Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Basically, it's all red tape at the university level. An emphasis is considered a separate major/program, at least in terms of how it is seen by the university, so to call something an emphasis requires board approval, including an explanation of how resources are allocated for the new program. The ...

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/87859/ I would submit this as a correction but I have a feeling it would be rejected because it's not really "new" information, just more information than Adelaide provided. The Legal Studies minor was first offered in Fall 2014, which is when the Politica...

That question totally reminded me of this commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMhHzucl9lI I'm a mother of two and just asked everyone in advance of visiting the new babies to wash their hands before holding the baby, and then I just trusted that they did so. I also kept a bottle of sanitizer...

Concorde wrote:You pretty much summed up everything I was thinking for that question. It seemed so... Entitled.

Glad I'm not the only one! I re-read it a couple times to see if it really said what I thought it said, and each time it just bothered me. Maven did a great job of answering, I thought!

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/78698/ I may step on some toes with my comments, but this question really irked me. First of all, how do you even find out that a ward you're moving into doesn't bring meals to families after new babies are born? Is that a normal question to ask before you move som...

I've brought rice crackers in past wards, but my current ward is just to busy and chaotic for them to do it safely (and a lot of the time the tray with my rice cracker on it wasn't even getting to me). I got sick a couple of times. So now I just take the water. I was in the hospital a couple years ...

Thanks, Concealocanth! I appreciate you finding that. I also like Unit of Energy's explanation, which would help explain some of those personal experiences I've had. And Portia, I'll definitely check out that blog post. Looks interesting.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/69005/ Our separation from our memories of premortal life happen at birth; it's not a process of gradual forgetting. Is there an authoritative source on this? I'm not debating it; I've just had numerous personal experiences that lead me to believe otherwise. I have...

I watch it! I catch it either online at abc.com or On Demand--as long as I watch it within a few weeks of the original air date (before they take it down), it's free. Of course, I usually watch it sometime the week after it aired, depending on my work load. I do wonder how long they'll be able to ke...

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/66488/

Just had to say that I liked this one. Thank you to both the asker and the answerer.

But I did have one part that made me wonder - why did she call them "church people"? I mean, I suppose an LDS person could use that phrase too, but it made me wonder if she is not a member of our church. I would think most of us would say "the Relief Society was supposed to bring the...

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/66294/ This question kinda confused me. I get that "church people were suppose (sic) to bring them dinner for 5 nights starting on Saturday," but to go without dinner just because no one brought it to you? And to call your mom to complain about it? I'm ac...

I live with Yellow's parents and currently his grandmother, who watches the BYU Devotional every day. On non-Tuesdays they do old devotionals and other talks. Today they did "Daughters of God" which was a conference talk in 2008 by M. Russell Ballard. I felt it was a wonderful addition to...

I want to apologize for my defensiveness yesterday. Now that I've had a night to sleep on it (and lots of discussion with my husband last night), I realize now that I overreacted and took things out of context and proportion. It really is an emotional topic, as Rifka and others have said, and I was ...

I may need to bow out of this conversation. Not only have I completely derailed it (sorry to the original posters), but it's just a little too hard for me to deal with the feeling that I'm not being faithful enough because I don't have the perfect little family. I am trying. Really.

To me the argument that it's too hard to support a family on one income is a totally faithless one. If the Lord wants you to be a stay-at-home mother, then take courage. The Lord giveth no commandment unto his children save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he...

After all, one of his major stake priesthood meeting talks was all about how women should stay in the home and we should never countenance the idea of seriously dating a girl who thinks otherwise (but we should ask her out, just so she feels good and can see the error of her ways). Personally, I fi...

I was a little surprised by that rebuke as well. It seemed to me that Tight Spot was not "dismiss[ing] the Family Proclamation," but rather asking that it not be interpreted to mean that the Family Proclamation means his wife should quit her education. His reference to the part about adapt...

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51121821-76/brazil-lds-visa-missionaries.html.csp Basically, there are visa snags that make it difficult to get US missionaries there, so to increase the number of Brazilian missionaries serving in Brazil, they lowered the age requirement there. Thanks so much for ...

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/64986/ Art Vandelay (love the name, btw) mentions that Brazilian elders can start their missions at age 18. Does anybody have support for this? I served a mission there (granted, that was about eight years ago now, so things may have changed since then), but I neve...