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If I saw some hail like a ping pong ball.... I'd sure-ly gloat!
 
like a ping, like a ping, like a ping pong, ping pong, ping pong ball;
like a ping, like a ping, like a ping, like a ping pong, ping pong, ping pong ball;
...

A year ago I took a course on the Gospel and letters of John. It was one of the best classes I've taken in college in it we learned that the Gospel of John went through 3 different editions each with their own characteristics (so I can listen to an excerpt and can most of the time tell which edition that passage was written in). The letters of John were written between the edotions (1 John written between 1E and 2E while 2 John written between 2E and 3E).
Anyways, the class made us confront the fact that the Gospel was written over a long period of time, went through 3 editions where things were added to make up wlthe text we have today, and yet, despite this history, it is still scripture and still inspired by God.

Sounds like gossip to me. 
 
 
I sure feel bad that we've lost so many good saints. I guess I better do my home teaching this weekend. Maybe I'll even invite my inactive neighbors for a barbecue on Monday, just so they know I still care.

Since 2006-ish?

And THAT is the demon spawn of the unholy union between a banana and a strawberry.

I know this one! Because the metric salespeople lie. Metric is supposed to be sooooo much easier, but those that have looked into it know it isn't. For length (in the standard system) I'm dealing with nice round numbers like 12, 3, 5280, etc. For volumes we get nice numbers like 2 and 4. Move over to metric and suddenly we're using 2.54 and 3.785. Yeah, that's so much easier.
 
Also nature uses the Standard measurement for time with numbers like 12, 60, 7, and 30. Don't go against nature - abandon the metric system!

http://lds.net/forums/topic/54066-did-women-ever-hold-the-priesthood/#entry777367
 
We've acknowledged that women have been given authority to perform saving ordinances in the temple every bit as binding as though they were performed by a priesthood holder. Why stop there? What is so different about washings and anointings that they can be authorized to perform that ordinance but not baptism?

I know this one! Because the metric salespeople lie. Metric is supposed to be sooooo much easier, but those that have looked into it know it isn't. For length (in the standard system) I'm dealing with nice round numbers like 12, 3, 5280, etc. For volumes we get nice numbers like 2 and 4. Move over to metric and suddenly we're using 2.54 and 3.785. Yeah, that's so much easier.
 
Also nature uses the Standard measurement for time with numbers like 12, 60, 7, and 30. Don't go against nature - abandon the metric system!

I suspect it goes back into the idea of gender roles/separate stewardships.  Holding the priesthood gives one a degree of ministerial responsibility towards the Church and its members (and indeed, the world at large) that will necessarily pull the priesthood holder away from the home.  To facilitate child-rearing the Lord has set up a system where one parent is primarily responsible for ministering outside of the home, while the other parent is free to make ministering inside the home her number one priority.  (Could the Lord change this?  Of course.  But up to now, He hasn't.)
 
With regard to the initiatory ordinances, I think the Lord makes an exception to the paradigm outlined above for the reasons TFP suggests vis a vis the initiatory ordinances--although, with the 2006-ish changes to the ritual, I think it would be highly amusing to see the Church leadership decide that the reasons for allowing women to officiate in those rituals for other women are no longer valid and instruct that henceforth only (male) priesthood holders may officiate in that ritual as well.  There's certainly precedent--IIRC, women giving (non-priesthood) blessings by laying-on-of-hands was fairly common up until the 1940s at which time the First Presidency decided that that function rightly pertained to the priesthood, and the Relief Society was instructed to stop doing it.

I know this one! Because the metric salespeople lie. Metric is supposed to be sooooo much easier, but those that have looked into it know it isn't. For length (in the standard system) I'm dealing with nice round numbers like 12, 3, 5280, etc. For volumes we get nice numbers like 2 and 4. Move over to metric and suddenly we're using 2.54 and 3.785. Yeah, that's so much easier.
 
Also nature uses the Standard measurement for time with numbers like 12, 60, 7, and 30. Don't go against nature - abandon the metric system!

It must have taken FOREVER to send a text.

There is an interesting relationship with Emma in the Church. I'm inclined to agree with you that it's hard to look at history and not see some sort of falling away, but there are also much that is admirable. It showcases, I think, the need to look at historical figures, and people in general, as more than just "bad" or "good", that admirable people can otherwise fall short to some degree, and those who might be qualified as less than admirable can otherwise be admirable in some respects.

I think he's asking why women can't pass the sacrament. After all, the deacon hands it off to them all the time.

The biggest problem I have with computer solitaire is that it won't let me cheat. I thought the rules of the game include a proviso that when you get stuck you can pull a card you need and go on from there.

It must have taken FOREVER to send a text.

Your not 80 now ???

By the way, there's a great story of President Kimball helping his missionary son come to terms with "know" vs "believe".
 
 
 
The entire chapter is worth a good read (and a better ponder).

By the way, there's a great story of President Kimball helping his missionary son come to terms with "know" vs "believe".
 
 
 
The entire chapter is worth a good read (and a better ponder).

By the way, there's a great story of President Kimball helping his missionary son come to terms with "know" vs "believe".
 
 
 
The entire chapter is worth a good read (and a better ponder).

When the keys were restored. I don't have time but I will read that talk by Elder Uchtdorf when I get a chance. 

When the Priesthood was restored. So what are we missing with the ten tribes? I don't think that has anything to do with the restoration. 

Well, for one thing, as I discovered recently, the sacrifice of animals. Some other things are questionable, for example, polygamy and the law of consecration. Does the fact that they were restored count as restored before the end, or do all things restored have to be currently in place before the end? Even if the first is true, I don't know that the law of consecration counts as having been fully restored. ??
 
I'd have to do more thinking and research to come up with anything else.

Implying that there are other true churches with which the Lord is not pleased? Seems at odds with JS-History 1:18-19. I read "true" in the same sense as "right", and "false" in the same sense as "wrong". There is only one church which is right and all others are wrong. That does not mean that they are completely wrong. It just means, as a whole, they are wrong. The only way to be the right (or true) church is to be completely right. There is only one true church and only one right church. The meaning of "true" is mathematical. Take a series of similar complex mathematical equations that claim to come to the same conclusion and ask which one is true. Even if they all contain elements of truth, only the one with all the correct methods, numbers, and mathematics will generate the proper response. That one, therefore, is the true equation. The elements of truth in the others do not render them true. The fact that the Lord is well pleased with the right and true church is incidental to the meaning, imo. 

I'm sorry, I didn't realize the First Amendment was a pay-to-play game.And I'll bet Tom Monson--and in fact, the bulk of active Mormons who weigh in on this issue in their individual capacities--pay a heckuva lot more in taxes than you and the other able-bodied-twenty-something-but-still-inexplicably-and-but-for-marijuana-incurably-ill legalization pushers do.
Yeah, it's just political.  
Paging Dr. Mengele. Dr. Josef Mengele, please call your office ...Which is why churches generally stayed out of the abolitionist movement back when slavery was legal under both state and federal law . . .If I start smoking pot, will my legal analyses become as sound as yours are?

It's definitely a view that derives largely from the home.  In fact, I'm annoyed when people blame the Good Girl/Boy Syndrome on the Church. 
 
Most of my sexuality lessons did not come from church.  They came from my parents, school, personal reading, conversations with others, etc. 
 
My view is that parents, having the brunt of the responsibility in teaching this, really do need to consider more than the Church's spot-on-but-assuming-parents-teach-more-details statements on the Law of Chastity.