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@conservmillen @CLICKBAITER6769 "there is nothing you can or must do to earn your way into God’s Presence. Rather, Jesus’s blood is sufficient in making us clean and acceptable before God."

@CLICKBAITER6769 No? That’s not even close to what was articulated, and that interpretation can only be understood by assuming you have never had any interaction with Christian doctrine at all

I had no idea LDS members would balk at this very basic, central belief about hell, heaven, and who goes where. Yes, all Christians believe in hell and that we deserve to go there. That’s the bad news. The good news is, through Christ, we can be saved from hell and instead spend eternity with him. This is not accomplished through ordinances, church membership, or claims of apostolic succession, but through Jesus’s sacrifice alone. The good news is that there is nothing you can or must do to earn your way into God’s Presence. Rather, Jesus’s blood is sufficient in making us clean and acceptable before God. You are free to believe that access to eternity with Jesus can only be accomplished through following LDS ordinances, and that non-LDS members will only have a degree of glory (but not God’s presence) in the afterlife. It’s just not a Christian belief. For a believer in Christ, there is nothing good about the news that we non-Mormons will live forever in a “better place” but without the presence of Jesus. That is not heaven. Jesus is the prize! And our place with Him is secured by grace through faith in Him. Hallelujah! “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”” Romans 10:13

@thegenesisbl0ck I am also of the opinion that pregnancy *shouldn't* feel like hell. What a shame that both of our opinions do not reflect biological reality.

My unpopular opinion is that if you’re healthy and metabolically aligned, pregnancy shouldn’t feel like the hell it’s made out to be.

@darknessatnite @CrenshawPhD Except that we're vastly overproducing PhDs compared to tenure-track research jobs. Anyone who couldn't beat her to that slot would have had even less of a chance at being a "real researcher". And the real contenders now have one less person to compete with. Everybody wins!

@CrenshawPhD But you used up a PhD slot that could have gone to someone who wanted to be a real researcher. You dangle it as an identity marker.

True story: When I was in my PhD program in my late 20s/ early 30s, a male professor chastised me for admitting (when he asked) that I didn’t want a tenure track faculty position when I graduated, that I’d rather teach part time and be a full time mom instead. He said, and I quote, “if you were in my department, I’d call together a committee to question whether you deserve to be in this program.” At the time, I was in the throes of a 4 year infertility struggle and miscarriages. His words gutted me, to say the least. So yes, I can attest, the messaging young, ambitious women receive is this: place your career above your family. But 14 yrs, 2 great kids, and a healthy marriage later, I’m thankful I disregarded his rebuke.

@HazelAppleyard And here I was thinking he sounds like a real trooper for putting up with this woman's body dysmorphic psychosis with such good humor...

Give up your body to give a man a child only for him to laugh until he cried at the sight of your post partum body…

@CptAncapistan What's sad is how many people will totally skip watching the show now because of this one scene, which is totally out of place and off vibe with the rest of the show. As a fan of the original, I thought the reboot was honestly pretty good as a whole.

This speech is the reason this reboot exists. The writers thought about putting this on screen and THEN they found a vehicle for it. Using existing properties is a short cut to get to lecture you. Having to come up with a new one is work they’re not interested in.

one reason why the wife and i spent so much time preparing a birth plan is that after she got pregnant, we wanted to avoid the first trimester nausea, so we started researching and reading the literature turns out first trimester nausea is driven by hormones the placenta produces (mainly GDF15 and hCG), but what makes it worse for most women is blood sugar instability. pregnancy lowers maternal fasting glucose, so if the stomach gets empty overnight or in the morning, nausea gets significantly worse which means eating crackers or cookies in the morning doesn’t help, you’re spiking and crashing blood sugar when you need stability what the research shows is that protein reduce nausea better than carbs. what worked for us was a protein and fat rich meal before bed (to sustain blood sugar overnight), then good carbs and fats as soon as she wakes up before the crash hits it may have been luck, but it helped a lot and the wife almost never suffered from first trimester nausea when we went to the gynecologist and asked about nausea prevention, she said “it’s normal, you just have to deal with it”, and that’s how we realized we had to do most on our own

@chosen_the43436 @cremieuxrecueil Yeah, screw the math genius who got a B in English class or the award-winning writer who didn't want to take AP calc. Harvard undergrad should be all AP-maxxed asian pre-med students!

@cremieuxrecueil It should absolutely be only in academics, even if that means Asians get 52% of the slots…BUT American students shouldn’t have to compete with ALL of Asia. All positions should preferentially go to US citizens, as they receive a large amount of public funding.

Let's put this to bed. This is what Harvard said about their admissions in SFFA v. Harvard: Without any preferences, they would've admitted 51% Whites. If they just admitted the top 10% of applicants by academic qualifications, the White share goes to 37% and Asians to ~52%.

@thelurker81 @suggestme_name You're right, it's not comparable. Ilia already lost the -5GoE for the jump, so officially calling it a "fall" would have lost him a whopping...1 point. Shun's edge being called would have resulted in more than that in lost BV as well as GoE points, so quite different indeed.

@suggestme_name I don’t know if you’re just too retarded to understand but a Lutz edge Call and a man fucking falling on an element , is not comparable. Some of you guys are just outright idiots.

I hate to nitpick like this but Shun did 2 Lz jumps and both weren't take-off on an outside edge. He didn't get neither edge warning nor call. So, people nitpicking on Ilia aren't actually looking for the fairest result, you just hate seeing him win

@EricCMeadows I'm one of the few who followed your advice and stayed in my home state for college! ...and then moved to Utah after graduation. My parents followed. The sad reality is that you can't start a family in your state if there's no one to marry.

Latter-day Saints Should Put Down Roots Outside the Hub of Utah: Building Zion Where We Are: I have hesitated to write this, but I’m going to be bold. The reason I post so much about Wisconsin is because I want good members to move here. It’s a wonderful place and we need you here. Anyone who lives outside the intermountain west has experienced the same thing on a regular basis. Ask anyone, and they will tell you this has happened. A ward, always eager for more families in an area with few members, has one move in due to a job transfer. They are enthusiastically welcomed in and integrated into the ward. After a year or two, the family then moves back to Utah. The ward feels deflated and discouraged. This happens all the time. Another scenario also frequently happens in these wards. Again, ask anyone, and they will tell you this has happened as well. A well established family has a college-aged child who decides to go to school in Utah. They leave the ward to move to Utah, and then they meet someone from there, get married, and stay there. The native ward feels deflated and discouraged. The parents of that child then feel pulled to move to Utah to be closer to their children. This is not an anti-Utah post, but a plea to people to consider putting down multi-generational roots in other places, too. When these remote wards lose good families, they completely change the dynamic of the primary or youth programs. Marriage-aged members have fewer potential prospects and have no choice but to look towards Utah. These remote wards also lose out on experience that comes from multi-generational experience in the church. If every college-aged member in my area stayed here and had families here, and every family that moved here stayed, the size of our wards and stakes would easily be double what they are now, but sadly, the pull to Utah is often a net-negative to the growth here. Lastly, Utah is increasingly becoming unlivable. Now may be the time to move to other places. Our forebears were willing to go to new places to establish a new Zion. We should be willing to today.

@Aella_Girl Not sure if this makes things better or worse, but I still see your polls and just don't vote in them anymore.

in general i'm getting like 50% of the views and interaction i did a year ago. Idk why this is. Is there some kind of.... appeal process I can do?

my twitter polls are getting a small fraction of the votes they used to. I used to regularly hit 10-15k votes, now i'm lucky if i get 5k. i hate the algorithm changes

@anymanfitness And if you think that's bad, just wait...until they come across a teen movie from the actual 80s!

My girls are 15 and 13 and really into Stranger Things. I started watching it with them. Didn't really "want" to but I wanted to have a shared interest with them, and I figured it would be fun. Harmless, right? Yes, it was until I got to Season 3, Episode 1. One of the characters is a high school aged boy, and he's lifeguarding. All the moms at the pool are lusting over him. He starts talking to one of the 40-something moms, and invites her to a sleazy hotel to get a great "workout" in. And she accepts. I had to pause the program and have a discussion with my daughters how unethical, illegal, and disgusting this is. It's rape, and pedophilia. She's cheating on her husband with an underage kid. She would go to jail and be plastered all over the media if this actually happened. Netflix has some serious gall to put this sort of content in a show where the main characters are MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS. The scene wasn't integral to the plot at all. There was no reason for it. This is totally on brand for @netflix of course. Should have seen it coming a mile away.

@johnarnold Narrow minded take. ED is the best way to give a limited supply of slots to students who actually want to go to your school instead of some kid who just wants Harvard. Try talking to someone who got into their dream school off a waitlist...trust me, this way is better.

Have a child going through the selective college admissions process for the first time and the system seems designed specifically to maximize stress for student and parents alike. The process has gotten worse in recent years and will will keep getting worse until it breaks. 1/n

@bowtiedgerman "I knwo all about living jn the country. I spent 4 months staying in a hotel, eating takeout, and flying every weekend while not getting to know anybody in my community."

Right after college I had a short “low phase” where I was questioning whether it was all worth it Why live in the city when I could do this and live a simple, low stress life away from it all I then spent the next 4 months visiting clients in actual Nowhere, America. Land at a non-international airport and drive another 1-2 hours type nowhere. Sysco slop from “Stinky’s bar and grill” type nowhere When that travel marathon was over I never wanted to leave the city again Anyone advising you to take part in downward economic mobility is best ignored

@busy_bee_me Amazing how many versions on the internet there are of "Should [thing someone doesn't like about the church] change in future, we are open to [complying with basic floor-level expectation of being a member of the church]"

Confession: I don’t go to RS activities, my kids skip out on most youth activities, and husband doesn’t attend any EQ activities that aren’t service projects. By choice. Because none of them are helping us accomplish the work of salvation and exaltation. Should activities change in future, we are open to attending. But we don’t need breaks from family. Family is our purpose.

@JesterJum Hard no from me. Young kids go in whatever bathroom their parent belongs. If she's young enough that she still needs you to wipe her butt, then she's too young to be traumatized by passing by a urinal.

As a girl dad, I have a genuine question for the ladies on X. How do females feel about me walking my daughter into the women's restroom when there is no family restroom and I don't want her going into the men's restroom where men are using urinals? Should I just announce "girl dad coming in with my daughter"? I want to be respectful but I also want my daughter to be safe.

@ATrueMillennial Every ward has 2 groups of people: the people who are there to serve, and people who are there to be served. If he is part of the group that leaves a room whenever the ward 10s aren't in attendance, then it's him failing the YSA ward, not the other way around

The guy I talked to last night was lamenting: "My singles ward is so much a meat market that even Sacrament meeting no longer feels like worship-- it's all about getting married. And then no one shows up for FHE and activities because Sacrament meeting is so sandwiched with linger longers and potlucks and social events that the other social events lose their relevance." His suggestion: dissolve singles wards and just have "wards." Keep a singles group for non-worship activities (this is how it's done already in geographically disperses areas where you don't have enough active singles to form a ward, anyway).

@Ch_JesusChrist @OaksDallinH Never thought I'd see the day where a majority of the First Presidency is from New Jersey!

President Dallin Harris Oaks (@oaksdallinh) was announced today as the 18th President and Prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The announcement was made during a live broadcast from Salt Lake City, Utah. President Oaks was sustained and set apart today, October 14, 2025.   In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the prophet is chosen through a divinely inspired process. When the prophet passes away, the First Presidency is dissolved, and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, led by the longest-serving Apostle, assumes leadership, confirming the new Prophet through revelation and priesthood authority. President Oaks, 93, succeeds President Russell M. Nelson, who passed away September 27, 2025. The new leader of a global faith of more than 17 million members has called President Henry B. Eyring (@eyringHB), 92, and President D. Todd Christofferson (@ChristoffDTodd), 80 to serve with him as first and second counselors in the First Presidency, the Church’s highest governing body.   President Oaks also announced that President Jeffrey R. Holland (@hollandjeffreyr), 84, will be the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/presid…

@andrew_anon_ @mnolangray Isn't the whole point of Protestantism starting your own sect that more correctly follows the teachings of Christ, because all the others aren't correct enough?

@mnolangray I mean Mormons explicitly believe everything after the resurrection until Joseph Smith was an apostasy, it’s not crazy that other denominations wouldn’t like that

Orthodox Christians loathe Mormonism because (a) it exposes the absurdity of all faith, which Mormons don't shy away from, and (b) they're objectively better at building high-functioning Chrisrian communities.

@DeseretPews Of course it took a gay man to produce the first ever Utah Parade of Homes house with interesting design choices

Crumbl CEO Comes Out as Gay. BYU Researchers Scrambling to Explain How a Man Selling Cookies in Pink Boxes Surprised Thousands With the Announcement.

@GovCox Can't fight the punctuality stats, but "traveler-focused design"!? It has nice amenities on paper, but between the bottleneck dropoff/pickup, the endless escalator rides, confusing signage, and the miles you have to walk to get anywhere, the new SLC is far from user-friendly.

Salt Lake City International Airport was ranked the best in the nation and one of the top ten in the world. SLC gives travelers a true Utah experience: welcoming, well-designed, and surrounded by stunning mountain views. More here: travelandleisure.com/salt-lake-city…