I had a companion whose mother died some 10 months into his mission. He asked to be allowed to go home to her funeral and return to finish his mission in France. Our mission president told him that if he went home, he wouldn't be allowed to return to our mission. So my companion obeyed the mission president and stayed in the field. From that point on, he was clearly depressed and barely ate. B
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This is no different from the abuser claiming to be "just kidding". It would be more intellectually honest to say that you were wrong, rather than pretending to test people. Otherwise, like the "boy" who cried wolf, sooner or later, people stop giving a shit about what you have to say. Tyson
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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roman_Piso There's seriously enough to discredit Mormonism without muddling the affair by bringing up a completely off-topic point. And frankly, having served my mission, this is what I would have probably said to you (though I would have said it in French): 1. I'm not in the business of manufacturing your testimony or giving you a witness that will conv
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/german-man-suspected-of-taking-90-covid-jabs-to-sell-vaccination-cards
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I mean, even if there were infinite wives, are they countably infinite or uncountably infinite? And do they all have separate clouds in Hilbert's Heaven? What happens if more show up - you know, like after they're raised to goddesshood? How about infinitely more? Tyson, wondering if there's aleph-null poolboys available too
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As someone noted, Jehovah's Witness pamphlets tend to be copyrighted Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, and they have a completely recognizable look. Awake! and The Watchtower are their magazines. The Jehovah's Witnesses used to use a green-colored Bible with the title "The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures". As for showing up in threes, I've seen that more than once,
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1. Just as in your case, friends of my parents whom they met later in life had a similar situation. Everyone but the man's wife called him by one name, the wife called him by a short form of his other name. It was in the US, so not the same as the couple you know. 2. For whatever reason, a fair number of my friends and I all use our middle names. In some cases, it's because my friends are name
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https://babylonbee.com/about "What is The Babylon Bee? The Babylon Bee is the world’s best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life."
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Here I am over 17 years later. How good can it possibly be? Tyson
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I'm not a Utahn myself, as you know, so I only found: Fernwood Mint Sandwiches Sweet's Candies Some Dude's Fry Sauce Prime Toffee (EDIT: non-Utah items removed) Tyson
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Edited for clarity, and TL/DR: - singles wards are meant to get straight singles to marry, not really for making friends - you might look for friends in groups who are interested the hobbies you like to do --------------------------------------------------------------- When I finished grad school, I was in a singles ward on the East Coast. The ward was a very active place, where the m
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Myself - resigned from the church over 17 years ago. Parents - both deceased. They had been inactive for 35+ years. (We put packets of temple clothing in their caskets to "keep up appearances", but we didn't dress them in the clothing, as that was against their wishes, and it would have angered/confused the non-member extended family.) Siblings - 2 of 3 have also been inactive for
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SL Cabbie was a great contributor to this board, and his posts are worth going back to read. His loss is deeply felt. Tyson
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What were the buzzwords? Thanks. Tyson
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Also donated using the button on the main page. Tyson
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You said that you used them, not her, so I'm not clear what buzzwords you used or what reaction you elicited. I'm inclined to wonder if you laid those cards on the table earlier still if you could winnow out some of the less favorable potential relationships. Also, that said, if you do have some sort of strict criteria, are they inviolable? I mean people who aren't ideal could still be fun
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The legal details of this matter depend on the jurisdictions involved and what the laws were at the time the relevant events occurred. This is not a matter for an online forum but requires competent legal counsel, possibly in all relevant jurisdictions, and taking advice from random people online could lead you to make decisions that jeopardize your status in the future. As to whether any
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ARTHROPODCAST "I should tell you, I do not have an exoskeleton as you may know." ANALYZING THE SEUSS CHARACTER "I should tell you, I do not speak for the trees as you may know." SPORTS WITH NO BALLS "I should tell you, ...." Tyson
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US American phone numbers are ten digits and start with one of over 300 three-digit area codes most of which are assigned geographically. I never changed my number from when I lived some 300 miles away, and I also set up a Google voice number for my mother's home area so I could take medical calls from her providers. (People in my mother's area until recently only had to dial seven digits and
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When my father died pre-Covid, we held the funeral at the funeral home, and in a spirit of ecumenicism and not wanting to offend LDS family and friends, we offered to have the bishop speak at the funeral. We accepted to have a packet of temple clothing placed in the casket. And we had the grave dedicated. And the Mormons fawned all over us. They made the programs. They promised to supply the m
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I suspect those who are clutching pearls at the length of your posts disagree with you politically. You have no reason to censor yourself nor shorten your posts for their benefit. You write lucidly, and you grace us with paragraph breaks. If they don't want to read what you have to say, they don't have to read it. Tyson
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I realized while listening to some light jazz recently that I love it due to Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and Peanuts. The talents of Johnny Costa for the former and Vince Guaraldi for the latter clearly formed the foundation for my musical tastes. This style of jazz to me represents childhood, home, and youth. In the aftermath of my mother's death, this is what makes me feel like my old self. It
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My husband also writes notes to himself, but then he puts them in places where they get lost. :) This morning's (paper) note sitting on my computer has 8 items to complete. I've done three of them. Four of them have to wait until after work and may not get fully done. I'll call about the other one, but I can't do it today. Tyson
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https://kutv.com/news/local/lds-church-jesus-christ-latter-day-saints-says-all-american-volunteers-have-left-russia-missionaries-ukraine Important quote from the article: ------------------------------------------ “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not have any foreign full-time missionaries in Russia. I can confirm that as of mid-February, approximately 50 young vol
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I have learned from long experience that people can have good intentions, but their own lives get in the way of completing the good deeds they intend to do. I'd say give her some time. Just telling you that she's cleaning out her closet doesn't mean that she's finished yet. And in any case, this is a windfall for you - why be impatient? Are you in desperate need of new clothes? If so, you migh
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I can't even. Tyson
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I guess it's rather nice, if you and she can wear the same size and her old clothes are in good condition - and of course if you both need and want her clothes. I have never gotten much in the way of hand-me-downs. and I don't spend much on clothing anyway. I'm not a clotheshorse: I wear most of my clothing until it's no longer presentable. I have given some of my own clothing to charity, a
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It's on the other side of a ring highway in the oblast and away from the Dnieper. I'd say that as a prominent building not too far from railroad tracks it's still likely to be a target. As for whether they would want to rebuild it, I'd argue that they have money to spend, so sure why not. Tyson
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I haven't taken Russian since high school, where apparently I picked it up with a fairly strong Polish accent thanks to my Russian teacher whose parents were from Poland and who grew up speaking Polish. So, my three years of Russian are enough for me to recognize things when reading, and I can pick up words here and there in speech. Right now, I'm Duolingo-ing Ukrainian, which has had the i
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