Eh, I think it's just a testosterone thing. Guys like like to beat each other up or watch a fight. When I was in high school kids would box each other or get in huge wrestling brawls. It's just how guys are. I watch UFC here and there but I think WWE back in the late 90's went against the church more than the UFC does today. Not only did they use violence, they had promos using tons of swear
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I remember my first hangover. I was almost 28 and all my coworkers had finally got me to start drinking... a few months in I got my first real hangover. I showed up to work feeling like crap and could not concentrate for the life of me. I ended up barfing at about 10:30 and I kept telling my coworker that I thought I had the flu... Those were the days. I've raged hard over the past 3-4 years a
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Wow. We need photos of this on the internet.
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I have a TBM sibling with two adopted african-american children. This makes me worried about how those kids will turn out in Morridor.
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I also thought that was odd. I did the promise on my own and got my answer... but years later I thought it was kinda fishy that he did that. Why didn't the bible have that in the end? If it was true, then why does Moroni even need you to pray about it being true? It's a totally loaded question when you read verse 3. Just another one of JS's tricks.
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To be honest, my letters weren't much better when I was on my mission. All I did growing up was play xbox and work on the farm. However, reading on my mission and in college really helped me improve my grammar and vocabulary. By the time I graduated with my bachelor's degree, I became a grammar nazi. It was annoying to read the emails... but at least he used punctuation, right? I just ha
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I live on the east coast and my work lets me take the 24th of July off if I'm in Utah. They count it as a religious holiday even though they all know I'm jack Mormon at most. I've been thinking about making Dec. 23rd Smithmas since it was when JS was born. We totally celebrated it in the MTC too.
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It's totally a confidence thing. I know both bald and long-haired men who pull off their look very well because of their confidence. I'd like to think I'm one of those. ;) The funny thing is both my dad and brother were bald with back hair when they were younger than me and I have the longest and thickest hair in my family (3 sisters included) and no back hair at all. I guess I took after the
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That's why they didn't like the tight pants. I was pretty religious about my workouts and had a very muscular lower body. They thought my tight pants were too sinful and they made me vain. Didn't stop me from wearing them! The best was when I'd go to the city straight from the farm and would walk around in my chaps. That turned some heads. Hahaha Ahhhh the good ol' days in morridor.
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> Yet they just couldn't get over the fact that I > had long hair and liked to wear leather jackets. > The non-Mormon crowd I ran with accepted me for > who I was. The Mormon crowd couldn't. Haha! I wear leather jackets all the time. I also ride motorcycles. Double whammy. Long hair and leather jackets go very well together.
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So I grew up in Morridor, and after having to go through a mission, BYU, and a year with a large corporation with a strict dress code, I got a different job on the east coast that had a better work/life balance and a lot more freedoms, one of which was letting my hair grow out - something I've always wanted to do but never could. It's currently to the bottom of my chest and I take very good care
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I remember thinking my name was supposed to be special and just for me... Then when I became a temple worker I found out they just cycled the name every day. Then I realized that my dad and brother in law knew my new name... I felt so gypped.
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Probably are... They're the roommate who tried to Rat you out for every little thing at BYU. It does make me wonder though, if they are here to monitor, wouldn't they read all the crap with the church and figure it all out?
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Athletes get a lot of nomos;lots of nomo foreign students too. I had a Muslim friend from Mali there. I went to BYU on my own and paid for it. I overall liked it but having to shave every day pissed me off. I brought my electric razor to school every day so I could use it just in case I couldn't get in the gym. I married a Mormon girl when we graduated and about two years later we left the
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Personally, I'd suck it up and pretend till you can live on your own. Try to finish school and then get a good, stable job. Not sure where you live but if you're in Utah I'd probably get out of there as soon as you can. Start somewhere new for a new job. Distance is your ally.
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Oooooh niccccccce (south park) Is it just me or do the female teachers get away with a lot more?
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I ran it by my nevermo girlfriend... At first she thought it was gross but when I said he was an apostle she said "Oooooh niccccccce." (south Park reference) So I guess it's weird. But when you're tbm like her it doesn't seem so odd anymore. Kinda funny how religion can do that to you.
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Tristan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well about 9 years ago, he remarried an older > middle aged virgin, 25 years his junior. So he's > 90 now & she's 65. She's young enough to be his > daughter. It's really sick. She would have been > better off staying single. > > However, there are funny rumors that have been > going ar
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Well if they don't want to go to BYU they can fail their endorsement or they could very well not get in. BYU discriminates against Utah applicants on purpose so they have to have really good credentials to get in. I am from Utah and had a ton of friends who couldn't get into BYU. I was one of the "lucky" ones. It gets harder and harder to go to BYU because all the over achieving Mormon
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Well in that case if the judge just happens to be Mormon then they are acting in behalf of the government and not the church... It's like a Mormon waiter not serving someone alcohol because they think it's against the word of wisdom. It's your job. Just suck it up and do it. I'm assuming if they really didn't want to do it they would just have another judge do it for them? It seems kinda dumb
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I'm pretty sure they could refuse because the couple has probably been excommunicated and the church has no obligation to marry couples who aren't members. My fiance's family is Catholic and when we asked to get married at the cathedral they refused because her family wasn't at that particular Parish and I was Mormon. Or should I have sued them?
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Wow. That is way greasy. I would have dumped him on the spot too.
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My ex wife worked at carrabbas in Orem while we were at BYU. She used to complain about getting bad tips fork om people... She'd tell me how couples would come, ask for water, split a cheap dish, and leave. little to no tip. I always told myself that if I was too cheap to tip then I shouldn't go out. I typically give 20 percent. Mormons are generally super cheap and all want free labor/food.
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My ex wife worked at carrabbas in Orem while we were at BYU. She used to complain about getting bad tips fork om people... She'd tell me how couples would come, ask for water, split a cheap dish, and leave little to no tip. I always told myself that if I was too cheap to tip then I shouldn't go out. I typically give 20 percent. Mormons are generally super cheap and all want free labor/food. Ba
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Just tough it out at the state school. If you only had two classes left at BYU then why resign? You should have just sucked it up for a semester and then gone AWOL. I almost transferred out of BYU but I checked to see which credits would or would not transfer first and ended up staying. You kinda shot yourself in the foot with this one. If it were me I would have just lived through the bullshit f
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Yeah I would tell HR that he is making religious and racist comments and that it needs to stop. I had a crazy religious boss who pushed religion on his coworkers HR had to nip him in the butt a few times for that. He eventually got fired.
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I would assume that the fundamentalists are mad on the polygamy part because LDS inc flopped on it so they could become a state. The fundamentalists think that we should still practice polygamy today. The fundamentalists are also mad that we would even consider abortion as an option even if it's for a rape or incest.... they would consider it killing an innocent child and that they're also pa
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I've always thought that was the racist word for native american because our old pennies had the face of a native american on them.
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I grew up in the same small farming town as my dad where we've farmed on the same land for 5 generations. My dad told me once that when he was in high school a mexican kid moved in the area. He said it felt good because he was no longer the poorest kid in the school. Another time we were late to church and he said "Well, it looks like we'll have to sit in the back with the colored folk"
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