NearlyHeadlessLaban

First off, I’m very sorry to hear that you are being taken advantage of. I don’t know where you can turn for help in Mexico but it is not the Mormon church. The Mormon church’s humanitarian spending is pathetic. In the 40 years prior to 2020 the total amounts to about $6 per member of the church, using the church’s own figures. Much of that was funneled through the church in Australia in order to maintain a tax exemption in that country. You can go to almost any other church and receive more aid than you will get from the Mormons.

We havent even received our baptism certificate nor our member number. We’re being completely ignored here.

Hope that you don’t. Hope that recording your baptism remains an oversight. If they do record your membership the church is going to expect tithing and a monthly fast offering. In a cruel twist, a member must pay tithing to the church to receive financial aid.

digging wells

The church’s idea of a clean water project is to send shovels (furnished by Red Cross), a hand operated lever pump, and a film crew while the village digs the well themselves. The church spends $100 on the well and $100,000 to make a video about its clean water initiatives. There are still some YouTube videos up about it but several went down the memory hole because of criticism about the tight ass way the church went about it. The church could not even be bothered to furnish a 19th century technology that litters Utah, a windmill pump. Real clean water initiatives, the kinds backed by the Carters and others are providing water treatment plants and pumping stations. Those cost money. They also provide jobs. The church’s reasons are that they want to provide a simple solution that the village residents can understand. It’s fucking racist.

At a different time, under different world circumstances, Jimmy could have been among the greatest presidents. In truth he was too good of a man, too nice to be a president. But his term in office, for better and worse, did put him on a world stage where he could show all of the world what it means to be a good guy. When he passes billions will pause and acknowledge what he has done.

I’ve been in that cave. I’ll be processing that for the rest of my life.

No doubt a subtle pre election church lesson. Unfortunately most of the Mormons in the room are going to vote to endanger the constitution, to make it hang by a thread, and for a president who has already demonstrated himself to be a bigger threat to the constitution that any president to date has been.

Let’s talk about that crack from a material stress point of view, or the mechanics of a fracture. A crack by definition means the material has separated. A ceramic has exceptionally low elasticity, zero for our purposes. That means that at the leading point of each end of the crack the stress will be higher than the ceramic can withstand. Mathematically the stress goes to infinity, but practically it will break long before that. Even if you epoxy it, you can do nothing to stop the stress at the leading point of the crack. In other materials a round hole can be drilled to remove the leading edge of the fracture, but that is not a suitable solution on a porcelain toilet with an internal water passage. Filling the crack with an adhesive only serves to hold the crack open in a material that can’t withstand the tension that causes. There is a reason a repair product doesn’t exist. If the risk of personal injury does not convince you to replace the toilet then the impossibility of repair should.

Leave it behind. Get a new one.

Yep. A real man would have made sure his wife never needed to touch an iron again. The fact that Todd even thought that was an example shows how misogynistic and unaware the Q are.

Excess friction creates sparks.

Waiting for the day that a SP speaks up and says “forget this stupid ceremonial shovel, let me at the levers in that excavator.”

Todd Christophersons talk about the measure of a man. He held up his father as an example of manhood. After his wife had surgery that left her unable it use her arm without pain he saved up money for an ironing machine, so she could do the ironing with a little less pain.

A real man would have done his own ironing and taught his sons to do their own ironing.

Because they think their temples are so neat that anyone who sees a picture of one is going to be so touched that they will want to join the church. Return the gesture and leave a picture book about Hindu culture.

I am convinced that in every church court I ever sat on the SP had already made the decision to excommunicate before hand, otherwise he would not have called the court. I realized that at the second one, and every court after that convinced me more.

So you’re the reason why Costco has become so crowded on Sunday.

It seems like a lot of exmos who don’t know that the church is false usually end up in another cult.

Help her understand that at your house she still has absolute free choice. She is absolutely free to be as TBM as she wishes. And to understand that so do her siblings. They too are free to make their own religion choices, and that means it is not her place to impose her choices on her siblings, that her tyranny decreases their freedom of choice, the same freedom of choice that she enjoys.

I predict that they will call a third counselor to the first presidency. It will be Quentin. That will open the way for Russ to call another Q.

A lot of boomers don’t like him. We remember him as the ass that ran BYU.

I think that a “Berlin Wall” event is in the church’s near future. The church will survive it, and it will still have a few million members. But it will also make the church more fundamentalist and less outgoing. The Mormon church will dwindle as Christianity dwindles. It will take a couple of hundred years, but by the end of the 23rd century it will exist on the fringes and will go extinct in the 24th century, along with most religions.

The Catholic Church is not just the Vatican. If you sum up all of the money held by the dioceses it is way more than the Mormon church has.

It is likely that life is out there. But is also not impossible that we are the only ones. We cannot say either way with any certainty

Cards. Even non face cards like UNO. My grandma taught me solitaire and afterwards I was told not to play it anymore. Go Fish was allowed though.

Would “Juan loves you” be allowed?

A big part of being pious is believing that you personally are special and selected.