I have studied various Christian religions and have liked the teachings of the Mormons (They currently prefer to be called “members of the restored church of Jesus christ”).

I generally try to abide by 3 Ne 11:29-30. I think my favorite scripture is 1 Ne 11:17 as it answers substantially all questions with faith and humility until you have time to properly study it out.

I am prone to talk about what I believe in a manner that I think gives respect all around like the epicurian paradox, the nicene creed, polygamy and judaism, etc.

I feel like I have a few strengths that I would love to share with those curious: my method to pray in a two-way conversation, my affinity for administration, and the “hiding in plain sight” cheats to be in control during persecution, dreams, and restrictive behavioral loops.

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  • As a native speaker, I will try to answer without being pedantic with a dictionary: to be passive aggressive is to answer with an unusual assumption and to act like the other party should have known all along.

    E.g. if you want someone to leave and it is snowing, say “I just cleaned off the snow from your car so you can make it home safe. When do you plan on leaving?” This places an expectation and social pressure to accept the gift of cleaning the snow by leaving soon.

    E.g. if you want to leave work at 5pm daily and your boss knows this and adds a frivolous mandatory meeting to the office calendar. You can take notes in the meeting then at the end send the email with notes to the recipients and say “this meeting could have been an email with no knowledge lost”. This implies that your boss did a disservice by wasting everyone’s time when they could have just used a secretary and an email and let you keep to your informal time to leave boundaries.

    Good luck figuring out and understanding the actual definition!!!






  • The undergarment is what a mormon wears after the 2 temple ceremonies that are to give them extra power and protection. It is kinda like a clerics robes, but not shouting to everyone at every time. The first designs had turtle necks and long sleeves. The “important” part of them are the symbolic parts which are not at the sleeves, so generally this is part of the general movement of mormon church policy away from “we made these policy rules black and white so it is easier for you to measure personal commitment”. The church recently likes to go by “the restored church of Jesus christ” as a nickname instead of mormon. Additionally, with the opening of “Grey areas”, the lines between doctrine, temporary policy, and sometimes cult like culture are easier to see. According to the People I talk to, this is a non issue.








  • Okay, so I dont usually read any uncurated books that claim to be non fiction on the internet. Based on a few of the comments that cross-examined your position, I judged this worthy of a read.

    Most of it was new information expanding on what was guessed at when I was in high school. If I were living in the climate of my choice and owned land, I would create hexagonal “mangrove walls” around small hexagonal rebar “reef anchor bones” honeycombing inside.

    I actually have looked into forgoing kids and instead adopting. From anecdotes and and some personal experience, adopted kids are hard. They are often having learning issues and/or are not neurotypical in unexpected ways and add a slpash of drug baby withdrawal development and ptsd and it becomes the most destabilizing thing to do to a marriage. On the other side, The amount of effort to raise a child of my flesh and blood involves shared milestones of my own version of being neurodivergent and preparing for expected things. I’m not saying i won’t ever adopt, but I am saying that adopting happens when I have no more biological kids to have (likely older and with established home life stability). I understand that cultural collapse occurs when a society has less than 2.11 births per female, so the people who can read and act on this advice will primarily weaken the long term power of “enlightened” and forward thinking by simply reducing the numbers with that type of intelligence able to empathize and comprehend your argument.

    I enjoy being proven wrong. I try not to offend. Thanks for your write up.





  • I lived in a housing market like that. It was a college town dominated by a church subsidized school. The students had to live in on-campus, off-campus and registered, or unregulated housing. The only people allowed to do unregulated housing were those who had their stuff together e.g. married or living with family. Housing was cheap and any landlord disagreements could be complained against the uni housing office. The uni provided so much housing that prices were based on the uni’s low cost instead of anything higher. A friend from high school had her dad choose to “invest” by buying a small apartment building out there, but even with his daughter as manager, he didn’t make a good return because he didn’t have the scale to provide the minimum level of service. I think he sold it.

    Students there tended to get married and have children while still in school.

    Long story short, housing market regulation can be done via a dominating entity over demand, but non market forces are not common everywhere.


  • Based on the other comments, i updated my post.

    I appreciate the link. I read through it and it was primarily about general combustion, and mentioned that Wood smoke contained VOCs. I think CO might be one of those referenced, but the link did not go into any discussion of CO, so I would like to know how this “basic research” is relevant to our “CO” specific discussion.



  • First, i had enough pushback to get me to update the original post. I needed to say “generally doesn’t make CO”. This is based on wood definitely can emit CO when burning “charcoal” e.g. wood without enough O2 or fresh wood.

    Regarding my rationale, I thought it had to do with the spacing or timing of the burn through each grain/fibre. Wood contains water/sap and would therefore have catalysts or contaminants that would change CO into something that would be easier to detect and remove (e.g. irritating ash) than any of the fossil fuels.