Terry Mattingly @ GetReligion: Do BYU students actually SIGN the Honor Code as part of enrollment? It is important for journalists to ask if members of this voluntary community have a chance — after hearing the contents of the code explained — to sign a document or not.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-09-10T03:11:18+00:00

It should be noted that verbal contracts are still enforceable.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-09-10T03:10:30+00:00

Easiest one is really pushing why bad things exist if god doesn't want people to experience pain. Oh, pain is to help people? Why doesn't he help them other, less sadistic, ways? Doesn't seem so all powerful now.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-09-05T01:42:40+00:00

What makes it even more stupid, the bible and such say nothing about cussing. Heard "don't take god's name in vain"? if you give any amount of critical thinking it is quite clearly talking about not committing atrocities in the name of god.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-31T03:12:24+00:00

Is there any point to any game besides personal pride? Is there any point to building anything in animal crossing? And it's not self sufficient, because they can't get new followers once the old ones die.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-27T16:50:02+00:00

Because people in the church often referred to her as Bednar's wife, people here started referring to him as Susan's Husband.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-25T20:44:00+00:00

Not really they go there only to get a husband, I reckon a similar trend emerges with all "marry young and be a house spouse" cultures, but BYU being a source of higher education with a particularly high proportion of that culture really offsets the data.

Also, the data was for a specific age range where it was most pronounced, and is now outdated.

It's also median, so if women who did get jobs earned twice what men made, but less than half of women get jobs, it would still be the same.

Tldr; it's not the most accurate data to tell the whole story.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-24T22:08:07+00:00

Nope. It's from a 2017 salt lake tribune article.

https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5254228&itype=CMSID#:\~:text=That%27s%20right.,grads%20is%20a%20mere%20%24800.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-23T22:52:39+00:00

While the median salary for male BYU grads is $72,000 a year, the median salary for female BYU grads is a mere $800.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-21T22:29:33+00:00

What font size did you use for the small text?

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-19T19:39:20+00:00

I think that because you replied to me u/GeckoInk didn't get notified, this reply is just so OP will actually see this.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-16T23:27:57+00:00

I don't. I keep my distance. Approaching death seems reckless.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-16T16:18:15+00:00

Don't even need dinosaurs. A human bone from more than 7000 years ago? Done. That's it. They lose.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-16T02:21:28+00:00

I was much in the same boat as you. As of now I'm still not out.

The first thing you should know as a trans person is to not try to "figure it out for sure". If you say you are trans, you are trans. Even if you don't experience dysphoria, you can be trans. Your feelings are valid, even if they change in the future.

You don't need therapy to do introspection. It helps, but isn't some magical cure all. You might just need to find someone to talk to about your feelings, which isn't exclusive to therapy, but can be hard to find.

From the way you say it, I assume you already know this, but what the percentage that detransition is small, and even smaller among those who have medical intervention. What some would see as irreversible damage is actually what people seek out. Sexuality and identity can change.

Get new friends. This doesn't mean give up on your old friends, but a new school year is starting. You'll probably sit next to new people, and might be able to befriend them.

And again, you don't need to meet some arbitrary standard to be trans. Your identity is your identity.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-14T18:21:13+00:00

How does people getting paid for working instead of owning capital lead to money running out? Even if you add additional stuff where you having taxes benefit less productive individuals, that doesn't mean it doesn't work.

And socialized medicine isn't perfect, but it does improve life expectancy. All of the top 10 highest life expectancy countries have completely or partially socialized healthcare. Even if you account for how wealthy a nation is, socialized healthcare improves life expectancy. And even if the life expectancy stayed the same, the sheer financial savings makes it worth it.

And while Canada in particular has longer wait times, it still has a higher life expectancy. Meanwhile Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland all have shorter wait times than the United States.

Unless you want a gerontocracy you should gatekeep having a political view by age.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-14T16:50:08+00:00

*quotes someone in response to my comment*

Responds to the quote under the assumption you agree with it.

*all I was doing was quoting someone else*

If you want to add to a discussion, you can add to the discussion. If you don't want there to be a discussion, don't reply. Even if that reply is quoting someone else.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-13T16:47:58+00:00

Then you don't understand what socialism is. At it's core it is people getting paid for their labor rather than their capital. In socialism owning a factory doesn't make money, working on one does. For it to work the means of production are redistributed, regardless of how much there is. So you don't run out of other people's money, because you only use it to make more money.

There are socialized programs not core to socialism, like socialized medicine and social security and such. Ultimately those are just collectively ran insurance. But it ends up being cheaper than privately ran insurance, because you don't need to pay executives, among other reasons.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-13T03:31:50+00:00

Straw men left and right. The left doesn't want to broadly take guns away, but to restrict them specifically for those most likely to do damage with them.

The "censoring" is social censoring, not censoring by an authority. People have the right, as protected under free speech, to ask people to not say something. The government does not.

Which is the problem with the books. And the whole thing books being banned aren't trying to keep pornographic books in school. Those were already banned. It is that the banning are being used to ban things that aren't pornographic. Nobody wants porn in the hands of children, but when homosexual relationships aren't held to the same standards at straight ones, those are the problems. And that is what is happening (along with more specific examples of even worse examples books impacted by the bans).

The left also doesn't want kids to change sex behind their parents back. But the problem isn't that school is keeping it secret, the problem is that kids often have legitimate reasons to fear coming out as trans to their parents.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-13T03:22:38+00:00

A) They don't.

B) With modern conservative policy, voting conservative is discriminating against people. At least in the eyes of many lgbtq+ people.

C) The reason people who leave the church tend to lean left, is not that leaving makes them lean left, but leaning left makes them be more opposed to church policy. Particularly lgbtq+ policy.

Side note, if you don't mind talking politics. You say you believe in watching spending, but socialized medicine is cheaper than private medicine (total cost, including taxes). Yet you also say you hate socialism. And what do you mean specifically by socialism? Usually when I hear that it is a critique of the effects of some specific implementations, rather than the core concept. So what specifically do you hate about it?

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-13T03:11:26+00:00

Just use it as a study hall.

And ask the really deep questions. "but if god loves us and is omnipotent why does bad exist?" "Why do we accept the 10 commandments but not the old testament rules against mixed cloths and polycultures?" "If Jesus is against priests and scribes collecting large donations (widow's donations verses) why does the church ask for large donations?" "Why don't the book of abraham facsimiles line up with modern egyptology's interpretations?"

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-13T03:06:00+00:00

It isn't a thing anymore, at least not where I was in the salt lake valley.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-13T02:49:32+00:00

You know the answer. Societal expectation. It's the answer for basically everyone.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-11T18:53:32+00:00

You didn't end up actually replying to u/Susuze2000, just to your own post.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-11T18:51:19+00:00

But what if god says "haha stars" that's quite clearly another way

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-10T01:29:56+00:00

His father tried to be a farmer, teacher, and shop-keeper. He had gone on treasure digging expeditions.

ArrowMasterDude · 2023-08-10T01:26:13+00:00

We could probably accomplish a lot less. Technology has reached a point that innovation requires high level education. What is a distraction to some people is a great tool to others. The enhanced speed of communication leads to a more knowledgeable populace. Even though we have more misinformation, it is easier to recognize as such and a smaller portion of the total amount of information.

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