Congressman Renault is shocked, shocked to find quid pro quo lobbying going on in this fine legislative establishment.
Kids want to feel like grown ups (which is different from being grown ups). However, this is by no means only children. Everyone wants to ape those higher up the food chain than themselves. For children, that just happens to mean grown ups.
Think of how names work, for example. Anyone who studies name changes over time realizes it works like this. Rich people get some sort of fashion in names. A few years later, middle class people start using that name and the rich people stop. A few years later, working class people start using that name and the middle class people stop. (more…)
Someone in Sunday School made the interesting observation that Joseph was of royal descent according to Matthew’s genealogy but was a carpenter in humble circumstances, and in this way was a type and shadow of Christ.
We all know that Christ was born in humble circumstances. In a stable in a manger in a small town in a backwater province. You and I have both had tender feelings when we think about the King being wrapped in common cloth by his young mother there in what was effectively a barn, or according to some scholars a campground or an RV park.
However, Jesus being born in what we perceive as humble circumstances is just God’s way of making the point obvious enough that we can get it. Because no matter where Jesus as born, be it an undersea palace dripping with pearls, it would have been humble circumstances. He was the Lord of the universe, stars blazed at his command. Any circumstance would have been a humble circumstance.
When Nephi says, behold the condescension of God, he doesn’t mean, ‘because he chose to be born in Palestine instead of a nice hospital in an American suburb.”
When this photo was shared with me yesterday, I was struck by the expressions an the three faces. The young mother on the left, XX, is preparing for the upcoming blessing by the elders of the church of her firstborn, YY. The little girl standing next to XX and her daughter is XX’s cousin, ZZ. For ZZ, this day sharing in XX’s motherhood joy will be worth more than a half dozen Sunday lessons on motherhood. But ZZ is too young for this day to stay a specific memory. It will form the background of things she has always known. This day will have to be built upon with future experiences like this one. And since truths must be taught by precept and by example, a couple dozen Sunday lessons on motherhood will be a valuable way to explicitly bring the meaning of her experiences to the fore, felt and also thought about intelligently.
Considering what an opinionated bunch we are around here, full of gloom about “the current situation,” we don’t really touch politics much, so I hope this comment of mine doesn’t ruin things. (more…)
It occurred to me on Sunday, July 10 while sitting in my ward’s chapel that Pioneer Day this year would fall on a Sunday. For years I have said that half of us are no less qualified to sing a solo in church than we are to speak in church; that doesn’t get any of us out of speaking, so maybe those who sing to us shouldn’t only be “singers.” Another thought that had been growing on me these past years was the desire to sing a hymn I heard in 1988. David Pettit and Steve Ostler were walking along singing it together one evening.
And many such things did they say unto them, gnashing their teeth upon them, and spitting upon them, and saying: How shall we look when we are damned?” Alma 14:21
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Don’t get me started on the GOP.
When John the Revelator had his vision, he was told, “Behold the Lion of the Tribe of Judah”, but he saw a lamb. Jesus was not what the people were expecting. Not just the common people, but John as well. Likewise, John the Baptist was genuinely confused when Jesus wasn’t just kicking Roman butt.
Fortunately, we are more enlightened.
HA! HA! HAHAHA!
But seriously, God reveals himself because He is NOT what we expect. We can not know God except by revelation.
So, what are we told about Christ coming again?
A continuation of a previous story – The Entropy Engine.
Dr H Trismagnus examined the charts and graphs in front of him. He could see what was happening, and he knew the signs as well as anyone. Still, he didn’t want to believe it. But he couldn’t deny it either. All of this on top of the vicious and relentless attacks from certain neighboring star systems, those with Entropy Engines. So, with the background noise of massive detonations in the distance, he gathered his notes and walked to see his friend Prof. Dadeleus Metan.
His labyrinthine workshop defied any kind of order, with half finished projects everywhere, biological, mechanical, artistic. Stepping over what appeared to be a pepper plant set in a helmet with neural implants attached, he called to Dadeleus. His son Icarious lay underneath a heavy piece of equipment, with the sound of loud music playing in his headphones.
Dadeleus looked up and waved him over. “How goes the war?”, he inquired.
“Our shields are holding. For now.”
“Is this really about the energy flow? They have expended far, far more energy attacking us, than has flowed from them to us.”
“And yet”, Hermes replied, as he handed the plots and charts to Dadeleus, “that is the least of our problems. Our problem is Geometry.”
Dadeleus studied the charts and quickly came to the unavoidable conclusion, “The Big Bang, or rather a Big Bang. Grim.”
“What?! What am I missing? What do you mean, a Big Bang?”, called Icarious from underneath what appeared to be a combination warp drive and overgrown aquarium. Terraforming equipment perhaps? His music continued to blare.
“Son, you know, from elementary geometry, that there are as many points in a 4-D hyper-volume, as there is in a 3-D volume.”
“Obviously, because both have an infinite number of points, and those infinities are the same size. Infinity is funny that way.”
“Exactly. You can also see that both can be made from a Space-filling curve. But that also means that a very little 4-D space makes a lot of hot dense 3-D space.”
Icarious
in the Big Bang, our universe was born from the, shall I say, the corpse of an earlier 4 dimensional universe. That universe had expanded it was so sparse
The important thing to understand the concept from Old Earth, called, It from Bit. Reality, our entire universe, all matter and energy, is fundamentally, information. That is all it is, not that that is a minor thing!
That is why we call Christ the Truth of the World.
Entropy is information. The Entropy Engine appears to be removing, (or even destroying, if such a thing is possible) information, while the Creation Engines, are creating information.
But information isn’t just matter, it is the fabric of space-time. And if the amount of information becomes spread out enough…
Have you heard of the Holographic Principle? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-in-the-holographic-univ/
We thought we had a few million years before the Big Rip, where
I. Danger War
II. Creation Engine Problems, energy flow
III. Big Bang, 4D – 3D
IV. Cantor Cardinality of points
V. It from Bit
VI. God’s law is light & life
V. Entropy is Information
IV. Holographic Principle, fractal dimension
III. Big Bang 3D – 2D -1D
II. Entropy Engine problems, information flow
I. Danger Big Rip
I. It from Bit, information is fundamental
II. Entropy is information
III. How to Create information, Classical Computing, Quantum Computing, etc
IV. Reservior Computing / physical computing
V. All Matter Can Obey
VI. In the Beginning was the Word
V. Pan-psychism
IV. Bodies full of Light
III. How to create – Telestial, Terrestrial, Celestial
II. Creation creates truths
I. Eternal Truth is fundamental
The young Quaker maid approached their minister. This surprised him greatly, because of all members of their town she was the most rebellious. An outright atheist! But she looked terrified, white as a ghost.
‘Father’, she said, ‘I have seen a horrible vision, a vision of HELL! and I don’t know what to do’.
This shocked him so much he was nearly speechless. But he had her sit down and he inquired about what she saw.
‘There were several of them. They dressed strangely and said they were from the FUTURE!’
The Wizard succeeded. He had finally done it. He had overcome every obstacle mortal or eternal, hellish to celestial. He had a way to get what he wanted. He wanted into heaven.
Now it is true, that he hadn’t wanted it enough to
https://rattibha.com/thread/1574448552637505538?lang=en
As I said recently, we need to better understand and explain the doctrine of Gender and Family. This, by way of rebuke, clarifies Righteous Masculinity, to me.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. Rev. 9:6
You can not learn what it means to be human, after 20, 40, 80 or even 120 years. You are not fully grown or developed in your 30’s, in your 300’s, or even in your 3000’s.
It began when we become immortal. We were promised unending life and perpetual health. We were given machines that provided food, or whatever we could imagine. We rejoiced in our good fortune. Earth was full so we left. We sought a home among the stars.
Our two ships were both a great O’Neill Cylinder, a spacious rotating cylinder with enough room for a thousand NYC, LA, Paris, Rome and Babylon’s packed inside and with room to spare. We lived on the inside of the cylinder and our inverted sky was lit by the metropolises we prided ourselves on.
We joined in bands and tribes of like-minded open-minded people bound only by love. Perpetual youth, perfect bodies, endless time and the hormones to fill it. And fill it we did. The first ship was the more hedonistic. They loved any they pleased. But the second had committed relationships of every kind, Gay, Lesbian, Trans and things presently unimagined.
We slipped the surly bonds of Earth, and of the Sun. We ventured beyond the Milky Way, and Andromeda galaxies and then out of the Local Group. Further we left the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. And then the larger Laniakea Supercluster. We crossed vast stretches of space, great galaxies and enormous voids. We saw black holes, and super red giants. White dwarfs and blue supergiants.
That is the first thing you learn about navigating the stars. It is rarely where you are at that is the problem. It is where you are headed.
Tachyon field collapse means distance is easy. Too easy. A billion light years in a matter of a day. And we spent years in travel. But finding your way back can be tricky, if not impossible. Not that we cared.
The other thing is,
We did not understand, that if sex is the most important thing, the greatest good, that that leads to some dark places. If pleasure is what is important, a great many other things are not. A lake that only receives but never sacrifices its own water, quickly becomes a dead sea.
We did not so much underestimate our sins, as we did their consequences. The problem was not so much our sins themselves. It was the direction they set us on.
“a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare… Immortal horrors”
Write as a chiasmus, lost in space, lost morally
I once read that we were eggs. And that we must hatch or go bad. We truly had no conception of what bad meant.