Tag: consequences

• Correct Principles

  The world would be a better place if everyone would just listen to me. Informed enthusiastic consent is a set of priceless principles in the modern civilized world. Informed: Know what is being requested and what you can expect in return. Enthusiastic: put your full effort into the things you agree to. & Consent: Everyone…

  Mark

  December 14, 2025

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  civilized, consent, consequences, correct principles, enthusiastic, informed, modern

• Where are my Weirdos?

  It’s been three days of “Trump is going to be the president again.” Some of you are ecstatic I’m sure and some of you are hurting. But if you have been sticking with me for a while then you know I will try to be awesome no matter who the president is. He does not…

  Mark

  November 8, 2024

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  awesome, boring, choices, consequences, normal, president, weird, weirdo

• The Consequences

  “We are free to choose but we are not free from the consequences of our choices.” Russell M Nelson, Prophet and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Some people think this is a religious message. Some people believe that this does not apply to them because they don’t believe in…

  Mark

  October 18, 2024

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  allow, bounty, choose, consequences, fight, pain, poverty, Russell M Nelson, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, tolerate

• Moving Fingers Writing

  On of my favorite stanzas in poetry is:“The moving finger writes and having writMoves on nor all your piety and witCan lure it back to cancel half a lineNor all your tears wash out a word of it.”(Fitzgerald’s translation from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat) This caused an argument with Stephanie. You see she’s among other things…

  Mark

  June 14, 2024

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  choices, consequences, destiny, editor, fate, metaphor, piety, proofreader, wit, words, writing

• Starting a Family

  Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow. The biggest decision I ever made was to start a family. My oldest son is a child out of wedlock. I knew if I was going to have more children, then I needed to be married to do so. The choice…

  Mark

  April 17, 2024

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  challenges, children, consequences, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1911, encourage, family, grow, learn, lessons, trials

• My Parents

  Hi Mom. My parents were pretty liberal with me when I was growing up. As a general rule they would let me make my own bad decisions and live with the consequences of them. There was a Mormon family that lived next door to us for a while. I wasn’t allowed to play with their…

  Mark

  November 4, 2023

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  awesome, bad influence, choices, consequences, liberal, Mormon, parents, school, singing

• Laundry not Church

  My ride to church cancelled last night. I usually take that as a sign from God that I’m needed more at home for the day. I would have liked to have slept in but my youngest wanted a bath in the wee hours of the morning. So I got up and put him in the…

  Mark

  April 16, 2023

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  baths, church, consequences, laundry, rest, work