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@The Folk Prophet, thanks for sharing. It happens to too many people. The worst I did was open a Craigslist ad with my real phone number 8 years ago. Now I routinely get at least half a dozen scam calls and texts a month. Sometimes there's a quiet period, then it all starts up again. Guess I'm on a potential suckers list that gets sold over and over again. (I've also been bad at real estate deals twice, but that involved trusting the wrong agent more than getting scammed.) When I saw that kindly old brother Bob from the ward had shared a picture of his driver's license on Facebook, I threw a big loud massive fit about it. I couldn't reach him so I called his relatives, his home teachers, and the bishopric and let them all know he was in the process of being online scammed. I think plenty of people thought I was overreacting and sticking my nose where it didn't belong. Then a year later we had a forensics auditor come talk to us in a 5th Sunday, and I was finally vindicated. People are so strongly against knowing stuff like this is so close.

Oof - sorry you took a bath. My 401k is down a bit, but it's still up for the month. Guess I'm not as heavily invested in nVidia. That said, I'm lost. I don't see how the quote translates into your comments. I don't get who "You" and "We" are in your bullet points. I don't get who you think Trump is throwing things at. Could you clarify your gripe? For what it's worth, my little news scrape took a poll of it's readers:

When we were in our early '20's, my buddy always voiced what he had learned from his mission president: "Elder, we don't have limits, we have goals. And we exceed our goals."

Ok, @Carborendum's story beats my wife's "Just got married and almost missed our honeymoon flight to Disneyworld because last name on tickets and Drivers License didn't match" story. Sheesh. For folks wanting a taste of such things, I'd recommend: - Cheech Marin's 1987 movie Born in East LA: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092690/ - That King of the Hill episode where Hank, Dale, and Khan got caught on the wrong side of the Mexican border and had to break the law to get back home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtiAGPV7nro

Are you under the impression that they're not? Anna Kasparian left the left specifically because when homeless people attacked her, all of her "friends" on the left refused to show any sympathy toward her because she was "shaming the homeless." Here in Colorado Springs we had the Club Q mass shooting where someone killed many people. The shooter was making daily international news, until the exact moment he filed court documents indicating demanding the court respect his pronouns of they/them. I never heard the name "Anderson Lee Aldrich" again. I also noticed the whole "respect pronouns or you're a bigot" narrative sort of got muted after that.

Gotta admit, Vance is good at this stuff. v15044gf0000cub99sfog65p3cibetvg.mp4

Whenever I find myself in the company of a corrections officer, I always ask them if they believe evil people exist. I hear two responses: 1- "I've only met sick, damaged, broken, tortured, or warped people." 2- "Oh sure. We release evil into the neighborhood on Tuesdays." If the work those folks do hasn't led them to gravitate to one answer or the other, what hope do I and my arguably ambiguous LDS theology have to arrive at a conclusion? I will say I agree with @Vort only halfway. It is possible to have your "live on planet earth with the humans" card revoked. Whether you tear it up yourself, or it is torn up for you is beside the point. Some folks are so irredeemably broken/evil, that allowing them to remain alive is not a kindness to anybody, including the people themselves. You can be just and good by executing an evil irredeemable subhuman monster who will only exist to harm and destroy, and it's also just and good to put down the human equivalent of Old Yeller. Poor dog didn't realize what he was doing, but that does not lead us to 'therefore we can't deal with him'.

I made it until y'all started talking quantum stuff. Two responses: - Some misogynists might operate under the radar, presenting as plain old misogytetrachromatics. - Is the wave/particle double-slit duality thing still troubling people? It troubled me until I saw a random TikTok by Tyson talking about electrons responding to being observed by moving to a different orbit around their nucleus. Basically, throwing doubt on the whole claim that it was possible to observe the atoms without affecting them.

Every time I read church history it just gets more and more fascinating.

2019 - Governor Polis signs House Bill (HB) 1124, "Protect Colorado Residents From Federal Government Overreach" which prohibits state and local law enforcement from honoring immigration detainers/requests by ICE to hold a criminal alien already in custody. The blue parts of the state rejoice that we've finally and officially become a sanctuary state. https://www.fairus.org/legislation/state-and-local/colorado-officially-sanctuary-state November 2024 - Trump is elected. Since then: - Denver Mayor being all loud in November and talking about refusing to work with ICE, he urges his constituents to protest deportations, claims Denver remains a proud sanctuary city and will not cooperate, says he'll be willing to go to jail over the issue. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/23/denver-mayor-protests-against-trump-mass-deportations https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/denver-mayor-reportedly-vows-to-resist-mass-deportations-not-going-to-sell-out-mayor-mike-johnston-colorado-trump-tom-homan-illegal-immigration - Trump's border Czar Tom Homan agrees with the Denver mayor: "me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing -- he's willing to go to jail, I'm willing to put him in jail because there there's a statute. It's Title 8 United States Code 1324 (iii). And what it says is it's a felony if you knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien from immigration authorities. It's also a felony to impede a federal law enforcement officer" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-jail-denver-mayor/story?id=116235385 - Last week, Denver mayor still being defiant, promising only bare minimum working with ICE. https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/denver-braces-for-mass-deportations-under-new-trump-presidency - 2 days ago Governor Polis says "We encourage every county to work with ICE." and "this narrative is false, that Colorado is in any way, shape or form a sanctuary state. We are not. There are cities in our state that claim to be sanctuary cities, but the state is absolutely not." https://krdo.com/news/2025/01/24/polis-says-colorado-not-a-sanctuary-state-after-sheriff-congressman-ask-for-immigration-changes-2/ Colorado's blue leadership is feeling the pressure, and starting to understand their jobs are on the line.

I know several. One of them is indeed a radical. He has used the word to describe himself. He has used his platform to support, defend, and normalize radical change as the norm. His platform involves speaking to a small group weekly. I’ve heard him voice support for leftist violence on two occasions. Once was a vague allusion to hold on to hate so it can be put to good use later, once was an attempt to get the group talking about political violence as something that is occasionally justified. He’s urges anti-racism and pronoun use, and normalizing ppl being able to openly live their full authentic queer life. His preferred pronouns have moved about a bit, I think they’re currently them/he or something like that. He’s young, in his ‘20’s. He thinks he’s doing good things.

Agreed with all of that. Here - let me change a single phrase: yes, driving in the passing lane when you're not passing someone is contrary to the gospel just as breaking any other law (until they make a law that requires violating God's law, which overrules man's). One of our covenants is to obey God, and I can find several places where God tells us to obey the law. So, questions for you: - I got a speeding ticket a few years ago. Was I supposed to hand in my temple recommend, or would you consider it sufficient to just not attend? For how long? - Is actually getting a ticket required, or is it enough if I just camped in the passing lane and nobody saw it? I assume you'd agree that breaking the law is breaking the law even if you don't get caught, right? - Which question, specifically, do you believe applies to illegal immigrants? You mention covenants and plenty of unambiguous scriptures, but wouldn't that also apply to other things like holding callings or even attending church? Full transparency: I have opinions about when someone should and shouldn't have temple recommends. But I also know the difference between righteous and unrighteous judgment - with one criteria being 'is this any of my business in the first place?'

We humans have a long and fascinating history about houses of worship being used as safe refuge against the state. Sanctuary, right of asylum, make it into the monastery and the King's men can't get you, that sort of thing. 4th through 17th century Europe mostly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary#Legal_sanctuary As things stand now, that's not really a practice in the US. Not with LDS or any other faith. So as things stand now, if Ice wants someone and knows they're in one of our meetinghouses or churches, they might wait until the person comes outside. Warrants take time, and temples have operating hours. Also, as things stand now, most of the deporting is focusing on people with criminal histories above and beyond just the status of being in the country illegally, many of them already incarcerated. Not a lot of drug dealers or wife beaters or serial burglars with temple recommends. Which questions are you referring to? "Do you strive to be honest in all that you do?" is about all I can find that would apply. I can see endless ways someone might be in the country illegally and believe they were justified in answering "yes". It doesn't demand perfection, and an awful lot of politics revolves around granting legal or pseudo-legal status to folks who have entered the country in violation of some of the laws.

The left: "Look at all those idiot rightwingers believing in QAnon conspiracy theories." Also the left: "Musk is a nazi - you can tell because of all the secret hints he gives that nobody believes!"

Hi and welcome @vanzantfrynd. Why not get married first, then baptized? There's no problem with continuing to attend church as you are right now.

I had an interesting lesson in some quorum growing up. Teacher showed up with a box, and he claimed inside the box was a Book of Mormon written in a language nobody speaks or reads. 3 of us got to go up and look in the box and reach inside. Those 3 then had to make claims about what they saw and defend their claims. None of us believed them, thinking they and the teacher had figured something out ahead of time for some nefarious teacher-teaches-us-the-lesson-in-a-weird-way shennannigans. Then dude taught us about the 3 witnesses and the deseret alphabet. Cool lesson, not just about church history, but also about how humans work.

In other news, here's a reminder of some relevant history probably most of us had forgotten:

Again, the news here is that folks on the left have not learned a single thing in eight years. @Phoenix_personI love you man, and I know you have many brain cells to rub together. This argument is beneath you.

lol Kamala, AOC, and Hillary. Naughtziyes all. v12044gd0000cu82vffog65qesahpdkg.mp4

Lol Tim Walz the notzee. v12044gd0000cu8fbd7og65kae65td90.mp4

History always records oversimple accounts of events and things . (Also, history is written by the winners.)

That's because you're not a woman. Honestly, it doesn't really matter how this particular debate goes, or any debate goes. Here's how the footnote of history will read: - The humans of planet earth have all shared the same definition for man and woman throughout recorded history. Outliers have always existed. - Somewhere in the early to mid 21st century, some folks thought they had a better definition, a better way to better include some of the outliers. - The other 99.9999999% of the population said "ok, persuade me". - Y'all made your best case. A couple of scholarly things about how gender is a spectrum. Many opinions advanced and arguments made about how thinking binary isn't the best way. Endless, endless nasty tricks involving intimidation tactics, algorithm boosting, appeals to emotion, accusations of bigotry, lobbying, high-pressure tactics. In a small handful of the 1st world nations, it was effective enough to swing elections and get policies changed. Folks didn't want to see themselves on the wrong end of "you can either have a living son or a dead daughter". Folks didn't want to be the victim of cancel culture. Folks all want to be thought of inclusive and loving and morally just, so they went along with it. Plus, after having spent endless millenia with a definition that was never questioned, nobody had a rapid response to any of it. - The notion, at its height, persuaded upwards of 8-12% of the world's humans, mostly found in the richest and most egalitarian nations. - The majority of humans never found the proposals and redefinitions convincing. The humans largely discarded the notion, and by 2027 there were no further serious threats to the traditional definition of sex and gender. Many humans did learn to be a bit more understanding of outliers. But the radical redefinition of words and culture to account for them never reached critical mass.

Winning isn't the only issue. Women have been getting injured by bio males in such frequency that the UN finally called for a ban. The document is called "Violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences" https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n24/249/94/pdf/n2424994.pdf Section III (Manifestations of violence against women and girls in sports), item A (Physical violence), paragraph 7: "Female athletes are also more vulnerable to sustaining serious physical injuries when female-only sports spaces are opened to males,9 as documented in disciplines such as in volleyball,10 basketball11 and soccer.12 Instances have been reported where adult males have been included in teams of underage girls. 13 Injuries have included knocked-out teeth,14 concussions resulting in neural impairment,15 broken legs16 and skull fractures.17 According to scientific studies, males have certain performance advantages in sports. One study asserts that, even in non-elite sport, “the least powerful man produced more power than the most powerful woman” and states that, where men and women have roughly the same levels of fitness, males’ average punching power has been measured as 162 per cent greater than females. 18" The link will provide details to footnotes 9-18, if anyone is interested. Here's a really, REALLY good article about problems and good solutions: https://womeninsport.org/safe-and-fair-sport-for-women-and-girls/

I can't really find anything to argue with in that last post. I think you're spot on about Luigi. And the trolling. Not even from Republicans, but just folks who like to troll. I get the genuine stress/anxiety/fear that must be present in undocumented/illegal folks. Few things suck like one guy extending a welcome hand, and the next guy saying "lol j/k get on the damn bus before we lock you up" sucks - especially if you have family with you. And I'm at my unhappiest politically when any one side has full power, D or R. But Trump doesn't take 8 years to start building a building. He starts once he's made the decision. Narcissists aren't know for shadowy plotting or patience. Right? Dude is the yourfired guy who once ran pro wrestling and beauty pageants. He's interested in energizing people with a show and his eternal lasting legacy. None of that suggests he's the next hitler.

I did my dad's temple work. I have no clue where he is right now, or if he'll avail himself of the doors I've helped open for him with my earthly ordinances on his behalf. I can see it going either way. He might say "Oh, well that's obviously what I should have been doing this whole time", and bend his knee. Or he might be trying to organize the afterlife version of a poker game, guffawing loudly at jokes about what those holy shiny white clothes wearin' visitor wimmin have beneath them robes. My poor mortal tools of judgment tell me he was overall a good man. We'll see. But yeah, I really have no clue if he's in paradise or spirit prison right now. For whatever reason, whenever I voice this notion around folks in a temple situation, they usually stumble all over themselves to express all the ways they're certain dad'll seek exaltation. I don't get it. No matter his choice, I'm at peace.