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Thanks Fluffy and alas for the perfect responses. I learned a new idea- TDLR :lol: Sometimes I get overly excited over little things. And then I blow them out of proportion. :? The thing that sparked me was where the guy actually laid opposing perspectives, which is rare in religious & political ...

During the relax and move forward step from what got cut off above was basically to find what for you helps you relax and then move into any problem solving. Sometimes there is really nothing you can do and then it is a matter of finding support and dealing with feelings. So, on to what can be done ...

Rats, that last post was too long and cut off the last and I can’t seem to retrieve it and right now, I have to go. So, I will come back later and rewrite

Even an atheist can find a ritual or ceremony that helps. See, placebos work. Really. There is a reason scientists never have a single control group that gets no medication. They may have 3 groups, the real medicine group, the placebo group, and the nothing group. I took classes in psychology where ...

I don’t do podcasts and don’t want to waste time, so if they actually said anything new, somebody needs to do a TLDlisten on it. But my experience with past deniers is that they just blame it on Brigham Young instead. So, really deniers are just saying that there is absolutely no justification or exc ...

I am so sorry you are going through so much right now. I can give you some real empathy on the neuropathy. Mine has a different cause, but the pain is just as real. And doctors do not take it seriously. Somehow they seem to think that neuropathy pain is false pain, so therefore it doesn’t hurt. They ...

My DH asked me not to resign and keeping my records in the church doesn’t currently hurt me, so I would be officially Mormon. If there was some kind of requirement to align my beliefs with my church membership, then that would change things. If I had to belong to the church closest to my beliefs, I m ...

Good on you, Alas. Free education is hard to pass up but maybe it wouldn't have been free of bias and bigotry. Crying foul over a failed psych paper in the name of freedom of speech is laughable. She had and still has freedom to write what she wants. She wasn't arrested or tortured or stripped of ...

I was fortunate to see Michaelangelo's David in Florence as a teenager, with a mixed group of other teenagers from across the US. I did not observe any reactions from our group to the statue being nude. It was more like moments of wonder and awe at the genius that produced such a thing. A true ...

Exactly. The Bible is likely full of propaganda. As is the Quran, The Book of Mormon, and all other "scripture." Many Bible scholars say that much of the Bible is (totally fictional) stories meant to unite different people into one nation with one national identity. The stories of David however ...

Then there are all the so-called Christians going nuts over the girl in college who wrote a religious tract instead of the required psychology essay and is unhappy with her failing grade. They are calling it a freedom of religion problem that she doesn’t know that for a psychology grade your subject ...

I think the primary reason is all of the apostles, who have to preside and talk at all of these conference sessions, are really old. I agree, it is probably a long long weekend for 80-100 year old men who have been doing it for 30 years and are just plain tired. Well, I have a solution for them ...

I think those of us who remember this should come out openly and loudly in support of the podcasters and who ever the church is trying to bully out of using a perfectly good word. They could not make the word “Mormon” disappear by calling its use a victory for Satan, so now they are going to try to m ...

Wait, wasn’t it ruled already that “Mormon” is not a word that they can claim any kind of right to? But trust Oaks to ignore legal president as well as do a 180 on his predecessor.

When they tried getting rid of the Saturday night session once before, many women objected because it completely gets rid of any kind of women’s session where we can have more than 1 out of 20 women speak. First of all, way back, women’s session, YW session, were not considered part of conference. An ...

I am not sure if the woman is capable of rational thought. But maybe her election handlers are telling her to cut herself loose from tRump. And telling her exactly what to say and how to act. Either that of Charlie Kirk’s death really triggered a come to Jesus….no, not that Jesus, the other one that ...

...denial is her first name. After that river in Africa? Several things that she used to claim were deal breakers for her, and she just refuses to accept reality. She does not want to know because then she would have to see that she is wrong. So, she's also a Mormon. Raised that way and I suppose ...

I need a good “how stupid can Trump supporters be” gripe session. And it needs to be where the guilty party can’t read it and realize that if I could never see her again, I would go for it. But then she would just deny that it could be her I am talking about because denial is her first name. I have h ...

So sad. I loved his humor, even when I didn’t get it. He will be missed I noticed he had not been around for a few weeks. I do check in once a week or so, but usually we have no way of finding out how people are unless we know them in real life, and sometimes people disappear because they just run o ...

Respond to abuse with kindness, children... -50 Missed it, came here for synopsis. Can you elaborate on this? Were children told to be kind to those who abuse them??? It was this weird story about someone being emotional and probably verbally abusive (they didn't use the word abusive, but that's ...