NeuroTypical

I used to think I could help you out TG, but the other month my wife decided to dabble a little with purple highlights. The world doesn't make sense to me any more either.

Yep. Excellent casting there.

HB Pale!

Cool - I sometimes struggle with a tendency to think of city councilmembers negatively. This quote helps me be more charitable towards them.

I like Anne Rice's vampire books for similar reasons. I did learn a little about humanity's relationship with evil from them. Have you read any of the books Gillebre? My favorite character is Marius - one of the older and more powerful vampires, as well as one of the most knowledgable, optimistic, and in his own way, moral. Mrs. Rice is an interesting person. Born Catholic, became athiest and wrote her vampire novels, returned to Catholicism near the end of those books, and wrote some fictionalized historical accounts of Jesus, and is now apparently some sort of nondenominational disciple of Christ who has renounced organized religion of any kind. You should read and ponder on her vampire books, Gillebre, and search for revelation by the Holy Spirit. I think you'd find the effort rewarding.

Just to clarify, I consider the medicinal value of THC to be a separate issue totally. I do believe it does have some medicinal value. I also believe the substance is so utterly intertwined in cultural, legal, political, moral, religious, and geopolitical issues, there's no such thing as an easy answer or a solution that works for everybody.Anyway, the whole child sex trade murdering transnational criminal organization part of it is the most horrible aspect, and one that far too few people think about. Even if you're in true medical need, it's important to know who you're doing business with to ease your symptoms.

Every single time you buy a joint, you are explicitly stating, loudly and clearly, to us, the cartels, and your Father in heaven, that you do indeed think it's ok enough. You do business with kidnapers and murderers. You trade money for product with people who steal or buy children and smuggle them into other countries to be used and discarded in the sex trade. You support those activities with your money.You want to fight to legalize it, to make it legal to grow locally - you go right ahead. But you come here and start some thread about expressing feelings without being judged? Let me tell you a little story. My wife has been able to work with some of these kids. The cops called her in one day - they had a wild one for her. She went in, and saw a girl handcuffed to a table. The cops caught her robbing a store. She stabbed the first two cops, and eventually needed to be tased. She didn't speak english, and violently attacked anyone that came within arm's length. She was around 15 years old, weighed maybe 80 lbs, and was dying of liver failure due to meth addiction. They eventually found out she spoke a little spanish. She had been smuggled in by some cartel as a prepubescent child, sold for sex, and eventually escaped. She didn't know where she came from, so nobody could figure out which country they should deport her to. All she knew for certain, was she came from a place where the bad guys wore uniforms - that's why she stabbed the cops - she thought she was fighting for her life. I hope you find the easing of your depression and anxiety worth it.

Hi bigernflo, So, where do you get your weed? Do you know a local grower, or do you roll your dice with something that comes from south of the border? If the latter, I'd like to hear you talk about how it's ok to line the pockets of the transnational criminal cartels that do business in kidnapping, murder, and child sex slavery.

My favorite: Myths about Mental Illness. By Elder Alexander B. Morrison Of the Seventy - Ensign, Oct 2005The Ensign article is a summary of a book he wrote entitled Valley of Sorrow: A Layman's Guide to Understanding Mental Illness for Latter-Day Saints. Seven bucks used off amazon.com including shipping. I've bought a dozen or more copies over the years, and have handed them out to bishoprics and stake presidencies, and also mailed a few to people on boards like this. Very useful information that everyone should have, and many don't.

Silly indeed - they didn't even blindfold the groom, and replace the bride with grandma.(Full disclosure - I passionately dislike all of the "let's embarass the heck out of the groom" nonsense I've seen or heard about. But I did catch the garter at one wedding, and was indeed the next guy out of the bunch to get married.)

Sitcom is the best way to describe that horrendous travesty of what could otherwise have been a good prepper apocalypse show.

Attention people who are not cool: Here is how to be cool: * Go with it. * Don't ask why. It doesn't need to make sense. * If you demand something make sense before you'll go with it, ok, fine. It's a meme. If that link makes your head hurt, but you still demand to understand, try this link, and replace the word "internet" with "cool stuff your kids are doing that you don't understand". * If you click either of those links, you will never truly *be* cool, but you can learn to approximate coolness enough to fool people, and that's close enough.

Dang. I've been waiting for an opportunity to find a way to ask "I moustache you all a question", but I can't figure out how to do it in this post. *sigh*. Life is so unfulfilling sometimes.

Yeah, protect your children and keep them out of it to the extent possible. How old are they? I'd get a lawyer, and absolutely keep a paper trail and daily log of everything that happens.

Not sure what that means. The Book of Mormon mentions the word 55 times, the D&C 21 times.Gospel Topics: Hell

Hi Dent, I've been an executive seceretary, a membership clerk, and I have over a decade of collecting eclectic anecdotes - I've never heard anything about people using membership records in lawsuits. The closest I've encountered: If you had your record annotated to contain information about a severe felony conviction, that annotation can only be removed by a member of the First Presidency. Sorry - that doesn't sound like your issue. If you find out one way or the other, could you come back and tell us?

I use a simple rule of thumb: "Let's say you have a thousand people in the same situation. Let a week pass - how many of them ended up making whoopie of one kind or another?" If the answer is over 3, then it's a bad idea.

So the meteor and the asteroid were going to meet in our solar system and do some sort of nefarious zombie-for-space-drugs swapping deal, and Russia got in the way? Yeah, sure that won't tick anyone off...

Hi Truther and welcome, I know a little bit about your frustrations - from what I experienced as the child of an LDS mom and nonreligious father. Such families can have struggles. I remember growing up and trying to make decisions that would make both of my parents happy, but it seemed that I usually let one or the other down. Pay tithing and my dad got ticked off and swore. Stopped going to church and my mom thought she didn't do enough and had failed. Of course, this is my baggage alone - I'm sure things are different in your family. You sound very invested and very capable in your role as husband and father - that's a good thing. Honestly, we're not interested in driving a wedge between you and your family. Your issue with your wife taking calls from other men you don't know, is understandable. Have you talked to her about it? Expressed your concerns and dislike of her taking calls from men on her cell phone? Have you mentioned your discomfort to your home teachers? What does she say? What do they say? Truther, I do need to point you to the site rules. Especially #1 and #3. We're happy to talk with you and respond to your issues - but we won't stand for someone hurling insults, refusing to interact with responses.

Pretty much the only official record made these days, is in the case of a serious felony like child molestation or abuse. These appear as an annotation on a member's permanent record - something only a bishop can see. I remember watching an outgoing bishop in his office - he was shredding 3X5 cards with a big grin on his face. I've never seen a man look so unweighted by a burden.

Oh for the love of pete. I'm forced to continue to love Bill Nye for his charitable answer.

I would like to point out the very suspicious absence of any media accounts of space zombies rising from the crater.

Paw, that's a wonderful story. Welcome back. Your hubby supports you going to church? That's wonderful. The next time, show up with beer and a big smooch and thank him for being supportive.My wife occasionally works with folks trying to get off drugs. One kid was trying to come down off meth, and he was using cigarettes as a step-down drug. He and my wife would set goals, and she'd spring for a pack of smokes if he met the goals. Go a week without meth, here's a pack. Attend five AA meetings, a pack. Get a job and hold it for a month, heck, that's good for a carton. You can work on kicking the smoking habit later - let's learn how to not wreck your life and die first. She had some doubts about the church's stand on what she was doing, so she met with our bishop, who thanked her for taking time to work with one of God's children that so often fall through the cracks, and sent her on her way with his blessing.

Yes, absolutely (assuming his relatives don't put up a big stink).As my father was nearing the end of his life, I let him know that I was going to seal him to all three of his wives, and asked him if there was any particular order he wanted. He thought for a minute and said "It doesn't matter, they're all in hell anyway."

I would strongly suggest you avoid having children, until both of you are perfectly comfortable with which religious beliefs you'll raise them.If your husband is just fine with them going with you to church, getting baptized, and paying tithing, if he's fine supporting them financially if they go on missions, if he's ok with maybe not being able to attend their sealing, then have children. Conversely, if you're ok with them staying home with Dad on Sunday, if you're ok with them not really seeing the need to develop a testimony, if it's ok with you if they just decide to stop going to church entirely someday, then have children. If you and husband are somewhere in the middle of those two extremes, then you're basically pulling innocent children into a situation where they'll be used as pawns in their parent's power struggles. I grew up with a little bit of that, not much, but just enough to make me feel like my choices meant betraying one parent or the other. It wasn't a fun position to be in as a kid.