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I am chastized

YAY! One more field where I can be snarky

Either I'm tired or totally nerded out because I laughed at Vort's joke. So for those who don't get it, here's the explanation.

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned, or if this is really, really old news, but I thought I'd make aware that The Maxwell Institute has a youtube channel and one of their playlists is the Hugh Nibley's Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series. I enjoyed it, thought others might also.

Ok, so I can add a little bit of something other than my angst, here: I dunno, every time I watch this, it hits me that my Savior was once a helpless infant. Boggles my mind in a profound way.

BAH FLIPP'N HUMBUG! Yea, time for my annual traditional bah-humbug moment and this thread gets it. Yea, I've got issues.

I would probably be Catholic since that's what my ancestral line is (I'm the 1st generation born into the LDS church in my familial line). But then, I'm half Italian so it's almost cultural.

Hedonism - May as well have fun

Destination temple wedding? Wow, that's a new one to me. I consider the L.A. temple as my "home temple" because that's the one my parents were married in, I was endowed in, and I was sealed to my spouse in (well, former spouse now days). It's that type of connection that one should consider.

FINE! I'll confess, I might be a nice guy... ...NAW!

I rely on 300mg of Wellbutrin XL daily to be happy. But then, somedays it's not as effective.

Mission was great, but I wouldn't want to go back and do it again. It was incredibly difficult for me. But hey, if I ever get remarried, I'd go.

The crosses that have been taken down are all on public land. If it's on private land, the only real way to have it taken down is making it a building code issue. The Cross on the High Plains is on private land owned by the ministry so i would surmise that there's not a whole lot anyone can do about it. It's pretty bad these days when freedom of religion has been turned into freedom from religion.

Well, it was Sunday and we couldn't stop for church so this was the next best thing. I was surprised at how nice it was.

I was traveling on I-40, driving my son home, when we stopped at a pretty interesting place. It's called the Cross on the High Plains in Groom, TX (right next to the interstate). It's the home of the second largest cross (190' tall) and has the 14 Stations of the Cross (plus other Truths) on bronze plaques and depicted by bronze statues (as well as other statues). I tell ya, it's worth the stop. Some pictures, because this post is worthless without em...

A few things: 1) Serenity Prayer - you can't control a thing about other people so don't try. 2) Fugetaboutit - Now that you learned #1, if someone doesn't like something, then hey, their issue. No matter what you do, you will never please 100% of the people, so why waste energy trying. 3) Decisiveness - Now that you learned the first two steps, have an opinion, make a decision and then stick with it unless someone has a better argument. You do it already with your child. But then, I'm not nice.

I'm a glass-half-empty kind of guy and I find this to be over-the-top. Your kid is going to get teased and messed with starting in pre-school, if not earlier (like, by dad), about all kinds of things other than Mormonism. Aim at teaching your child how to think and act independently then when you release him to the world, he'll have the skills to make up his own mind and not be a lemming. So far I've got one who's out of the house and she's doing just fine, especially being newlywed-ish, pregnant, and planing her families future.

To some, it's not that easy.

Whoa, did he ^^^ shift through three gears while burning out? That just AWESOME!!! That's some amazingly fast shifting. But I'm old school, I like to throw the shifter around. But I'm waiting for the day I can afford to buy and maintain two cars because I'm gonna cherry out my 96 Mustang, just because. I wasn't a big Dodge fan until I rented a Charger to drive to Vegas. Even with a 6 it was a blast to drive. Now I'm sold!

This thread is useless without pictures Be still my beating heart!!! At least so long as there's a manual tranny.

Plus, the Bishop offered to Skype. Which surprised me that she didn't take them up on that because you can record that.

My response would be: This is how the church was organized from the beginning by revelation to Joseph Smith. Is that enough? Also keep in mind: > in the Official Declaration 2, they said that it was received by revelation and it's still a stumbling block. > Religion is inherently full of circular reasoning thus why personal revelation, testimony and faith is so important. No one outside of Deity can give proof of the truth of any of this. It seems the real question you're asking is: "Is the prophet and the other general authorities leading by direction from Christ or not?" No one is going to give you an answer that's going to satisfy your question, and I believe that's a good thing because it becomes an exercise in personal faith to get the answer.

Interesting? Nothings there.

I'm sorry, I don't understand; why? If it's something that has been signed off by not only the prophet, but his counselors and the 12, does including "thus sayeth the Lord" make it any more authoritative?

Ok, some, thanks