Timewaster's Guide Archive

also, understand that Deacons, Teachers, and Priests are usually people under age 19. (Deacons start at age 12.)

Adult male members are usually Elders first, then after a while become High Priests. So elders might be age 19-40, and High Priests 40+, but the transition age is very fluid there. Depends on what you get called to do, since all church officers are unpaid volunteers (well, you don't volunteer, someone higher up volunteers you (as inspired by God) and you accept or decline (generally accept) the call to service).

Anyway I washed my temple recommend once. Not cool.

Recently mine expired a month after I got back from Japan. I should have gotten it renewed there just so I could have one in Japanese for two years!

btw the Melchizedek Priesthood office of Seventy is not currently used. It used to be between Elder and High Priest, on the stake level. Currently all those with the title of Seventy today are on the Church-wide or area level (such as South America area, etc) and are ordained High Priests for various reasons, such as so that they may set apart Stake Presidents (someone lower can't ordain or set apart someone higher).

The 12 Apostles are over the whole world. Then below them are the Area Presidencies, which are 3 people in charge of each region of the globe (don't know how many Areas there are). This role is filled by Seventies (but a couple Areas recently were presided over by Apostles for a while).

Below the Area Authorities are 3 separate hierarchies: Stakes, which take care of the normal members, Temples, which take care of the temples, and Missions, which take care of the missionaries. A Temple district will typically service a bunch of stakes in the local area, but the Temple president has no authority over the Stake Presidents or members of those stakes. Likewise with the Missions; they have several stakes within their boundaries, but a Mission President has no authority over the Stake Presidents or members whose stakes make up the same area as the mission. All 3 presidents report to the Area Presidency.

Unless I've got it wrong and the Temple and Mission presidents bypass the Area Authorities and report to some sort of committee under the Apostles. I'm not positive on that one really.

I thought most zombies didn't really have a choice in the matter...

Now, vampires definitely refuse to die...they could easily just stay awake until the sun rises...

That didn't make the aliens excusable.

Pringles are of the devil.

Highlander.

I loved all of V.

Babylon 5 is the best show ever.

And I'm enjoying Stargate SG1, of which I did not see the first episode until I'd seen a bunch of episodes in seasons 4 through 6.

I liked Firefly but had to turn episode 3 off halfway through because it was offensive.

I don't care about box office performance necessarily, or even reviews...Unbreakable didn't even hit 100 million, and its reviews weren't that great either (lots of people didn't like the ending), but I thought it was great.

I'm interested in hearing from people who went to see it and know me, whether they think I would enjoy it.

the title is "my immortal"...

for the coma angle, I thought her boyfriend has been in a coma for years, not waking up, little hope of recovery, no end in sight, and she wants to move on but can't...

or the mental disability thing, same sort of thing, perhaps from an accident, now a vegetable or severely disabled person that needs constant care, or perhaps even a family member she feels tied to and can't abandon because she's the only relative left and no one else will do it, but it's keeping her from forming any other relationships...

wow, and it's not even close to epic in the scale of some of your other books.

EDIT: Brandon, you might want to fix the spelling of "NINETH" in your blog...