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I live 3 hours South of the Medford Oregon Temple and 2 hours North of the Feather River Temple in Yuba city CA. We probably don’t deserve a temple in our nearby city as we only have 2 Stakes in the local area. And I doubt we could keep it busy enough even considering the draw from outlying smaller communities. But my patriarchal blessing says I will spend many hours officiating in the temple and performing genealogy work. I plan to continue taking community call and working for another 10 years before I retire. So it would be prohibitive for me to fulfill the blessing unless a temple is built here within the next 10 years. It will happen.

I am of the opinion that we are building the temples for a time of need. We may have a time in the near future where we will not be able to build them anymore. It is laying up for the future.

@NeuroTypical

Yes indeedily-doodily! Me too. I really caught the temple bug recently, so much that I've now got a spreadsheet that I'll update every General Conference and whenever there's a new announcement. The spreadsheet gives me this chart, which thrills the heck out of me: That there's what you call exponential growth. I last saw a chart like that, when we were looking at COVID infection rates. One person had it, then a dozen, then the whole world. And now the same sort of thing is happening with temples. The next 5 years are going to be a hoot. The open question is how long the exponential growth will continue. Someone did a plot - if it continues like it is now, we'll have ~2500 temples in 40 years.

Seems like a good place to put this. I enjoy visuals like this:

Don’t you have a Koala to feed down there? 😛

It’s complicated. Much more so than both sides want to admit. NPR knows who their audience is, and so does Fox. Neither side is going to go out of their way to show stories their audience doesn’t want to hear. NPR has a liberal bias in their reporting, but since we have 10,000 news sources, their power is virtually nil. So it’s not worth getting fussy over. Bernard Goldberg, himself no leftist, said it best. “Some conservatives think Al Roker is out to get them if he forecasts rain on the 4th of July.” If you are way far right wing (and yes, way far leftwing) you’ll make things up in your head or misread them to satisfy your own confirmation bias and reassure yourself that you are correct. It saves you from having to think or ask uncomfortable questions.

I believe the proper term for NPR (or any political commentary) – political activists (specific political party alignment) is narcissistic personality disorder. Though Trump is often called out for being narcissistic (for very good reason) it is a label that fits 99.9999% of those seeking elected political office. Explanation from the Mayo Clinic: The Traveler

Totally agree. My point is, NPR is on one "side", while the chart has it looking nice and centerist. It needs to be a big handful of pixles to the left, in order to have this chart accurately display NPR's bias. You don't get to be thought of as "Middle" when you: - Suppress stories that could impact an election and bias voters against the Democratic incumbent - Suppress stories from reliable science and news sources that jeopardize a nonconservative COVID narrative - Push shaky and groundless stories about the Republican candidate being a Russian schill - Refuse to admit any wrongdoing or apologize after the general public eventually catches up and catches on to the truth. Doncha think?

Another way of putting that is that a girl would never be alone with @LDSGator

Amazing how well the traditional seder can be slightly modified to include the gospel knowledge of the dispensation of the fulness of times. We cheated this year and my daughter baked a German Chocolate Cake. The coconut is very traditional though. My children have been talking about the Afikoman for weeks. We watched three movies today. Joseph: King of Dreams The Prince of Egypt The Ten Commandments Good stuff.

Two of my closest friends are women, and I totally agree. My wife is friends with them as well and we just had dinner with one of them and her brother on Sunday. I’m NEVER alone with a girl. It’s a combination of paranoia, common sense, and an understanding of our current climate.

Wow. I had a hard time believing that was written by a liberal. But I realized that it was an old school liberal who had not bowed to the woke mob. A lot of people have not changed their positions. But the parties have moved the needle.

Our side doesn’t do that either. Self critique is impossible when dealing with true believers.

I think the real question is what happens on your next trip alone, what happens next time you are in a similar situation for a prolonged period of time, what happens next time a man tries to flirt with you? And you dont have to be on a long flight for this to happen, it could happen next time you go shopping. Having once participated and enjoyed it, will you want to do so again? Will this be a once only experience or the beginning of a pattern? Some possible responses to those questions could be a) I feel bad about this, that's my conscience telling me that it was wrong, so I won't do it again, and I'd better take some preventative steps to reduce the likelihood of it happening again. b) That was a test, I enjoyed it, I passed the test, so if the opportunity arises, I'll do it again or c ) I enjoyed that, nothing bad happened, I want it to happen again so I'll look for or create similar opportunities. B and C are dangerous choices. Any sort of action that releases endorphins often becomes an action that we want to do more of. For some people it only takes one drink to become an alcoholic. Welcome to the forum, its a great place to get advice and discuss ideas.

Yay - they keep that thing updated! Yep, everyone and every source has a bias. Every media source has a political bent. Every individual reporter, every news desk anchor, every editorial staff. Although I'd suppose NPR could be re-evaluated. They suppressed Hunter's Laptop and the COVID lab leak theory, and pushed Trump's Russian Collusion controversy hard. And, when all 3 turned out to be what they are, NPR couldn't be bothered to admit any wrongdoing or apologize. https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

This won’t satisfy every one of course, but it’s a good indicator of bias in the news.

I get much of my geopolitics news from creators like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/@PrestonStewart

Matsah can be hard like crackers or soft like a pita. And it very often has salt and oil for flavor.

If it isn't interesting to the internal politics of the US, the news has nothing to spin. So, why would they waste breath on it? I'm sure you'll find one or two articles about these things on virtually every news outlet. But they're not really pushing them too hard. It doesn't sell.

Monday Ukraine announced (Monday April 22) that they had captured a Russian General. This is a little perplexing because I have not seen any coverage of this in USA news broadcasting. But then I do not watch every minute of news coverage. There is a lot of stuff on You Tube and other internet sources but there does not seem to be any Russian response or US responses???? In light of this and what Israel did with Iran – there has to be repercussions – across the entire world structure of country alignments. At first glance this looks to be good for Western aligned countries, but I am concerned that without solid Western (democratic) leadership that all this could be more destabilizing – especially in light of political unrest and demonstrations against Israel and not Hamas. Things seem to keep turning in ways I do not expect. The Traveler

I'm not sure why this is important. The Greek word for paradise, depending on context, can mean any of the following: The abode of the dead (the spirit world) The place of the pious awaiting resurrection (paradise) Heaven (any of the kingdoms of glory) So, any of these meanings can be accurate no matter what you think is going to happen to this man. But we have to ask ourselves what was Jesus trying to say? Why would He have said "verily, verily..."? It didn't sound like He was trying to condemn him as if it were too late. It sounded like He was trying to encourage him. It wouldn't be much of an encouragement if He were referring to spirit prison. The man certainly seemed repentant. He was willing to take responsibility for his sins. He showed remorse. He spoke to Jesus in humility. He showed faith in Christ. If all this is true, wouldn't he be ushered into Paradise? What is the point of sifting through the definitions? Are we trying to condemn this man to spirit prison when he showed repentance? What is it so important?

Count your many blessings, name them one, by one...........