Blackmarch
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On 9/29/2018 at 8:19 AM, The Folk Prophet said:
Is it just me, or does 4chan/8chan sound like a horrible, horrible idea to anyone else as well?
its the ultimate expression of online anrchy at least within the bounds of US law, but yes, to quote a certain force user; "you won't find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
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On 10/9/2018 at 9:01 PM, Fether said:
After reading through the thread on over rated movies and participating in debates on how good certain movies are, I began to wonder. Are there any movies out there that we can all agree were/are fantastic?
Movies that may fit this are:
Lion King
Lord of the Rings Return of the King
Oceans 11
Monsters Inc.
Itallion Job
Thor Ragnarok
What is you think? Are there other movies you can think of that may be universally loved or at least not hated by anyone?
Nausicaa of the valley of the wind
the original Phantom of the Opera (B/w no sound)
the Forbidden planet
princess bride
the great race
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On 10/7/2018 at 2:02 PM, Fether said:
Is there a market for these games?
My wife and I absolutely love board games and a few weeks back we decided to end our tradition of inviting ward friends over on Sunday for board games because we felt it didn’t fit into a sabbath day worship.
So I started brain storming today possible board game ideas.
Now Im not talking about games like “Settlers of Zarahemla” or “Mormon-opoly” that are just renames of popular board games. Nor am I talking about trivia based games (cause you can only play those games so many times before it just becomes a race to who can remember the answer fastest).
Im talking about more intricate, difficult and entertaining games like Settlers of Catan, Bang!, Ticket to Ride,etc (but not just remakes) centered around gospel related topics that, as you play, you are learning about the gospel. Or that encourage study of gospel topics to be good at such games. Also, games that change each time you play so that you don’t find yourself seeing the same winner every time.
My wife and I came up with some interesting ideas and are seriously considering pursuing some of them. But is there a market for this?
note: I’m not looking for ideas because on the off change we do pursue these ideas, I don’t want to get in trouble in the future for stealing ideas if we do decide to make and sell these games
I"ve seen lds themed games in a couple stores. however i have yet to play one. there probably is a market for it but i doubt that there's a big enough of one to make a living off of.
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On 10/3/2018 at 11:39 AM, anatess2 said:
I'd like to conduct a mini unscientific experiment.
Research the topic - "Duterte's only sin"
*Duterte is the President of the Philippines.
I tried doing that and ALL of the international publications including American press parroted Fake News.
I, of course, have to go and listen to the entire speech to see what he is talking about. So I know FOR A FACT the stories are Fake News.
Where it becomes deadly - International Press has influence on the UN. It is now open season for the oligarchs to bring pressure on the UN Human Rights Council to interfere in Philippine affairs. This has the high potential of causing a Civil War.
Par for the course with the Press' treatment of Brazil's leadership, Venezuela's economic crisis, Europe's migrant crisis, etc. etc.
So, thank you Journalists for your stellar work as kingmakers. I was not happy that you are dead. But I would have much preferred that from you becoming deadly.
we had abc calling people to violence not too long ago.
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On 10/3/2018 at 6:46 PM, lostinwater said:
Not sure what to say about this one. If it happened, it's terrible, if it didn't happen, it's also terrible.
words are cheap.
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I stand corrected. ty.
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On 10/4/2018 at 2:08 PM, NeuroTypical said:
We've heard they exist. It makes sense at least a portion of rape claims are false. But we've never seen one.
Well, let's see at least one, just so we can all say we've encountered one. This is from a podcast/show between a professional church critic Shawn McCraney and McKenna Denson. Ms. Denson is the lady making the news claiming to have been raped by Joseph Bishop at the MTC. This transcript is her admitting making a false rape claim and explains why. These events are separate from her claim that Joseph Bishop raped her.
I've been accused of pedophilia and being a murderer. fortunately the guy was so toxic no one took him seriously.
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On 9/21/2018 at 4:22 PM, Vort said:
Matthias Wandel is legendary, but SHOVE OVER, DUDE! It's time for a new king of the mountain, and his name is...
THIS OLD TONY!
Seriously, if yo enjoy machining videos, you will love this guy. If you don't enjoy machining videos or even know what they are, but you enjoy intelligent creativity, you will love this guy. Here is his latest. Warning: It might take multiple viewings to notice all of his sight gags and subtle puns.
wow its been a while since i've seen that guy. came across him doing an animusic webcrawl. impressive stuff. (also look up the OK Go band).
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On 9/19/2018 at 11:28 AM, Wave said:
So for my childhood, I have grown up in a LDS community, and I decided to go to Portland, Oregon for college.
With this transition, came new ideas put in my face. (Of course, I did my research.) But now, I find myself have to introduce name, major, and "preferred pronouns".
At the end of the day, you do you.
But I personally don't know how to handle this situation. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. (And cases of intersex are real) That's why we have he and she. And like what some well known people like Jordan Petersen say that it's not good to force language.
I don't mean to offend anyone, but I'd rather not use preferred pronouns. Cuz I mean (and this is just my personal idea) the more we use these words for whoever, aren't they just gonna lose their meaning? Like we have "she" to help identify females, but if we threw it around, it would no longer mean specifically for what it was created for in the first place.
Am I wrong for thinking like this? Of course in the end, think what you want.
Thanks in advance for any responses.
if i ever have that opportunity i think i'll put down "royal majesty" for my pronoun.
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On 9/25/2018 at 2:48 PM, The Folk Prophet said:
I have been a big Disney fan. It seems like that must change. It's very disheartening...but I have to keep an eternal perspective. Disney is not important! But it sure feels important. Either way it's sad.
Why do I feel like my Disney fandom must change? Because social-justice-warrior-ism is corrupting every aspect of it bit by bit.
First we have Beauty and the Beast and that innocuous gay moment that secretly wasn't innocuous at all. Then the destruction of Star Wars. Then Black Panther. Then the new Jungle Cruise movie. And, finally, we land on Captain Marvel.
So the director of Beauty and the Beast announces a special "gay moment" in his movie. The gay moment, I'm told, was "innocuous" -- easy to miss -- not that big of a deal -- kids wouldn't notice -- etc. I can only speak to what I've been told because I haven't seen it, and I won't. Why won't I? Because all of that is wrong. It's not easy to miss (particularly when announce by the director), it is a big deal, kids do notice (my sister's daughter's first question after they saw it: Why were those two guys dancing together like they were married), etc. So not so innocuous after all. And, of course, the most harmful part, it was a toe-dip, testing the waters -- which, of course, is also wrong. They weren't testing the waters. They were creating "evidence" that gay can work so they can push the agenda further. And oh boy...will they.
Star Wars, of course, hasn't introduced gay characters.....yet.... but the franchise still stands as a shining example of Disney's SJWism taking the lead. Everything about the new Star Wars doesn't stink, of course. There are aspects that are great. But it's nothing to what it could be. Why is it nothing to what it could be? Because the top priority seems to be diversity and women's power instead of staying true to the property and telling great stories that people actually relate to and care about. Even the pretty-good of the new inject this nonsense. I'll grant, they could still stay true to the property AND tell great stories AND inject some level of SJWism...and that would, actually, be much more clever of them. Thank goodness they aren't that clever...yet. I have no doubt they'll get there. They have a pretty smart fella leading them. And I'm not talking about Bob Iger.
Then some more "toe-dipping" that wasn't actually toe-dipping. Black Panther! The "black" movie. Instead of standing on its own merits, in which case it rests firmly somewhere in the bottom end in the rankings, it's consistently rated as "the" best Marvel movie. Unlike Star Wars, they won the battle on that one, pulling the wool over everyone's eyes. "What a great movie." "So meaningful and powerful." Except...it wasn't. It was shallow and silly and didn't make much sense. And it had crappy CGI rhinos in it and supposedly extra-civilized people who expanded their lips out to over a foot in diameter with discs. Believable. Is the success of Black Panther a problem in and of itself, despite the fact it doesn't really deserve that success? Not really? But in the SJW's mind, who will be making future Marvel/Disney movies does it matter? Oh yeah. They'll take the success to mean everything it doesn't along with what it kind of does, and twist it all up to further their agendas. If only those agendas were really about equality and fairness. They are not. They're about division, power, immorality, control and oppression.
So now, surprise, surprise, we get Disney's Jungle Cruise with their first openly gay character! Yay. Didn't see that coming, now, did we? Will Jungle Cruise be hurt by this financially? Will it succeed or fail? Will they get the formula right for an actually great movie that has SJWism in it too and knock it out of the box-office park? Here's the thing. It doesn't matter. They continue down this path either way. If Jungle Cruise flops because everyone boycotted it due to the SJWism they wouldn't get the message. They don't with anything else. Take Solo. The fans were explicit. Take the SJW stuff out of Star Wars. We aren't interested in that and we aren't going to see your movies any more. They didn't just speak with their wallets, making Solo an actual honest-to-goodness flop, they explicitly said what they thought. How did Lucasfilm/Disney respond? They blamed the fans for being bigots and opined that shows with white male leads may not be able to succeed any longer.
Are you kidding me?
But fans are fickle. It wouldn't surprise me if Episode IX does quite well even leaving the SJW stuff in (it would be hard to take out at this point). But, once again, it doesn't matter. Even if E9 flops Disney won't stop. They won't get the message. They'll keep poking away at it until they've numbed everyone enough, or convinced them, or hidden it well enough, or what-have-you, and they'll keep shoving their agenda down our throats, and we'll keep buying it, and keep believing them more and more...because...you know.....movies...and emotion...and love...and crying...and swelling music...and....
So now comes Captain Marvel. The character was made female in the 70's feminist movement. So...kind already has that SJWism built into it. Will it be a hit? Probably. Why? It's a Marvel Movie. Will Disney assume that means the world's ready for more SJWism? Of course.
How long should we keep giving our money to these people who are actively trying to destroy us and our children? I don't know. They're pretty good at the subtlety. And even I...yep, ultra-conservative little-ol' me...have bought into an awful lot of it. Have since I was a kid and wrote off some sex scene or bad language in my favorite TV show as "not that big of a deal".
And I'm addicted to entertainment. That's sort of our world, right? Aren't most of us?
Satan's got us right where he wants us. He's ready to drive the sword of SJWism home -- and we're not even fighting back. We just keep paying into the devil's kingdom. Here's your taxes sir. Now please corrupt my soul further. Thank you sir. May I have another?
Well, I'm looking forward to the animatronic gay pirates kissing each other at Disneyland someday. Aren't you?
to the title. that ship sailed a looonng time ago.
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omega is probably right... but i wouldn't put it outside the realm of possibility. if that were to become a thing it would most likely be something that people with special needs could do.
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On 9/12/2018 at 10:20 AM, JohnsonJones said:
This week I got a call from a concerned member. They were an older widow in our ward. She had received a call from Microsoft, or that was what she thought. They asked her for access to her computer and she gave it to them. They asked for gift card numbers and she gave it to them and spent a LOT of money (she did not have) on buying them. Then she started to realize that these people were probably not actually from Microsoft. She asked me what to do.
I DO NOT know what to do. I told her this was probably the best course of action.
1. Disconnect from the internet with that computer.
2. Make a police report.
3. Get the computer wiped
4. Get credit monitoring ASAP.
I do not know how thoroughly her information was compromised, but they had a program on her computer and I was able to access the logs. It appears they took every document from her documents and download folder and downloaded it to wherever they were at.
I'm not an expert, and she asked me to save all her files and only delete the programs they installed. I could see from the logs that it appeared they put hundreds of programs on her computer, but I couldn't locate it with a Antivirus. I didn't want to tell her but I had NO IDEA what to do with a computer so infected. I told her that what I could do was very little and that her best bet was to wipe the computer, but I was not an expert. They have experts that can do this so we called them, finding out that they charge $80 for a more in depth virus scan and even more to wipe the computer.
She turned it off and I'm not sure what she will do next.
I also took several hundred dollars in cash out of my own pocket to help her out at this time, so, financially, at least for the present, she is not suffering (in case anyone was wondering, I don't know about later or if her bank accounts or CC will be hacked and used or not).
I am alarmed at something else. While going through her files I found that among them was a Ward directory. She was in a leadership position at one time and had used the ward directory in her calling. In it were the names, addresses, phone numbers, and birthdates of all the members of our ward. This is alarming because it ALSO included birthdates which are personal information. I am pretty certain it is now in the hands of those who hacked her computer. My thought was to alert the ward clerk who has more knowledge of this, as I do NOT know what to do in this instance. I think I may make an announcement over the pulpit that the ward directory. Other than this I have no idea what I am to do. Does anyone know what I should be doing in this regard?
those steps are good. probably also have her contact her bank and credit card services to place a hold on her accounts.
let the bishop know. out of the personal info the most useful is the phone numbers, the second most useful is the addresses. as for the computer copy any save files that are necessary to keep and scan them then it's going to need a wipe and reinstall. If she has the software that came with the computer you could probably use bing.com or microsoft website to find how to reinstall the OS. you'll probably want to check and see what programs she uses, and if they aren't part of the package see if she has the installers for those around somewhere.- Backroads, JohnsonJones and Iggy
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well i wasn't too far off... I was guessing world war Z.
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3 hours ago, mirkwood said:
looks like the undead mad scientist guy from "wrath of the lich king"
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On 7/11/2018 at 3:48 PM, Returninghome said:On 7/12/2018 at 8:17 PM, VelvetShadow said:
Thanks that does help explain it to me, but one question though, what happens if you die while you are excommunicated? Like say you were temple going, happy LDS member, did something that got you excommunicated for a time period and ended up dying in that time period of excommunication? Do you still get to go to the highest level of heaven?
then you go through the process in the spirit world and someone here will do the baptism in your name, which you'll be offered there, and you'll be able to get back on track.
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On 9/16/2018 at 5:35 AM, Telemantros said:
Good morning.
About ten years ago I was visited by a group of three missionaries for the first time while at college. Since then I’ve moved but have been thinking about, and studying, the Book of Mormon. I’m currently not a Mormon, but am looking for a safe place to think through and share my honest thoughts/questions ( as there really isn’t a strong LDS presence where I live (rural Midwest USA)). I hope this can be that place.
A question that has haunted me is how one can determine genuine sincerity and intent ( i.e. Moroni 10:4). It’s been ten years and no confirmation. For some reason though i think about the LDS worldview often. What’s going on? Obviously others can’t judge the nature of an internal state that I myself have. In prayer I’ve not been told I’m insincere by God when I ask. I don’t feel or believe myself to be insincere. But I know that the heart is “desperately wicked” as well. What is a man to do? If only it was easier to know.
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by their fruits shall ye know them. i don't think the question is whether or not that one is sincere... but possibly more of one of how sincere? how bad do you want to have that knowledge and if you did what would you do with it? that it has stuck with you all this time shows that you have more sincerity than a bunch of people i could name.
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On 3/9/2018 at 4:29 PM, truthseaker said:
Hello
I have been going to LDS church services for a couple of months now, I'm not baptised yet.
Anyway I showed up to church in dress pants, nice pants not jeans or anything. I was asked by one of the men (who sit at the front when service is on, I don't know his exact position but he is sort of important at church) to wear appropriate dress to church, women should be in skirts or dresses.
It was cold, I wore very nice pants, what is the big deal?
To be honest I was pretty insulted and am not in a rush to go back this week, think I might skip church tomorrow.
probably more the local culture and tradition than anything else. better to have pants than nothing at all........ if that is how you would dress in the presence of the Lord then i don't see a problem with it. if it was the bishop or the guy who leads the congregation may have to ask him why and let him know that is your best wear. generally the attitude i've seen is that we'd rather have you with us than not, with clothes being lower priority (as long as they are decently modest anyways).
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On 7/20/2018 at 6:22 AM, TheOne13 said:
Why is coffee or tea forbidden but it's okay to drink things like Coke?
because those were specifically pointed out. Coke may or may not depending on the situation. hopefully we won't abuse this to the point where they have to do the same thing they did with tea and coffee.
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this is a case where someone has gotten carried away to focusing solely on steadying the Ark of the Covenants.
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this is probably one of the best demonstrations of why we need and need to bear a testimony:
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On 8/31/2018 at 9:37 AM, LePeel said:
I need some serious advice about a serious topic. Here's the rundown. I'm a 24 year old male, I was ordained to the Aaronic Priesthood this year. Shortly thereafter, at work, I find myself thinking about marriage and dating (par for the course.) I was feeling kind of eager to try my hand at dating again, but then the thought came to me that if I was married I couldn't serve a mission. Such a thought I found strange because I had never seriously considered going on a mission, it must've been inspiration. A couple more things of that kind happened and I determined I ought to go on a mission.
Now, here's the where my concerns are. I'm 24 years old and by the time I actually get into the mission and complete it, I'll be like 26 or 27. At this point I will desire to find a wife. Problem: this probably won't happen in an instant. I may end up being 28, 29, or even 30 by the time I'm married. I'm worried about the biological clock, me or her being too old to adapt to married life as well as if we were younger, and the fact that, at this point, I have no education beyond a GED. Basically, I'm at a vulnerable time to just pack up and go on a mission. I trust God, and I'd be fine living single and homeless for the rest of my days as a result of this mission.
Anyways, I need some serious advice,
one trust god. two if you have the opportunity to take a mission, take it. don't worry about the biological cloc... but if you do take your worries to him.
if he was able to help out Abraham and his wife, he can help you.
Mueller Probe: Today's McCarthy?
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McCarthy actually had substance to his claims.