I'm curious. What charities do you like? And the rant (I'm impressed they actually use the word in their URL) about the Red Cross showing migrants where to cross the border is a steaming pile of misdirecting BS. The implication is that they are showing the migrants how to cross illegally. In reality it is advice on how to travel safely, where clinics are, where the ports of entry are, what
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Doing it and announcing it is better than not doing it at all.
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>They are public people but that doesn't mean they are owned or owe every detail of their existence. They don't owe every detail of their existence, but they do owe some detail. I think Buckingham Palace handled this badly and the results were entirely predictable. Most of us of a certain age know people who have had major abdominal tumors removed, or hysterectomies, or both. In all the
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It's not a single fault line either. There are dozens of them. Plus, unless a building happens to straddle the particular fault that slipped, often the most damage is done some distance away from the fault. The 2020 quake was centered in Magna, in the NW corner of the SL Valley. The worst damage was to older brick buildings in Magna, but second worst was in the Liberty-Wells neighborhood just
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It's Microsoft that wants to throw in with the Mormons. They want to be able to sell software upgrades for the dead.
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There have been a number of people here who have written about parents who were in the same ballpark as these two. A few that come to mind - Don Bagley's dad, Cheryl's mom, Punky Dilemma's "my father, the anus", the poster whose dad was a chiropractor. And we're not that big a group. I bet most wards have at least one person who qualifies as a religious nutcase, and many wards have a
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The easygoing attitude of Catholics and many Protestants is a relatively recent phenomenon, pretty much since WWII, and for many issues, like divorce and female clergy, quite a while after WWII. For gender issues, that is still a work in progress. There are still Catholics who will jump through all kinds of hoops to get their previous marriage declared annulled so their current marriage can be
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What makes you think she was forced to speak about the cancer now? Couldn't it be that they were waiting until it was discussed with the children, that is now done, so OK to go public? You said the timing is too much of a coincidence. Co-incident with what?
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I am amazed that any young women stay in the church. They have managers and teachers and adminstrators and coaches who are clearly accomplished and authoritative women. Then they look at the Mormon Church Church, and women are in charge of children and other women. Period. That ought to cause some pretty powerful cognitive dissonance. In my lifetime (and I'm officially old at this point) I
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If JWs commemorate the death of Jesus at easter, do they put out the easter baskets on Friday? Do they fill them with brown cellophane grass and dead leaves?
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Yeah, and the senior companion calling the shots is 19. Ha ha your own self. ;)
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Bingo - F it is. It is technically not in any key, since all 12 notes are used the same amount, which is why I defined what I meant by "key" - what note lines up with January. No deeper meaning, just pure coincidence that the chromatic scale and longer/shorter months can be aligned.
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Hopefully it is just one clueless missionary desperate to fill time who thought this was a clever idea. Never underestimate the cluelessness of a 19-year-old. If it is a mission policy, then I have in fact underestimated the MP's cluelessness.
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>idk if still true, but: at one time all mailboxes were stamped : PROPERTY OF THE POST OFFICE (or was that U.S. Government?) I c a find no evidence that that has ever been true. It is certainly not true now, and the USPS does not own privatelty purchased and installed postal boxes. They are the only organization legally allowed to use them, but that is not the same thing as ownership..
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I lived in Dallas, and felt like it was too hot, too crowded, and too full of Texans. Got a job offer in northern Dakotasota. That solved all of the Texas problems. Figured I'd be there 3 or 4 years. Ended up staying for 20, loved it. Even moved to Manitoba for a few years. Loved that too, and nearly retired there. Would have, had my mother not been in Utah and in poor health. Never expected t
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Besides golf?
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The few people I have talked to about it who are active LDS seemed pretty excited, and they were definitely aware of the purchase.
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The comment from the RS general president said that no other organization in the world gives women the same power the RS sisters have since they have priesthood power through the endowment. That did no go over well. There were over 8,000 comments on the church's Instagram page. They generally tried to be polite, but they clearly were not happy. Here's one: "Genuinely, I could have stay
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misplaced
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Nope. C would be the next note, which is a white key, but February is a short month, equivalent to a black (or short) key.
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The equinoxes are nominally on the 21st of the month, but they commonly occur a day early or later than that. Every once in a while, an equinox is off by two days. This was one of those years. A calendar puzzle, if you have some time to kill: There are 12 keys in a chromatic scale. 5 black keys and 7 white keys on a piano. There are 12 months in a year, 5 that are shorter, and 7 that are
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That is exactly the reason, The entire building is essentially being put on rollers so it can slide back and forth in an earthquake. The entire Wasatch Front is an active earthquake zone. It is of course much easier to install a foundation like that before putting up the building, and ruinously expensive to do it after the fact, but if the building is high enough value, you bite the bullet an
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I have yet to see a shred of evidence that they are removing anything (edit to add: from the exterior surface of the building) I think y’all are getting ahead of your skis.
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Misplaced
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Apparently not. It was also sandblasted back in the 1960s, which removed years of coal smoke. It made a dramatic difference
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Ha! See my prediction above. What do I win? :)
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The church didn’t change the rules. Boards of health did. To cook from raw, the kitchen needs to meet restaurant standards. This is hugely expensive, so the kitchen is restricted to reheating already cooked food.
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https://www.christianpost.com/news/american-bible-society-to-close-down-60-million-museum.html The American Bible Society will be closing down its Faith and Liberty Discovery Center, around three years after the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based museum, which cost around $60 million, had opened. ============= Doesn't sound like it was a "dinosaurs and the Flintstones" type museum.
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I can't believe you overlooked one of the great time savers in LDS-dom: Say hello to the people you "minister" to at the potluck, and count that as your visit. D'oh! BTW, the social glue effect is precisely the reason most churches have a coffee hour after the service. The vast majority of the people stay for coffee hour.
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Why it's an 11% raise when you quite paying tithing. You are never supposed to add and subtract percentages. That said, if the percentages are small, the error from adding and subtracting is also small. For larger percentages, the error is quite dramatic. Dramatic example: You mark some $1 item down 50%. The new price is $0.50. OK, fine. You mark the now 50 cent item up 50%. The price is
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