NeuroTypical

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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from clbent04 in How Did You Find Your Answer to the BOM and Joseph Smith   
    Here's my story:
     
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from Vort in An Error I Keep Making   
    The owner of that pen attempted to use it to punch a new hole in his belt.  After his pen failed to impress the woman of his dreams, he drowned his sorrows in chicken nuggets.
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from zil in An Error I Keep Making   
    The owner of that pen attempted to use it to punch a new hole in his belt.  After his pen failed to impress the woman of his dreams, he drowned his sorrows in chicken nuggets.
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from mordorbund in An Error I Keep Making   
    That fountain pen appears to be wearing leopardskin yoga pants, and thus is immodest and inappropriate for posting here.  
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from zil in An Error I Keep Making   
    That fountain pen appears to be wearing leopardskin yoga pants, and thus is immodest and inappropriate for posting here.  
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from askandanswer in How Did You Find Your Answer to the BOM and Joseph Smith   
    Here's my story:
     
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from wenglund in How Did You Find Your Answer to the BOM and Joseph Smith   
    Here's my story:
     
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from seashmore in What’s the last movie you watched?   
    Heh - Veggie Tales Jonah commentaries.  Most hilarious 90 minutes I ever spent.  Those people are genius adlibbers, mixed with a healthy dose of ADHD and sped up voices.  My sides hurt for days.  They talked nonstop the entire time.  About every 15 minutes they'd notice they were supposed to be commenting on a movie, and get back on track.  Little known fact: You have to be careful with underwear jokes, "because if you go to far, you lose the church crowd". 
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    NeuroTypical reacted to beefche in What’s the last movie you watched?   
    I love the commentaries. Some of the best are the Lord of the Rings with the cast members. Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd (Merry and Pippin) are simply hilarious. 
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    NeuroTypical reacted to JohnsonJones in An Error I Keep Making   
    I already can type 80 to 100 words a minute.  I could hit at least 60 words on those old typewriters...believe it or not...at least back when they tested us in typing classes many decades ago...
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    NeuroTypical reacted to Vort in An Error I Keep Making   
    Snopes takes such delicious joy in dismantling the idea that the size of the Space Shuttle boosters was ultimately determined by the width of a Roman horse's rear end that I feel to take the opposite position, if for no other reason than I dislike Snopes' high-handedness and smug attitude.
    The fact is that we do standardize our measurements, and that standard does have an echoing effect down through history. Three barleycorns to an inch, a pint's a pound the world around for water, and the result is that NASA loses a billion-dollar lander at Mars. Of course our modern society is based on the ancient societies! What else do we expect it to be based on? Today's successes and failures are largely due to how our ancestors did things. If automobiles had not been designed originally based on horse-drawn wagons, their design evolution would have followed a different path, and cars would likely look much different today. Every day in the computer world, we contend with big-endian/little-endian-type issues: How is an mp3 encoded? Do we use NTFS encryption? Is there a USB version of that old 3½" disk drive or the phonograph? Why use QWERTY? The HDTV standard will dictate limits on how visual media is produced for at least the next couple of decades.
    It is fantasy to pretend that everything we do, say, and think today does not depend directly on how we have done things for the last six thousand years. Of course it does! On a philosophical and religious note, this points up the importance of us making good choices today in our own lives. What we do, say, think, and believe now will have effects that ripple through all generations of time, most directly for our own descendants but also for the world in general. I believe those ripples will endure in some form or another for all eternity. Here's to hoping our butterfly wing flappings of today will produce untold beauty generations hence rather than devastating hurricanes.
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from Vort in An Error I Keep Making   
    https://web.archive.org/web/20111009091338/http://cs.ttu.ee/kursused/itv0010/maxmon/1874ad.htm
     
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    NeuroTypical reacted to NightSG in A Death, A Birth, and wanting to get sealed.   
    I may be going out on a limb here, and the OP is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems his stated reason centers on her desire for a sealing and his inability to give her that.  Her asking whether she should wait for him to convert appears to have strengthened his belief that she wants to divorce over it, but he may be misinterpreting it; she may have just been asking if she should get her hopes up or settle for understanding that it's not going to happen in this life.
    OP, let me throw in a personal anecdote here that may be of some value.  Something well over a decade ago, a few years before I met my now-ex wife, I dated one of the most stunningly beautiful, sweetest women I have ever met.  I really think that toward the end I was close to, if not at the point where I could have proposed and gotten a yes.  I'm absolutely certain that had I married her and it didn't work out, the fault would be entirely mine.  (Not that she lacked faults, or that I glossed over them through intense infatuation - she certainly had a few, and I was fully aware of them, but to this day, and even with the experience I now have in how irritating little things can become over time, I have no doubt that she would have been an excellent wife...and I still hope that she has found a man who will be an equally wonderful husband.)  As you can likely guess, I didn't ask.  In fact, I stopped dating her, though we stayed good friends for some time,  and ultimately I lost track of her altogether.
    Now, some of my reason for not asking was typical male fear of commitment.  Some was fear that I wasn't ready to take on the responsibility of her then-toddler daughter from a previous, brief marriage.  (He was no longer in the picture at all, and to my knowledge has never accepted any role in the child's life, so I would have been the only father figure to her.)  Mostly, though, it was that she was so far out of my league that I felt I could never give her what she deserved.  I know that what she really wanted was someone who would love and cherish her and her daughter in the way her ex absolutely didn't.  I deeply regret that I was the one keeping her firmly in the friendzone while she was saying all the things women normally say to friendzoned guys except for the "you're just a friend" part.  (Yep, even "I hope I can find someone like you one of these days," and idiot me walked away from it.)  Though after some soul searching I now regret it far more for at least delaying her from having what I was able to give her right then, rather than for costing myself the opportunity to have such a wonderful woman in my life every day.
    I screwed that up because I couldn't give her what I thought she should have, regardless of whether I could give her what she thought she should have.  While it sounds like your wife thinks she should have something you can't give her in this life, I'm hoping she can see that you're already giving her what many women, including many sealed to not-necessarily-all-that-bad husbands, would dearly love to have, and I hope you will see that as well.
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    NeuroTypical reacted to Traveler in The Meaning of Atonement   
    @Rob Osborn and @wenglund 
    I thought you (and maybe others) might be interested.  For those that have traveled and conversed in depth with those that live and are immersed in the culture of Aribia – the traditions over centuries past has shaped the religious impressions of the inhabitants that are mostly Arabic (and not just the Muslims).   I have posted before that my visiting to Israel and other middle Eastern places has drastically changed my understanding and interpretation of scripture.  One of the most prominent is the understanding and interpretations in scripture of “the tree of life”.  At this point of my post – I am not providing information as a means of debate or proof but rather an opportunity to understanding something many do not consider.
    In the Book of Mormon Lehi has a dream concerning the “Tree of life” where he partakes of the fruit of the Tree of Life – which is white.  The fruit is sweet and precious to Lehi – more so than anything he has ever eaten.   To us in our western culture this is a nice story like so many other stories that has no bearing what-so-ever in any experience that any of us have ever had.  In our art (and minds) we perceive of what the tree may look like.  I have seen many pictures of the tree in Lehi’s Dream – also the tree in Eden.   But none that reflect an Aribic interpertation.
    What many (almost everybody) in Western civilization do not realize is that anciently it was believe that G-d gave to the Arabic peoples (decedents of Abraham though Ishmael) three great gifts for them to survive, live and thrive in Aribia.   The first is Water (this is a no brainer for those that have any understanding of deserts) but the understanding of this special water has an additional connotation and is called “Living Water”.  Living Water is distinctively different than the just “water”.  It would take me sometime to explain this properly; however, what is meant by living water not the focus of this post – only that I would say the term “Living Water” also appears in the teaching of Christ (as well as our sacred Temples) and few have any idea the extent of the meaning of “Living Water” and its meaning in Aribia and how such meaning could apply to Jesus and our understanding of eternal life. 
    The Second great blessing is the camel.  This is not too difficult to understand – Camels are the means of travel (especially anciently) in Aribia.
    The final great blessing is “The Tree of life”.  In many cities and towns of Aribia at the center of the town is a monument dedicated to “The Tree of Life” and it is called the tree of life.  What is astonishing to me is that the monument is dedicated to a unique tree that only grows indigenously in Aribia.  And its fruit is WHITE!!  The tree of life is a unique date palm tree that produces “white” dates.  What is so special about these dates is that the white date, when ripe, will not spoil for months in the heat of Aribia and can be used to sustain life when traveling in the heat across the barren sands of Aribia.   The secret of this “white” fruit is the great secret and why, despite the great empires of history – Aribia has never been conquered by any of them.   But there is one more secret about this particular “Tree of Life”.  It is that the tree that produces the whitest, sweetest and best fruit only grows in one place in the entire world.  A place in western Aribia near a finger of the Red Sea – in the exact area where Lehi had his dream that is recorded in the Book of Mormon.
    Some may say that the symbolism of the “Tree of Life” in Aribia has nothing to do what-so-ever with the Tree of Life spoken of in scripture, revelation and sacred covenant associated with the “Tree of Life” in Eden and Lehi’s dream as it relates to any understanding of the Divine plan of Salvation.  I shall not interrupt any such thinking further.
     
    The Traveler
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    NeuroTypical reacted to pam in Getting to know Russell M. Nelson   
    Russell M. Nelson was formally called as the new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Tuesday morning.
    Russell M. Nelson previously served as an apostle of the Quorum of the Twelve for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But before he was called as an apostle, he was a world-renowned heart surgeon and member of the team that created the first machine to perform the functions of a patient’s heart and lungs during open-heart surgery (LDS.org article, “Russell M. Nelson”). In this biography of Russell M. Nelson, read about his early years and the miracles he saw in his career as a heart surgeon.
    https://mormonhub.com/blog/faith/lds-church-leadership/biography-of-russell-m-nelson/
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from Lindy in Changing Mind About Trump   
    By the way, it's near impossible to lay the current round of good news from corporations at any feet other than Donald Trump's.  
    - No, this isn't due to regular economic cycles or any type of cyclical boom.
    - No, this isn't due to Pres Obama's policies coming to fruition (or that of any other prior administration).
    - No, the changes to the tax code wouldn't have happened anyway, Trump fought tooth and nail for it against everyone, both right and left.  
    - No, you can't say "the Pres doesn't write legislation, he just signs it" in this case, because he used his political capital and power and push and sway to get the legislation done the way he wanted.
    This is happening because Trump meaningfully slashed the corporate tax rate, and now corporations from all over the planet will be moving cash into the US, because it's now attractive to do so.  Another way to put that, is corporations from all over the planet have intentionally kept cash out of the US for decades, because it was painfully expensive to do otherwise.
    Even CNBC is admitting it (albeit without saying the dreaded "T" word):  Apple announces plans to repatriate billions in overseas cash, says it will contribute $350 billion to the US economy over the next 5 years
    There should be absolutely zero doubt in any rational mind, regardless of political persuasion: We would not be seeing these news stories if Hillary (or Bernie, or even Johnson) had won the election.  You don't have to like the guy.  You can despise/loathe/hate him - you gotta give him this one.
    Gorsuch, now taxes.  Two utterly undeniable, totally un-ignorable, un-dismissable wins for the guy who constantly ticks everyone off by tweeting insults.
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    NeuroTypical reacted to Jane_Doe in A Death, A Birth, and wanting to get sealed.   
    LDS Lady married to a non-LDS guy speaking here    And with a cute kid too!
    It is possible to have a happy interfaith marriage.  It is a TON of work.  It takes a TON of communication, dedication, and respect.  But it is possible.  Things it sounds like you're doing right: 
    - Being honest.  "Faking it" is dishonest to you, your wife, God, and everyone else.  And it doesn't work anyways.  
    - Supporting her in her decision to go to church with you "blessing" (... I can't think of a better word for this... )
    - Going to church with her.
     
    Things you're doing wrong: thinking "oh, we should get divorced".  WHOA.  Hold on- back that train up.  Why!?!  Just because she started going back to church?  No!!!   Rewind- there's no reason to remotely go there right now.   Now is not the time to "stop acting like a couple" but to BE the very real couple you are.  Be her husband- keep supporting her, keep talking to her, keep loving her.  And all of that vise-versa.  And love that little one too!
     
    In regards church/sealing, one thing you should do (and/or keep doing) is talking to your beloved wife about what she believes.  Listen to her joys, her concerns, her hopes etc.  Keep supporting her on her journey like the loving such husband you are.  And support little one too!  Going to church is great, taking lessons just to learn is great, chatting with her directly is essential/great.  You don't have to enjoy the same things she does to be happy she is happy.  Start there and share in her joy. 
    Now, focusing specifically on your faith (and/or lack thereof): asking oneself "what do I believe" in always a good thing.  Better learning/exploring/pondering what you believe is always a good thing.  And if you wife is wanting to talk with you about what she believes and says "what do you believe hubby?", it's good to be actively thinking about that answer.  Even if you don't have the answer right now, to be actively on the journey to finding that answer.  That's the best place ANY person can be.
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from Midwest LDS in A Death, A Birth, and wanting to get sealed.   
    Kudos for refusing to fake your way through anything.  Respect.  Lying about religion to make a spouse happy?  Doesn't sound like a good plan to me either.
    That said, it doesn't sound like anything here is happening that would warrant divorce.  There are umpteen couples where one wants something and the other doesn't.  Some spouses can't have (or don't want) children, for example.  Now, knowing such things before marriage is one thing - someone can go into a marriage with eyes open.  But changing your mind after marriage is different.  A spouse doesn't get to change their mind and then call foul when the other spouse doesn't follow along.
    But is that even happening?  You say "We both know what that means, but neither of us will say it."  How do you know she's thinking that if you aren't talking about it?  I'm not sure you have a "she wants me to be mormon now" problem.  It sounds like you have a "we both stink at surfacing and resolving issues" problem.   
    Why not just stay married and be happy and respect each other's choices?  You've got a kid, for crying out loud - it's no longer just about you and her.   Why the immediate jump to expecting imminent divorce?  It's sounding like you're so afraid of being hurt, you want to make sure you get a jump on things.
    To directly answer your questions:
    When should I talk to her about getting a divorce?   You shouldn't, unless you're planning on divorcing her for turning Mormon.  
    When should we stop acting like a couple?   You shouldn't, unless you're planning on divorcing her.
    When should we stop having sex?   You shouldn't, because sex with your spouse is good and wonderful.
    When should we stop sleeping in the same bed?  You shouldn't, unless you snore so loudly she can't sleep and it's impacting her health or something.
    Should she move back to our home state before I do?  You're military and do deployments and moves and stuff?  That's stuff you work out together. 
     
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from Jane_Doe in A Death, A Birth, and wanting to get sealed.   
    Kudos for refusing to fake your way through anything.  Respect.  Lying about religion to make a spouse happy?  Doesn't sound like a good plan to me either.
    That said, it doesn't sound like anything here is happening that would warrant divorce.  There are umpteen couples where one wants something and the other doesn't.  Some spouses can't have (or don't want) children, for example.  Now, knowing such things before marriage is one thing - someone can go into a marriage with eyes open.  But changing your mind after marriage is different.  A spouse doesn't get to change their mind and then call foul when the other spouse doesn't follow along.
    But is that even happening?  You say "We both know what that means, but neither of us will say it."  How do you know she's thinking that if you aren't talking about it?  I'm not sure you have a "she wants me to be mormon now" problem.  It sounds like you have a "we both stink at surfacing and resolving issues" problem.   
    Why not just stay married and be happy and respect each other's choices?  You've got a kid, for crying out loud - it's no longer just about you and her.   Why the immediate jump to expecting imminent divorce?  It's sounding like you're so afraid of being hurt, you want to make sure you get a jump on things.
    To directly answer your questions:
    When should I talk to her about getting a divorce?   You shouldn't, unless you're planning on divorcing her for turning Mormon.  
    When should we stop acting like a couple?   You shouldn't, unless you're planning on divorcing her.
    When should we stop having sex?   You shouldn't, because sex with your spouse is good and wonderful.
    When should we stop sleeping in the same bed?  You shouldn't, unless you snore so loudly she can't sleep and it's impacting her health or something.
    Should she move back to our home state before I do?  You're military and do deployments and moves and stuff?  That's stuff you work out together. 
     
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from Vort in An Error I Keep Making   
    Kidding aside, I've typed on one of those things (without the wires and screen).  My daughter's computer desk was inherited from my dad - it's a heavy wooden shop desk from the '40's or '50's.  Drawers not designed to hold standard 8 1/2 X 11 paper.  It's surface has a handle, and when you pull it, a secret compartment big enough to bolt a typewriter to emerges.  The deal was you only pulled out the typewriter when you had to write a letter, then it was hidden away so you could do the days work with pencil on your normal worksurface. 
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from Vort in An Error I Keep Making   
    You had what?  A type of what?  A whatwriter?  What is this tomfoolery mumbo-jumbo?
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    NeuroTypical reacted to zil in We should totally change this subforum   
    Oh, Make Mormon Hub Great Again.  Got it.
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from Sunday21 in We should totally change this subforum   
    ... from "Poetry" to "Creative Types" or "Art".  A place for folks to post their poetry, stories, pictures of their crafts or art, music, etc.  
    It would be great for the board, and great for you wonderful people.  Believe me, this would be a yuge thing.   It would make the Interests subforum great again.  Trust me.  Nobody knows more about renaming sub-subforums than I do.  
    #MMHGA
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from zil in We should totally change this subforum   
    ... from "Poetry" to "Creative Types" or "Art".  A place for folks to post their poetry, stories, pictures of their crafts or art, music, etc.  
    It would be great for the board, and great for you wonderful people.  Believe me, this would be a yuge thing.   It would make the Interests subforum great again.  Trust me.  Nobody knows more about renaming sub-subforums than I do.  
    #MMHGA
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    NeuroTypical got a reaction from zil in An Error I Keep Making   
    Kidding aside, I've typed on one of those things (without the wires and screen).  My daughter's computer desk was inherited from my dad - it's a heavy wooden shop desk from the '40's or '50's.  Drawers not designed to hold standard 8 1/2 X 11 paper.  It's surface has a handle, and when you pull it, a secret compartment big enough to bolt a typewriter to emerges.  The deal was you only pulled out the typewriter when you had to write a letter, then it was hidden away so you could do the days work with pencil on your normal worksurface.