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Texas? or ebola?

Is the use of love in the title euphemistic? Or do you have a two-pronged issue? A lack of love and a lack of sex?

The rebel in me would grow a Hitler 'stache (approved so long as it doesn't pass the corners of the mouth) until beards were allowed.
 
 
The coward in me would tell people I was emulating Charlie Chaplin.

How fitting, we're greeted with a straw man on the first of October.

More scripture about the resurrection and where the resurrected bodies will come from:
 
Matt 27:52
 
Helaman 14:25
 
D&C 133:56
 
 
This all looks very simple to me - that physical body that was dead will be made alive and it looks like the physical stuff that was in the graves will be gone.  That is the doctrine as I understand these scriptures.   The resurrection of Christ was not unique and different from the saints as I understand scripture. 
 
Mosiah 16:10
 
It would appear that this physical stuff is going to be made into something quite wonderful.  But again - it looks like the stuff we die with will be the stuff we are resurrected with.  As a side note - I also believe it is very important to take care of this physical stuff that is our body and not horde so much more than we need.

Texas? or ebola?

Texas? or ebola?

Texas? or ebola?

The rebel in me would grow a Hitler 'stache (approved so long as it doesn't pass the corners of the mouth) until beards were allowed.
 
 
The coward in me would tell people I was emulating Charlie Chaplin.

The report said: "...they showed up for the...event, wore their beards, signed a petition and rode to the administration building with a message." How is any of that not peaceful? The video shows a bunch of very polite, respectful and thoughtful young adults. I doubt very much that BYU was tarnished by this event; and I say event because it wasn't even close to being a protest.
 
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The thing I find interesting is that--at least during my time there--BYU was very insistent that the honor code was in place because the students had asked for its implementation back in nineteen-twenty-something. 
 
I like the no-beards policy.  I have little sympathy for agitators generally, and Mormon agitators in particular.  But--while I generally assume that LDS leadership are fundamentally honest and have good intentions--experience has taught me that the same is often not true for a wide swath of the mid-level bureaucrats who administer BYU.  If they want to perpetuate the fairy tale that the Honor Code has democratic origins--I have no problem seeing them hoisted with their own petard by students who purport to take them at their word and ask for change through a democratic process.

Anti-Semites often insist that it is the Jews who killed Jesus.  Historically, Jews endured vicious acts by self-proclaimed Christians, because of the accusation.  A close look at one key gospel passage reveals an incredible irony:
 
Matthew 27:24-26:  24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in fron of the crowd.  "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said.  "It is your responsibility!"  25 All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!" 26 Then he released Barrabbas to them.  But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified. (New International Version)
 
So again, anti-Semites focus on 25, where the crowd, largely Jewish in composition, proclaims that they and their children will take the blame.  Some Christians retort that, no matter what, it was the Romans that crucified him.
 
Yet verse 26 holds the answer--and incredible one.  The one who says he's innocent of Christ's blood.  The one who feigns objectivity.  The one who would blame the crowd.  It is Pilate who hands Jesus over to be crucified.
 
Could it be that the most dangerous enemies of Jesus are not the Jihadists or the atheists?  Rather, it is the those who are cool with Jesus.  The ones who find him A-OK.  The ones who respect him, but will not follow him.  Why?  They are the closest to us--yet will turn on us when the opposition comes.
 
Truly the prophet John called it right, when he recorded Jesus telling the Laodicean Church that the lukewarm would be spewed out like vomit.
 
Let us not use this teaching to judge others, but rather to allow the Holy Spirit to audit our own souls.  Are we too objective, too relaxed, too casual and friendly with Jesus?  Will we falter on the day of opposition?  Lord grant me the wisdom and anointing the embrace true devotion to Jesus, and to reject the psuedo nuetrality so beloved by our post-modern culture.

Yes, BYU has a code. However, the particular part under consideration here (men must by clean shaven) was certainly not part of the code since the beginning (late 19th century). I'm not certain of the history of the dress and grooming standards, but my impression is they started somewhere in the mid 20th century (the article claims '70's), probably in response to the "hippie" movement and similar cultural/political forces of those decades.
 
IMO, the link between long hair and beards that was present during this era is mostly faded. As  BYU alumnus who works with many professionals who choose to wear beards, I think it is well within these students' rights to ask the administration to reconsider a cultural policy for which the cultural motivation has faded into the sunset.

Counterpoint:

 
You started this thread with some very broad terms. Happiness includes everything from cheerfulness, optimism, positivity, serenity, contentment, joy, laughter, exultation, bliss, and nirvana.
 
Just to clarify, are you confining this discussion to only forms of happiness that magnify the light of Christ? Was that your initial intent?

Counterpoint:

 
You started this thread with some very broad terms. Happiness includes everything from cheerfulness, optimism, positivity, serenity, contentment, joy, laughter, exultation, bliss, and nirvana.
 
Just to clarify, are you confining this discussion to only forms of happiness that magnify the light of Christ? Was that your initial intent?

Counterpoint:

 
You started this thread with some very broad terms. Happiness includes everything from cheerfulness, optimism, positivity, serenity, contentment, joy, laughter, exultation, bliss, and nirvana.
 
Just to clarify, are you confining this discussion to only forms of happiness that magnify the light of Christ? Was that your initial intent?

The LDS temple liturgy (and, indeed, even its architecture) draws a parallel between the Telestial, Terrestrial, and Celestial worlds; versus the fallen earth, the millennial earth (cleansed once), and the celestialized earth (cleansed a second time). 
 
The analogy is a good one in several ways--perhaps most notably, in describing the degree of companionship the inhabitants enjoy with the Father.  But the analogy, like all analogies, has its limits.  For example, in the world in which we now live, Satan has not yet been bound and death and pain are yet to be conquered.  Even those who ultimately receive a Telestial glory will find themselves free of those particular impediments.

a book i really enjoyed was "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott

Arthur C Clarke's stuff is usually pretty squeeky clean. while not religious himself you can find a bit of religious influence sprinkled throughout some of his works (I think it came from his wife).

There is such a thing as "cult" in the common, negative, sense of the word.  It's a group that tends to isolate members (especially new converts), sowing distrust against former family and loved ones.  It fosters an us vs. them mentality.  It demands "blind faith" in leadership (often a single person), and it very much controls the lives of members.  Some would say that there is some of this in most religions.  However "cults" are rather pronounced, or extreme. 
 
The word has been misused and over-applied.  Nevertheless, as this string demonstrates, just because the little boy cries wolf too much does not mean there is no such thing.

Are your husbands part of this agreement?  In other words, are they okay with the dirty laundry sharing with this particular friend?  I'm asking genuinely, because I think that's important, too.  I don't think it's realistic to keep all the problems internal...people need to vent sometimes, and need to get things off their chests.  I think it's healthy to do so, appropriately and constructively.  It can also help getting perspective.

Well, I feel fine.

[King George III has, among other things,] kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
—Declaration of Independence
 

The Congress shall have Power ... To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;  To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years....
—U.S. Const. art. I, § 8.
 

"[A vote on going to war against ISIS] is not necessary and I don't think we need to do it. We'll see what the president lays out. That will be more dispositive."
—Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
 
"[Although the president doesn't need our approval,] it certainly is helpful to have Congress fully engaged."
—Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
 
“What if [a presidential request for war] comes over and [Congress] can’t pass it? That would be a disaster. And what if you put so many conditions on it that it makes any military operations ineffective? That’s what I worry about."
—Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
 
The Congress shall have Power ... To be fully engaged, as is certainly helpful, in the declaring of War; and to declare War at the request of the President, provided that Congress shall not Fail to declare War should the President so request; To raise and support permanent Standing Armies and to appropriate Money for the Arming of local Police Forces.
—U.S. Const. art. I, § 8 (as amended).