NeuroTypical

Probably a good thing. I'm not really hearing anything in your posts that can't be handled with a little guidance, experience, love, patience, learning how to communicate, and building trust.I especially appreciate your desire to have things resolved before kids show up. It's your jobs to make sure some poor kid just doesn't happen to get born in the middle of all this. Make sure you do your family planning.

Feisty old people with opinions based on ignorance, should have the same love from us as we give folks who interact with us in ways we like. The commandment is to love her. Not argue with her, not correct or educate or inform her, not win arguments with her. Love her. So, how does she want to be loved? She sounds like someone who is no stranger to arguing with people and stating her opinions over and over and over and over. I'm not sure you're really accomplishing much by trying to keep one thing hidden from her, so she won't argue and state her opinions. But you'd know better than us. Would it be better if she didn't know, or is she missing out on an important opportunity to be feisty and cranky and vocal? Can she stand being in the same room with someone she disagrees with that much? Or does she like to fight, and enjoy having someone with which to fight? Sometimes it is possible to have a loving relationship with someone who hates a lot of things about a lot of people. Humor might work wonders. As my crotchety old anti-religious father lay on his death bed, this conversation took place: As far as I can tell, that's what a loving relationship looked like to him.

Here it is, day 3 of the new year, and no John Doe posts. We can hope!

No kidding! I mean really - even Canada got rid of their penny before we did. Canada!

That doesn't surprise me JAG, since the residential market is so new and fresh. I remember back in 1994 I bought my first compact florescent for forty bucks. 5 years later they were down to five bucks each. Now, two decades later, they're two bucks on sale, as well as better/smaller/brighter. That'll happen with LED light bulbs too - but not because of anything the government is doing.

My daughters bought me LED light bulbs for Christmas. I'm very impressed, and quite happy. And they last forever? I'm sold. The govt has no business doing anything about incandescents, other than through it's purchasing and procurement functions. But honestly, govt or no govt, old-timey light bulbs are a fragile, energy-hogging, heat-producing, short-lifetime thing of the past. They are going the way of the buggy whip and vinyl record industry. Buggy whips and vinyl records used to be what we all needed and wanted. Now we have better/faster/cheaper. That's the way of things. Yes, I have a stockpile of them, because CFL's got so cheap I bought a bunch before I ran out. I hope to sell them to the conspiracy theorist people, but with deals like this still available everywhere, it might take a few years. (In case any vinylophiles wish to find me and beat me up, I'm here in Colorado Springs. Bring your A-game :).)

My daughters were in Girl Scouts for a while (until all the leadership moved or had to get jobs and the troop disbanded). It was a wonderful experience - they had a blast and learned a lot and made friends and had experiences and won patches, etc etc. I don't get all the passion about making an official part of church structure. If you're so hot on it, go join a troop already. (We had to drive across town to the troop we preferred, passing several troops that were not a good fit.)

Education for Vort- Here is 4 minutes of witty and entertaining basic education on the matter: Let's Go and Meet the Bronies - The professor is voiced by John DeLancie (he played Q on StarTrek), and gets an earful about why Vort is mistaken starting 2:55 into the video. As for age, my 12 yr old daughter says she's a brony, my 9 yr old daughter preferrs the term pegasister.

Heh. Well, it's now confirmed - there are (at least) three bronies on the forum now. Welcome again. The natives here are like anywhere else, they'd rather we keep our ponies to ourselves lol. Maybe we should start our own thread and invite any naysayers to abstain from clicking on it. Anyway, I've always been grateful for this scripture in 2 Nephi: "...he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile." I often think of myself as three-quarters heathen. Basically, if you're wishing to come unto Christ and be His disciple, God says that gossip and unrighteous judgment doesn't count. I'm sure you'll run into people who do more than stare, if you haven't already. But you're welcome to sit next to me and my family.

Hbdty!

Click on "About" at the Bunyon. No, the site never really comes out and admits to being a satire/parody site. But no, we're not relocating church HQ to Missouri because of gay marriage, and BYU will not begin offering a new "masters of relief society" degree.

Hi and welcome! So what do you do that gets you stares?

Life got a lot easier for me when I stopped caring what other people thought about my righteousness. I recommend it to anyone who has obtained a testimony and has gained knowledge about the gospel. Another freeing thing - not caring about what I think about other people's righteousness. I don't have to be better or holier than the guy next door. I just strive to be what I'm supposed to be.It really makes no difference to me if someone think they're better than me because I drink pepsi and they don't. And if they happen to be a better disciple than I am, then I'm happy for them.

Isn't becoming more holy something we should all try to do? You make it sound like a bad thing to try to be more holy.You can make a point that caffeinated soda isn't against the word of wisdom, without namecalling and unrighteous judgments, you know...

Thread is over a year old folks.

Hi findingteesh, and welcome!

I used to be co-caregiver for my mother back in the good old days. Years later, some good advice came my way that would have helped me tremendously if I had encountered it earlier: Even though you are a caregiver for people who are dependent on you in a lot of ways, you still get to be human. Take care classylady.

Got it - sorry for the misunderstanding. Well, you're not talking about just quietly being concerned or feeling upset, now are you. You're asking for advice on how/whether to contend for the right things and against the wrong things with him. In my imperfect opinion, you can have a lot more influence and impact on people with whom you disagree, if you love them so much they can feel it. I'm not really good at doing this myself, so can't advise you too much. What I do know, centers around on seeing things from the other side as best as I can, being able to restate their opinions to myself until they sound plausible and valid, worthy of respect.

Anyone old enough to remember newspapers from the 1970's? There would be articles written by women with names like "Mrs. Bill Smith".

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You're supposed to love thy neighbor as thyself. It's one of the two great commandments. Not sure that trying to chastize the gay out of him, is how one goes about loving someone. But I've never been in the situation.

I'll call people whatever they want me to call them. I don't care.

Yay! Saw Monsters University last night. That scene where the mom drives them to MI and says "I'll just be sitting here in the car listening to my music"? That's me.