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[Portia]

"Mormon and Miscellaneous Fundamentalists" is totally going to be the subtitle of my memoir.

Hope that falls under Fair Use. :P

[Emiliana]

"Mormon and Miscellaneous Fundamentalists" is totally going to be the subtitle of my memoir.

Hope that falls under Fair Use.

+1

[Emiliana]

I think the counterpoint is that while Mormonism teaches that we have the complete truth, we also teach the every religion contains at least some truth. But it comes down to how people perceive it and what their past experiences were.

Oh, thanks for pointing that out -- I don't think I realized that was the cause.

As a side note, I am an atheist, so I also fall into the category of people whose (non)beliefs are often threatening to others. I wasn't necessarily trying to criticize Mormonism, so I do apologize if it came across that way.

[Zedability]

I think the counterpoint is that while Mormonism teaches that we have the complete truth, we also teach the every religion contains at least some truth. But it comes down to how people perceive it and what their past experiences were.

Oh, thanks for pointing that out -- I don't think I realized that was the cause.

As a side note, I am an atheist, so I also fall into the category of people whose (non)beliefs are often threatening to others. I wasn't necessarily trying to criticize Mormonism, so I do apologize if it came across that way.

No worries, it definitely just came across as a very benign instance of a pretty popular misconception. And obviously individual Mormons are going to be different in how they react to other religions and there probably are people who have met some genuinely "We're right and you're wrong" attitudes.

As a scientist a lot of my friends are atheists so it doesn't worry me personally

[Amity]

Two great and compassionate answers from yayfulness and his friend on homosexuality and parenting and the possibly bisexual sister.

[Tally M.]

Ardilla's Tinder Declaration. Because things taken to the extreme are usually entertaining.

[Zedability]

"For depriving us in many cases, of the Benefit of the Doubt" was my favourite

[Portia]

Dethroned by a fiancée

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/80722/

Another thing I'd like to point out is that there is also the other woman's perspective to take into account. It could very well be that she doesn't have a positive relationship with her family, much less getting the attention you seem to have gotten growing up.

I recently got engaged, and my family has collectively next to no contact with me and when they do, it's unpleasant, on the whole (except for my sibs). It's a difficult situation, especially considering all the cultural stereotypes of how a "bride's special day!!1" is supposed to go.

Also, there is a stereotype that attractive women are cold, rude, difficult, or selfish, when I think that that is just that, a stereotype. My fiancé's future sister-in-law (who may be described as more "average-looking," I guess?) decided she hated me. She has a large, close-knit extended family who is heavily involved in the planning and calls my future in-laws Mom and Dad. So if anything I felt like the odd one out, although maybe it felt like I was getting "attention" because I have a more dominating personality and am considered pretty, I don't know. I actually HATE being made a fuss over. Maybe your brother's fiancée is also more private and silently screaming at all the attention, haha.

Good luck! I bet you're showing your irritation more than you think though. :P People aren't dumb. I'm pretty good at reading social cues. Hopefully you can have a good relationship, or at least a cordial one.

[Whistler]

yeah, I think after they get married all the attention will diffuse a little when it's back to normal life

[mic0]

Is Vienna's response a joke or real?

[Zedability]

I think the editors tried to push it through before some box had been checked and there was some sort of bug

[mic0]

Iiiinteresting, that's what it looked like. Someone gave it a thumbs up before it was taken down, hah.

[Emiliana]

I recently got engaged

Wait, you got engaged and you're just going to hide this piece of information in a post and not give us any details?!

[Portia]

I recently got engaged

Wait, you got engaged and you're just going to hide this piece of information in a post and not give us any details?!

Ha, yup, apparently. I'm on engagement hiatus.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

[Emiliana]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/80779/

Zed on self-insertion and author surrogate! I was thinking about this the other day and couldn't find a term for it, either.

[Whistler]

I wrote a paper on authorial insertion once. Nabokov likes to do it sometimes.

[Owlet]

Wait wait, back to Portia's engagement--I do believe you owe someone $500.

https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/77113/

Just kidding. Congratulations!

[Portia]

Wait wait, back to Portia's engagement--I do believe you owe someone $500.

https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/77113/

Just kidding. ;) Congratulations!

If I'm officially, ring-on-finger-going-through-with-it come April, that will probably be one of the more satisfying parts of getting engaged. I already have a shortlist of worthy causes (none of which are florists).

[Violet]

Maybe it was just this question, but this made me feel happy and full of dread at the same time. It's a much needed expansion—there is always congestion there, and it's the worst part of the Provo to Salt Lake commute—but the construction period will be terrible.

The last I-15 project started before I could even drive with a permit and only finished my last semester at BYU.

[Portia]

The last I-15 project started before I could even drive with a permit and only finished my last semester at BYU.

Don't make any $500 bets on it not ending, though. ;)