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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  • 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.



  • I’m curious. The temple has 4 rituals

    1. baptism on behalf of your ancestral dead
    2. ritual washing
    3. promising 5 commandments that are above a regular baptisms promises to gain access to pass through to God’s dwelling with power.
    4. marriage for all eternity.

    Mormons dance around temple and associated rituals being sacred, not secret, so the command to not cast pearls before swine applies; but certain promises are not to share signals that show you made the extra promises, so just to be sure, mormons treat it all temple info as secret unless they actually thought about the words of the rituals.

    I have been able to talk to Mormons outside of temples in pretty deep detail because I was respectful (not mocking).

    Please be specific, what part seems to pantomime suicide? I’m thinking baptism on behalf of ancestors?

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  • I think you are oversimplifying. Debt is great when only a few narrow conditions apply: equal or less than the cost of renting over the life of the loan/leined_item, payments match income (fixed payments for fixed income, variable payments for variable income).

    Generally hourly workers who have variable hours cannot take out a loan or lease because variable income does not match the fixed expense.

    Generally loans are stupid unless it has been underwritten (aka quoted at a cheap cost/interest_rate) due to the three cs: cash flow, credit history/score, and collateralized.

    Specifically to address your comment. The rich enslave the poor. Poor people don’t just learn those two paragraphs with intuition overnight, and often the short term need for calories outweighs the need to pay credit on-time. The generation before had to have their hands held with checks and cash and balancing them such that there was more “intuition” regarding loans.

    I hope this helps someone. I would share the ways I have maximized the matching expenses and revenue and how my mortgage keeps me wanting to keep a salaried role, but I don’t like sharing too much personal info.

    Good luck lemmings.