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Again, it isn't my personal policy. But it is something that they decided to do, and you know what? It worked for them. Talking with my friend about it, he said, "you know, (Marduk), it is something that (my future wife) was pretty adamant about, and it gave us more time to get to know each oth...

Yes, I believe my side to be morally more equitable. However, I wouldn't be so callous as to claim it the teachings of the church, when the church has remained silent on most of the issues you discuss. I would remind you that only the prophet, speaking as prophet, has the ability to declare doctrine...

No, there is nothing inherently wrong with kissing before marriage. My point is that it isn't necessary. Especially for individuals who have a hard time controlling those impulses, why gamble? It certainly is possible to determine all elements of compatibility without engaging in any form of physica...

Ok, lets get one thing straight. Almost all of the issues that you have discussed are ones on which the church has remained silent, and for good reason. Let us not be guilty of assuming that our own position has moral superiority, because neither side, on most of these issues, does. Second, you've e...

What surprises me is how many of their followers are female.

Agreed. It tests my faith in the opposite sex.

Unfortunately, I know quite a few people, male and female, many returned missionaries, who have similar casual attitudes towards the opposite gender. Since it isn't accepted in the community to have sex, they do all but that, and enjoy themselves along the way. In a different community, without a st...

I certainly hope that this exercise has remained academic, because it would seem that either you've written a polemic, or at the very least have grown hyperbolic. The problem, whether you agree with a given political figure or disagree with him, is that speaking of specific issues so platitudinally ...

So, just got home. Too tired to go out anywhere... We'll have to set something up again.

I'll probably show up around eight, and stay 'till whenever. Anyone who wants to come that late can ride with me. I'm also more than happy to give anyone who needs a ride home.

Those are fundamentally two different types of communism. One advocates an aggressive state takeover as you are suggesting. The other is a more anarcho-pacifist movement. I do agree there are movements that have been violent, and movements that have been less violent. But this president has been acc...

Pacifism and Bolshevik communism are also fundamentally incompatible. Since the communist leader to whom Obama is most consistently compared is Stalin (as opposed to say, Guevara or Poulantzas) I would assume that they are accusing him of this style of communism. Central to this ideology is an aggre...

Depending on how late you guys are planning on going, I could give anyone Orem or south county a ride home. Don't have anything going on after work.

Never been to one of those things, but guess there is a first for everything. I'd come after work (which means 9ish).

Well, I'll totally apply then. I suppose the worst that can happenj is getting rejected.

It is too bad too, it could bring some much needed diversity of perspective.

I would apply, but I don't think they'd take a UVU student.....

Nerdgirl, we are thinking the same thoughts, it seems. I was about to come to this forum and quote Nephi, and I find you've already done so. Building on that, we often have to rely on the understanding that God loves His children, all of them, and that everything He does is for our eternal happiness...

Speaking of which, isn't this a forbidden-type question to begin with? Why was it answered?

Okay, let me clarify what I meant by my earlier post, since it was apparently ambiguous. Choice presupposes the opportunity to refuse. Just like moral agency, one cannot choose good without the existence of evil. For the elements, there is no choice, because there is nothing there but to obey. They ...

No other creatures besides humans have moral agency. Period. Even Skousen, whose thoughts are probably the closest to suggesting such a thing, does not expicitly make this argument; only that God is God because the elements obey him, and certain actions would make him "cease to be God" bec...