Jamie123

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Only partially relevant I know, but I recently watched a video that argued it was not the bomb that caused Japan to surrender, but the fact that the Soviet Union chose that same moment to declare war. The Japanese knew they would need to surrender to someone (bomb or no bomb) and the Americans seemed like the softer option. The US promptly rewrote history to make their glorious bomb the big deciding matter. One could say that the Soviet invasion was triggered by the Americans' use of the bomb, but it was going to happen anyway whatever. Had Truman not given the order to drop it, that would only have delayed the inevitable.
Another thing (not in this video): the Manhattan project was an international effort, not just purely American. There were British scientists at Los Alamos. After the war, Truman broke the agreement and made the bomb "USA only" - which achieved absolutely nothing except to make him look like a jerk. The British scientists just developed their own bomb at Harwell.
 
 

It does seem incredible to me that my father, who is still alive (and still drives even!) lived right through World War II and can remember rationing, evacuations, air raids and friendly American GIs sharing out their chewing gum with the kids. Yet even back when I was at school, Nazi Germany belonged to comics, war movies and history books. It was not at all connected with the colourful modern Germany that school trips sometimes went to.

It does seem incredible to me that my father, who is still alive (and still drives even!) lived right through World War II and can remember rationing, evacuations, air raids and friendly American GIs sharing out their chewing gum with the kids. Yet even back when I was at school, Nazi Germany belonged to comics, war movies and history books. It was not at all connected with the colourful modern Germany that school trips sometimes went to.

Wife texted to say she's coming to the church Carol service next Sunday and would I have a problem with that? Then she tells me how important it is to her and she's coming whether I have a problem or not. I told her that she has as much right to come to church as anyone and I have never tried to stop her coming to church. Which I haven't. She has not come to church since May, but that is her choice not mine. I have not stopped her.
But none of that changes the fact that I don't want to see her, so I've a good mind not to go, but if I don't go to the Carol service I will come over as a churlish ingrate who stays away from church Carol service just because he can't bear the sight of his wife. And anyway I am down to read one of the lessons.
But a lot can happen in a week. Maybe I'll have an accident and spend next weekend in hospital. Not that I would pray for an accident but if God could arrange for me to have one without it being my fault and without me actually praying for it (which would be wrong) I would owe him a big favour.

Happy, sad, or thumbs-up. I'm going with the second, but it could be any of the above.
Hope your wife enjoys the service. Hope you do, too.

Wife texted to say she's coming to the church Carol service next Sunday and would I have a problem with that? Then she tells me how important it is to her and she's coming whether I have a problem or not. I told her that she has as much right to come to church as anyone and I have never tried to stop her coming to church. Which I haven't. She has not come to church since May, but that is her choice not mine. I have not stopped her.
But none of that changes the fact that I don't want to see her, so I've a good mind not to go, but if I don't go to the Carol service I will come over as a churlish ingrate who stays away from church Carol service just because he can't bear the sight of his wife. And anyway I am down to read one of the lessons.
But a lot can happen in a week. Maybe I'll have an accident and spend next weekend in hospital. Not that I would pray for an accident but if God could arrange for me to have one without it being my fault and without me actually praying for it (which would be wrong) I would owe him a big favour.

Wife texted to say she's coming to the church Carol service next Sunday and would I have a problem with that? Then she tells me how important it is to her and she's coming whether I have a problem or not. I told her that she has as much right to come to church as anyone and I have never tried to stop her coming to church. Which I haven't. She has not come to church since May, but that is her choice not mine. I have not stopped her.
But none of that changes the fact that I don't want to see her, so I've a good mind not to go, but if I don't go to the Carol service I will come over as a churlish ingrate who stays away from church Carol service just because he can't bear the sight of his wife. And anyway I am down to read one of the lessons.
But a lot can happen in a week. Maybe I'll have an accident and spend next weekend in hospital. Not that I would pray for an accident but if God could arrange for me to have one without it being my fault and without me actually praying for it (which would be wrong) I would owe him a big favour.

3 Nephi 14
More rules for living, from which attributes can be abstracted - mercy, generosity, humility, love, reverence, faith, compassion, kindness, respect, discipline, wisdom, work, diligence, obedience.
3 Nephi 15
One day, it occurred to me that when Christ says "the law of Moses", he might not mean the same things that the Pharisees meant, or that modern Jews might mean (for example).  We know the Pharasees (or the leaders of the Jews in ancient days at least) made up rules that weren't part of the law of Moses, to "hedge" the law so that no one could "come close" to breaking it.  While I'm not going to try at the moment, I think it would be worth studying what Christ might have meant by "law of Moses".  Certainly it would include the mandated animal sacrifices which were symbolic of Christ's atonement.
v1: remember and do - sometimes we make things more complicated than they are.  Don't forget to study and focus on the simple things Christ taught.
v5-8: Just because the law of Moses is fulfilled, that does not mean we can ignore the Old Testament - there are other prophecies and covenants which are not fulfilled, but which will be.
v9: Focus all you do on Christ - when you keep the commandments, keep them with a focus on Christ.
v18, 22-24, 16:4: Don't be stiffnecked, don't make assumptions, seek sure understanding - like the first Nephi did.
3 Nephi 16
v1-3: I really want to know where these folk were and to learn about the Savior's visit to them.  I expect he taught them the same thing as he taught the Nephites, but still, I want to learn more!
v4: Seek knowledge by the Holy Ghost!
v4-5: Wherever they were, all of Israel is now scattered and it's our job to help gather them.
v6-8: Be a believer!
v10: Sad days.
v11-15: Trust the Lord. Be part of the house of Israel.  Repent and be numbered.

I was thinking more along the lines of the eminent scientist Klaus Fuchs.

The Russians had slavered over a possible invasion of Japan since before WWII began. The US clearly didn't want the USSR controlling Japan. My understanding is that the Japanese had realized for months that success was unlikely and that they would have to surrender, but they thought to stretch things out until an invasion of the Japanese mainland was inevitable, at which point they hoped to be able to sue for peace on better terms (because the Americans wouldn't have the stomach to make the sacrifice in military lives needed to successfully pull off an invasion of the Japanese islands). The thinking is that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings broke the back of Japanese resistance to surrender among the military top brass.
Obviously, I don't know what actually went on behind closed doors; even the most avid and knowledgeable WWII historian can't read minds. But the Japanese certainly knew about the USSR's desires toward invading their homeland long before the mid-1940s. So I kind of doubt that it was fear alone of a Soviet invasion that drove Japan  to surrender.

It does seem incredible to me that my father, who is still alive (and still drives even!) lived right through World War II and can remember rationing, evacuations, air raids and friendly American GIs sharing out their chewing gum with the kids. Yet even back when I was at school, Nazi Germany belonged to comics, war movies and history books. It was not at all connected with the colourful modern Germany that school trips sometimes went to.

More than 2400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1000 were wounded.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor

World War 2 is closer to some of us than our younger generation thinks.  I had a Father and cousins that fought in World War 2.  We should never forget.
I recently read that 1/5 of Americans do not believe the Holocaust is real.  That shocks and saddens me.
I've seen how the impacts and sacrifices of those who fought the Japanese in the Pacific have been forgotten over the decades be each succeeding generation. 
How, slowly the ideas and thoughts of the Imperialist from Asia, and the Facist from Europe have been gaining ground in our modern society.
I only hope that later generations do not have to relive the horrors that we unleashed upon ourselves again because they forgot our past.

The American equivalent is "Herbert Hoover", that hit the scene in 1929. Not very popular, though performed better than expected given the circumstances. "Herbert Hoover" did not suck nearly as much as popular media of the time claimed.

@zil2, that was a reference to Life of Brian, which I thought might be entertaining for our Limey friend @Jamie123.

And in Waterworld the main character pumped his urine through a filter and drank the "clean" water afterward.  What made this scene completely gratuitous is that he was able to drink sea water.  He was a mutant.
Regardless, I'd like to have that filter/pump.  And a Life Straw just doesn't work.

My Christmas Poem (writted by me for English class at the age of about 11):
On Christmas Day was Jesus born
In a stable dry and warm
Sung by angels from the sky
Seen by shepherds from the hills
And the magi travelled far
Led to the stable by a star

It's strange - the idea of decapitating the teacher (or throwing them to the sharks) stays funny even when you are the teacher.
That's about the level of my ukulele playing: a five minute interval during each chord change. Not bad for a wee girl though.

My Christmas Poem (writted by me for English class at the age of about 11):
On Christmas Day was Jesus born
In a stable dry and warm
Sung by angels from the sky
Seen by shepherds from the hills
And the magi travelled far
Led to the stable by a star

It's strange - the idea of decapitating the teacher (or throwing them to the sharks) stays funny even when you are the teacher.
That's about the level of my ukulele playing: a five minute interval during each chord change. Not bad for a wee girl though.

This is what Christmas is about, not a new Lexus in the driveway with a big red bow on it.  I get so tired of the advertisements telling everyone to go out and buy gifts and more stuff.  Christmas is about Christ; the King of kings and LORD of lords.

And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus as the prophets have written, who is called Christ.
- Matthew 1:16 JST
The mortal birth and life and death of the Son of God was essential to our Heavenly Father’s plan “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” Before the earth was created, Jesus Christ was chosen to experience mortal life and be the Savior necessary to carry out that plan. Father Adam was commanded to offer sacrifices as “a similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace and truth. Wherefore [he was taught], thou shalt do all that thou doest in the name of the Son, and thou shalt repent and call upon God in the name of the Son forevermore.”
- Dallin H. Oaks, Prophetic Announcements of Christ's Birth