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It's several hours to our temple from our ward, and several hours back. We leave first thing in the morning and are back last thing at night. The cafeteria is one of the few things I look forward to. Otherwise the place would be completely boring while you're waiting around. I am temple ambivalent t...

The word "misinformation" is being peddled around my part of the world as anything which does not agree with our government. That is against the principles of both science and democracy. There are multiple problems just now. We're being banned from linking to medical journals, not just the...

The reason this can't be "discussed" on social media is because abundant misinformation, incorrect information, and outright untruths are out there perpetuating the spread of the COVID virus. I don't believe we want this forum to be the source or continuation of such misinformation, incor...

People in my ward are taking adverse reactions on a regular basis. It's not even uncommon and it's not antivaxxers I'm hearing this off. This isn't a flu vaccine - a flu vaccine doesn't make you feel sick for two weeks after you've had it. I recently heard the Patriarch's wife talking about this wit...

:thumbdown: Just wrong on so many levels. For a start if you're in tbe temple all day, it's good to get a warm meal (not microwaved). Then there's the social aspect. I put this in the same file as painting over temple murals and firing the janitors. Closure of Temple Cafeterias Church Announcements ...

I know I wouldn't feel comfortable having large group meetings these days. Very few people have had their second or third booster vaccination for one thing and the effectiveness diminishes over a period of months. I suspect a lot of folks think that one shot is sufficient and are getting lax about ...

The most famous church in Istanbul/Constantinople/Byzantium is Hagia Sophia - Saint Sophia or Holy Wisdom. Very mich venerated in Orthodox Christianity.

Psychopaths have an excuse, but there are those who are knowingly sadistic, and therein lies the problem. I mention a notorious serial killer on another recent thread - Ted Bundy - but the most damage is done by people "obeying orders", i.e. those who are part of a power structure. Many mo...

35m infected with 618k are the numbers for the US alone. Worldwide it's 198m infected with 4.22m deaths. Those are the reported numbers it's almost certainly higher. The infectiona are underreported, but the deaths aren't. Millions have had to have a test to even know they have it. In other words t...

She was stupid to get in the car with him, I suppose, but that still doesn't justify it. I think we should be really careful with statements like this. I have gotten in cars with others. I suppose almost any of those instances could have turned out horribly. Does that mean that I am/was stupid each...