NeuroTypical

I used to show pretty hefty symptoms of anxiety. Almost panic attacks. Couldn't sleep the night before. Shortness of breath, sweating. Had to go sit by myself and decompress after speaking. This was with 2 days to prepare, practicing my lesson out loud numerous times. When I prepared, the lessons went well, and when I didn't, they didn't. But my symptoms were always there. Then I spent a year teaching Gospel Principles, and had some good successes. These days I would feel pretty comfortable being asked to teach the lesson on chastity to Elder's Quorum 5 minutes before class. Practice and a growing base of evidence that the world would continue, pretty much fixed my problem.

Well, any time you have any part of a line lower and to the right of the lowest part of the US, then by definition, people making up that part of the line are richer, and less happy.

Heh - you know what else that graph says? The poorest people in the USA, are happier than richer people who live in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Korea, Japan, Russia, Iran, the Ukraine, Great Britain, and many others (can't tell because the lines blur together too much). Everyone join me for a chant! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! (I love statistics.)

I am a big fan of Shrek II and Shrek III. Ya know, the movies they made AFTER they ride off in the sunset for their happily ever after? When it dawns on everyone that a grumpy antisocial violent ogre married a primadonna sheltered princess with a lot of baggage? There is much reality in those movies. When they make me emperor of the church youth programs, those movies will be required viewing.

Well, the good thing about soul mates, and people fated or predestined to be with each other forever, is that they don't exist. There's no such thing as a match made in heaven, where people will just be together and it's all good. We create our own soul mates, by walking the paths that God picks for us, and choosing someone who is doing the same thing. And on top of that, once you find him and marry him, you have to keep working at it. There's no such thing as a marriage that just is fine and works. It takes a lot of effort from both spouses to make one.

Well, there are people who teach that, yes. But I've found that usually, they teach it because they are struggling at reconciling antimormon criticisms. The better things to teach and believe: * Prophet Brigham Young's words, delivered from the pulpit, are more true than Governor Brigham Young's words, delivered to a secular governing assembly of some sort. * Revealation is more true than speculation or opinion. Prophets do all three - know which one you're listening to before you go about accepting. * The advice Prophets give specific groups at specific times for specific reasons, are more appliccable when it's being given to your group, today, for your edification. It's not about more or less true. It's about what God wants of different people at different times.

Hi and welcome Budding. Sorry to hear of your struggles. Kudos for devoting your energies to keeping your covenants and trusting the Lord. Of course the woman and your husband are being ninnies. The thing they are trying to make together will most likely fail. I don't have any official statements handy, other than the Proclomation on the Family. Folks who claim that the Holy Ghost is telling them to dump their wife and go off with another woman, aren't going to convince many people besides themselves.I'm sorry. Got kids?

Any guesses about what percentage of that 531 page new book, would be direct quotes from the BoM?

Hi and welcome!

Hey Somebody, It's rough to try to make things work with someone who is carrying so much stuff from their past, it might kill her future. I hope the two of you can work things out. But at the end of the day, she has a very painful and difficult road to walk in order to be healthy and strong enough to not let her past limit and taint her life. Not everyone ends up walking that road. Good luck.

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Hi and welcome zkoc!

Remember - discrimination is bad. Unless we're discriminating against women who want to be mothers. Then it's good.

Excellent post, Selek. Thank you.

Hi byteme! I'm not a doctor, nor do I play on on TV.

Busfeliz, get a lawyer. I'm sorry.

I got an Armani suit from Goodwill/DI for twenty-five bucks, plus $10 more to have it retailored. I've worn it for 5-6 years now.

From where I'm standing, it doesn't really matter one way or the other whether your mother recieved an actual revelation or not. Should you make choices not in harmony with your mother's believed revelation, one simple phrase is all that's needed:"I changed my mind." You've got your agency on the matter, and get to make your own decisions about whom to marry and when. If God wishes something else for you, one would think He would take it up with you personally.

Hi and welcome Geoffrey!

Regardless of their home country, regardless of the particular ideology behind their actions, regardless of the extent to which it was motivated by islamic militancy, they seem to fall into the category of "homegrown militant" or "homegrown terrorist". Further, they seem to have taken notes from what Inspire magazine urges folks in America do, when they want to make a violent difference. People have been worredly predicting such things for a while, and the current smart money seems to be on such events happening more frequently, not less. And that makes me sad.

I can't really see things that way. It sounds too much like all the people who keep telling me I'm not Christian I guess.Dr. Peterson, BYU professor of Islamic Studies, has some thoughts on the matter: On the Emerging Islamic Connection to the Boston Murders

Not really pertinent to Vort and Anatess' discussion, but I'd like to point out that you do an injustice to an accurate understanding of reality, when you mention the crazy but not the evil. In other words, in just about every community of more than a few thousand people, there is a tiny segment who are willing to kill you for what you've got. And not all of them are suffering from a mental illness.Anyway, sorry for the tangent off the tangent. Back to the tangent.

Lovely - grassroots terrorists. Chechen Islamic immigrants. Reports of suicide belt/vest at time of capture. Just darn lovely. In my Denver CERT training a few years back, they taught us about IED's and bomb vests and such. When we asked them why they were teaching it, they said it was only a matter of time. Just lovely.

I never get tired of hearing someone say "I don't understand it, therefore you are wrong" as if they just scored some sort of point or proved something.Anyway, there is an answer for Busch's question. How do large cap magazines support the 2nd amendment? What on earth does one do with them? One defends one's life and the lives of one's family in one's home against multiple aggressors intent on dealing out serious injury or death or worse. The "why do you need that much" argument has a very good answer, although I don't know how convincing it is to some mindsets. I asked myself that question early on, and found a very good answer that satisfied me completely, from Col. Jeff Cooper. I suggest his "Principles of Personal Defense" pamphlet to anyone considering carrying a firearm. It is a very sobering eye-opener that stresses the severity of a situation where one would actually be using their handgun against another person. As he puts it: "...many men ... are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery. They have not thought about it ... and they just don't know what to do. When they look right into the face of depravity or violence, they are astonished and confounded. This can be corrected." Back when my wife and I helped put a felon behind bars, I struggled with the facts that he knew where we lived, that we have children, and that he may come for payback. As I considered my duty as head of the family to prepare against this known and valid threat, I saw myself in the way Cooper describes above. I had only a few small brief encounters with depravity or violence, and my reactions gave me reason to believe I need to make some changes. So I found Col. Cooper and his principles of personal defense, and I began learning and growing into someone who could effectively use a handgun to stop an attack from a bad guy. Anyway, there are seven principles. Bigger, higher capacity, and more powerful firearms, used with knowledge and skill, help one carry out five of them more effectively. And that's the answer to Busch's ignorance. If he would read the answer, then he would no longer be "simply unable to comprehend".

I object to the mag cap because it makes my life harder, limits my ability to defend myself and my family, will have zero impact on bad guys, and is unenforceable.Expanding background checks is just unenforceable without firearm registration. So it's not that I object to it, it's that I think it will do nothing to curb gun violence. A waste of time and money. It will prevent some innocent law-abiding people from obtaining a firearm. It's a bunch of feel-good false-sense-of-security nonsense. StillSmallVoice sums it up well. The definition of "law-breaker" is someone who breaks the laws. The definition of "law-abiding" is someone who obeys the laws. Therefore, by definition, your average new gun law will be obeyed only by the law-abiding.