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  1. Bummer that she's a live girl. To answer the question honestly though, I'd "react" to it the same way I react to anyone getting married. Be happy for 'em, and mind my own business.
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  2. I am 69 years old, and over the years as things have happened to hurt our freedoms, I have wondered if we are living through when the Constitution would "hang by a thread" . I have always wondered what we as members of the church or Priesthood holders we should do to "save" the constitution when it does "hang by a thread"? With this obviously corrupt election and the fact that while many brave Americans have come forward to demonstrate this, nobody in charge is even willing to let the evidence be heard. I am also aware that there are many good Christians who have been praying to God to help save this country from a corrupt theft of our rights and to save the Constitution. With the recent rejection by the Supreme Court of the Texas case, virtually all visible paths to even giving a fair hearing to the evidence seems to have disappeared. I don't see any "normal" path out of this. It is not that important whether BIden or Trump becomes president. What is important is whether our election system becomes so corrupt that the people can never vote out the corrupt or vote in someone who is reasonably honest and believes in letting people live a Christian life. We have often been counselled to be loving and peaceful. and the 12th Article of faith indicates that we should submit even to corrupt evil totalitarian governments. So if my premise is correct, what is it that we as true believers in Jesus Christ, his restored Gospel, and the Constitution supposed to do to Save it? I have never been able to find anything other than to stand for the truth and proclaim it. But I don't see how it applies here. I have a true testimony of Jesus Christ and his restored Church, and know that in the end he will deliver us from evil. That doesn't mean that we may not have to live under oppression for awhile, like the people of Alma did, or the Citizens of Venezuela have been doing for over 20 years. I will willingly, if not necessarily joyfully, submit to God's will. However what is that? What are our duties as members of the Church to help "Save the Constitution"? I would love some insight into this. Thank you, George Clay
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  3. There is a great push coming this week to send food and medicine to starving Venezuelans despite the Dictator and his army blocking food and medicine being sent to his starving people. Do you think that maybe Maduro and his brutal dictatorship could be actually overthrown by sending food and medicine to his starving citizens? I think this would be cool. Not only because an evil dictator would be deposed, but that it would be done by simply sending food to his people rather than by sending in an invading army. Do you think it will work? Do you think it would be good, if a dictator could be deposed simply by sending humanitarian aid to his people (oh and maybe a music concert for them too), rather than attacking him militarily? Regards, George Clay
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  4. Violating justice means being wrongly deprived of something that is rightfully ours. In no sense did the fall of Adam and Eve violate justice, either from Adam and Eve's point of view or from anyone (or anything) else's. The earth was created primarily as a dwelling place for the children of God. The plants and animals of this world may be more than "mere chattel" (to use Hugh Nibley's phrasing), but they, indeed the elements themselves, are put here ultimately for the benefit of man. It's no more a violation of divine justice that their state was changed on the fall of Adam and Eve than a lion eating an antelope might be a violation of divine justice. Existence itself (in the sense we're talking about) is a gift from God. Neither animals nor plants nor the elements themselves have any "right" to exist in any given state. Even we as children of God have been granted rights of living only on the principles that God has established. The whole business of salvation and atonement is based on the idea that we have lost whatever "rights" we may have possessed to eternal life and glory, and that God seeks to restore those to us. God strictly maintains divine justice at all times. He must necessarily do so; it's implicit in the term "God". He can only be a perfectly just Being, now and forever. But he has created for us a duration of space and time wherein we may choose and decide without immediately feeling the inevitable consequences of our actions. As the mortal Lord, the Great Judge himself in the flesh, told the sinful woman taken literally in the very act of adultery, "Neither do I condemn thee." This is not our time of judgment and condemnation. That is to come, when the Lord will surely condemn all those who do wickedly and do not repent. For now, we are granted a space of time to repent (2 Nephi 2:21, indeed all of 2 Nephi 2, 2 Nephi 9, Mosiah 2, Alma 5, and I guess all the rest of the scriptures and the teachings of the prophets, past and present). If we repent and come to God, justice will pave our way to joy beyond measure. If we do not repent, justice will land us in the very situation we will have chosen. That is the justice of God, and it operates upon God's children. The rest of God's creations simply experience and fulfill his will in the spheres in which they have been placed.
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  5. anastessG2, I appreciate your recounting the history of the Philippines and their struggles. I have also noted that maybe today, people put too much faith in simply protesting. I watched carefully the weekend that they were going to try and push food and medicine aid into Venezuela despite the blockade. Actually, if you watch the videos, there was very little effort to actually push aid into the country and a lot more efforts into yelling and protesting. I guess they did actually try to get a couple of trucks through, which were successfully destroyed, but I think it would have had a better chance if they had put forth a greater effort in getting the aid in past the blockade, and less effort in simply demonstrating and getting posted on social media. Even when the power went out, all Gaido seemed to be able to do is get people into the streets and protest. While I don't know exactly what someone could or should do about the blackout, I do think that more effort should be put into walking the talk and maybe not so much reliance and simply protesting and talking the talk. Regards, George Clay
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  6. NeuroTypical

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    Oh jeez - it looks like my "I'm lying of course, I didn't take this picture with an old iPhone" message never got posted! Sorry all. I was lying of course. I really didn't take that picture with an old iPhone. I just thought the fish story would migrate well into a cool-astronomy-pic story.
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  8. Here is a relevant demonstration to achieve enlightenment.
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