Bernard Gui Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 8 hours ago, Grug the Neanderthal said: Same here. Do they pay income and SS taxes? Link to comment
YJacket Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 On 3/23/2023 at 6:06 PM, bluebell said: You are probably right for some but I don’t think such a blanket statement works for all. I don’t equate emotional with the spirit, and the quickest way for me to doubt an experience is from the spirit is for me to feel overly emotional. I don’t think I’m unique with that. In my experience (and it’s completely anecdotal) people say/would say that women are more spiritual because the RS (again, speaking only from my experience) had higher attendance, higher visiting teaching numbers, had more prepared RS teachers than EQ, and higher temple attendance numbers. I’m sure that in other regions of the world it was quite different. Sure, I can understand the higher RS attendance, visiting teaching etc. . . .but my guess is that the numbers for RS, visiting teaching etc. have dropped quite a bit. It's one thing to do visiting teaching when you are a stay at home wife/mother and bring your small children or have older children in school and don't work a 9-5 job. There is a reason why men's numbers are traditionally lower; and it ain't about spirituality-it's about time and commitments. Link to comment
bluebell Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 (edited) 12 minutes ago, YJacket said: Sure, I can understand the higher RS attendance, visiting teaching etc. . . .but my guess is that the numbers for RS, visiting teaching etc. have dropped quite a bit. It's one thing to do visiting teaching when you are a stay at home wife/mother and bring your small children or have older children in school and don't work a 9-5 job. There is a reason why men's numbers are traditionally lower; and it ain't about spirituality-it's about time and commitments. I only have experience with wards where the majority of the women worked, so I don't. Now we don't count ministering visits (and haven't for years) so that measurement is no longer applicable. And my point wasn't that women are more spiritual because they do those things. It was that people often assume that women are more spiritual because they do those things. Sometimes women are better at those things because they don't want to be judged or feel guilty for not doing them, for example. Edited March 25, 2023 by bluebell 3 Link to comment
Popular Post rodheadlee Posted March 25, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2023 On 3/22/2023 at 7:04 PM, bluebell said: I like that idea. That there are alpha personalities but it has nothing to do with gender. (and I know that the term alpha has a lot of baggage behind it due to the “alpha male” culture on social media, but from my perspective that is more of a caricature of the term than an accurate description). Yes, my wife was an alpha female until she got disabled so were 2 of her best friends. They were leaders not followers. Patti got kind of lost when she got disabled. She recovered through becoming my cruising partner. It didn't take a lot of physical ability but it took a lot of mental fortitude. Facing 50 knot winds and 25 ft seas in a 38-ft boat occasionally and not giving up for over 30k miles gave her an outlet for her energy. It also turned her into a good weather forecaster and radio operator. In her previous life she was a vice president of a mortgage company with lots of responsibilities. 5 Link to comment
Nemesis Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 You all need to learn to place nice. Link to comment
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