What’s a Moho?
What’s a Moho?
Today while skimming through a text looking for some statistics, I can across a passage defining “moho.”
The Cold Chapel
In college math, I did a project with a fellow student where we did a survey on temperature perception. Stereotypically, we think that men think rooms are too hot and women think they’re too cold. We think that young people are more likely to feel warm and old people, legendarily attributed to circulation problems, are always too cold.
What our little study determined was that it isn’t necessarily so. We did all sorts of axes in our project: age, weight, sex, race, and even special circumstances like being pregant or going through menopause. We found that people on one end or the other of all of these axes were just as prone to think a room was cold as to think it was too warm. Only on the very pregnant versus not pregnant scale was there a noticeable difference. We didn’t have enough participants who would admit to menopause.
Good things come in threes
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By day I’m an elementary educator, by night I’m an actor extraordinaire, and during both I’m absurdly happy. I’ve known about my attractions since I was about 13, but have never felt shut out, put down, or persecuted because of them. I just try to live as well as I can knowing what I know and try not to let the man…or the men…get me down.
The trouble with spiritual things is they’re often hard to put into words, but I thought that my recent experiences were valuable enough to give it my best effort.
About two years ago I was introduced to the gay Mormon world and all that goes with it - the good, and the not-so-good. After finding my own way through it all, I’m back to right about where I started, but with a greater sense of the why’s and wherefores of my choices. Part of what brought me back came in a three-fold life lesson:
Jesus Christ, our personal trainer
So I heard this analogy today and I thought it was great. So, imagine that you are at the gym with your own personal trainer. He gives you a bar to begin doing bench presses. He works you to the point of exhaustion (5, 20, 100, etc.,) and then says, “Can you give me one more?” Your arms are shaking, your heart is pounding, and you just don’t think you can do it. But you take a deep breath, bring the bar down, and then start pushing. You get about half way up, then the bar slowly starts to fall back down. The trainer smoothly puts a finger under the bar on each end and gently helps bring the bar up. Then you stand up and he gives you a high-five and says, “Way to go! You did it!”
From the Bloggernacle (4-19-09)
The following are recent homosexuality-related blog discussions on other popular LDS-themed blogs (see the North Star website for a more comprehensive list of blog discussions):
The Sexual Sins of Homosexuality and Lesbianism
Rachel’s Latter-day Saint Blog - April 17, 2009A Feminist Response to Valerie Hudson
Faith Promoting Rumor - April 17, 2009Marriage Indifference Revisited Again
Millennial Star - April 9, 2009Same-Sex Marriage in the News (but not the Newsroom)
Times and Seasons - April 7, 2009
Recent results of an experiment upon the words
As regular readers of Northern Lights may know, I’ve been struggling to find purpose and community in my local congregation. I have never been a fan of church meetings, not even as a child and teenager, but I trust in the Savior and his church, so I attend church meetings even when I don’t “feel it.”
In an effort to face my growing emotional/social/spiritual withdrawal from church, I made the decision to participate in a local institute class that meets weekly near my office. The class is small and consists of less than 10 regular attendees and includes a mixed of married and single folk. As this semester draws to a close, I wanted to share my thoughts on this “experiment upon” the words.
Making Old Ladies Cry
We recently released one of our older couple missionaries that had been serving as advisors to our group for two years. This was their second Church Service Mission with us.
From the Bloggernacle (4-5-09)
The following are recent homosexuality-related blog discussions on other popular LDS-themed blogs (see the North Star website for a more comprehensive list of blog discussions):
“The Iowa Supreme Court this morning unanimously upheld gays’ right to marry”
A Soft Answer - April 3, 2009As goes Iowa, So goes the Nation
Feminist Mormon Housewives - April 3, 2009Interpreting Sexual Attraction
LDS Philosopher - March 31, 2009A Totally Gay Podcast
Nine Moons - March 30, 2009