“At the time of the ground-breaking, Mayor Michael Nutter hailed the project at 18th and Vine Streets for its projected infusion of millions of dollars into the local economy, as well as the 300 construction jobs it would create.
“Church officials contend the worship site is much-needed to serve the Philadelphia area’s estimated 35,000 parishioners.”
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“The temple’s building contracts also give hiring preference to union-affiliated Mormon workers in the Philadelphia region. But none could be found, aside from one carpenter who may join the team when his skills are needed during the project’s later stages.” (link via Millennial Star)
[Regular readers know I try to derive sophomoric humor from taking on the character of a lumbering seven-foot-tall asthmatic-villain-American who dresses in black plastic armor and has medical issues. (more…)
Brother KB is a friend of the Junior Ganymede who posted a thoughtful guest post some time back. He has now written a series of essays, with photographs, on what sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime summer vacation. Readers with a taste for geology may find it interesting.
While Feminists are a humorless bunch, any attempts by men to explain any shortcomings are immediately shouted down as vile, sexist misogyny. It is called man-splaining. Never mind, that that happens to be men’s native conversation style and would be treating them like a man.
But if a woman, or a group of intelligent women, disagree with the party line of Feminism, and start a Tumblr called, “Women Against Feminism”, and explain that they are neither victims nor oppressed, you can expect all kinds of hell to be stirred up. I will forbear the most vicious links against them, but will share ones that are still illuminating.
Hell hath no fury is not reserved purely for men who scorn women, and the most vicious, hateful name-calling is being used against them.
Feminists are insistent they don’t understand what Feminism really is while the ‘rebel scum’ insist that modern Feminism does nothing to resemble the dictionary definition. And appearently women don’t like Fem-splaining any better than Man-splaining.
I think this is a proper rejoinder to anyone who attacks you or accuses you of hating them, or tries to shame you for commenting, when you publicly disagree with something that they have publicly stated/written/published.
From Meg Stout: (Her comment of July 23, 2014, 5:25 am, if the link does not take you directly there.)
” … to openly attack and demean the organization from which one has parted makes the matter public record.
And when something is a matter of public record, it appears within my [F]irst [A]mendment rights to comment on the public record. As it is within your rights to comment on my comment. However it is not within your rights to force the owners of [a blog or forum] to give you bandwidth on their website. “
Both institutions had a glorious, truthful and divine beginning, but were at the degraded and corrupt end of a “dispensation” of the gospel (ie, Truth and Authority originally dispensed to men by God, but eventually corrupted by men) and at the cusp of a new. The leaders of both opposed the newer revelation/dispensation.
Matthew 23:2
… The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat…
The Lord then put Peter in Moses’s seat.
By 1830, those who claimed to be rightful occupiers of Peter’s seat, along with those who claimed to be custodians of Truth while denying the need for a seat, were much like the scribes and pharisees of 30 A.D. (This is not to deny that there were some righteous and sincere men among those who claimed to have Authority or Truth.)
In 1830, the Lord put Joseph Smith Jr. in that seat. He was followed by Brigham Young.
Thomas S. Monson sits there now.
I have not yet made a decision on whether to run in 2016.
Would you rather live in a 1000 square foot house where everyone else’s was 800, or a 1200 square foot house where everyone else’s was 1400?
I’m finding myself thinking of the various perversions the Torah chooses to describe as “confusion.”
I want to keep a convenient link to Bruce Webster’s article on God as a resident of or able to access a fourth physical dimension.
“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.”—John 12:24-25
Especially when some other things don’t.