Carborendum

5! vs 5? I figure you've got 50/50 odds of being correct.
For those following along that's a sure thing.

Rather than admit @Carborendum's cleverness, Imma dig in and fight back.   Admit it!  Your math might be good, but your punctuation stinks!

People look at the following calculation:
230-220/2
and believe the answer is 5.  How ridiculous!  People will say.
But the truth of the matter is that, believe it or not, the answer really is 5!     

People look at the following calculation:
230-220/2
and believe the answer is 5.  How ridiculous!  People will say.
But the truth of the matter is that, believe it or not, the answer really is 5!     

Where is @mordorbund when you need him?
I didn't say the answer was really 5.
I said the answer was really 5!
I can't believe no one got that.

Where is @mordorbund when you need him?
I didn't say the answer was really 5.
I said the answer was really 5!
I can't believe no one got that.

Where is @mordorbund when you need him?
I didn't say the answer was really 5.
I said the answer was really 5!
I can't believe no one got that.

This is clearly a sin.  Jesus commanded that our i be single.

It's all in your imagination.

I hear it's pretty humid in the darker areas and pretty dry near the white sands.

I only use SArCaSm Periodically.

This is what people often fail to understand.

*shrug*
I never fail to get amazed at the endless number of folks who get ticked off by a human or humans, and have that translate over into "I'm leaving the church".   So many people are here because they want a supportive friend group, or a good environment in which to raise kids, or want to feel belonging.  Those are all important human things, but if you're not here because you believe God wants you to be in this church, you're gonna get blown about when your other reasons for being here waver.
Whenever I hear the latest horrible thing that some Mormon did to someone else, I'm reminded of my wife's wise words: 
"I trust God to act like God, and man to act like man."
Probably some of the wisest words I know.
 

This.  I have a list of problems I have in the Church.   I don't have any with the Church.

I have a similar experience to @mikbone's.  Endless joy and love for scriptures and restoration history, endless blessings coming from accepting the truth claims and delving into the work, and a relatively small list of anecdotes where individual LDS, or maybe a small group or a ward, do stupid or horrible or even downright evil things.  The list can't hold a candle to the greatness of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.
 

My first Bishop swindled like 20K from my parents.
First Stake President left the Church
First Mission President was innactive.  I saw him on my first day in Osorno Chile.  Then @ a zone meeting 4 months later.  In his talk he basically berated us for 30 min about how bad our numbers were and then asked us each to give a testimony about what we can do to do better.  Everyone before me, mostly the Chileans, gave excuses and discussed plans to double their efforts.  I gave a forceful talk in broken Spanish about how our leadership was horrible or non-existent essentially.  The conference was cut a bit short after my words.  I was then banished to the remotest sector in the mission Porvinir! on the Island Tierra del Fuego.  Which I dearly loved.  My second mission president was much better.
When I read the scriptures I know and feel that they are inspired.  I get the same from listening to many talks during General Conference.  My Patriarchial Blessing reads like the Patriarch watched a movie of my entire life.  I just have do to lots of work in the Temple after my retirement. 
I love Joseph Smith dearly.  And I am well aware of the Kirtland Safety Society incident wherein he recommended that the membership buy into the bank and assured them that the bank would do well.  It failed - many members left the church over it.  I tried to buy one of the notes recently from e-bay but I couldn't because they are worth way more then their weight in gold today...
President Nelson's recommendation about vaccines reminded me of the Kirtland Safety Society.  I bet He gave the recommendation because many LDS were using the Church as a reason for requesting religious exemption.  
Living by the recommendations of the LDS Church (Jesus Christ) has brought me too many blessings to count.
My testimony is not fragile.  Its like Gorilla Glass or Sapphire.
My response to guys like Aaron Sherinian,

Problems in the Church (among the members) is not the same as problems with the Church (see next paragraph).  We members are imperfect.  We're all the Lord has to work with.  Satan has agents within the Church - wolves in sheep's clothing.  Perhaps some don't know or believe they've been recruited to Satan's ranks, yet do his work.  There are problems to be found everywhere in mortality.  Better to focus on doing what works of righteousness you can manage and yes, let the Lord figure out the rest: "Minister to 'em all, let God sort them out."  I can minister to a wool-clad wolf without harming God's kingdom just as much as I can minister to a lamb - assuming my ministering is true ministering, including both sharing the gospel and doing works of service and kindness.
If there are any problems with the Church (the organization, authority, priesthood, keys, covenants, ordinances, teachings, laws), I don't know them, and they are truly the Lord's to solve, not mine.  Really, my only problem is how to live my covenants.

I think everyone knows there are problems here or there.  And none of us has a great view to determine how widespread it may or may not be.  But the reason that people want to point to a certain problem as being "systemic" is the foxhole scenario. 
I'll repeat an oft told tale about WWII.  If someone has a source for the validity of this tale, I'd like to know.  But regardless of the truth/fiction of the story, it is a valuable parable, if not a truly inspiring story.
There was a small group of allied soldiers in a foxhole.  They knew that most of their battalion had been lost to enemy fire.  They had very little ammunition left.  They were sore and tired.  Their communications were down.  Then they heard a loud speaker announce in a thick German accent:
"We have you surrounded.  Come out with your weapons down and your hands up!"
This group conferred for a bit and decided that they wouldn't give up.  They'd go down fighting.  As they jumped out of the foxhole, they were astounded to find an entire army of soldiers coming out of hundreds of foxholes as far as the eye could see.
Satan wants us to believe we're all alone.  But we're not.  And even if we were alone, we choose what we do.  We choose who we are.  We do not simply change who we are because of the actions of others.  That would be like blaming others for "making me mad."  We are responsible for controlling our feelings.  This is a trait that I'm afraid too few ever learn.  TBH, I still have a problem with it -- even with little offenses from others.  So, I'm not good at it myself.
It may not be fair.  It may not be just.  And it may even seem justified to believe otherwise, but no matter what others do, at the end of the day, we choose how we react.
We know who we are.  Even if we are thrown into the fire pits of Ammonihah, we live for the Lord and our Eternal destiny.
There was never anyone on Earth that was more alone than a simple carpenter who was left alone in an olive grove after He prayed for strength from His Father.  And He did what He knew was right regardless.

I hear it's pretty humid in the darker areas and pretty dry near the white sands.

I only use SArCaSm Periodically.

Nice.  
I got the following game for Christmas off e-bay that I remember fondly playing in my youth. 
The 4 youngest kids 9-15 now want to play D&D badly.
What do you recommend for a starting set?

I see what you did there.

He tried teaching the hustle, but it wasn't a pretty sight (gators can't dance).