I am continuing to read Saving Faith on the research behind why youth leave their church. Mostly its behavior and personal issues, not doctrine, though that can happen.

Interesting ones so far:

Delayed age of marriage.
Pornography (he argues this is a big one).
“Diversity”
“Tolerance”

The last one comes complete with this quotation from Elder Maxwell.

Irreligion as the state religion would be the worst of all possible combinations.

Let’s talk about partial survivalism.  What if there were middle ground between business as normal and the collapse of everything?

Then you might worry about being flexible and starting with small and simple measures that could work for a number of different kinds of scenarios.

Things like physical fitness, getting your finances in order, having a family emergency contact plan, an evacuation plan, a 72-hour kit, then perhaps a 3 months supply, and so on.

You might worry as much about having passports in order and some portable wealth as you would your cabin in the woods.

I found this thread on ‘stack survivalism.’  Same concept.

https://mobile.twitter.com/vgr/status/1300205315598610433

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