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There's always been a pecking order to these kinds of things. The group of people do high level things with the ultra high end of math, a la Stephen Hawking, is a very small group. As compared to something like biology. I had a high school teacher describe biology as science for people that...

Asking for a debrief after a date is a pretty weird thing to do. If you're not that into her, and she seemed equally apathetic about the whole thing, why bother with a status report?

My father has a friend that is very into sailing. I've gone a couple of times, I can see why we replaced sails with engines and never looked back.

If you want to ask her out then ask her out. If she says yes, you know. If she says no, then you know. It really doesn't need to be some complicated affair.

I'm not entirely sure how you would go about comparing two completely different things.

The number of people in their 20's living at home as skyrocketed in the last 20 years. People go to school longer, on top of entry level jobs being lower paying and harder to come by. Housing prices have gone way up, a lot of people can't afford their own place, or doing so would be really...

Most of the people I've known that had negative experiences with their missions had them because of the "door to door" sales aspect of it. Some people can take that kind of constant rejection and not take it personally, they usually become good salespeople. Most people can't hang it, and it...

Cultural issues aside, for me the thing is how she would treat a guy in the same position. Just a golden rule sort of thing, if she's not going to hold a rough patch against someone then I wouldn't either. If she is going to that then it's only fair that men avoid her until she has her life...

I would strongly disagree that most Mormon young men want to go on missions. It's very difficult for people with no real experience with the LDS church to comprehend the level of social pressure that's applied to young men when it comes to serving missions. Not going on a mission greatly...

If the stories were told as parables that would be fine. Or they were like stories of the Saints that involved clearly defined historical people and places tat would be fine as well. The issue I have is they are told as factually true, but are always vague on the people involved, places, and...

That is the one area I've tended to be critical of the Mormons. Asking people for 10 percent of their gross income, it's just not affordable for most families. Considering that things like temple recommends depend on paying your tithe, it's a bit in your face. I know when my cousin and his...

Don't really see that. It seems that Evangelicals are obsessed with saying nothing but bad things about the Mormons. Unless you happen to live one of the few areas with large numbers of Mormons they get ignored for the most part.

In my honest opinion if you want to say Mormons aren't Christians because their beliefs don't conform to the Nicene Creed, you'd be correct. The problem with that is it would apply equally to protestants whose view of the Church would not line up with what the authors of the creed believed it...

The hard spree candy. Though I haven't had them in years.

The Mormons have some pretty obscure esoteric beliefs. Most of the rank and file members aren't aware of them, and they're not taught very often. I really don't understand why Protestants get down on Mormons. "Scripture alone" is as much of an invention of Martin Luther as anything that...

States get money from the federal government for every dollar of child support they collect. That's why there's a child support order, the state wants the matching federal dollars. Child support has become a huge racket.

The appeals process deals with mistakes of law. The legal standard in a child custody case is what is in the best interests of the children. There's no mistake of law in a judge deciding that whatever was in the pre-nup wasn't in the children's best interests and doing whatever he/she wanted...

Matters of child custody will ALWAYS be decided by a judge, according to what he/she believes to be "in the best interests of the child/ren." A pre-nup clause regarding custody would have as much weight as a judge choose to give it. It is in no way binding on a judge. In states with...

I think a lot of people are confused as to what a pre-nup is. You cannot, at least in the United States, use a pre-nup to decide the split of martial assets. You can only use them to protect assets you acquired before the marriage. If someone has a lot of assets, or a family inheritance like...

When you lift weights your muscles grow. So a person could lose 6 pounds of fat, but add 4 pounds of muscle. The scale will say they've only lost two pounds, but they're down a clothing size. Loosing 1 percent of your body fat is a pretty significant loss, so forget the three pounds the scale...