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I know they tried buying them. I mentioned that to show that they did try a few things. But there were still more choices.

The short story, The Story of your Life by Ted Chiang was better IMO. When I first heard it had been optioned for a movie I didn't see how they could film it and remain true to the story. They did pretty well but opted for a Hollywood world threat menace that was not in the original.

There are other scriptures that show failure of the character. Jonah, Moses and the spring come to mind immediately. Oh and David. The brother of Jared when presented with the lighting concerns puzzles out a solution on his own to present for approval. While I fully admit the laban story interpretation above is my own, it seems in keeping with other stories and their interpretations.

Only a minority of promptings make it into scripture so there's no way to answer that really.

I think the Trump and the animosity are a hiccup while we sort out our tribalist behaviors into a more constructive path. I think the society and system can withstand the pressure and adapt in a constructive way.

Windows 8 started the turn to sour. 10 was full vinegar. I'd been dual booting for years so it was simple to just let windows die. I've not used a Microsoft product in several years now. Ubuntu with the cinnamon desktop. Free, private, ad free.

By that argument, the 10 commandments are meaningless.

How Catholic of you to love the eve of All Saints Day, November 1. November 2 is All Souls Day, for us regular types.

The thing you actually have control over you won't do. so your marriage won't change either. Fix yourself. Your marraage has a better chance if you do.

Well, the fox news article is wrong about the genetics as well. There are two different Adams, at least for a small subset of people in Africa with a different Y Chromosome. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23240-the-father-of-all-men-is-340000-years-old/

Don't think so. Self reflective thinking is how you figure these things out. To say the line is crossed by just thinking about the idea of a line or boundary is to nullify self examination. I think the line is mostly personal. And that to argue about your line being right and their line is wrong is more about pride than anything else. The gospel draws some lines clearly. Others are left as exercise for the person. My experience is that it's more revelatory why the person drew the line than where they drew it. You never get to why without the self reflective thinking. If it's all about what and not why, there isn't personal growth.

Any yeast product has trace alcohol. Yes, I mean bread too.

Are you familiar with the BYU report that the JST is largely based on Adam Clarke's Bible commentary? http://jur.byu.edu/?p=21296 Oh I see it was linked above already. Oops.

Legalism was a pharasaic behavior Jesus rebuked. Where is the line?

Coworker pieces together that I am LDS. "But you're so normal!" she says.

That's one projection. Other projections indicate more jobs with higher productivity and increased standard of living. Still others project the singularity (and hard and soft versions of that) Homo Deus offers another projection, without the economic analysis and is a fascinating book as was Sapiens it's forerunner as prequel as wrong in this context

It's easy. You never ever mention the guns as the point of it. The average citizen commits three felonies a day. Prosecute. Now you're a felon and can't have guns. Repeat. The government has no need to take the guns en masse. Not when it can imprison you essentially on demand because living is casually felonious. Look the government can just file suit and bankrupt the average citizen without ever having to lock you up or prove the case to its conclusion. And to do so it never once needs to be about taking your guns or eradicating the second amendment. The back door is simply wide open to exploitation in the modern world.

I would be hesitant to involve the bishop right now. Putting a third party in the situation without the consent of both partners is unfair to the bishop and the husband. It's usually seen as ganging up by the other partner. Not productive to such disputes. Also violation of privacy boundaries without consent. If he will go, try couples counseling. I still think he will balk at that after a session or two because it seems he will be confronted as not doing his part. But with a more n eutral third party saying such will hopefully trigger some rumination that is lacking now. And then hopefully he can figure out his necessary role and step up. But it may not be your ideal role either. Expect uncomfortable compromise.

It already is mostly spent domestically. As wages to the military and contracts to US businesses who then pay other US wages. The US highway system? Military project. Internet? Military project. GPS, freeze dried food--canning of food was invented for Napoleon, computers... All military projects.

I think they were better served belonging to the EU.

This story bothers me. I think it's a story of Nephis failure, not his success. There were a number of solutions to the problem. Buying them was one. I think the 4 brothers were sent together to get them so they could do a mass transcription while paying laban for the privilege. Nephi could even have written them out via revelation. There was more than one solution. But nephi fixated on the plates of Laban which were believed original but that seems unlikely. I believe God would have facilitated most any solution but Nephi seems to not have been thinking outside the box much. Death, deception as tools of God strike me as human failure getting patched up by God rather than God's ideal path. Zoram could have been added to any of the paths I suspect.

We know very little about rehabilitation. Something for us to continue to explore as humanity.

Sorry to Bother You. Much more to it than what was in the previews. Decent film, mature topics. Would have been better with a tighter focus to the story. It's trying to be to much for the scope of one film.

I think we will end up with universal healthcare in the US. Mostly because we will end up with a significant part of the citizenry underemployed/unemployed because of automation and AI. It may well be tiered with private helathcare for the fulll time employed and the wealthy. But there will be a minimum level of universal care as well. At least for starters. Maybe even AI doctors for the baseline healthcare. It would then likely grow either from government scope creep and pursuit of economies of scale and kingdom building. The argument won't be about what we want or if it's right. It will be "it's cheaper than ongoing emergency room care for this population." Why does the US have private healthcare? Because of government economic controls in WWII. Wage freezes. So companies offered healthcare benefits to offset the wage issue. Plus it was a "raise" without a tax hit. After the war, it was impractical to revoke an existing benefit.

The phrasing of the question is odd to me. I don't believe in organic evolution. I accept organic evolution as the best explanation of the AVAILABLE EVIDENCE. Beleive is a faith verb. Evidence is not faith and faith is not evidence, Paul's statements not withstanding. Faith extends where evidence lacks. Paul's statement that faith is evidence of things unseen is more about the understanding of his day in my interpretation of the statement. My understanding of the creation is that there was no death before the fall so evolution is not how God did it. But I'm still interested in human understanding. In the empirical human view, evolution is a very good explanation.