Quick Hits
October 23rd, 2023 by G.
- Brother Waddell’s talk with its jab about hero worship of celebrities reminded me of The Contradiction of Celebrity
- In a real sense, birth and death and resurrection are also ordinances
- Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled with the Holy Ghost. This is one reason why non-baptized gentiles are still often full of the Holy Ghost. One suspects that it is more of a natural law than a divine policy. The Holy Ghost fills you because if you hunger and thirst after righteousness, the Holy Ghost cannot but fill you. T0here is a divine greed to fill every corner with love that can so be filled.
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October 23rd, 2023 17:54:12
Zen
October 23, 2023
This deserves some real attention, but two immediate thoughts –
First, I noticed an interesting article discussing how Jedis and Vulcans have made into jerks. Hero worship may verge into Idolatry, but when heroes are destroyed by nihilism, I think we are in new depths of hell.
Second, hero worship, even of prophets and yes, even Christ, is distinctly Telestial.
99 For these are they who are of Paul, and of Apollos, and of Cephas. 100 These are they who say they are some of one and some of another—some of Christ and some of John, and some of Moses, and some of Elias, and some of Esaias, and some of Isaiah, and some of Enoch; D&C 76:99-100