captmoroniRM

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  1. Hand over the money and we'll talk ....I sound like a crazy kidnapper holding something for ransom.
  2. I recently said it in another thread but, yes, dreams can be a medium through which the Lord speaks to us. Examples include Joseph while in egypt (the dream of Pharaoh), Lehi's dream, etc. I knew people on my mission whose answer came in the form of a dream, or a dream they had at some previous date. Not every dream, however is a revelation from the Lord. The majority of the time it is just a random firing of synapses in your brain. The Spirit is the only true form of dream interpretation. If a dream truly is from the Lord, and the Lord will provide an interpretation via the spirit.
  3. Best tip, send a SASE to me so I can do your shopping for you.....
  4. Dreams are one medium through which the Spirit can communicate with us. Examples include Joseph in Egypt, Lehi, etc. The only real dream interpretation comes from the spirit. Trust in its guidance as you ponder the dream and as one of the others said, write it down. As for that feeling where you'll serve, it is very possible you can get some "hint" from the spirit as to where you will go. At age 14 I developed an odd interest in Portuguese. I always had a feeling in the back of my mind that I would serve foreign and hoped it would be to Portugal so I could learn the language. In my ordination to the office of Elder, my dad said I would have the opportunity to use my priesthood to teach and serve in distant lands. As I was preparing for my mish, and had sent in my mission papers, he also told me to get a passport because he had the feeling I would go overseas and it would speed things up a bit. A week or so before I got my mission call I was reading my patriarchal blessing where it talked about certain things regarding my mission, and "South America" popped into my head. Sure enough, I was called to the Fortaleza Brazil mission to preach the gospel in the Portuguese language. Trust in the spirit's guidance on this one. If it really is the spirit telling you you'll serve in Hong Kong, the same spirit will tell Pres. Monson you are to go to Hong Kong.
  5. I once dealt with probably the most computer ignorant person on the planet....I mean seriously....the lady never should have owned a pc. I moved her old data to a new pc she just purchased. She was completely disabled as a computer user because the icons on her desktop were not in the same spot, the background wasn't exactly the same..... This same lady once called up my coworkers saying she needed an "Apple virus" removed...from her Dell PC. He remoted into her computer and asked her to show him the "Apple Virus." She pulls up the New York Times. In the side-bar of the site, was a flash add with a spinning Apple Computer. He explained that it was an advertisment and yet she still demanded he get rid of it. My coworker at the time told her he could do nothing to remove it. She exploded on him, demanding why he couldn't fix this virus when the other techs that helped her removed her other viruses. He simply said "Ma'am, I can't help you because the New York Times doesn't let us change their website."
  6. Lightsabers Teleporters (like star trek) Universal Translator Allomancy or surgebinding BioChroma.
  7. thus why i use Avast. and malwarebytes....and hijackthis....
  8. In the Weather flights they send them for a box of Millibars.
  9. I'm honestly hoping wikileaks gets shut down. Documents like these are marked Secret/NoForn/Classified for reason. Especially ones marked Noforn, which is means it is not to be seen by other foreign nations. They pose a threat to our national security. They can stir our country's adversaries to anger against us. They can put our military in serious danger in the wrong hands. The fact that these leaks are coming from people in uniform is saddening in itself.
  10. How do we reconcile it? First off, Christ has commanded us to go forth into the world and preach the gospel to all who will hear. It is a divine mandate. Secondly, Missionaries don't (or at least shouldn't) push the gospel on other people. Our mission is simply to bear testimony of the Restoration and of Jesus Christ, and offer them the chance to accept it. The true converts do the rest themselves. They accept the challenge to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. They choose to accept the response they receive and repent in preparation for baptism. Or, they choose to ignore it. In those cases, missionaries (should) move on in search of those who are willing to accept the gospel. I admit, its hard to move on and "cut" current investigators, especially after investing a lot of time and prayer into the person. We want to do all in our power to help them come to know the truth as we do. Sometimes the extra effort is needed. All in all the missionary should follow the spirit.
  11. He may have lost weight but his insides probably hate him.
  12. Storm seems to have been a bit of a dud for Utah. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the Low pressure center got shredded by the mountains. All the energy behind the storm is still in the atmosphere, and may form up on the lee-side of the Rockies (eastern side). That could mean trouble for the midwest (i.e. Chicago) so keep an eye on the weather if you will be flying through the central plains. Keep an eye on it.
  13. haha some of the responses made me laugh. Thanks all.
  14. that garland tinsel is a perfectly acceptable Christmas Tree component. Thoughts?
  15. Yeah, could have been clearer on that. I was discussing those who did not have a chance to hear the Gospel or accept it's saving ordinances, not those who received the gospel and rejected it. When I said they will recieve no punishment, my line of thinking was the general "write-off" that many denominations of Christianity give to those who die without knowledge of Christ. That is not the case, as they are taught the law in the spirit world and given the opportunity to accept or reject it there. There will be many who, given the chance choose not to accept its teachings. Though every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ, not all will accept him as their Savior. Just as there were those who stood and watched Christ heal the sick and perform his miracles, and denied his divinity, there will be those who choose not to accept the gospel and its ordinances. God will force no man to heaven, nor is it punishment. It's their choice. But for those that accept the law that is being taught them, repentance and baptism are still commanded of all above the age of accountability. They accept, just as we do on earth, the law that is being taught on earth as well, where repentence and baptism serve as the gateway to the Kingdom of God. As Amulk taught in Alma 11:37 "And I say unto you again that he cannot save them in their sins; for I cannot deny his word, and he hath said that no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore, how can ye be saved, except ye inherit the kingdom of heaven? Therefore, ye cannot be saved in your sins." Just because they didn't know the gospel, doesn't keep them from having sinned. As they accept the law that is taught them, they are responsible for repenting of the sins they committed in this life. They are given that chance. Repentence is possible on their end, but baptism is out of their hands and thus the reponsibility falls upon us to do it vicariously. We don't do the sacrament by proxy, because the Sacrament is a very personal ordinance. The debate can go on in the other thread about whether or not it is a saving ordinance, but regardless, it is a personal moment for us to remember our Savior and repent of our sins and pledge to do the Lord's will. I can't promise that my great-great-great-great grandfather or someone I have never met will take upon Christ's name and keep His commandments. It is something out of my hands. By my doing a proxy baptism, I'm not even ensuring that the person whose work I'm doing will be accepted by them. It's done, so that if the dead DO accept the Gospel in the spirit world, the ordinance is completed on their behalf. And, this may be blunt, but these are more than just my opinions. I testify in the name of Jesus Christ that these things are true. The Spirit has guided me in responding to your questions and testified that they are true. I do thank you for your thoughts, as responding to them helped me gain a greater understanding of the plan of salvation. I invite you to humbly pray and ask God if the things I have spoken are true, or if the baptisms for the dead are part of his plan. That's the greatest promise the Book of Mormon holds, that you can seek the source of all truth and be taught from on High. a
  16. 1: The Book of Mormon is clear that THIS life is the time to prepare to meet God. In the passages you quoted from Alma, Amulek is testifying to Zoramites, which Amulek knew "were taught [the gospel] unto [them] bountifully before [their] dessension." These were people who had the gospel preached unto them and willfully rebelled. Alma and Amulek teach them of the atonement and that they must repent to be forgiven of their sins. He reminds them that this life is the time for them to prepare to meet their God, by coming unto Christ, repenting of their sins, and obeying God's commandments. He then told them that "Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth bpossess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world." That awful crisis is cross referenced with Alma 40:14, which talks of the spirit prison where the souls of the wicked await the resurrection while the fiery indignation of the wrath of God is upon them. Those who rebel and reject the law taught in the flesh, in Spirit prison, cannot say they will repent because the same rebelious sprit that drove their bodies in the flesh, will still be the same rebellious spirit in the spirit prison. Salvation for the dead deals specifically with those who had no opportunity to hear the gospel or accept it in this life. While this life is indeed a time to prepare, how can one prepare if he has never heard the things he needs to do to prepare? If a person grows up in the deep amazon or in communist china where they have never heard of Jesus Christ or who He is? Will he be held responsible for not doing things he had no opportunity to do in this life? 2: But what about those who never heard the message of the Gospel? They are provided for by the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ? The scriptures you quoted in Nephi are right. Where there is no law, there is no punishent. Someone who dies without knowing the gospel will receive no punishment for not having not been baptized or not obeyed all the commandments of God. But those who died without knowledge of the Gospel do not simply get a free pass into heaven. Why? The fact that no man will be saved in ignorance (D&C 131:6), Man is endowed with the Light of Christ which is given to all to know good from evil (Moroni 7:16) and that Christ, in the 3 days between his death and resurrection, went to the spirit prison and preached so that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit (1 Peter 4:6) Why those things? No man can be saved completely in ignorance. Once past the age of accountability, all men are capable of sin, and and therefore need to repent and be baptized for the remission of their sins. They may not have a full knowledge of the gospel, but the Light of Christ instructs all men to understand good from evil. Not hearing about the gospel does not stop one from telling a lie or stealing something. No uncleanliness can dwell in the presence of the Lord. If they die without the law, they will be taught it in the spirit world and will be judged like any other man in the flesh. Once the law is taught them, they will need to repent and be baptized. They can do the repenting on their end, but baptism is still essential for entrance into the Kingdom of God. 2 Nephi 9:23 emphasizes it. The scriptures you quote in your signature emphasize the importance. Christ himself that unless a man is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The Atonement of Jesus Christ makes everything discussed here possible, fulfilling Nephi's words. His ministry to the spirit world began a great work where everyone will have the chance to accept or reject the Gospel in this life or the next. It is a perfect plan that lets even those who die without the law be able to be redeemed of their sins and return to our Heavenly Father's presence. And you are absolutely right with your last scripture, those who are given the law and ultimately reject it, both in this life and the next, will be those who are condemned. The Book of Mormon, despite it's lack of information dealing directly with the subject at hand, stands as a witness to the great Plan of our Heavenly Father and Christ's instrumental role as our savior and redeemer. It also attests to the continuing of modern revelation from He who declared himself "the way, the truth, and the life," which as I said above is more important than any written word.
  17. I'm formulating a response, but between watching my wife play lego star wars, talking to an old friend on facebook, texting another old friend in a different language.......it's taking a while lol. Stay tuned!
  18. Does the BoM support baptism for the dead? Specifically mentioning Baptism for the dead, it does not. There is no reference to it at all in the Book of Mormon. So from that perspective it can be argued that the Book of Mormon does not support Baptism. Baptism for the Dead are not mentioned in the BoM, OT, and only once in the new testament. All the knowledge we have of these ordinances, essentially, comes from modern revelation through Prophets. This is as good as any scripture. In many ways, it is even better. The Pharisees didn't believe that Christ was the Messiah testified of in the scriptures before them. They were so fixated in their interpretation of what the Savior would be like, that when the Son of God stood before them, they didn't recognize him. Their texts didn't support a humble carpenter's son who dined with sinners and healed people on the sabbath. When we become entirely dependent upon the written word and ignore what has/is being revealed through the Prophet, we risk the same mistakes that the Pharisees made with Christ.
  19. Is the group "Joseph Smith is way hotter than president Hinckley" still there? Or maybe "I'm glad I'm Mormon because I don't have to shave above my knees?" Just kidding. (those were real groups once upon a time though) Um....spamlds has The Society for the Prevention of Anti-Mormonism up, but I don't know how much it's updated. Ask a Mormon is good, but it can be rather contentious up there.
  20. Unfortunately, I didn't. Glen Beck comes on at 11am here in HI. I am pretty sure Fox News rebroadcasts it, but I never catch it.
  21. I'm interested to see how the Kinect takes off. There are rumors about big games adapting the technology including Mass Effect 3.
  22. Finding a Liberal gene is really another means to excuse bad behavior. Abortion may be wrong, but I can't help accepting it! It's genetic. It's the kind of thing Elder Packer was talking about. It gives them another reason to say "I'm programmed this way. I can't help it."
  23. Perhaps we'll see the return of the Unhappy Meal sponsored by PETA too. Would that be more politically fitting?
  24. Its interesting that the nephite monetary system was based on Grain and not Gold. Wheat particularly can last forever. They've taken stores of wheat preserved in Egyptian tombs and it has still sprouted. Should some great calamity strike, like a massive famine or food shortage, which will be more valuable? Gold, or grain? Those who had the largest grain stores, would indeed be the wealthiest. Plus, if push came to shove, you wouldn't have to buy food. Could society one day return to a grain-based monetary system? Perhaps that is one more reason why food storage is important? Who knows.