NeuroTypical

I love Princess Bride too. If he's having friends over, make darn sure his friends know about the movie. Big difference in a 13 yr old boy's life between Princess Bride-themed stuff, and a Princess-themed stuff.

I'm with traveler on this one. It's just a random pet peeve of mine - barely worth mentioning. But it does impact me, especially when the horrible-activity-being-parodied-as-acceptable has touched me personally in some way. Another example comes from Robert Fulghum, author of the book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten I know a few vets with PTSD. I've known battlefield trauma surgeons. I've met more than one person injured in war. I know the author's intent is to make a light-hearted point, but to me it crosses the line into light-mindedness.

Early '20's melodrama is the most melodramatic melodrama there is. Being friend-zoned is a particular sort of pain you just don't get anywhere else. Anyway, you're in good company - this happens to lots of people. So much stuff can happen in one head, it's just incredible that people outside of that head have no clue.I suggest one final bit of melodrama. Write her a letter telling her what she means to you, and how long you've felt that way. Propose a time and a place in case she feels the same. Tell her if she doesn't feel the same, she doesn't need to come to the place at the time to tell you so - not showing up will be the same thing as telling you so. Then come back here and tell us how it went.

Indeed. Your actions here, will show them what sort of behavior is appropriate and inappropriate when they find themselves unhappy in a marriage.All marriages have bouts of unhappiness. Choose wisely. Sorry your life sucks. How you react to this fact will impact your kids, and your grandchildren yet unborn. For their sakes, choose wisely.

Hi Still_Unsure, Are you really in New Zealand? Is it as beautiful there as everyone claims? One suggestion I could give, is that you might consider getting on your knees and praying to your heavenly father. There is something about saying the words out loud. Tell Him what you're telling us. Let Him know you feel lost and don't know what to do. Ask Him for guidance, comfort, whatever it is you are yearning for. See what happens.Welcome!

Hi Megara, Not sure what you're looking for from lds.net. You didn't ask a question, and you didn't really give us enough information to make much by way of a meaningful response. My best guess is that you're mom, and you are hurting because your daughter chose to be sealed to someone and went away?

I'm not sure what "obedience is better than sacrifice" means - that statement makes no sense to me. Should we be obedient to the laws and ordinances of the gospel? Yes. Being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law? Yes. Idiotic policies? Not necessarily, no. It's about risk and reward, willingness to jump through hoops to get something. Making choices and accepting consequences imposed by others.School boards are NOT lawgivers. They are NOT magistrates or rulers or kings. (Although you don't have to look very hard to fine board members who think they are.) Oh, that insidious, nefarious, tricksy word "if". So understated. So innocent looking. So easy to overlook. Kathysmike, you need to take a real close look at that word "if", and come to grips with how it took you out of reality to a fake world that doesn't exist. Of course rules are not followed by all. This whole thread is about what the good kids should do when the rulebreakers break the rules. I join the ranks of people who very much disagree on the strongest possible terms with this statement. Of course our Lord is a source to turn to. But He never expects us to fight our own battles? Ever? There is nothing to do ever besides turn stuff over to Him? Hogwash. Scripture and our own LDS history are full of accounts of righteous people putting things right through their own strength. Take an anti-nephi-lehi oath of peace if you want. But don't sit there and tell me that I'm doing it wrong by teaching my kids how to fight and protect themselves and others. Yeah - there's another word there - "need". Almost as bad as the word "if", but easier to spot. How about this: "You choice into our school and start trouble, that means you are choosing to choice yourself right back to where you came from." I think that's a fine alternative to your "need" and all it's hidden unjust assumptions.

I remember being in the wedding party of a buddy and his girlfriend who finally got married after living with each other for a year. The bride had spent the preceeding 3-6 months basically complaining about how this was all for her mother only, and it doesn't change anything, and how the only reason she was doing it was for the showers and presents. (Apparently it "wasn't fair" that they were doing everything married couples did, but had no house full of free stuff to show for it.) She arranged it so we all drove them to their hotel. She spent the whole trip ribbing him about how nothing would be happening that night. She wasn't that good of an actor, and honestly was dissapointed she couldn't come with us to our fun after-their-wedding stuff we had planned. In the 15-ish years since then, she seems to have matured and they have 4 beautiful kids and if Facebook is any judge, things seem to be going well.

Nah, you don't need to dismiss the dream. Just understand where that dream fits in the cycle of nation/empire/fall.

Great miracles were brought to pass because they kept their oath of peace. (There - I found something nice to say.)

Yep - stupid cowardly rules that could penalize someone who did no wrong, is one of the big reasons we decided to homeschool. You won't catch me at some meeting complaining about having to pay the $375 because one of my kids pulled a bully off a special needs girl. Now if I can just get that voucher law passed, then schools may actually be forced to open their eyes to how tragicly amoral some of these these zero tolerance penalties are.

Yep - I actually witnessed my conservative catholic neighbor liking a post my athiest anarchist friend made. (For the record - there is one thing universally bringing everybody together - the coming Hobbit movie.) Everything else we fight about. Facebook politicking = Slactivism.

If all else fails, go to notalwaysright.com and read a few stories. You'll either find yourself in good company, or happy you don't have it so bad.

Usually, we don't bother because other Christian denominations won't give us the time of day. But there are exceptions. My ward and the community church across the street have fostered friendly relations, and each of us has donated building space to the other during building remodeling. And Ravi Zacharias of Standing Together Ministries came to speak to both LDS and evangelicals in our own Tabernacle. 5 years ago. And I sneak my kids into a homeschool co-op run by our local mega-church, but we learned early on to keep our heads down and don't talk about being mormon. If you are asking, will the LDS church ask you to be some sort of ambassador to other faiths because of your background, the answer is we probably wouldn't. Because again, other faiths often won't give us the time of day, so we don't waste our efforts. If you are asking how will you be treated by mormons if you get baptized, well, we'll treat you like we treat any other member. There are a lot of converts in our church, lots of interesting different stories. And no, the church is in the habit of keeping families together, not splitting them apart. If you get asked to shun or avoid your family, send whoever told you that to me, and I'll give them a sound verbal thrashing.

I made "chicken" "enchilada" "bake". Three lies for the price of one. 1 can chicken chunks from 2006 1 can black beans 1 can tomatoes & green chili 1 cup plain yogurt (substituting for sour cream) 1 can cream of mushroom soup a bunch of shredded cheese Cook the chicken, mix everything together with half the cheese, pour into 4 tortillas, put the rest of the cheese on top. Bake in dutch oven at 350 for an hour or two. If you open it and it seems to have an inch of liquid that doesn't belong, pour a half a cup of minute rice onto it and cook another 10 minutes. The black beans made everything a dark charcoal color except the tomatoes, which were still bright red. Kids picked the sides: Instant mashed potatoes, and apricot halves. Mamma is out of town. Halp

Either get over it and be the man she thought she was getting, or divorce her. Pick one, and do it quickly. The longer she's stuck with some guy with a wandering eye who "cant stop thinking" about the wrong thing, the harder it will be for her. On the other hand, if you can mature into a covenant-keeping righteous man, then that's obviously the best choice. For the love of pete, do NOT bring children into this, unless you pick the 2nd one.

I don't. This technology has been in the works for a long time, and is very exciting. I hear they've started to marketize stuff that will "print out" a house, wiring and plumbing already built into it.As the technology advances, so will the laws and regulations. Regulating the 'ink' that could be used to make bullets or hardened casings or what have you will keep up with the technology to do so. (Besides, once people can do this, why print a gun when you could print whatever you wanted to get with it and cut out the middleman?)

Firefly's sealed it's life with it's early death. TV execs can't take the sky from us.

I have enough problems working out my own salvation and helping my family, to spend much time on this guy (or the mormons who would shun him). Life got so much easier after I encountered this article: “Judge Not” and Judging By Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

There is certainly a difference between a beautiful fancy structure built by humans, and a house dedicated to the Lord, isn't there.

Well, I've only been Executive seceretary, but I helped 'break in' a new bishop who was very open in bishopric meeting about the things he needed and learned and found helpful. So here goes. 1. The ability to not judge unless commanded to judge. Example - my wife once saw a coworker hand cigarettes to her underage daughter. The coworker later explained that the daughter was trying to clean her life up, and was trying to come down off of crystal meth, and the cigarettes had been prescribed by her doctor. (They couldn't afford to hospitalize her and do it right.) Bishoprics walk into situations like this all the time. Withhold judgement until called upon to judge. 2. My personal favorite is Paul's discourse on charity. You'll probably find many more practical scriptures peppered through the handbook. 3. Such a great question. You should obtain a copy of Valley of Sorrow: A Layman's Guide to Understanding Mental Illness for Latter-Day Saints by Alexander B. Morrison. Six bucks used off Amazon.com, including shipping. Heck, if you PM me your address, I'll buy you a copy and have them send it to you. I've bought maybe a dozen of these over the years and given them to members of bishoprics and stake presidencies. Usually, they tell me they found it so useful and important they passed it around to the other members. I mean, if you already know this stuff, that's fine. But when someone runs up to you in tears because she was just told that her daughter who killed himself is in hell, you need to know what to say to ease this lady's grief. When brother so-and-so wants counsel from you about his brother-in-law who is living with him, and stealing from him to support his drug habit, it's important to have something useful and correct to say.

My wife has a very simple phrase that helps immensely: "I trust God to act like God, and man to act like man." It gets a lot easier to deal with unrighteously judgemental uncharitable dorks if you can apply that phrase.

Forgot blade runner. Best cyberpunk show out there, until they make a movie of Neuromancer.

Yeah, Carl's thoughts have been bouncing around in my head too. But now that he's actually put my thoughts into text, I think I see a bit more clearly. The church is responding to the play, in ways those who see it will appreciate. We are not attaching our name, endorsing, condoning, or anything of the sort. We're responding like we've always responded, with a friendly invitation to learn the truth. I think I've concluded this is a good thing. I just don't expect my next brilliant idea that is similar to this, to get approved by my bishop.