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phew, that was something. Evangelicals may have a different view, but from this Catholic: First: "being[ABC] can have all the free will in the world, but it won't enable him to do anything other than what X has designed into being[ABC]" ... God created us for Himself, out of love. Our response to God *should* be love. While my understanding of LDS teaching on free will is=the freedom to do whatever, whenever, from which life lessons are accrued...is not the Catholic POV. God created us with the express purpose (ABC) to love Him in return. Love cannot be forced. Creating us as (BCD), that is, as beings that are forced to love God, is the illogical thing, as forced love is no love at all...it is enslavement. Created as we are, as rational creatures with free will, we are to love God with all our heart, might, mind and strength. God is our destiny, the reason we were created. When we choose to not love God (sin), then we are exercising an abuse of free will. Second: This line of "logic" always and forever leaves out the most important Good News: Jesus Christ. Foreordained before the world was created, for our Salvation. This was not for God, but for us. He is the means, The Way, by which ALL are redeemed from sin (lack of loving God). I can understand atheists who make this argument leaving this out, but it always kind of floors me when I see a Christian use the atheist's argument without modification. Third: Fated and free...deep philosophy for a Mormon. I recommend this little lecture by Dr. Peter Kreeft. Intro here: http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics-more/freewill-predestination.htm, and then follow the link for "Fated and Free".

Sort of kind of, the Catholic view (teaching). "True Church" is not really a Catholic term that I hear much, at all. 'Church' is more broadly defined in Catholicism. I don't know of an equivalent teaching in Mormonism in order to make a comparison. Catholics talk more about Christian churches vs. non-Christian churches, and where the fullness of truth is found. Dispensationalism is a newish (relative) idea that doesn't exist in Catholicism. Jesus establishing His Church on the Twelve Apostles and breathing into it the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (the Church's birthday, so to speak).

I didn't say the parent read it instead of the child. Nor did I say the assignments are for the parents.

LDS believe their own Church is protected from apostasy, right? Catholics believe the same about the Catholic Church. Individuals fail, the Church can't. LDS believe the Catholic Church was not protected and the failure of individuals could cause the Church to fail As to Apostolic authority...we have faith that Jesus didn't set up a Church with no plan for the future. In this, yes, I could agree with your conclusion that a Catholic would view this as saying Jesus was a failure Lax even, uncaring and rather a deist POV, of God set something in motion then steps away

That isn't what I said.

The difference, boiled down, is that Catholics have faith in a Church that is protected by its founder, Jesus. LDS have faith that it failed and faith in a do-over. There is no reason for a person to follow what they view as a failure.

Not really true though. Reaction to jealously is portrayed in stereotypical forms, which is more like a caricature of reality. Jealousy in entertainment is used as a plot device. ?

As delicate as I can say... I think there are physiological barriers your comparison. 50 women lined up for one guy...just saying.

Resources?

Pulling out the numbers here... a woman has the same probability of having the same number of children (given fertility variables are equal in this equation). In other words, 10 couples (one man and one woman) might have 6 children each for a total of 60 children. Or, one man with 10 wives might have 6 children with each wife, for a total of 60 children. The man has more children in a polygamous relationship, the women do not, and numerically speaking toward population again, birth rates for a group of people is not changed by being a polygamous or monogamous society.

I know a guy who sort of tried. His method was to attend a different church every week to see if he felt the Spirit. He reported back, that he did, in all of them. I tried the deeper method you describe, above. Raised LDS, left for atheism, practiced (somewhat) and studied Hinduism, attended and participated in a Unitarian Universalist church. Now Catholic...and settled here. I felt what is often described as being home, where I belong. It was absolutely for me, a new spiritual awakening that I thought was not possible. I call my faith, a miracle. As a new convert, some 10 years ago, I was all gung-ho get the doctrinal points down to a T and argue about them with others (looking back it makes be lol). I view those things as important still, and I enjoy studying the depths of my faith, but I'm relaxed in my home. Did I question what I was doing? Absolutely. I had the dual thing going of asking myself if I had gone crazy, no something mystical has happened, no I'm crazy, no something mystical has happened. I was kind of neurotic about it, really, and finally just sat back, and listened. "Be still, and know I am God"...you'll just know, I think. It was for me like one day someone slipped a file into the filing cabinet and I didn't know how it got there, but isn't it amazing that it is there?

Reading logs...not something I recall when my kiddo was little. But, I like to read, and read to her since the day she was born. We both enjoy reading and sitting down to read homework assignments was fun for us. Conversely my husband is dyslexic, and reading is No Fun at all for him. His elementary teachers called him lazy (seriously, it's there on his old report cards). No amount of reading log assignments would have caused him to read, but I think they would have helped his mother in what she needed to do at home in order to enforce what was being taught at school. That was in the olden days, before the internet. Now parents tell me the teachers have everything online, and all a parent has to do is read the teacher's assignments online. So much easier for those kids that "lose" or "forget about" things they don't want to do.

True story: the kids in our CCD (Children's pre-confirmation religious education) were being taught about choosing a confirmation name. The name is after a Saint of the Catholic Church. The adult teaching the classes asked the kids if they had chosen a confirmation name, explain a little about who the Saint was, and why they chose the name. She gets to two boys who were pals and they both said Luke! She asked them why they chose the name and said because they like Luke Skywalker! (Usually Luke, is St. Luke, the Apostle.) Cracks me up, I tell ya.

Robert E Lee was a brilliant general, and a traitor to the US. But because we are all of the same country, the Civil war ended differently for generals that fought against the US than say, generals of Germany who were hanged. There remains a southern patriotism towards the Confederacy. It's been viewed as something to tolerate and/or something understandable, but times change. Not all citizens in the South have this old Confederate patriotism. I'd say it's fewer with each generation and now the sentiment is turning and the ones who are most offended and outspoken by the turn, certainly don't represent the Southern Confederate patriot who would be embarrassed at torch bearing white trash.

Weird as this sounds, Seagull Book carries a small but nice selection of church clothes, at ok prices. ETA linkage https://www.seagullbook.com/modest-dresses-tops-and-skirts-sweet-salt-clothing.html The brand is Sweet Salt. https://www.sweetsaltclothing.com/ https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=w_bl_sl_s_ap_web_7141123011?ie=UTF8&node=7141123011&field-brandtextbin=Sweet+Salt

You don't know who did this...we still have those green frogs around that revel in causing trouble...and just plain hooligans around the country that use any opportunity to cause trouble. More likely a white nationalist would target Lincoln than a bleeding heart liberal. You just don't know. Our dear Pres. has consequences for his attitude and what he says. No, he didn't order anyone to burn statues.

Our our Pres. was trolling with that statement. A troll is most satisfied when their irrational comments incite irrational responses.

...and quasi-religion cult followers.

Both have me irritated. Each extremist end is trolling the other, but the Pres. trolling is so unpresidential, I can't stand seeing his mug or hearing his voice. Indecent too strong of a word?

Well he's not the first President to be a Confederate sympathizer. So there is president.

Well it's a discussion that was started by Pres. Trump, when he equivocated and asked the question, are Washington and Jesfferson next. (Further proof, in my book, that the man is an idiot and doesn't understand his office or the oath he took when sworn in.)

"One Hundred Years of Solitude", Gabriel García Márquez ...multi-generational story of a family, with mystical aspects. I read the English translation, the original is in Spanish. "Shipping News", Annie Proulx ...movie is pretty good too. Poor clumsy Quoyle, who's life in general seems jinxed, gets a break (sort of) writing for a small town newspaper in Newfoundland, which gets him involved in the small town happenings. One of my favorite parts is where he buys a small boat, as the whole town gets from place to place, via personal watercraft, so he decides he needs a boat. Being Quoyle, he buys a boat that is not nearly meant for ocean travel, to which one of the townspeople tells him, 'that's not a boat, that's a coffin'. Of course, the boat sinks the first time out, and Quoyle clings to a floating cooler that just happened to be there...and then the cooler turns out to be The Clue that a murder had taken place. (ha). A local salt, gets a 'feeling' that Quoyle is in trouble and saves him from the cold waters of Newfoundland. "Grapes of Wrath", John Steinbeck ...a poor family in depression-era USA trying to make it. Really, a masterpiece. "Dandelion Wine", Ray Bradbury ..."a collection of life events tinged with a degree of fantasy" (wikipedia)

Sounds like you're asking about a personal desktop environment. I've ran Ubuntu for 10+ years in enterprise server environments, almost all of the instances were apache servers (LAMP). Some with very heavy traffic. No problems, and I really like ubuntu. Hardware matters (seriously). And Ubuntu is super configurable, which is very useful if you know what you're doing. Will get you in trouble if you don't. I recommend having an understanding of computing concepts and what each configuration change is actually doing. For this reason, I never recommend Linux as a home desktop for anyone who just needs to load-and-go. Keep it patched is the main mantra. Some of the super bad security issues out there target Linux distros.

Thanks, it's how I have been taught, regarding the four senses of scripture. I intuitively read scripture in this fashion, even at first read. Sometimes a passage I've read 50 times will pop out with something new. The Word of God does not change but our understanding does. The spiritual sense. Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs. The allegorical sense. We can acquire a more profound understanding of events by recognizing their significance in Christ; thus the crossing of the Red Sea is a sign or type of Christ's victory and also of Christian Baptism. The moral sense. The events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act justly. As St. Paul says, they were written "for our instruction". The anagogical sense (Greek: anagoge, "leading"). We can view realities and events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us toward our true homeland: thus the Church on earth is a sign of the heavenly Jerusalem. A medieval couplet summarizes the significance of the four senses: The Letter speaks of deeds; Allegory to faith; The Moral how to act; Anagogy our destiny.

Active member of wut? Ye olde infirm parents have kind neighbors who take their garbage bins to the curb and back, rain, shine, blizzard, every week, without fail. And have done so for several years now. @Traveler