mordorbund

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  1. We already found it. We have the Lord’s appendix.
  2. That’s some range she had.
  3. And that’s how we conclude that hell is endothermic.
  4. Will it be a global burning or a local one?
  5. Shortly after this clip Mom shows up with a spatula and beats the living daylights out of Dad before dancing triumphantly over her cookie dough.
  6. I’m not sure how fair a comparison those clips were. Hulk and Hawkeye are comparing movie effects and choreography against a tv series, isn’t it? And Black Widow is movie v. movie, but White Widow’s weak, goofy landing was done intentionally to mock Black Widow’s signature landing style. I can’t compare Wakanda to Iron Man because I didn’t even know that one was happening (happened?).
  7. I remember that place! I was standing in the yard looking through the window. I was really impressed with … that chandelier.
  8. My Modest Proposal is to have more children harvest the potatoes.
  9. Did The Animals exercise copyright claim over the music?
  10. He’s moving to the desert with no middle name. He’s glad to get out of the rain.
  11. I see what kingdom you assigned cats to…. Here, enjoy a post from past-me:
  12. In the early years of the Restoration the city Zion was the center place and the stakes of Zion were meant to be sort of embassy-cities engineered and organized after the Zion pattern. Each of these stake cities was intended to have its own temple. Sites for Independence, Kirkland, Far West, and Adam-ondi-Ahman we’re all dedicated before the saints gathered to Nauvoo. I think it’s also worth observing that the Kirtland house of the Lord was the first meeting house in the modern Church. With this in mind, I can imagine stake centers getting add-ons for temple ordinances. The chapel would double as the Assembly Room, perhaps the restrooms on one side would have adjoining initiatory facilities, with a third hall/corridor for the instruction room, celestial room, and sealing room. Or a second story for temple ordinances excepting baptisms. For that scenario if there’s going to be a second baptismal font then it could be an add-on for the ground floor.
  13. Sure it is, but we must act now! I’ve petitioned my congressional representatives to legislate filling the Grand Canyon with livestock* and burying them to provide our great nation with future energy resources. * and cats
  14. Have you been looking at @Vort’s work history?
  15. From my reading of the Joseph Smith Translation, there is no single unified answer for what Joseph was doing and intended with his changes. The vast majority of the changes in the JST are an attempt to modernize the language. These did not make it to our footnotes (you can get a copy of the Inspired Version and see for yourself, or use the NT reprint in McConkie’s Doctrinal New Testament Commentary). The most significant portions are probably the lengthier ones canonized in the Pearl of Great Price and the others found in the back of the Bible. Even these don’t all claim the same source. Moses 1 makes it clear in the last verse that this opening prologue is a revelation but the subsequent chapters are based on an original text (although the revelation is still the framing device for the creation account). Matthew 24 may be a restoration of earlier text, or it may be a partial fulfillment of D&C 63 given in the same year (I wonder when JS-M was given in relation to the revelation). I think where In the account of the various kings Joseph acted as redactor (as in the Documentary Hypothesis). Kings were compared to David as the ideal, and JST makes it clear he was NOT the ideal. I think this is a case of the Old Testament saints needing an example of loyal monotheism, while Latter-day Saints need an example of chaste fidelity (although now that I write this I suppose the argument could be made that Joseph restored the pre-Josiah-reform text, but I don’t see anyone making that argument).
  16. I thought fishing in Texas was done with ordnance?
  17. I want this to be your new signature
  18. I don’t recognize any of these names (that’s not saying much). Are any of these people influential?
  19. I had a similar experience. I thought it was a wacky song from that guy that sang American Pie. How silly that he thinks rain on a cake destroys the recipe. What world does he live where the only way to preserve a recipe is to consume the baked result? In this past year I introduced my kids to it through Weird Al’s Jurassic Park. They all had a good laugh while I thought “It’s a metaphor, idiot.” Funny how time and life experience can change perspective.
  20. He loves it….. second only to the Taylor Swift jukebox musical he’s crafting in his head.
  21. This feels like the mirror universe of that time I gizoogled the Church’s website.