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Just under the wire, here is what I haven’t posted about yet from the last General Conference.
Brother Uceda made a parable clearer to me. The parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son.
When Luke, the Gospel writer, is introducing the three stories, he uses the word parable in the singular, not in the plural. It appears that the Lord is teaching one unique lesson with three stories—stories that present different numbers: 100 sheep, 10 coins, and 2 sons. The key number in each of these stories, however, is the number one.
This can be a hard parable if you read it as a justification for local leaders to ignore your family in favor of those who are more performatively lost. But from a divine perspective we are all lost sheep. The actual point is that the only level of success love can be satisfied with is 100%. Whether personally or as a people 0.5 or 0.9 or 0.99 is not enough.
Coincidentally (?), Elder Christofferson spoke next on being one in Christ as the body of Christ. What an interesting juxtaposition! We can imagine a parable as follows
What man of you, having injured his hand, would not bind the wound? Would he say I will not bind it, because the rest of my body is well? No, but he will bind it and treat it until his hand is also well.
I consider a great many (not all, but many) AI concerns to be in the same vein as Caveman Science Fiction. It is a psyop to keep us from challenging existing power structures. But if we are cavemen (and women), and we have been handed fire, then we ought to learn how to use fire. So… just what do you do with fire, anyway?
We are going to search out the deepest Mysteries of the Book of Abraham.
Wisdom, n.: mastered fear.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
His noble and great ones are the chiefest of his miracles.
God touched a plumber. He bored a tunnel through the mountains that gushed fresh, cold water for a thousand years.
God touched a cop. He rooted out corruption in high places down to the last rotten apple.
God touched a teacher. The teacher’s students became a band of statesmen who led their country to destiny.
God touched a fisherman. He made the waters bloom and caught in their hundreds of thousands the teeming fish.
God touched a mother. She raised up the the founders of a nation.
God touched a father. He made a world.
The first two articles are great. I will be following assiduously.
In verses where it says something along the lines of ‘and the people glorified God,’ what does that mean? (more…)
I borrowed $33 trillion in Yank money from a feller and now I can’t find the stuff to pay him back. Its a dashed whatsit . . . contretemps.
200 years ago, on the evening of September 21, 1823, the Angel Moroni appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith and revealed the Book of Mormon.
Saul goes to the witch of Endor to call up the ghost of Samuel the Prophet. Which she does.
Wicked Saul.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/1-sam/28?lang=eng
A survey of college students by religion showed that 22% of the LDS kids labeled themselves as something other than straight.
https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/gender-sexual-orientation-and-religion
If you were interested in surveying how successfully the Church was at separating youth from the influence of the world, the answer here would be NOPE. With NOPE SAUCE.
I suppose your B.S. degree stands for Building, Spacious.
A real incident, with changes names. Reminiscent of the Amarillo ice cream incident.
It is 5 AM. Brown is in bed and awake. He would normally be going to the gym right now. But he lies in bed awake because he does not want to disturb his wife’s sister and her family who just go in last night from a long drive and who are now sleeping on various of his couches and floors. He can lay there till 6:00 and still be fine for work. No, 6:30. He feels peaceful.
Here lies Cyan. She is awake on a bedroll on her sister’s living room floor. She doesn’t want to disturb her sister’s family, who are no doubt not used to early risers clumping around at 5 AM.
Here lies Ruby. She is awake in bed. But her sister’s family needs their sleep and besides, her husband Brown is breathing so peacefully beside her. She will wait.
Here lies Green. It is 5 AM and he can’t sleep. Next to him on the floor his wife Cyan seems to be moving in her sleep somewhat restlessly. Best be quiet lest he wake her.
Here lies Shale. Her cousins and Aunt and Uncle are sleeping so she can’t get up. Frustrating ….
There are interesting parallels between Bruce Charlton’s reasoning on why more than one creation (estate) was necessary, and our own LDS doctrine that Christ did the Atonement twice.
Primary Creation of God the Father (Bruce C.)
And then after you have the gift of the Holy Ghost you have to endear to the end, my daughter said.