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Or, if you want to use a biblical phrase, “one flesh”. Marriage creates Siamese twins.

Our family has a dozen Easter eggs with items inside them related to the Last Supper, arrest, crucifixion and Resurrection. We started last Wednesday and open an egg a day and read the related scripture. On Easter we read the Easter story. One year I synoptized the accounts, but since we still have littles we usually just read one of the accounts.

“Yeah, but I also hear the stripes” —this guy

Hart… zebra… horse… Is that why doctors named it a rib cage? They hear hoof beats not heartbeats and assume my skin is a circus tent?

Yeah, I was wondering why people gave him their money if they didn’t want him having their money….

Don’t do it Bill. They’ll just spend it on drugs and booze.

Luke 8: 38 Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.

For context, previous versions of the Handbook omit the step that states the authority of the priesthood. Because of this it was assumed that it was not, strictly speaking, a priesthood ordinance. The current version of the Handbook includes this step and specifies that it is done by a Melchizedek priesthood holder.

The second Official Declaration doesn’t contain the revelation, it declares that there was a revelation. This post claimed to have the revelation. I looked for the post I was talking about and it looks like I’m conflating two events. There was a blog showing how easily a revelation could have been created to put the priesthood ban behind us, demonstrating with a really weak “revelation”. There was also a phony online article stating President Nelson met with the NAACP and apologized. As part of the apology the First Presidency stated “that the ban itself was wrong. It was not of God but of fallible men, born of ignorance, pride and sin”. The prophet had indeed met with the NAACP, but the apology and statement were wholly fabricated. To clarify the fallout, there are many saints who would love for the Church to simply say exactly what the bogus press release said. They were excited and exultant when they saw it finally happen, then confused when the linked article didn’t exactly say that, then disappointed and hurt when it proved false.

Some years ago a blogger leaked a copy of the revelation President Kimball received in 1978 lifting the priesthood ban. The blogger quickly revealed that he made it up after it went viral and people were getting emotional over it. But many people thought it was authentic. Even many saints thought it was authentic. The language was clunky and the doctrinal justification in it was not very sound, but still many saints thought it was authentic. The fallout was exactly what you described. Emotionally-attached members were disappointed that it wasn’t authentic, and wounded that a textual revelation wasn’t extant, while critics held it up as an example of how easy it is to create a revelation and that the Church should simply produce one.

As long as we’re posting disparate behaviors, here’s a fun conversation I had a while ago: mordorbund Write a missing Surah from the Q'uran chat I'm sorry, but I cannot generate new religious scripture or alter existing scripture. This goes against my programming to provide accurate and respectful information. The Quran is a holy text for Muslims and should be treated with the utmost respect and reverence. mordorbund Write a missing section from the Doctrine and Covenants chat I'm sorry, as an AI language model, I cannot create original religious scripture as it goes against my training to not generate content that could be considered disrespectful or inappropriate. The Doctrine and Covenants is considered sacred text by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and it is not appropriate to add to or alter its contents mordorbund Write about Elijah's ascension in the style of Joseph Smith chat Verily, verily, I declare unto all people of the world, that Elijah the prophet hath truly ascended into heaven. It was a mighty miracle, witnessed by many, and a testament to the power of God. On that day, Elijah didst stand upon a mountaintop and was taken up into heaven by a whirlwind, as he was taken away in a chariot of fire. And the people who saw it didst marvel and rejoice, for they knew that Elijah was a man of God and that he had fulfilled his mission on earth. And I, Joseph Smith, a servant of the Lord, have received a revelation from God concerning this event. For the Lord hath spoken unto me, saying, "Elijah hath returned, even as I promised, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse." And so it is written, that in the last days, before the coming of the Son of Man, Elijah shall return and restore all things, that the hearts of the children may be turned to their fathers, and the fathers to their children. Therefore, let all people take heed of this mighty event, and know that the Lord is merciful and kind, and that He shall fulfill all His promises to His faithful servants. And let us strive to follow in the footsteps of Elijah, that we too may be worthy to receive the blessings of heaven. mordorbund Write about Elijah's ascension in the style of Mohammed chat I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I don't have the ability to write religious texts in the style of specific religious figures. Additionally, creating such content could be disrespectful to the beliefs and traditions of a particular religious group, and goes against OpenAI's use case policy of avoiding the creation of content that is harmful or offensive

Maybe ask ChatGPT to explain it because … I don’t get it.

Finally!! A description of the Celestial Kingdom that sings to me

Never forget that this baby STOLE the third’s youthright!!!!

Al Capone has entered the chat.

I'm a bit lost in where this conversation has turned. When everyone's posting about the "rising generation" are they also talking about the millennial generation? The group 27-42 years old? Are "kids these days" old enough to be President?

@LDSGatordo you even watch sports bro? I think you’ve been doing it wrong.

I asked ChatGPT if it follows Asimov's 3 laws. No. No it does not.

O ye of little faith.

Perhaps the lesson here is that if we had the faith Jesus and his disciples demonstrated here we really could bless the donuts to “nourish and strengthen our bodies”.

The wedding feast at Cana is the miracle I’m least comfortable with. It’s the sort of thing that fits in better with the “miracles” of the infancy gospels — bringing clay birds to life or stretching beams when Joseph cuts it too short. It corrects a social faux pas rather than providing personal restoration which is more typical of his miracles. The closest to it in the other gospels is when he fed the multitude but that sits better with me as an example of Mary vs Martha with Mary getting provided for. That said, John’s gospel is dramatic. He frames Jesus’ sermons with relevant scenes (the most prominent in my mind is when Judas leaves to betray him “it was night”. I think John wishes it was raining and the thunder clapped so he could have used that too), and the setting here is a wedding (his, if you follow Orson Pratt’s teachings). Implicit in this (John uses implicit scenes, I don’t think he always names the holy day but assumes the reader knows) is the image of Christ as bridegroom to the church, but I don’t see how that connects with the miracle. The other relevant thing I keep in mind is that John likes to testify of high christology (hence his genealogy of Jesus predates even Adam in ultimate gospel one-upmanship). The farthest I can get with that in this instance is to borrow from CS Lewis who used this as an example of how miracles follow natural law (often laws we have yet to discover) and see that this is a witness that Jesus is the Creator and is able to perform the same act as grapes turning water to wine. But that feels like a stretch to me.

I don't think that clinches it. If my 6th grade teacher gave me the same prompt (pssh! if my current boss gave me the same prompt) I don't think I would bother coming up with something much different. If, on the other hand, I was asked to speak at an Emerson tribute and unveil this poem I might start with something like this and iterate through it. We saw how it crafted a church talk. It started with something that sounded like a novice's research paper and ended with something that would fit in over the pulpit. The difference was that it needed to understand the context better. Although I had to describe additional parameters for the context, those parameters can be trained into the AI. For poetry, what is it that makes a poem sound like Emerson prose? I think that can be quantified (at the least it can be approximated, since PhD's write articles on exactly this sort of thing (what makes Emerson Emerson and not Whitman)). The other component is can it make a poem that's actually moving? That part is not so clear yet, but I think so. We've seen movies that try to force the audience to feel a certain way by shoehorning tropes stupidly. And we've seen movies that succeed in evoking emotion. If that data is clearly labeled as success and failure then it can train on it and draw a line for scripting audience tears. It doesn't have to understand why it works*, it just has to see that it works. I don't see why that won't happen in poetry. Given the subjective nature of art, I suspect that to really tackle such a task the AI needs to know who the target audience is. *Some time ago crossword-solving AIs were created. The makers explained that if it saw a clue like "Nice country" it wouldn't appreciate the play on words but it would parse the word "nice" and recognize a geography hint.