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by dogbite
Sun Aug 06, 2017 3:07 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Son came out as transgender. Let the roller coaster ride begin!
Replies: 30
Views: 15246

Re: Son came out as transgender. Let the roller coaster ride begin!

I missed the clues to your kids age. Mine's younger so some of that above won't apply as much: schools, the cops, the puberty blockers and so on.
by dogbite
Sun Aug 06, 2017 2:46 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Son came out as transgender. Let the roller coaster ride begin!
Replies: 30
Views: 15246

Re: Son came out as transgender. Let the roller coaster ride begin!

Let your child determine when and where to reveal to others her status, but this isn't an absolute rule. It will slip sometimes and that's OK. Friends and family will ask how your kids are and you'll make a she statement instead of he. They'll ask an avalanche of questions out of well-intentioned ...
by dogbite
Sun Aug 06, 2017 1:52 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Son came out as transgender. Let the roller coaster ride begin!
Replies: 30
Views: 15246

Re: Son came out as transgender. Let the roller coaster ride begin!

I've ridden this roller coaster a few years now. Ask, I'll answer to the limits of what I consider private. It's a highly variable coaster.

Public school is probably the craziest part of it on my personal coaster ride. Except the suicide attempt....
by dogbite
Wed Aug 02, 2017 11:56 am
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: Light of Christ doctrine
Replies: 2
Views: 1770

Re: Light of Christ doctrine

You can attribute it to Joseph Smith reusing the idea of the ether for transmitting light. It's the same idea repackaged for religious explanations.
by dogbite
Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:53 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: When did God become all knowing?
Replies: 12
Views: 7463

Re: When did God become all knowing?

Read Big Gods. When cooperative society got larger than you knowing everyone it required methods for you establish trust with strangers. Outward (expensive in time effort or money) displays of belief such as clothing or food requirements, public prayer and so on. In smaller groups, god(s) are not ...
by dogbite
Sat Jun 03, 2017 12:40 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: When did you start closing your eyes for prayers?
Replies: 7
Views: 4174

Re: When did you start closing your eyes for prayers?

I never really did.
by dogbite
Tue May 30, 2017 5:14 pm
Forum: Doctrinal Discussion
Topic: When did religion start and what is its purpose?i
Replies: 21
Views: 15087

Re: When did religion start and what is its purpose?i

Religion is an offshoot of our hyper agency detection behavior of our brains. Are oldest religions in hunter-gatherer societies the gods aren't particularly moral. The exhibit attributes that they are described to explain daily life and the features that they lived among for storms and fires or ...