BaldProphet @ BaldProphet @kbin.social

2 Kings 2:23-24: A story about what happens when you make fun of bald dudes

---

Read more

Posts

0

Comments

413

Joined

2 yr. ago

Latter-day Saints have absolutely no prohibition against interacting with former members of the Church. Unfortunately, many former members leave under difficult circumstances and distance themselves from their friends who remain in the Church. We would love nothing more than to stay in contact with them and still be friends.

I have never supported Trump. I was serving my mission in 2016 when he was elected and I couldn't find a polling place to vote, and I sort of had a favorable impression of him at first just because my family are big Trump supporters. However, many of his policies and his hateful rhetoric are impossible to square with my religious beliefs, which I consider to be mostly centrist. I think most Latter-day Saints are in a similar boat. We are serious about our religion and aren't going to support a political leader who goes against many of our most deeply-held moral doctrines.

The most important thing we believe are the commandments given by Jesus Christ in Matthew 22:36-40. These are summarized as "love God with all your being" and "love everyone around you as well as you love yourself". I can't see how it could be possible to support Trump and sincerely believe in those commandments at the same time.

For me, however, the final straw was when Trump started speculating on live television about injecting light into people to fight the Covid virus. It was utter loony talk and I was completely disgusted. January 6th didn't surprise me at all (Trump was laying the groundwork for it a year in advance) and at that point I almost registered as a Democrat. Now that Trump has taken control of the Republican party I'm definitely registering as a Democrat before November.

Trumpism took mormons by storm, they are some of the most dedicated adherents to it.

Plenty of us despise him, though, and one of the highest leaders of the Church has donated to the Democratic party in the past.

Caltrops are better because they require less precision to deploy effectively.

Oh, that's fair. You came off kinda militant in your first comment. Cheers.

The list of things I heard less democratic than the idea of holding people to account for who they vote for is pretty short.

It's been a while since I tried it, so I don't recall exactly what didn't work the last time. I think it may have been driver related.

I'm definitely going to give it another go one of these days.

I have never gotten Clonezilla to work. I don't want to call it obsolete, but... it certainly isn't intuitive, and in 2024 I expect even open source software as widely known as Clonezilla to have a straightforward interface.

For simple data backups, I use Kopia.

EDIT: Apparently there's a GUI for Clonezilla called Rescuezilla. I'll have to give it a try sometime.

I think this is what I had in mind when I said I would consider shorting RDDT. Gonna watch and see what happens with the IPO first, though.

Do you have retirement savings? Welcome to the investor class.

I've never shorted stock before, but I'm really tempted to start now. RDDT will become the inverse meme stock.

I wonder how bad the reputational damage all these layoffs is? I wouldn't be surprised if those big tech companies have a bit of trouble when they start hiring again.

Reminds me of this old gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg

Incorrect. Minors cannot give consent, but older minors can assent to medical care, which is basically going along with it without complaint.

There's an ethical difference between emergency medical care and non-urgent but necessary medical care. You can't honestly compare treating a gunshot wound to therapy, and emergency mental health treatment usually involves hospitalization. That's not the kind of care that this article is talking about.

Society needs to discuss the ethical dilemma of medical treatment without a parent's consent. Minors cannot give consent for any medical treatment.

To be honest, it just sounds like you have an unnecessary chip on your shoulder.

Sounds like a bit of a desperate reach to attach the EEE label to this.

> Set-Alias -Name Get-Ass -Value Get-Access
> Get-Ass
Get-Access : Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x00000000 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

While The Church of Jesus Christ does pay for use of Ancestry.com licenses at FamilySearch centers, it was not involved in creating the company. The Church has it's own genealogy company: FamilySearch.org.