A founder of Spain’s rising anti-establishment party was shot in the face in an attempted assassination yesterday.
I for one welcome our new Mongol Israelegyptistan overlords
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Quoted by Elder Oaks:
Mortal lifetime is barely a nanosecond compared with eternity. But what a crucial nanosecond it is!
-thus President Nelson
Infinities and eternities are mindwrenching when you really come to wrestle with them. In comparison with infinite time, your mortal life and the stillborn child’s life and Methuselah’s life are all 0. A point on an endless line. Infinitely small.
That is why mortality is so precious. The memories and associations and experiences you have here will be fresh in your mind, “before your face,” forever. You will never, ever, ever again know what it is like to be a mortal under these skies.
one does not drive sin out of his life; he crowds it out with love of God and neighbor. Our lives do not then depend on the principle of avoiding sin, which is a tiresome job, but on living constantly in the climate of Divine Love.
— Fulton Sheen
Amen. For me the principle discovery of our work with virtue sets was the difference between sin avoidance and holiness seeking. Not away from, but towards.
I’m as manly as the next guy, but I have to admit I have a pretty vegan bedtime. My sheets aren’t leather. No animal products are consumed while I sleep.
I noticed some interesting teaching in passing about the afterlife.
After a period in which the disobedient suffer for their sins, which suffering prepares them for what is to follow, all will be resurrected and proceed to the Final Judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In a word, purgatory. I had never heard this before. Spirit prison is a place of suffering? Check. But I hadn’t put it together that the suffering is preparatory
The Great and Spacious Building has no foundations because he stove them in.
I have had this idea percolating in my mind for a few years now. I am just not sure where it goes from here.
Colonies in space have been known to fail because of pirates, invading armies or ancient apocalyptic doomsday devices. There are spectacular stories that you hear of valiant struggles for survival.
But most of the time, when a colony fails, it is far more mundane, if just as intractable. There are personal conflicts, and toxic group dynamics. Adultery, stealing, fighting. Those kind of things.
But often times, it is harder to pin what the real problem is. And as in all things, there are experts with experience in that.
As the ship finished rotating out of N-space, the constellations outside the window snapped back into a physically familiar form. Anabraxis was not fond of travel, which was a strange thing for a man who spent every other month on a different world. He much preferred to have something solid underneath his feet. Even if it were an ocean world, of a gas-giant, or any of the other millions of permutations he had visited.
This particular colony was having issues. There are engineering challenges and social issues, but nothing they shouldn’t have been able to handle. And yet, the colony was on the verge of collapse. That happened a lot. That is how you got abandoned colonies like the Planet of the Chili Peppers. He was the Master Engineer they called to help fix their problems. And his wife, Lakshmi was the Astrologer.
And she was a very highly renowned Astrologer for most of the Virgo Cluster.
Astrology, off Earth, is not trivial. You have to really understand a world and what is spiritually significant. You have to understand the people, the culture and the seasons, and timekeeping. And of course, the stars and constellations, the planets and moons, planetary rings, etc. Which of those are important? Some worlds with rings, you spent a great deal of time pondering the portents in the planetary rings. Some worlds, you focused on the winds and the clouds.
It is easy to say such things didn’t matter. But of course, that is how you end up with the issues you had here.
I am beginning to think that the strongest argument against sexual sin, is what cowards it makes everyone. If people feel guilt, instead of repenting of their faults, they are compelled to find more and more faults elsewhere. No matter how stupid. And if someone says something stupider than you, you don’t dare speak against it.
On a lighter note, perhaps we should convince people that ‘bird’ with a hard ‘d’ is racist. You now have to say ‘birb’. My main hesitation is that it might be completely successful.
US ornithological society says dozens of birds will be renamed
The Magellanic Clouds must be renamed, astronomers say
We all know that a perfect love casts out all fear.
That fear is the opposite of love is one of those deep insights that has become a truism. So much so that I found it in a Steven Pressfield historical novel on Thermopylae. He attributed it to Greek rationality, at least in the book. Spartan men discussing the nature of things in a mini agora every night as they marched north. I’m sure he knows its actual source.
The Scripture does not say love though. It says a perfect love. (more…)
The father is the adult biological stage of the human male. You could say the same of the mother too, but there it’s more obvious. What we all know happens with women happens with men also. There are literally physiological changes and mental neurological developments that occur when you become a father to your first child.