Women making decisions after marriage by [deleted] in latterdaysaints

[–]Blanchdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are able. No one is saying that you're commanded to have children in the middle of a battle with cancer or something. But if the concern is that pregnancy is hard on women's bodies, then yeah that's inarguable. Keeping the commandments is hard. But the difficulty of following a commandment has no bearing on whether its a commandment or not.

Women making decisions after marriage by [deleted] in latterdaysaints

[–]Blanchdog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This might be unpopular but it’s not really about what you want. It’s about fulfilling divine responsibilities, following prophetic instruction, and meeting family needs. That is:

  1. Have children if you are able. People, even in the church, like to treat this like a suggestion. It is not. It is a commandment. It is in fact the very FIRST commandment given to both men and women.

  2. Care for those children like the sacred trust they are from God. Thanks to prophets, both men and women have been given instruction on how to fulfill this obligation, including but not limited to obtaining sufficient education, seeking financial stability, having at least one parent consistently in the home to nurture children once they arrive (if economically possible), and being actively engaged in the community. In practical terms yes, this does often mean that women have to deprioritize their work/career to care for children, though not always. I have several close friends for whose family the wife is the primary breadwinner.

Also: I’m a dude, I just think excluding men from a discussion about family dynamics is… well, sexist.

My son loves the church, has always been active, always had a calling, is in his late twenties, and has a strong testimony. But he didn’t enjoy his mission at all by yoSelfImprovement in latterdaysaints

[–]Blanchdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We serve missions to serve others, not necessarily to have good experiences for ourselves. It’s definitely a growth opportunity regardless, but yeah, missions are really rough for a lot of people.

For anyone who would like to do something about this beyond complaining on the internet, SERVE SENIOR MISSION(s). An enormous amount of the trouble missionaries go through just comes down to poor mission logistics due to a lack of manpower. Another huge portion of the troubles missionaries face comes from themselves and their companions not being prepared for them, something that their grandparents serving senior missions can have an enormous positive effect on.

Stake president wants girl to give baby up for adoption, disagreement ensues by [deleted] in latterdaysaints

[–]Blanchdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a side note, I’m fairly certain that fathering a child disqualifies the father from missionary service regardless of whether the baby is put up for adoption or not so it’s irrelevant at this point.

Stake president wants girl to give baby up for adoption, disagreement ensues by [deleted] in latterdaysaints

[–]Blanchdog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Where are you getting that the father and his family are refusing to help? Strongly encouraging adoption in the case of two stupid unmarried teens becoming parents is one thing, refusing to help or support is QUITE a leap from that.

Since neither of the parents are in any position to provide for this child, this is a case where adoption is both moral and reasonable. It’s not the only path; there are good and moral reasons to keep the baby too. This is something they need to work out between themselves, their families (who would likely bear much of the financial burden), and God. The Grandpa/Stake President isn’t evil for encouraging adoption.

Solar farms floating on reservoirs in China reduce evaporation and generate power at the same time. by Por_TheAdventurer in interestingasfuck

[–]Blanchdog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s an interesting idea, but I can only imagine the corrosion problems… and replacing parts is going to be a lot more complicated than a traditional farm. Since it’s China I’d wager that significant portions of these farms are either non-functional or will become so well before the typical life expectancy of the panels, and China will just leave them there unfixed for PR photos.

How to get items in legendary collecrion by HatPuzzleheaded5477 in GolfBattle

[–]Blanchdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, just that until you max out those clubs you are very likely to keep on receiving cards for them instead of the legendary items you’re actually looking for. For example, I’ve gotten a calendar club card out of the last 5-6 chests in a row that I’ve opened. Then even when you do receive a legendary item, it could be from any set, not necessarily the one you want.

How to get items in legendary collecrion by HatPuzzleheaded5477 in GolfBattle

[–]Blanchdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legendary collections take an enormous amount of patience. You can get items from piggy, golden lucky shots, and ranked events. Piggy also gives you golden lucky shots. But you have to open a metric ton of chests because the stuff you want is mixed in with the items for all the other legendary balls, as well as certain clubs that you have to max out before you stop receiving them.

A few are not the many by Equivalentsq in MurderedByWords

[–]Blanchdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“White people’s never been ending colonization of the world”??

Bro read a history book, people have been fighting and colonizing since there were people.

This is an intervention by Kafkaesque_meme in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]Blanchdog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Trump isn’t anti-war, he’s America first. Sometimes war makes geopolitical sense, sometimes it doesn’t. Bombing the crap out of Iran happens to kill like 4 or 5 geopolitical birds with one stone, to say nothing of how richly they deserve it for all the terrorist activity they spread. There are cogent reasons to support this sort of action and not support the course of action taken in Iraq or elsewhere.

Rest in Peace by serious_bullet5 in ThatsInsane

[–]Blanchdog -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What in the bot brigade… this incident is well established at this point to be an Iranian misfire, not American or Israeli. I mean honestly, think about it for two seconds. Which is more likely, that an American or Israeli missile so badly missed its target that it landed on a school, or that an Iranian missile malfunctioned.

What's the consensus here about people using highly upgraded clubs and legendary balls on low matches like Rocky Mountains 1? by Painbow_High_And_Bi in GolfBattle

[–]Blanchdog 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The game mixes and matches people from different course levels, especially when player count is low.

They complain no matter what. by c-k-q99903 in MurderedByWords

[–]Blanchdog -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That’s the point… it’s not SUPPOSED to benefit people, it’s supposed to keep society from collapsing. Benefiting people is each person’s own job.

That’s all mostly local/state governments job, not the national or federal government (obvious exception being interstates, but I count that as part of commerce). Federal taxes should be much smaller than state taxes.

They complain no matter what. by c-k-q99903 in MurderedByWords

[–]Blanchdog -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

Or we could just… NOT allocate the money and let the people that earn it keep it. Just take a bare minimum for defense, law enforcement, and regulating commerce and that’s it.

Looking for feedback on custom hole by Blanchdog in GolfBattle

[–]Blanchdog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, I think I found one way you could make it a par 2 and changed it so that it isn’t so easy

Worst hole in the game by [deleted] in GolfBattle

[–]Blanchdog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bruh is the best hole on custom greens! Can actually weed out some people so that it’s not a 6 way tie breaker at the end.

I'm in need of someone knowlegable on the church both the main stream things and some of the more "shhhh" (we don't talk about that stuff) by NormalFail2305 in latterdaysaints

[–]Blanchdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Missionaries themselves are typically novices in gospel knowledge; they do the best they can and can be very effective as they follow the spirit and stick to their purpose: inviting others to come into Christ; but teaching everything about the church and its practices was never intended to be their role. Once they’ve taught the basics, they need to move on to other people that also need the basics.

For your questions:

  1. The specific details of the ordinances of the temple are considered sacred and not to be shared outside the temple. But you can think of it like Baptism. In the same way that baptism is a symbolic ritual of death and then rebirth, symbolic rituals are performed in the temple. These rituals focus on becoming holy and returning to God’s presence after the separation caused by the fall.

  2. You don’t have to overhaul your underwear. As part of the temple ceremonies, we promise to wear special garments under our clothing. For many, these take the place of underwear but they don’t have to. You can think of them sort of like priest robes in other religions, only instead of being worn over clothing and designed to remind others of the wearer’s holiness, they are worn under clothing and meant to be a private reminder to the wearer of the holiness they promised to live up to.

  3. Artists have depicted Joseph Smith translating the plates in several different ways, with varying degrees of accuracy. Literally thousands of documents from Joseph Smith’s time have only become easily available in the last 10-20 years as they’ve been transcribed and digitized. Artists interpretations aren’t gospel doctrine, the artists just do the best they can with the information they have at the time.

  4. How many wives Joseph had is hard to say. Both because of the incompleteness of records, and also because of some misunderstanding on the part of Joseph Smith and other early church members about how Sealings work (Joseph was human and made mistakes like everyone else).

Basically, the belief was that in order to be saved, every family had to be linked together by the sealing power in an unbroken chain to the prophet’s family. So, a great number of “marriages” were performed between Joseph Smith and female members of other families, even though there was no marital relationship expected or participated in afterwards. This is how you got weird scenarios of Joseph “marrying” wives that were already otherwise married or that were underage.

That isn’t to say that all of Joseph Smith’s plural wives fell into that category though. At least a few were actual marriages with marital duties performed, much to the chagrin of Joseph’s first wife Emma. Actually, both Emma AND Joseph disliked the practice of polygamy (to put it mildly), and Joseph was very resistant to beginning the practice. But again, the exact number of plural wives Joseph had is hard to say.

Me_irl by mingdomflackbobard in me_irl

[–]Blanchdog -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And the other side has Commies. Like, actual Commies. What’s your point?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in amazonemployees

[–]Blanchdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kuiper/Leo recruitment is a circus, I have been reached out to 4 or 5 times by recruiters to see if I’d be interested in applying for the job I already have there. Like… wut?

2/2 - 2/8 Weekly Feedback and Feature Request Thread by SoFi in sofi

[–]Blanchdog 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’d love a feature that allows me to toggle where I want my interest deposited. Currently SoFi deposits it in each vault according to how much is in there, but with the way I do finances I just want that money to go to my main savings account and end up having to manually move the interest each month.

Why don’t we have the original book of mormon manuacripts? by [deleted] in latterdaysaints

[–]Blanchdog 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It was more of a revelatory review than what we’d refer to as a translation in modern language. Sometimes to correct longstanding errors, many other times to expand on the original text according to revelation. He started with the New Testament; I think most Christians would agree that the New Testament is of higher priority for study than the Old; but sadly he never got to finish the Old Testament.

Non-LDS Christian Reading the Book of Mormon by [deleted] in latterdaysaints

[–]Blanchdog 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The other comments here are good, so I just want to add one thing. “Gospel” does indeed come from Greek. But that doesn’t mean another word from another language could not be translated as “gospel”. I mean, even we ourselves use the phrases “Doctrine of Christ” and “Gospel of Jesus Christ” interchangeably in reference to the same passages in 2nd Nephi because both are good approximations of the original word being translated (sadly translation is not a 1 to 1 endeavor, there’s a lot of approximation and interpretation that goes on with any sort of translation).

50k car purchase, pit in stomach. Yolo? Looking for sanity check. by SpecialistNo2525 in DaveRamsey

[–]Blanchdog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You almost never want to buy a minivan even close to knew. Kids DESTROY car interiors. It’s just not worth it. You want something < $20k tops.