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On 5/23/2019 at 6:18 AM, Just_A_Guy said:
So no, no chapel with a view into the baptistry. That's just the waiting room which is adjacent to the confirmation rooms, to each side.
Ps: open house was great. There were a ton of people there. I loved the celestial room, it was beautiful.
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6 hours ago, mordorbund said:
SPOILERS!!!!!
I'm actually thinking right now " maybe I'll watch this when I get back".
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29 hours ago, Just_A_Guy said:
I also note that Oakland’s has been reconfigured so that those in the chapel adjacent the baptistery can now, while awaiting their turns to be baptized, see into the baptistery via a glass wall—I don’t remember that being possible, when I did baptisms there as a kid. I wonder if more older temples generally are going to be retrofitted with this feature.
Ooooh, this weekend my family is going to go through the open house tour, now I'm more excited.
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Just to hit something specific, you mentioned Paul saying it's better not to marry.
Context, context, context. Yes he did say that. But he was answering a specific question, and we don't know what that question was. It's important.
I can think of a contemporary example that illustrates this. Elder M. Russel Ballard said at a meeting I was at in regards to church history that "research isn't the answer"
Wow! I saw on the internet people take issue with his statement and on the surface it does look bad. But context! This meeting was specifically for young married couples, it was about how to keep your marriage strong. The question was about how to handle a spouse that was falling away due to issues with church History. In that context I agree out researching your spouse probably isn't the best way to keep your marriage strong.
Likewise with Paul, we don't know what the question was, or the circumstances surrounding the question were.
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I just changed the brakes on my car yesterday, brake pads were still under warranty so I paid $0.00 for new brake pads, less than a dollar on grease, and 3 or 4 bucks on the brake cleaner. My rotors we're finally done in, they were too thin to machine, so I had to buy new ones, 100 bucks for two rotors. $15 bucks for a shiny new 18" breaker bar because the bolts that hold my brake caliper brackets are a bear to get off.
I told my wife, "The calipers aren't touching the brake pads, the brakes will feel funny, give them some pumps untill they feel normal"
She calls me "You need to come out here, I just rolled down the driveway!"
Did she pump the brakes first? Nope, she thought I meant while she was driving.
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On 2/17/2019 at 5:26 PM, Fether said:
Worship bands to be formed in every ward
See you had me until this last one, that's where you started going into fantasy land.
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On the flip side I think companies are becoming aware of this. I felt the latest Android had some fairly sane notification blocking features, it even notices that I swipe away certain notifications and asks if I'd like them blocked ( reality was that I got enough info from the notification to swipe it away without going into the application for more info)
I say slap that do not disturb mode on and enjoy the silence!
Side note: I'd love to get a machine going that loads software off of 5.25" floppies. I have fond memories of playing this pirates game on big floppies on a DOS computer. Not that I'm old enough to really remember 5.25" floppies, my friend just happened to find some at a pawn shop and the bays were still around so we played it.
I've thought about building a free DOS rig for ancient gaming... But retcon games are a thing now and they tend to really pretty the game up while keeping the pixelated art styles.
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VGA cables are always d-sub 15, but not all d-sub 15 cables are VGA connectors (I think I've seen them on really old computers for serial ports, but like 99 percent of the time if you are looking at a blue colored d-sub 15 connector, it's used to send VGA signals)
VGA connectors are often colored blue. Although they are largely obsolete, they are still common enough that many monitors will still slap one of these bad boys in the back.
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I actually attended this meeting, it was in my stake. The article explained the context pretty well. I'd emphasise that this was a Q&A meeting for young married couples, where a specific question was asked in regards to keeping marriages together. It was a great meeting, I enjoyed it.
- Anddenex, Vort, Nacho2Dope and 2 others
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I read the article, I find myself hoping that he intends to live up to his covenants with God. The fact that he went to the Lord in prayer makes me hope for this outcome, some of his wording I'm trying not to over analyze.
I really hope he can find a way to stay on the covenant path.
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12 hours ago, JohnsonJones said:
It's the m in the link that you provided.
You have the mobile link copied, you need to remove the mobile link so it is the direct link overall to the youtube link for the forum to register it.
Why thanks good sir.
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I'm enjoying this 'O Holy Night' from Joe (I don't see a way to embed the video on mobile)
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28 minutes ago, The Folk Prophet said:
"I can't help that you inferred that I might be saying you probably don't know what you're talking about by implying that you probably don't know what you're talking about."
Okay, try not to get bent out of shape when someone explains something when it's not readily apparent you already know it. But to the point you don't seem to understand what you are talking about imho.
After all one of your bigger critiques was the difficulty of installing/unavailability of certain software, which is just the natural result of being a tiny market share on the desktop rather than any inherent flaw in the product itself. Somewhat like wondering why the Ford brakes everyone else uses won't fit in your BMW. (the car analogy is fun!)On 12/3/2018 at 8:25 AM, The Folk Prophet said:If Linux screws you or your stuff up...tough. No one cares because there's no money in the matter.
Why isn't there money in the matter? This illustrates that you don't know what you are talking about. See Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or the many support offers put out by different Linux companies. If support is what you want, then pay for support!
On 12/3/2018 at 8:25 AM, The Folk Prophet said:The "nonsense" is that Windows is plagued with problems and Linux is not. If Linux and it's "flavors" were as universally distributed/used as Windows you would not only see as many issues, you would see more. They wouldn't be the same issues, of course, but they'd be just as problematic, likely more-so.
I think the fact that many popular programs use the open source development model and beat out proprietary products disproves this. Oh, but you already knew that right? So why did you make this point to begin with?
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1 minute ago, The Folk Prophet said:
Such an interestingly patronizing presumption.
I can't help what you read into my words, I only know it's very common that people use these projects and don't realize they are developed similarly to Linux itself. There's no sense of superiority to it, it just is. I'm pointing out that the open source model used by many distributions of Linux has been thoroughly vetted and with other projects come out on top of proprietary products quite often.
Linux OS's themselves are filling their own niches outside of the desktop world quite well.
On 12/3/2018 at 8:58 AM, The Folk Prophet said:We'll go with another automobile example just for fun.
It's like I've been driving for 40 years...nay...not just driving...but driving professionally.... and then I test drive a new car and it breaks down 5 times on the test drive, and then the sales guy tells me it's my fault for not knowing how to drive.
Right sales guy. Sold.
I think a better analogy is a guy used to driving an automobile jumped into a make with controls designed in an entirely different way. Then he blames the car when it doesn't drive like the one he's used to driving instead of realizing that he may have to relearn some of his driving skills to use this car with different controls.
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On 12/3/2018 at 7:31 AM, The Folk Prophet said:
I'm debating the bolded above. Windows is a tool that works well for some and others don't care for. It is subjective. There is a distinct "Windows 10 sucks and Linux rules" view being espoused by some, with a strong implication, in some cases, that everyone would be happier on Linux, leaving the misery of Windows behind. But it's wrong/mistaken/flawed.
If you've read the trend of the thread differently and think my responses are defending something that hasn't been attacked... *shrug* ....
I'm going to move the bars a bit to make my point, instead of saying just "Linux" I'll just broadly say "open source software".
I do completely believe that if everyone were using open source software by and large computing would be better place. Chances are you actually use open source or open source based works and don't even realize it. Little projects like Firefox, Chrome, Android, the Apache web server, MySQL, Python and many, many more. Firefox blew IE out of the water back in the day, now Chrome (based on the open source chromium) holds that candle. Android runs the majority of the worlds "smart devices". Apache is the most common web server deployed on the web. These are great products, used extensively. Even commanding their own near dominance of their respective niches.
If a single Linux distribution commanded the market share that Windows now does. Oh man, all those little bug testers out there. It would be a beautiful thing me thinks.
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On 11/29/2018 at 1:25 PM, Vort said:
If you don't like Windows because you think the UI is ugly, then whatever. Being the non-IT, non-computer-nerdy guy that I am, I doubt there is a significant difference in performance or reliability between Windows 10 and *nix Flavor-O'-The-Month. True Believers are welcome to educate me.
There's one huge + point with Linux, well open source software. The source code is available so you can tweak it for unique needs. For your typical desktop user this is meaningless. For a guy building a robotic device that needs an OS but he doesn't want to build one from scratch it's a heaven send.
Linux kernels beat at the heart of everything from single board computers to the world's most powerful supercomputer specifically because of this aspect. You can roll it your own way.
I personally spend 98% of my computing time at home on a Linux station, at work our workstations are win7, because I've used it (Linux) for so long and am used to it and I get frustrated when I go to windows and try to do tasks there.
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1 hour ago, Morgaine said:
I noticed that they go to church on Saturday instead of Sunday to observe the Biblical Sabbath. My question is, how come we don't do this?
In the KJV New Testament it seems to have been moved to the first day of the week. Tied to the resurrection of Christ on that day.
Acts 20:7
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
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1 hour ago, Jamie123 said:
I've been told from childhood that you can see Venus in full daylight if you know exactly where to look. I even had an astronomy program once that had a "daylight" option which, when you clicked it still showed Venus.
Well I've never been able to see it despite trying many times. All that happens is that a bunch of squiggly things start dancing in my eyes.
This morning I was waiting for the bus to work. It was twilight - too bright to see any of the stars but Venus stood out amazingly bright, just to the left of the Moon. I thought "Just remember where it is relative to the Moon, and you'll easily be able to see it when it's brighter."
Well it's full daylight now and I just went outside to look for Venus. I can't see any sign of it - despite looking exactly in the spot where I know it is. It seems incredible that something that seemed so bright and clear has just faded in the daylight. (I feel there ought to be a spiritual lesson there.)
The squiggly things were back in force though, taunting me as usual.
Just for interest sake, has anyone else had any success seeing Venus in daytime?
I think Venus, and all planets "wander". (isn't the origin of the word planet "wandering star"?) Anyways I'm fairly certain that where you spot Venus at night, isn't where it will be during the day. Maybe viewing it a few times before day break to get an idea of its path might help.
edit: I also think it doesn't stray too far from the sun. -
I'm fairly certain my astronomical amount of likes broke your database software.
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I thought he liked Jim Carrey. Not even the right... anything.
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By default they do hibernate isntead of shutdown. There's an option to disable it, quick boot I think it's called? I believe you can choose restart and get a full cold boot though if you just want to clear some cobwebs out of ram.
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5 hours ago, Tyme said:
The reality is that gay saints are being put through hell on earth.
This probably comes off colder than I mean it but so what?
How does that have any bearing on the truth of the commandment?
The natural man is an enemy to God. Gay people struggle with a predisposition to a specific sin. It's difficult for them to live a chaste life. Right, guess what man? We *all* have predispositions to different sins. We all struggle to live the commandments. Some of us more than others, some of our sins make our lot in life difficult. Gods covenant path is often described as difficult, straight and narrow, this doesn't change the truth of His commandments. We all go through our own little "hells" on earth, but Iiving the commandments isn't what puts us there, sinning is.
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Conference October 3-4, 2020
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Wow, all conjecture aside. Several talks hit home for me. Some on a 'macro what we should do as a people, as a church culture scale' and then Elder Hollands brought it in up and personal between us and the savior.
I really appreciated several talks, and got some great spiritual insights and confirmations these two days!