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If you were a fan of Top Gun in 1986, I think you would enjoy Top Gun: Maverick. So far, one grandson, one daughter, and I have seen it and we all give it the thumbs up. It's interesting that it took nearly ten years from the first draft of the screenplay till its premiere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun:_Maverick
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In my youth, local church leaders frequently opined that the Lord would return around the year 2000. In 1999, I remember busily installing a "fix" onto our junior high school's computers to counteract the possible deleterious effects of Y2K. About the same time, my stake president called me to work on the high council. Little did I know that, four years later, I would be questioning
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I stumbled on the podcast with Jessie Funk this afternoon. What a tough childhood (her parents divorced when she was thirteen, three years after her mom left the church). She broaches so many topics with Dehlin. Just before 1:03, Jessie mentions the Mormon idea that "a testimony is found through the bearing of it." That's a sad commentary, isn't it? How many young Mormons go into th
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Gordon Jump was a pretty cool actor. Yeah, he made a convincing Peter from a MPV (Mormon point of view). He passed away on September 22, 2003, the same month I was losing my faith. Cuz X
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Our sleep schedules are opposite; I sleep at night and she sleeps through the morning. I woke up early to do some laundry and found her watching the final recorded session of conference. I’m sad for her that she still holds onto any belief in TSSC. I quit believing over 18 years ago and resigned in 2004. I don’t think she’s been to church in the last ten years and she quit wearing garme
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I truly regret not applying to college in Hawaii. Like you, I probably would have made my way out of Laie as often as possible. My family lived in Kailua from 66-67. Later, the Army assigned me to the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks from 83-85. Oahu has been our go-to-place for vacation since then. IDK about Laie proper, but life on Oahu sure beats living in Rexburg, Idaho, or Pro
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Me: resigned in 2004, two years after my release from a stake high council. Wife: inactive since moving outside of our old stake boundary in 2008. Daughter 1 and SIL: don’t believe at all since before they met in 2009 and got married in 2010. They’ve happily moved out of Utah to the PNW in 2019. I am so glad for them. Daughter 2: totally inactive since the early 2000s. Daughter 3:
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48 years ago, I spent my first semester of college at Ricks. It used to have some amazing dark skies for watching the stars. In fact, it’s as close as I ever got to see a faint glow from the northern lights. What I really like about Idaho, both then and now, are its geological features. There are lava tubes and some very cool sand dunes in the area. And, in eastern Idaho, there are some awes
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Rubicon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I kind of liked being dead as far as the > church was concerned. If only, I would gladly put a check mark in a box for membership resignation next to my name. The COJCOLDS (or whatever it goes by now) is not my church!!! Cuz X And 2/29 is NOT my birthday but it almost was in 1956…
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Initially, I posted as “Lost in the forest of doubt” and subsequently as “Lost no more.” After meeting Jerry the aspousetate, I chose Cousin Exmo as we figure that we are distantly related. I was fortunate to attend a few Exmormon conventions in the company of Jerry and Cheryl. Cuz X
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Once I realized that nothing of substance was forthcoming from church leadership in 2001, the stage was nearly set for me to discover the truth about TSSC. It took two more years before the "little flecks of history" demolished my beliefs. In August 2003, thanks to a program on NPR about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Blood Atonement, and a comment about Joseph Smith's polygamy, I start
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I was looking for an ancestor's genealogical info and noticed that my own birthday is off by a day. I have to LOL a bit because I was born in a leap year; indeed, February 29th would have been a pretty cool birthdate. It doesn't matter anyway. It's Family Search dot org. My immediate family knows my birthday and that's all that counts. Would you care if Family Search thought you were born on t
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Tevai, on an iPhone you hold your finger on a vowel and it brings up the accented choices. You can also add different keyboards under keyboard settings and then toggle between them using the world icon below the keyboard.
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Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh! Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you (plural)! Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh! St. Patrick’s Day blessings to you (plural)! Forty-two years ago, our middle daughter was born in Provo, Utah. We didn’t have a car so our home teacher drove us to the hospital at about 2 AM and she came fast. There’s so much I could say but each daughter has been a
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The old church men of my youth were convinced that the Second Coming would be in or around the year 2000. They would say, “keep your eyes on the Middle East.” Also, get your years supply, etc. Well, that came and went, didn’t it?! Does anyone remember the urban Mormon myths about “walking back to Missouri,” the return of the “Lost” 10 Tribes from the North countries, the two prop
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“Get Together” by The Youngbloods, after reading some fine prose about our Baby Boomer generation by Don Bagley. https://youtu.be/UTU76Hyn4o0 It was re-released by RCA in September 1969 and reached number 5. I was 13-years-old then and just starting to pull away from TSSC and authoritarian influences between 8-9th grade. At the time, I was quite taken by the “hippie” lifestyle and
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annabelle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But I am not going to let him have my portion. I > went through hell with him. I plan to make a fund > just for the grandchildren. It will be small but > none of it will go into the TBM Ex’s hands. That is an excellent plan. I hope it works out for you.
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Tyson Dunn Wrote: ----------------------------------------Y--------------- > I can manage Italian and Spanish, but they > interfere with each other a lot. I could probably > conjure up reasonable Dutch with a week to get > used to speaking it again. I used all three of > those languages for travel and had specific goals > in mind when I was taking them. I studied Itali
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cl2notloggedin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just found it interesting that sign language I > believe is one of those languages you are speaking > of. I miss it. It was such a huge part of my > young life. I was on an accreditation team several years ago at Roy High and got to observe an ASL class. I was quite impressed by the level of st
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dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wouldn't use the phrase "gift of tongues" for > anything about legitimate languages. In religion, > is it simply making up nonsense goo goo sounds. > The only part of the brain they are activating is > the BS center. LOL, you got that right, dagny.
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From my post edited for Facebook consumption (And, Brother, did it need some editing!!!), I added a final recommendation: Before retirement from teaching, I was often asked what was the best app for learning a language. If I were asked that today, I would say Memrise without hesitation. I would also recommend an initial exposure to the target language through a TPRS course (teaching proficienc
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Jacko Mo Mo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I haven't watched anything so anti-climatic and > hollow as when Gordon B. Hinkley delivered a > special 9/11 speech. Everybody was looking for > answers and reassurance, he had none. I walked > out of the chapel thinking he no more has any > special insight than the local dog catcher. And t
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https://resources.unbabel.com/blog/brain-language-learning I got a failing grade in high school German and was dropped right out of the course. As a senior, I retook Spanish One and barely passed the second semester. What I never imagined was that in my twenties I would become a successful linguist in four additional languages. A TBM would say that it was the gift of tongues. The truth is t
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Today DW turned 66 years old and she’s continuing to improve. Her blood ox is normal, her appetite is back, her chronic depression seems to be lifting, and her nausea is mostly gone, with the help of her new prescription (zofran). I can’t sing the praises enough of the Intermountain Layton Hospital. What a class act her doctors and care givers were. I’m grateful that they gave DW such f
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The concerning factors were her low oxygen reading, our age (65), and a serious comorbidity for DW.
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Her ox reading was in the 80s. I took her to the ER just after noon on Saturday and she formally tested positive for COVID. They put her on oxygen and an IV right away. They admitted her 7 hours later and began treatment with the antiviral Remdesivir and steroid dexamethasone. Her X-ray showed a spot with opacity in the lower left lobe of her lungs, which may indicate acute mild infection o
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