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  1. 21 hours ago, Carborendum said:

    So, I got to thinking about the Wheel of Time.  

    "Saving magic" was exactly what the wizarding guild wanted to happen.  But the imposter was evil and gave a procedure to the heroes that would "taint" magic.

    It could be used by evil people to do evil things.  But when it is used for good, something evil always comes with it (Monkey's Paw).

    My son keeps telling me I need to watch this. I haven't even made it past the first episode. So far hasn't caught my attention. But he says to stay with it.

  2. 14 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

    I feel the same way about all those movies. Bizarrely, I had someone rant on my FB about how good Top Gun was and how everyone “Patriotic American” has a “requirement” to see the movie. All I could think of was “Really?”  

    I won't see it because it has Tom Cruise in it. 

  3. On 12/6/2023 at 12:19 PM, Carborendum said:

    That's an interesting question.  I just figured out that I've gone to see only three movies in the theater in about five years.  I don't really remember the last time I went to the cinema before that. 

    If you're curious:

    • Top Gun: Maverick
    • D&D: Honor Among Theives
    • Avengers: Endgame

    Absolutely no desire to see any of them.

     

  4. On 11/4/2023 at 11:19 PM, Some_one said:

    I’ve been addicted to pornography since I was prepubescent. Struggled with it all my life. I was sealed in the Temple in my early 20s even with my addiction. I was divorced and years later I am remarried and looking to be sealed to my new wife with whom we have worked harder than we ever have to live the gospel. I’ve continued to struggle with my addiction. But I’ve been trying harder than I ever have before and I can feel the improvement in my spiritual life. Is there a time frame to wait before I can be sealed again? 

    That's definitely something we can't answer.  That's a question for your local leaders who have stewardship over you.

  5. 9 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

    Something's just struck me about the Book of Mormon. Almost no female characters. The Bible has Eve, Esther, Deborah, Ruth, Jael, Hannah, Jezabel to name but a few. As far as I recall, the only woman mentioned by name so far is Sariah. Why do you think this is?

    (OK Mary is mentioned somewhere, but it is the same Mary as in the Bible.)

    (I'm still racking my brains here. Plenty of mentions of "wives" and "daughters", but none that you would really call characters in the story. None that talk to snakes or hammer tent pegs into people's heads. Well, apart from Sariah. Not that she ever hammered a tent peg into anyone's head, but you know what I mean.)

    Only 6 women in the Book of Mormon are actually mentioned by name: 

    Sariah

    Isabel

    Abish

    Eve

    Sarah

    Mary 

  6. 7 hours ago, estradling75 said:

    Your analysis is flawed...

    A Culture's value of women will determine will determine how often they are mentioned in the historical record... And frankly most cultures have not had that high of a value of women.  That is is just something we have to acknowledge as simply being sucky.

    The first flaw I see is comparing a 4000 plus year record to a 1000ish year record...  Just from the number of years covered you would expect that the bible would have 4 times as many (assuming the cultural value is largely the same)   So while 37 verse 8 seems large and important once we divide by 4 for the time span   37/4 = 9.25 vs 8 seems like a reasonable margin of error.

    Another flaw is that Nephites cultural began in 600ish BC.  To be fair we would need to start the Biblical record count at 600ish BC or give the Book of Mormon all the counts prior to 600ish BC because that is a  culture that the Nephites and the Jew shared and could draw on but that Mormon would skip in making a record.

    So while a raw numbers count can be fun to play with... but to make some kind of valid point you need a lot more rigor in your analyses

     

     

    I hope you noticed that he used the tongue out emoji.  What he said was pretty much tongue in cheek.

  7. Mosiah 5:7 can be a bit confusing.  Here is what Joseph Fielding Smith said:

    "The Son of God has a perfect right to call us his children, spiritually begotten, and we have a perfect right to look on him as our father who spiritually begot us.

    "Now if these critics would read carefully the Book of Mormon, they would find that when the Savior came and visited the Nephites, he told them that he had been sent by his Father. He knelt before them, and he prayed to his Father. He taught them to pray to his Father, but that did not lessen in the least our duty and responsibility of looking upon the Son of God as a father to us because he spiritually begot us." (Conference Reports, Oct. 1962, p. 21)

  8. 2 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

    I was familiar with Jesus' story of the mustard seed before I ever heard of the Book of Mormon and I initially thought this was what the missionaries were talking about. Maybe they just said "seed" and I subconsciously inserted the "mustard" myself. Thanks - and sorry to get flustered over this.

    Don't be sorry.  It made me do a little research and study which is always good.  Never apologize for your questions here.