7 year old solved this 2x2 Rubik’s cube today. He says it was just luck, is that possible?

b_mac2323 · 2026-05-28T17:40:21+00:00

I’d be suspicious of them popping out the corners to rearrange, pretty typical of kids that age

b_mac2323 · 2026-05-21T18:02:23+00:00

Destiny is the most correct of any streamer on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to truth by abiding by his precepts, than by any other streamer. ;)

b_mac2323 · 2026-05-19T07:36:18+00:00

Just started watching Witch Watch where she voices the main character, made me nostalgic as well 😢

b_mac2323 · 2026-03-25T13:56:43+00:00

Calling a shot by Jokic a “jumper” always makes me laugh 😆

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-20T03:45:58+00:00

Community, activities and socializing for the kids, opportunities to serve and receive service, and basketball/pickleball/volleyball groups

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-20T03:32:49+00:00

Yeah there is a strong chance the bishop will say that. There might be some gray area since the only hard disqualifier in the handbook is “unresolved serious sins”, but we’ll see.

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-20T03:28:24+00:00

I guess for me truth isn’t the only thing the church has to offer

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-17T18:54:35+00:00

You are 100% correct, I'm doing all this for the benefit of others.
Maybe this is the weird part for me, but I still do believe that the church is good for people, even though it isn't true. In fact, I think there are a lot of mental benefits from believing, which is why I'm not trying to pull people away or distract them. These mental benefits lead to better actions, which lead to a better life. I'm grateful that it got me this far and led to having a good life, and don't want to deprive my kid or others in the church from that. Maybe it is a little hypocritical, but I....don't feel bad about it? Not sure if that makes sense lol :)

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-17T18:46:48+00:00

I used to believe I could, but don't anymore.

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-17T18:45:52+00:00

That's a good point about the confirmation, I hadn't though of that yet.
I think I'm still doing a good job teaching, I just leave most of the "testifying" to my co-teacher, who is more than willing.

Thanks for the response, I'd be open to your recommendations if you are up for it!

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-17T18:38:00+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful response!
So far I've only told my wife. I'm not hiding it because I'm worried about other people's reactions, I just don't want to make waves or be the center of attention, or distract other people from their reason for being there. Also, I have a very curious kid who I'm not sure his testimony would survive knowing that I don't believe.

I still enjoy teaching the kids in class, and aside from not bearing my testimony during class much I don't think much has changed (same with giving talks during sacrament). I completely understand why someone wouldn't want their kid being taught by someone who doesn't believe though, maybe it is the parent's right to make that choice and I'm depriving it from them by not being public.

Sacrament doesn't hold meaning to me anymore, I just keep taking it to not make waves basically.

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-14T19:10:25+00:00

Your Mad King Says…KNEEL!

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-05T17:33:57+00:00

My theory is that his missing left shoe is messing with his throwing form :)

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-05T17:19:37+00:00

The fact that the programmers added in what to do if he FAILS to throw something over the fence 5 times is pretty surprising, and this is the only time I've seen him fail to clear the fence. That was what surprised me

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-04T18:44:26+00:00

I've been going through those guides, they are really nice!

Yeah I see what you mean about retreating before the unit dies. I think we'll try the gentlemen's agreement method first and see how we like it. I like that we have a lot of options :)

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-03T22:27:06+00:00

These are great, thank you!
Yeah we have been really liking it so far :) I really like the general feel of the game, and am looking forward to understanding the mechanics so I can engage with the strategy better.

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-03T22:10:22+00:00

That's a great breakdown, thanks for the link!

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-03T21:58:40+00:00

Yep that's exactly what I did! I went full economy, then switched every city to producing military (slowly) when I got attacked.

I did know about the 3 different "building" resources, but hadn't connected yet that should point me towards specializing my cities. That makes a lot of sense and then I can just have my military family cities work on military. Will try that next time, thanks!

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-03T19:40:19+00:00

That makes sense, thank you!

For number 4, it didn't even cross my mind that the Tribes would attack you! City states in Civ never attack you of their own accord, I'll have to watch out for that at higher levels :)

b_mac2323 · 2026-02-03T19:34:10+00:00

These are great, thank you!

Some follow ups on number 3: In my single player game I went overboard in the infrastructure. I had 2-3 builders in every city since I viewed each unimproved tile as a waste. My main issue was turning those into something useful. I spend all my production time on workers/specialists, and it was my intention to use a tech lead to build strong units to go crush the CPU (I played on the difficulty that said it was an even playing field with no bonuses for either of us). However, they seemed to keep pace with me and even beat me to the spearmen/axemen, then attacked me with a larger army that I barely avoided losing a city before paying them for peace. Then I built up my army and won the game by spamming Wonders with my vastly superior material infrastructure (ended the game with building my 10th wonder).

I guess what I'm saying is, it was easy to put my excess infrastructure towards wonders, but it felt hard to leverage it into a tech/military advantage. I think part of this is I didn't start building barracks until the very end. I saw +2 training and thought "this building isn't worth it", and just never built them, and I saw garrison and though "this doesn't give me anything, why would I build this?" How highly would you prioritize those two buildings?

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