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Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, How many (of each) 1,2,3 & 4 star generals are in the Air Force? - Civilian
ADear Civilian, The Air Force has a total of 279 general officers, of which no more than 15.7% can be above the rank of Major General, and out of those 15.7%, no more than 25% of those can be a General, with four stars. That is spelled out in the U.S. Code. This is a caveat in case my numbers don't work out just right. Right now, I don't have accurate numbers. As of a military census in 2005, there were 86 Major Generals, 38 Lieutenant Generals, and 16 Generals. For reasons unknown (although I assume it is for national security purposes), we don't know exactly how many Generals are in our armed forces. I'll say that there are exactly 279. 16 Generals (four stars) plus 38 Lieutenant Generals (three stars) plus 86 Major Generals (two stars) leaves 139 Brigadier Generals (one star). Dr. Smeed Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Which is older, North Wymount or South Wymount? For whichever is older, has it been renovated since first being built? - BeeBee
ADear BeeBee, South Wymount is older, it was built in 1962 whereas North Wymount was built in 1976. South Wymount has been renovated a number of times, as has North Wymount. In fact the lady at the front office in the Wymount building says that both of the complexes are in a constant state of renovation, replacing carpet and fixtures and getting re-painted. Neither of them have had a total overhaul since they were built. Dr. Smeed Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Has anyone else discovered that sometimes the RSS feed of the Board leaves off the ampersand before the id=#? Or is this just me? And if it's not just me, why does it happen? Nay, Contrary (I didn't figure out why it leaves out just this one character.)
ADear Nay, My suspicion was that it was due to not properly escaping the ampersands, but it looks like they are being properly escaped. So, I'm not sure what the issue is. It wasn't happening at the time I looked at the feed, so I can't really troubleshoot it. If you notice it happen again feel free to shoot an email to me or the editors. My email address is available in my profile under "About Us"->"Active Writers." -Curious Physics Minor Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, My car, which I drive in Utah, has Virginia License plates. In Virginia, cars are required to have both a front and a back plate visible - I know the same to be true in Utah for cars with Utah plates. My question is this: 1) If I were to replace my front (VA) license plate with a dummy plate (a euro-style plate, in my case), would I be setting myself up to get pulled over for lack of a valid front license plate? Now, a few follow-up questions... 2) If I WERE to get pulled over for it, would I be in trouble because of a missing plate according to Utah's laws, or because they could/would see that I'd be in violation of Virginia's license plate laws? 3) Lastly, if I were, instead, from a state that only requires 1 visible license plate, and I were to drive around in Utah with only that one back license plate (from my home state), could I still get in trouble for not having 2 plates here in Utah? - Curious (and Slightly Rebellious) Interstate Driver
ADear Curious (and Slightly Rebellious) Interstate Driver, I consulted my father the (non-Utahn, non-Virginian) judge and Utah and Virginia law for this question, but I am by no means an expert. Don't take my word for any of this. Last question first: no, you will not get pulled over if your home state only issues you one license plate, as my home state does. You need to follow the law wherever your car is registered. If your car is not registered in Utah, it is not (usually) subject to any consequences of Utah's registration and license plate laws. Because of this, my dad doesn't think you'd be likely to get pulled over if you were missing your front Virginia license plate (though I think putting a euro-style dummy plate might be a little conspicuous) unless they happened to be aware of the law in Virginia. I'm not thinking it's incredibly likely that police officers commonly know the license plate laws in all fifty states, but who knows? Maybe it is. As to whether you could actually be prosecuted for a missing Virginia plate in Utah, that's a little more hazy. Utah cannot enforce Virginia's laws, but it's the opinion of my judge father that since the laws in the two states have the same laws on this point, you could be subject to consequences in Utah. It should also be noted that the consequence for failure to display both plates, displaying a fake plate, or putting a license plate on a nonregistered vehicle is a Class C misdemeanor in Utah and a Class 2 misdemeanor in Virginia. In Utah this could mean a fine of up to $750 and jail time up to 90 days, and in Virginia this could mean a fine of up to $1000 and jail time up to six months. - The Black Sheep Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I am currently in chem 105, so I've been thinking a lot about atoms and combustion and such, and it got me curious. What is fire made of? There is no 'fire' element, and when balancing combustion equations, the fire itself doesn't add anything to the mix. But it has to made of something... On a related note- does fire have mass? - I swear I'm not really a pyro
ADear not a pyro, Fire is just really hot gas. It's not a separate element or anything; it just happens to be hot enough to glow. (The Wikipedia article on flame is fairly good at explaining it, by the way.) There are two mechanisms by which that can happen: first, very fine soot particles will give off light due to black body radiation. (This is where the color depends on the temperature of an object; hotter things move more toward the blue end of the spectrum, while cooler things move toward red and infrared.) This is what you see in most common flames (candles, campfires, etc.). Second, if you have a very completely-burning flame (and thus little soot to get in the way), the colors you see are due to excited atoms or molecules giving off light as they drop down in energy. The specific colors given off depend on the substances involved. This is actually one way to help determine the composition of something, and a crude version is commonly performed in chemistry classes. (You probably already figured this out, but since fire is just gas, it does have mass.) —Laser Jock Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I need to buy some new Christmas music. Could you please tell me your favorite Christmas CDs and/or songs so I can get some ideas? - Nerd Girl
ADear nuuurd, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's CD Christmas Eve and Other Stories is a varied and very unique interpretation of Christmas music. You cannot go wrong with any of their music. As for a single song, "Baby It's Cold Outside" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan is one of my favorite renditions. Otherwise, I am always a fan of classical music. Handel's Messiah (the entire oratorio) is really powerful, and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker is classy. These will never cease to be some of my favorites when Christmas comes around. -Mico ADear Nerd Girl, First, I just want to admit that I already know I'm a nerd/dork, take your pick. My favorite Christmas albums are Enya's And Winter Came, Celtic Woman's A Christmas Celebration, and any Christmas songs performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Yes, I hate jazzy Christmas songs. They make me think bad thoughts. -Sky Bones ADear NG, We would be remiss in our music snobbery if we didn't bring up Sufjan Steven's Songs for Christmas, a five-CD set that includes both traditional and original Christmas songs. We're also partial to Christmas with Weezer. But if you dig something a little more traditional, I love my copy of this. Cheers, Waldorf and Sauron ADear Nerd Girl, I grew up with Kurt Bestor's Airus Christmas. You might also consider Il Divo's Christmas album. My wife really liked Destiny's Child's Christmas album. Some non-traditional Christmas songs that I like are (appropriately) "Christmas Song" by Dave Matthews, "Happy Christmas" by John Lennon, "Please Come Home for Christmas" by the Eagles, the soundtrack to the movie Home Alone, and a new one from last year (and not Christmas-specific), "Winter Song" by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson. If I had only one recommendation, it would, in fact, be "Winter Song." It's a good one. - Rating Pending (who heard, today, September 18th, two radio ads, one for a Mannheim Steamroller concert and one for a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert. I thought I was ahead of the game for having my Halloween costume already planned . . . ) ADear Nerd Girl, I have disgusting amounts of Christmas music. First off, you must have a copy of the Charlie Brown Christmas CD, the one with the Vince Guaraldi Trio. That is classic stuff. Second, Harry Connick, Jr. has awesome Christmas CDs. The last track on that first CD is one of my favorites--someday I'll actually be able to use it. Do yourself a favor and listen to the opening of "This Christmas" on Harry for the Holidays. Ooh BABY! That opening "Haaaang all the mistletoe" just melts me. I'll be having me some Harry for the Holidays! I think I'll go listen to it 5 more times... Anyway, other suggestions: Jane Monheit also has a great Christmas CD, if you like jazz. If you don't, well, you should learn to. The Elf soundtrack is a good mix as well. Also, a much-loved classic in our home is John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together. Their rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is pretty hilarious. Thanks to your question, I took the opportunity to listen to some holiday tunes, and man, there is nothing like Christmas music in September! Eat that, Foreman! -Miss Scarlett, who is now in a very sappy, sentimental Yuletide-y mood ADear Nerd Girl, For more suggestions from current writers, check out Board Question #49127. - The Black Sheep ADear Nerd Girl, First, I'd like to give a strong second to Waldorf and Sauron's suggestion of Sufjan Steven's Songs for Christmas. Stellar. Also, in the link that The Black Sheep posted, someone mentions The Forgotten Carols, which I would heartily recommend as well. I think I'll mostly deviate from the traditional-sounding songs, because they bore me very quickly. Not that they aren't good, but I don't think it's bad to mix things up. So, my suggestions: I would definitely recommend The Brian Setzer Orchestra's Dig That Crazy Christmas and Boogie Woogie Christmas. The former has what is one of my favorite arrangements of "White Christmas" and a wonderful instrumental version of "My Favorite Things." But, to cap it all, their version of "Angels We Have Heard On High" simply cannot be beat, in my book. It's a work of art. Guitar solos (the best of which are not played in the preview on Amazon, hence my linking directly to the song) definitely belong in classic hymns. Barenaked Ladies' Barenaked for the Holidays is pretty good. I can't hear their arrangement of "I Saw Three Ships" and not want to dance a little bit. If you're into them (because I know that some people aren't), Relient K has an album Let It Snow Baby...Let It Reindeer, which I don't personally own, but I've listened to most of it. If you like their goofy upbeat style in their other stuff, you'll like this as well (listen to "12 Days of Christmas" for a good taste). To completely shift gears back into classic-sounding tunes, I've also become partial to Neil Diamond's The Christmas Album, when I'm in the right mood. I mean, it's Neil Diamond! Lastly, I would strongly recommend Eclipse's Three Kings. A wonderful a capella album that takes songs that I'd usually skip (such as "We Three Kings" and the ever-annoying "Little Drummer Boy") and makes them interesting to listen to again. Overall, this is one of my favorite Christmas albums and one of my highest recommendations to you. Hope that gives you some ideas, because I just spent two hours listening to Christmas music when I should have been sleeping. And I loved every minute of it. Oh, and Jimmy Eat World's rendition of "Last Christmas" is a good one, as well. -Commander Keen, who actually loves listening to Christmas music year-round, so long as it's not boring Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Why do some areas of the world have rainy and dry seasons, while in other places it rains off and on year-round? - Emiliana, experiencing her first African rainy season
ADear Emiliana, experiencing her first African rainy season, I emailed my brilliant meteorologist brother with your question, and here's what he said:
I really think that's as much of a dumbed-down version as we're going to get out of him, because he's just that brilliant. Isn't it great having siblings who know stuff you could never hope to understand? - The Black Sheep Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I am graduating this December, and I was wondering when will I get my diploma? Since there aren't any graduation ceremonies until spring, do they wait until after you walk to mail you your diploma like the other April graduates? Or will I still get it a few weeks after my official graduation date (December 18th, I think)? -anxious to graduate
ADear anxious to graduate, My husband graduated last December, and his diploma came in the mail sometime between early-to-mid January. Some people, like my husband and I, choose not to participate in the graduation ceremonies, so they won't wait until after you walk four months later to mail it. As long as there aren't any problems, you should get it a few weeks after you officially graduate in December. Congratulations! -Sky Bones Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Are buildings or classrooms available to be reserved? In particular I would like to know if the IPF is able to be used by us lowly folk, or if it's constantly reserved for the all mighty football team? Who would one contact to schedule time in the IPF? - Too cold for Frisbee
AChilly- Not usually. I kind of doubt you'd want to spend $1500 to play frisbee, anyway. - Cuddlefish Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I have a store on Etsy, and I want to start selling illuminated quotes. Meaning pieces of paper on which I have written/printed off a quote and then used colored pens to decorate it. Since I plan to sell these, my question is: could I get in trouble? I'm assuming that in some cases I'll be fine (well-known quotes, such as those by Walt Disney, Mark Twain, etc.,) and in other cases I should ask the entity involved (100 Hour Board, Cleolinda of Movies in 15 Minutes, authors of webcomics). But what about movie quotes? Book quotes? Will I be all right with attributing them to the proper author/movie/whatever? I'm thinking I will be, because it's just a sentence or two, and what I'm really selling is the fact that they're all decorated, which is all me. But I'd like to be sure. Thank you! - I am the who when you call "Who's there?"
ADear There, You should be completely fine with quoting such brief statements, especially considering your artistry surrounding them. As always, though, none of us are lawyers, so if you really want a legal opinion, consult a professional. —Laser Jock Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, There is a person in my class and ward that I really get along well with. We have the opportunity to spend a bit of time one-on-one and it is always fun. Sometimes I have a hard time falling asleep because I'm planning out flirtatious comments or fantasizing about touching werf's elbow next time I see werf. The problem is, once I'm physically there with werf, not only does the opportune moment never arrive, I don't even want to say (or do) anything! I don't think it's all due to my shyness. Is my attraction to this person merely theoretical? What can I do to either start feeling the chemistry or stop having a crush that only manifests when werf isn't around? --Token Trademarked Talisman-
ADear Token Trademarked Talisman, As my aunt would say, get your flirt on. I think that the next time you're around this person you should just dive in with a flirtatious comment or just go for the elbows, even if you don't want to and even if the moment isn't quite right. Then assess. How did it go over, and how do you feel? Do you still fantasize about it later? I think your reflection will tell you what you need to know. Go for it and see what happens. - The Black Sheep Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, If you were to be elected as president (individually, not as The Board, although wouldn't that be cool?!), what would be the first five things you would set about fixing? - Wyntrë
ADear Wyntrë, What a great question. I've had a few things on my mind, and it's about time that some of them got fixed. 1. America, across the board (ha, board!), needs more RAM. Free RAM upgrades for everyone! 2. Siestas - we deserve them. Everything should shut down for a couple hours in the afternoon so that I can take a nap. 3. Make Pi Day an official holiday. Every restaurant is required to serve pie, or else they get audited. 4. More currency in coins, just because I could. Er, well, probably not, but we're dealing in hypotheticals. 5. Change some laws so that the Board as a whole could be elected, which would be SO frightening, but also very entertaining...especially if we could retain our aliases and anonymity. I would write actual political things, but I'm not in that sort of mood. -Commander Keen AW- 1- Abolish all political parties, in an effort to make people think about issues instead of voting along party lines (this would be for the public as well as Congress). 2- Audit all government programs to find evidence of waste and corruption, and fire people who waste/steal taxpayer money. 3- End the subsidies given to farmers who raise corn for ethanol and instead use that money to research cheaper, more effective methods of making biofuels. 4- Outlaw Payday and Title loan agencies, for obvious reasons. 5- Put an end to that stupid border fence project. It's too expensive and it doesn't work anyway. And, because I think it would be fun: 6- Legalize marijuana use and permit licensed individuals to sell it in small quantities from a physical business location. Impose the same taxes on the growth and sale of marijuana and marijuana products that are imposed on cigarette sales. Use the profits from this to a. improve prison conditions with a focus on treatment and reintroduction to society rather than punishment and b. to establish free government-run rehab centers. If you were intoxicated in public, you'd be punished as if you were drunk. Unlicensed sellers and growers would be subject to harsh jail sentences and automatic fines. - Cuddlefish ADear Winter, I don't have five things in mind, just one big one: Abortion. We like babies, Waldorf and Sauron ADear Wyntrë, First, gay marriages for all! Need I say more? Second, begin funding inner-city abortion clinics with tax-payer money. The poor are definitely entitled to their abortions. Third, start an affirmative action program on steroids wherein racial minorities and women are given vast preference over white men. Make it hard for white men to find employment. Gotta pay them back for centuries of oppression somehow! Fourth, provide tax subsidies for all those who grow pot. Legalize it here and ship the rest to the Netherlands, where apparently no one uses it. Fifth, three words: CANADIAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM. Never mind the better systems in Europe and all of those arguments about bureaucracy being a bad thing in healthcare. I love bureaucracy! - The Black Sheep, the liberal who will eat your soul P.S. My real list includes things like at least making a college try at balancing the budget, only declaring war on our enemies, spending time finding the right plan for reducing the number of uninsured people in the country and insuring all children, strengthening parity laws, and rebuilding our relations with the rest of the world. Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Were I to try to run for president, via grassroots campaign, what would be my first step? To whom would I need to talk, to raise initial awareness? On which sites would I need to post my bio and letter of intent? - James McClellan
ADear James McClellan, Very First Step: Become rich and/or famous. Famous is actually preferred, however rich certainly does help. If you are famous, make sure it is for something positive, and that you are not in fact infamous. Infamy usually does not help a person become president. If you are rich, fame notwithstanding, do not spend ludicrous amounts of money on haircuts, homes, or clothes. You need to be a saintly sort of rich, or keep your spending out of the public eye. Also, while you need to be rich, and you cannot overtly show your richness, you need to know rich-people terms like "arugula," but only order common-folk foods like chicken fried steak. To raise awareness, being famous will certainly help. Once you are famous people will know you, and if they like you, they will be very excited that you are in the race. If you are not too famous, I wouldn't really suggest putting up signs; those are old school. Instead, start a Facebook/Myspace page, and begin going to community meetings. Be that town-hall-type venues or PTA meetings at the local elementary school, any publicity will help you. Make sure to mimic what the majority of people want, while still sounding diplomatic. This will help you get widespread attention among everyone, and hopefully stay in their good favors. You need a Facebook page, a Myspace page, a LinkedIn page may be nice, and if you can manage it, a Wikipedia entry. Once you have these, you have most of the popular websites covered. If you want to take it a step further, go on smaller forums such as BYU's Cougar Board, or the Neopets forums, or wherever you tend to have friends. If you have a blog, make your dream job known. If you see more people are looking for you, then it is time to get a cheap domain name. Hire a BYU CS student to develop your website, and for sure you will get attention. Here are a few catchy logos I have thought up for you, just in case you find yourself unsure: McClellan - Not A Felon Vote McClellan, Get A Melon Jimmy McC (that is for your down home feel) -Mico Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, Why does Colgate numb the tip of my tongue? It's done it with several tubes now, so I don't think it was a fluke, and neither Crest nor Arm and Hammer does it. - Lady Bug
AMy dear Lady- Really, this is a question for your dentist. We don't have any kind of specifics on this (which product are you using, for instance?) so it's hard for us to give you a definite answer. My guess is that there is an ingredient used in Colgate, but not in Crest or Arm and Hammer, to which you happen to be allergic. It's probably not a big deal, but it might be worth a call to your preferred dental provider. - Cuddlefish ADear Lady Bug, I found quite a large number of people on the internet saying that this was most likely a result of sodium lauryl sulfate. There's quite a few toothpastes sold without that ingredient, so maybe give one of them a try and see if it works. -Commander Keen Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, I am a geography with many curious students. The question for me today was why are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn called "tropics"? At first I thought that it was because they were located at fairly tropical locations, but really... that is not the case in some areas that these tropics cross. They are a little far from the equator (take the part of northern Africa and the Middle East that the tropic of Cancer crosses). Can you help me find the answer? - Tropic of Gemini
ADear Tropic- Your notion that the two ideas are connected is correct, but you have the order reversed. First, a preface for the newbies: the Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn is the northernmost/southernmost (respectively) place on the earth that receives direct rays from the sun, based on the tilt of the earth's axis. North of the Tropic of Cancer (such as in Utah), the sun will always be at least slightly south of directly overhead. The summer solstice occurs when the sun reaches this peak latitude and the northern hemisphere is at its maximum tilt towards the sun. After this point, the sun appears to turn back and head further south. And thus, we have arrived at the answer. "Tropic" comes from the Greek word tropos, which means "to turn." This line is the point at which the sun appears to cease its northward progression and "turn back" the other direction, until it reaches its southernmost position (the Tropic of Capricorn) and the cycle repeats. "Tropical," referring to the region between these lines, arose later. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the first use to mean "hot and lush like the climate of the tropics" was in 1834, long after the astronomical establishment of the circles themselves. As for the names, Wikipedia says the following:
Hope that helps! -Foreman ADear Tropic, Dang, I wish I could be a geography. -Commander Keen Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, So, in my webcomic perusal I have come across this site: http://www.archivebinge.net/... (it's a website that generates rss feeds for large archives [I think that your 53,000 archived posts would put the 100 Hour board in this category]). I know that the 100 Hour Board is not a comic, but it does have an incredible archive that is nigh impossible to read through. I know that I would like to be able to set a pace and read through the archives a little bit at a time and I'm sure that others would also like to be able to do this. Can you set this up? Nay, Contrary (I don't think that you have something like this already set up, although I could be wrong.)
ADear NC, We're looking into adding that feature to the next version of the Board at some point. Thanks for the suggestion! —Laser Jock Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, My wife an I are looking into switching apartments in the next couple months, but we can't seem to find any information on the ones that we see when we're walking to school. How would you suggest finding information on all of the different complexes that are around? - Married without children
ADear Married, If you want specific information on rent, amenities, etc., you'll need to visit the apartments' individual websites. If you want ratings and reviews to help you make a judgment call, there are some helpful sites out there. Rate My Apartments has a list of schools to choose from. I chose BYU, and it brought up all of the BYU-approved housing, along with ratings in several different categories. If you click on the name of an apartment complex, it brings up the reviews that people have posted. Apartment Ratings, the site I usually use, has more detail, but isn't quite as student-oriented. Parking, maintenance, and office staff are just a few of the categories they ask users to rate, and they provide user reviews, as well. Good luck with the hunt, ⋯Anomalous ADear Married without children, You might also want to check out BYU's Housing Guide. They always have a section dedicated to married housing in there. I've found, however, that the best way to find out about decent married housing in Provo is to ask around. You can find out from other married couples what they liked or disliked about a certain complex, if they know of any openings, what the landlord is like, etc. If you're having trouble finding people to ask, then the housing board in the basement of the WSC (the one right near Campus Craft and Floral) might be a good place for you to start. Good luck! Finding decent married housing in Provo was probably one of my least favorite things about BYU. -Sky Bones Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, What happens if you buy enough many pseudoephedrine cold pills from the pharmacy that you've reached the limit where they think you must be using them to make meth? Do they just not let you buy any more? Or do the police come to your house and look for a meth lab? I buy a lot of these pills because the other kind of cold pills don't work for me, and people in my family are always stealing mine, and I always seem to lose them. So my use of the pseudoephedrine pills is totally legitimate, but I'm always afraid I'm going to hit some magical number at some point and get into trouble. -Jett Jackson
AJJ- From my husband, the former pharmacy tech:
- Cuddlefish Back to top QDear 100 Hour Board, How do I access the "secure" BYU wifi network on campus? I got an email about it when they changed the network setup but I didn't save it. And I can't find anything about it on the BYU website. Obviously it asks for a password, but how do I get that password? Thanks. - Not A Guest
ADear Not a Guest, Deleting that email probably wasn't your brightest idea ever, since it contained the password you need. Luckily for you, the password can be found at oit.byu.edu on the "Wireless Network Access" page. Look for something about a "pre-shared key." Note that though they publish the shared key, your individual NetID and password will still be required before you can access the internet. -Yellow Back to top C(Regarding Board Question #53535) Dear A Non, While I encourage you to consider the writers' advice, remember that asking Heavenly Father himself can help you to find how you should progress in your relationship. Turn to him in faith, willing to accept his will and direction, and he will guide you (even if it's very, very hard). I was very serious with a non-member boyfriend for some time, and even though we'd never talked about marriage I knew he'd been planning on our future together. I finally prayed about it and immediately knew it wasn't the right relationship to pursue. It was very difficult (nearly impossible) and I delayed it far too long, but I finally ended the relationship. Only years later have I been able to find out the reasons why that was necessary, but peace of mind and heart came sooner than that. On the other hand, a Young Women's leader of mine, who I respect very highly, told me once how she was dating a non-member young man. When her family saw that they were getting pretty serious they discouraged her because, of course, he wasn't LDS. But she felt strongly (I assume through prayer) that the relationship was right. They did get married, and ultimately her husband did join the church and they were sealed in the temple. Again, take your question to Heavenly Father. Sometimes all of our reasoning does little to give us a good answer because we can't see the whole picture, but he can. - Green Apple
Back to top CConcerning Board Question #53485, you may be interested to know Elder Hafen of the Seventy presented a great talk on this to Evergreen, a group that helps LDS members who deal with same sex attraction, but are striving to remain faithful. The first half of the talk is mostly directed to members of Evergreen, the second half goes into non religious arguments against gay marriage. I was at the conference, and this talk was great. the full text is on the Church's website at http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnew... If you want to know how someone attracted to his same gender feels about gay marriage, i sure hope it never happens, it'll make life so much more difficult for those of us trying to stay faithful. dust in the wind
Back to top CDear 100 Hour Board, The responses the writers gave for Board Question #53574 were all good, but I suspect the reader was looking for Against a Crooked Sky (which stars Stewart Petersen, of The First Vision and Where the Red Fern Grows fame). —Damasta
Back to top CDear 100 Hour Board, Re: Board Question #53485, I also believe that if I were in CA during the Prop 8 I would have voted no. But then I read a conference talk given in April that made me think about my decision. Elder Watson gave a talk entitled 'His servants, the Prophets.' In that talk he says, "President Harold B. Lee in general conference counseled us to give heed to the words and commandments the Lord shall give through His prophet: “You may not like what comes from the authority of the Church. It may contradict your political views . . . [or] your social views. It may interfere with some of your social life. But if [we] listen to these things, as if from the mouth of the Lord himself, with patience and faith, the promise is that . . . ‘the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name’s glory’." With that in mind, I came to the conclusion that even though my political beliefs differ from the general authorities, if I follow the prophets anyway, I'll be blessed. Anyway, that's just something to think about. - melbabi
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