They'll be attached to news clips, special issues at check-out stands, etc., commemorating people of note who died in 2023. RfM could have an on-going thread to note and discuss such passings, rather than start a fresh one every time. Title it, "Deaths and Passings," or something. If somebody of interest to you dies, you could add it to the bottom with your own thoughts and feelings.
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...which made me think of this thread:: "The Appeal to Nature (also, Biologizing; The Green Fallacy): The contemporary romantic fallacy of ethos (that of "Mother Nature") that if something is "natural" it has to be good, healthy and beneficial. E.g., "Our premium herb tea is lovingly brewed from the finest freshly-picked and delicately dried natural T. Radicans l
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So bishops have sufficient ecclesiastical status to be exempt from mandatory reporting laws? Also, is there much variation among the states? Lastly, what other LDS officials have this? I'm wondering about 1st and 2nd counselors.
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He fled his native Romania for Sweden, wound up in France with an arrest (or charging) record in all three countries. Nauvoo, Missouri, and Utah do not apparently factor in to the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA), later rebranded "Atman Yoga Federation." * The usual: spiritual advancement if you'll just spread your legs, honey. By the way, I have a few friend
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Notably, a tank group commanded by a woman (link, below): "Yated was spared the worst of the October 7 carnage, according to local farmer Shai Avraham, thanks in part to a vigilant female tank commander from a nearby base who decided to fire upon a group of Hamas terrorists who were lurking near the community. She killed most of them, and while a few persisted in their attack, others fled
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Kissinger's Birthday is (was?) May 27, 1923. And thanks, dagny--perhaps the nicest thing I've heard here in a while. We Cassandras aren't known for making (or keeping) friends. That, or maybe my Asperger's.
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Besides, I'm a different breed of old coot.
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But that rude, intrusive voice I hear (which nobody else does) insists on we, us, our, and ours.
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Love sought, lost, pursued, enjoyed, longed for. Kind of like what they say about women: Can't live with 'em, or without 'em.
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Ah, the sweet smells of Thanksgiving. Like the smell of car exhaust as your in-laws leave.
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Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And yet if we did the same analysis of Vandals and > their descendants in Spain. . . > > ;-) Genghis Khan's DNA shows up throughout Eurasia. ## Greenland prospered because of the Medieval Warm period. Then we got the Little Ice Age. My guess is that Greenland was an extension
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Didn't know where else to put this. Your thread is as good a place as any. You're welcome! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/67f792ef8dd40a1ebd2a29f680f5d659e2c740034d4bc625e0244a4e683ebd0e.jpg?w=600&h=460
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bradley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I like airplane coffee. > > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JANcVXHqNTI https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b770ba53fe1347505f36d0c9421431082646c082f110233d8fc0358336282a6d.jpg?w=600&h=518 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a147f85876c17b1bc6e225a53f4611a752bd63ba7fc8d7f50250e2f9932d81fe.jpg?w=600&am
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I want to see him stretch his hands out to his side while standing on one foot (his choice), close his eyes, then touch the tip of his nose with each index finger. (Middle finger = flunking the test) I spent Friday showing apartments to students who can't afford them, but will take out more debt anyway. A major university has been over-accepting and the kids are desperate!
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I discussed the variables about Christian conversion, and put a link to another celebrity's conversion. I didn't see anything provocative or controversial. (Asking for a fiend)
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Heartless Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Stoning > > Honor killing > > Beheading > > Mutilation > > Whipping Sounds more like a Sharia lifestyle to me.
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I was leaving the auditorium's middle door into the central hallway, sort of a chokepoint, and it was clogged with chatting 20-somethings, maybe some teens. I had to worm (pun intended) my way through. Two thoughts occurred to me: 1) Wow--we've got lot of young adults--and on a mid-week service, too. 2) Gosh, they're TALL! Hardly a month goes by without a bridal or baby shower, or an engagem
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Finish high school, and complete either college or a legitimate trades program or apprenticeship. Don't get in trouble with the law. Stay away from drugs and heavy drinking. Don't become a parent out of wedlock, or before 21, and whatever happens to you in life, you will probably avoid poverty.
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It occurred to me a little while ago that I can't name a single player on any professional sports team in my home city or region.
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Perhaps you think the memes are funny. I don't. Goes to show what the world thinks of Americans. In my lifetime, we were admired and appreciated. Not anymore.
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And sure enough, there were jokes about it miraculously stopping bullets. (Never heard a serious "faith-building" anecdote, though.) Two jokes about stopping bullets. One, I've read here and elsewhere: "I heard Brother Ammon's Book of Mormon stopped a bullet!" "How deep did it go?" "As far as Alma." "Figures--nobody can get through Alma."
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We called them "operations." Nowadays, the term is likely to be (military) "mission." But just think: what if missionaries were given boxes of C-Rations to subsist on? Recruitment, I mean, "calls" would plummet, but those who undertake a mission would become really hardened dudes.
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And feed it every paycheck. More than a few times I've read people's bemoaning the money they put into tithing for decades. Well, take that 10% and invest it. $6500, fed with $541.67 each month (or $125/week/paycheck), growing at a modest 8.5% annually, will yield $2,337,355 after 40 years. Another thought: Mentally imagine yourself ten years from now. You're "40." At this mid-life p
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Before going out on a mission, the boxes would be opened and turned upside down, so you couldn't identify the better ones. What you grabbed is what you ate, like it or not. A few were especially nasty: ham & eggs (looked and tasted like canned dog food), pork & rice, and the worst: Ham and lima beans, nicknamed "ham and mother-------s." In gooey syrup. I'd draw those, like we
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Was he known for this in Vermont, before they moved to Palymra/Manchester?
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