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1 hour ago, NeuroTypical said:
The Berenstein Bears was a staple of my childhood, and my kids' as well. Honest look at family life, dealt with real issues. Before congress got involved and made GI Joe devote a portion of each episode to some stupid messaging directed at how kids shouldn't bully but should brush teeth or whatever.
GI Joe was my thing and I still collect the comics. I don’t like the “Now I know” socially responsible stuff either. I found it silly, even as a kid.
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19 minutes ago, ZealoulyStriving said:
It's actually quite fascinating and was a major draw for me towards fundamentalism during my wilderness journey.
Very cool!
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10 hours ago, Maverick said:
I also want to add that Brigham switching topics and then returning to the previous topic is a very common occurrence in his many discourses. He did it all the time.
There are also several other records of his discourse on Adam-God in Journal of Discourses 1:50-51 in journals of people who were in attendance and they all agree with how it is recorded in the Journal of Discourses.
Is there a reason why Adam-God is of such great importance to you or am I missing something? Totally curious.
I’m a convert and I don’t think I even heard about this doctrine until I joined TH. Never heard about it in church either.
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We were listening to Destroyer on the way to Gainesville today!
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43 minutes ago, mirkwood said:
LMBO!!!!
priceless.
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15 minutes ago, Vort said:
FTFY
Lol!
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17 hours ago, Backroads said:
Ooh, look who's fancy and snobbish with media.
And, to top it off, Big Brother starts in the summer and I’m glued to that show. Been a fan since 2001!
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14 minutes ago, Phoenix_person said:
One of my all-time favorite movies is The Big Short. It's the story of a few guys who saw the cracks in the CDO dam and got rich off of it. And according to the movie (grain of salt, I know) at least one of them DID try to raise alarms at the SEC and WSJ.
That’s right up my alley. Thank.
There was a whistleblower for Madof that tried calling the SEC several times as well.
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1 hour ago, NeuroTypical said:
Saddest thing in the world - I saw a post from someone near the bottom of the 2008 economic downturn, saying he was selling all his retirement stock while he still had some left and putting it somewhere safe.
The market has gone up roughly 500% since the 2008 bottom. If dude put it in cash or gold or something, it's probably lost like a third of it's value, because of inflation.
And that's how you end up spending your golden years working, unable to retire. (Divorce is the other reason people end up there.)
To be fair, I’m sure some people probably did see it coming, but it’s like a historic college football game-more people say they were there then actually were there.
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When it comes to economic predictions, everyone became a prophet in 2009. I met so many people who “knew the economy would crash” and say they saw it coming. Oddly, their prophecies didn’t stop them from losing everything. Or warning the rest of us.
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3 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:
I'm having a hard time getting worried about a coming depression.
Agree. I think that predicting the future of the economy is a fool’s game. If I wake up every day and say “today is the day the economy will crash.” I’ll eventually be right. If I also say “Today is the day I’m going to die.” every day, eventually I’ll be right about that too. Neither statement makes me a prophet.
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33 minutes ago, Traveler said:
The economy and commodities are such a weird confusing mixed bag of conundrum in my mind – I am not sure how good of an indicator (especially in the short term before the election) such things are.
While I basically agree with you, I think we’re in the minority. At the end of the day voters care about guns, LGBT issues, and abortion rights-but they care much deeper about feeding their families and retirement. If the economy is lousy in November, it generally means the voters are going to “throw the bums out.”
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9 hours ago, Vort said:
If the enemy attacks on the Sabbath, you defend yourselves on the Sabbath. Israel should not be waiting until May to respond to such aggressions.
that, and from what little I know Israel is a secular state with a large non-Jewish or “Jewish in name only” population. The citizens probably care more about not getting blown up or shot more than not fighting back on the sabbath.
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4 minutes ago, Maverick said:
There hasn’t been an official statement on Adam-God in over 40 years to my knowledge. And the last statements that were made long ago contradicted what Brigham Young taught about it.
Thanks.
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10 minutes ago, Maverick said:
It was taken away from the general church membership. It stopped being taught, was contradicted, and it was even denied that it was ever taught for many years. For this reason most members had no idea that this was ever taught.
Is there official church teaching on it today?
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LadyGator and I are watching high brow, intellectual shows lately. Like My Strange Addiction and 90 Day Fiancee.
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12 hours ago, Traveler said:
would add to all this my personal opinion that toxic masculinity does indeed exist
I totally agree with you that toxic masculinity exists, but it’s more silly than destructive. Andrew Tate and his followers are too ridiculous to be taken seriously.
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18 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:
I've met two. One married, one not. Both of 'em temple worthy the last time they told me. One of them I know very well.
I didn’t know the guy that well, but on the surface based on appearances he was a very nice guy. He was a bishop.
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16 minutes ago, Just_A_Guy said:
I’m probably getting into the weeds here, but . . . I disagree with this. Kids don’t always do what they’re taught. In fact, for millennia people have bemoaned the tendency of adolescents to do precisely the opposite of what they were taught.
No worries. I see it the same way I always did. It’s a cliche and old people use to whine about young people and wash their hands of any accountability that they have.
It reminds me of people who are divorced four times, look in the mirror, pat themselves on the back and say “I did nothing wrong. Everyone else is a narcissist but me.”
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9 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:
That 4% number floored me
Same. I’ve only met one openly liberal faithful LDS. A former democratic congressmen. I’ve never met an LGBT active member.
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14 minutes ago, Just_A_Guy said:
I absolutely stand by the proposition that participation in or support or extramarital (including, gay) sex constitutes a forfeiture of a Latter-day Saint’s spiritual birthright. It is a redeemable forfeiture, to be sure; but a forfeiture it most certainly is.
Sure, no argument there. But if a majority young people do that, then how they were taught was wrong. Something failed on the older generation side. After all, if every student fails a test, it’s a problem with the teacher.
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8 minutes ago, Just_A_Guy said:
I’m a little confused by the juxtaposition here; the post asks if I think the younger generation is really that immoral and then goes on to state that we should expect immorality to be commonplace in the younger generation today because it was commonplace in our own generation in the last century.
I’m lost.
I think young people get a bad reputation for no reason. Older generations also are too dense to see that if young people are that corrupt, then maybe how they were raised might have something to do with it. Also, our own generation had immorality too.
Notice that I don’t approve of immorality, but I don’t approve of generation bashing either.
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