a young man.
  11. That was common when I went as well. I remember some classes beginning with prayer, and, especially in religion but also in other courses, professors would definitely relate lessons to the gospel from time to time. That would have been 2007 to 2011 so not that long ago. I would have just walked out of this guy's class and dropped him after a stunt like this. I'd take the W on my report card if need be.
  12. I'm glad we can still partake of the Sacrament at home since I hold the priesthood but this makes me sad. I look forward to church every week https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/gatherings-worldwide-temporarily-suspended
  13. Yeah our governor just ordered schools closed as well here in Indiana very much like the announcements from other states. I believe it falls under the governors' emergency powers as outlined here https://www.nga.org/consulting/powers-and-authority/#emergency but I don't think that's what you are looking for. Definitely potentially concerning though it does seem easy to abuse.
  14. The NBA just suspended it's season indefinitely https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/coronavirus-update-nba-suspends-season-after-jazz-player-tests-positive-for-covid-19/
  15. I agree. While money can get you far in politics, you've got to get in the trenches too. "It's all about the mighty Mo!!" As Bush Sr. said (meaning momentum).
  16. Yep they were calling us bumpkins who thought we were sophisticated. This link describes it pretty well https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-macaroni-in-yankee-doodle-is-not-what-you-think " On returning from a Grand Tour (a then-standard trip across Continental Europe intended to deepen cultural knowledge), these young men brought to England a stylish sense of fashion consisting of large wigs and slim clothing as well as a penchant for the then-little-known Italian dish for which they were named. In England at large, the word ā€œmacaroniā€ took on a larger significance. To be ā€œmacaroniā€ was to be sophisticated, upper class, and worldly. In ā€œYankee Doodle,ā€ then, the British were mocking what they perceived as the Americansā€™ lack of class. The first verse is satirical because a doodleā€”a simpletonā€”thinks that he can be macaroniā€”fashionableā€”simply by sticking a feather in his cap. In other words, he is out of touch with high society."
  17. I was curious about what the new changes meant and this video answered the questions I had. Watching revelation unfold, even seemingly minor revelations, is always amazing to me and I am grateful the firm hand of Christ is always at the wheel.
  18. I agree. It will be interesting if he can line up support from far left Dems due to the problems you mentioned if he secures the nomination. I suspect he will mostly. My Democratic friends are mostly the more moderate sort who don't like Sanders. But they are operating under the "anyone who's blue" mentality so they will vote for him if push comes to shove. I think Democrats are fairly united in their dislike of Trump so it's not a question of uniting the base, it's how many moderates, independents, and disaffected Republicans the Democratic nominee can swing over, and Bloomberg will get a lot more of those than Sanders.
  19. I voted for McMullin as a protest vote in 2016 (for anyone concerned relax Trump won Indiana by over 19 points and was polling that way before the election so there was no riskā˜ŗ) . But I wouldn't vote for Bloomberg or any Democratic candidate because even the most moderate of them is strongly pro choice. I'm pretty conservative though, and I was happy about Trump's judicial appointments. I bet Bloomberg would appeal to moderates and some disaffected Republicans a lot more than Bernie. I still think he's just going to divide the moderate vote more and let Bernie win but we will see what happens on Super Tuesday.
  20. Yeah we made this mistake in Indiana when Senator Luger was up for election in 2012 (just as an example). He was a middle of the road Republican, definitely the kind of senator who would be considered a RINO. So the party put up a guy named Mourdock, rock solid, hard core, right wing conservative who swept the primary and trounced Luger. Unfortunately, he was also a terrible public speaker who managed to make it sound like God justified rape in a long winded, rambling answer during a debate where all he needed to say was "I'm pro life". This caused Mourdock to tank in the polls. Romney took Indiana by double digits as did, at the time, Governor Pence (2012). Mourdock, with all of his bonafide conservative credentials managed to lose a safe senate seat Luger had held for decades to a democrat, Joe Donnelly, who spent six years siding with Obama about everything. It was not worth losing a weak sauce Republican, Luger, who I agreed with 75 to 80 percent of the time, for a hard core conservative who managed to lose a safe seat by being dumb.
  21. He's trying to live up to his expectations of how a missionary should act. We all try to fit in no matter what we are doing, and to me he appears to be trying to be the kind of missionary he has always looked up too.
  22. I have to admit, Farage became a hero of mine when he had the British delegation stand up and wave the Union Jack in the faces of the other MP's in Brussels.