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Books! I always include a children's book for baby gifts. Those kiddos need to be read to from the moment they're born. Any of your favorites will do. Two of mine are "Goodnight Moon" and "Are You My Mother?". The latter I was able to find in Spanish, for a couple who were 1/2 Spanish speaking. http://www.parents.com/baby/development/intellectual/benefits-of-reading-to-your-newborn/

"Trouble the Waters". 2008 Oscar nominated documentary about Hurricane Katrina. Heart wrenching and blood boiling.

So true.

I always run into people I know. I'd die to be seen in sweat pants let alone pajamas. My momma raised me to dress properly when going out and that has stuck. When I was just a wee one, one summer day, mom says let's go shopping so I pile in the car, and she sends me back into the house to change out of my shorts, because of course one does not go downtown in shorts! What I feel I can get away with is jeans. ? For airplane rides I cheat and wear jeans with elastic waste. Lol. When I work from home, better believe it, I'm in my PJs and will change out the top and put on some makeup for video conf calls. Yay for work from home days! (And I'd never tell my mom this is how I role.)

$100 an hour. Look and feel of th UI highly customized, CSS, etc. could take you a 1-5 working days, including meeting with the client and reworking. If you're adding in shopping carts, customer databases and the like make it 4-6 weeks, depending on what is already in place and what needs to be done to make it all work together. ETA make a project plan, what the work is, what will be delivered each week and go from there.

Debatable that it is a Christian writing. I see it more as resistance writing, using Christian themes.

Isaiah 14:12–14 and Ezekiel 28:12-18 explain why Satan was cast out of heaven Delving deeper, the threefold temptation seen multiple times in the Bible are described by John as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:16). James identifies them as “earthly, sensual, devilish” (James 3:15). Satan exhibits all three, but is punctuated in all accounts by "pride of life", which in its root is the temptation to raise oneself above God (various forms of this corruption are found throughout the Bible).

Now I'm skered.

Truth be told, if I could get way with wearing flannel pajamas all day every day, I would.

Good song but totally the WRONG song.

GMO bees are bad.

...immediately, Led Zeppelin popped into my head.

I go for, does it not draw attention while also being acceptably cute and figure flattering. As I have aged, the latter has become: does it not make me look frumpy. Modest and not frumpy looking, takes time and effort to discover.

Harvey is what I consider an old timey name, and the old timey names are making a comeback. It's a good, solid name, I hope to see more Harveys. Houston, is eh, but naming kids after cities and cars seems to be popular. Making a wild guess...there are more parents who will name their babies after a city than there are parents who will give their babies an old timey name.

"Appearance arouses yearning in fools" Modesty, is an integral part of temperance. Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity to whose sensitivity it bears witness. It guides how one looks at others and behaves toward them in conformity with the dignity of persons and their solidarity. Modesty protects the mystery of persons and their love. It encourages patience and moderation in loving relationships; it requires that the conditions for the definitive giving and commitment of man and woman to one another be fulfilled. Modesty is decency. It inspires one's choice of clothing. It keeps silence or reserve where there is evident risk of unhealthy curiosity. It is discreet. There is a modesty of the feelings as well as of the body. It protests, for example, against the voyeuristic explorations of the human body in certain advertisements, or against the solicitations of certain media that go too far in the exhibition of intimate things. Modesty inspires a way of life which makes it possible to resist the allurements of fashion and the pressures of prevailing ideologies. The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect for the human person.

From what I'm reading at LDS.org, the teaching is intelligences always have the ability to make choices. The ability to make a choice is an element of free agency, but not free agency itself. What God gifted was the ability to makes choices that were not possible to make in the preexistence.

Catholic's and LDS mean different things when saying "free will", or what LDS call "Free Agency". Catholic teaching=God created man as rational beings, with ability to reason. Our reasoning is our freedom, not different scenarios of choices. Our freedom comes from freely choosing Good. The more we choose Good the more we are exercising our Freedom. We don't need view having more scenarios of "choice", as being more free. All choices away from Good we view as an abuse of the free will that God has gifted us, not a valid exercise of it. Any choice that takes us from God's will, is self-enslavement to sin, the opposite of freedom. LDS teaching is that the ability to make a choice is inherent in the type of being that man is. This is where you are seeing that LDS teaching is that God did not gift us with free will. To a Catholic, this is true. For LDS, they believe in Intelligences that existed co-eternally with God, that were able make a choices and reason, because it is an eternal law of the universe. Laws to which God (in LDS teaching) is subject to. Free Agency is different than God's gift of creating us rationally, with the ability to reason. The LDS teaching being that pre-existing spirits did not have full freedom because they didn't have all the choices. God then gifted them with an earthly life where they have the choices they need in order to progress towards godhood. More scenarios of choice=more freedom. I'm sure an LDS member can clarify anything I messed up, but I think I got the major points and a valid comparison.

The definition I posted is relevant to the article that PrisonChaplain posted. Quote: "And if it looks like Democrats aren’t bursting with enough toxic anger, he can send radical left-wing mobs into the streets with a well-timed tweet."

troll2 trōl/ verb gerund or present participle: trolling 1. informal make a deliberately offensive or provocative online post with the aim of upsetting someone or eliciting an angry response from them.

Meaning of terms are vastly different, is where the misunderstanding comes from. Not from nefarious apostates and anti-Mormons.

Movies: "An Unfinished Life". "Jeremiah Johnson", ".The Milagro Beandfield War", "Slumdog Millionaire", "Captain Fantastic", "Mud", "Robot and Frank", "Chinatown", "L.A. Confidential", "L.A. Story","The Devil Wears Prada", "Holes" ...I could go on TV: "Longmire", "The Sopranos", "The X-Files", "True Detective" Short films:

I see you laid a foundation of assumptions, then asked Catholics or Evangelicals or whoever to explain how the assumptions are logical. Your subsequent replies just really make no sense to me so yeah, best for me to leave it to someone else who maybe gets what you're doing. Cuz I'm dense and don't!

Doesn't have anything to do with the fictional character X...it is of no religion. Probably more accurately, the straw man idea of god, of atheism.

Well, your fictional being isn't anything that has anything to do with me...so I'll leave it to you. I will add... that this modern idea, that the solution to suffering is to remove existence, just really bums me out.

Such hardline predestination is a Calvinist thing. God did not design us for hell, God destined us for Heaven. That a person makes the CHOICE, is absolutely not God's fault. It's like saying, you send your kid to school and you know they're going to get an F, because they won't do the work, won't try at all, so why would you send them to school...and then their failing is your fault because you sent them to school (you sadistic jerk)? I find no logic in this.