jerome1232

So NextElement,
 
What did you think of the Sunday services?

So do you agree or disagree?
 
http://askgramps.org/23973/lose-addictions-die

For me Chinese food is at the top

The only things I like more than Mexican food is Chinese food and Tex-Mex.

Just finished my dinner of Mexican food....

Same way anyone else without a pro-hockey team survives?

Funny!
 
You know I wanted to rant about why the heck people in this country celebrate Cinco de Mayo and you took the wind right out of my sails. That's hard to do, so I have to give you props.

Snickering extremely loudly.

Anyone else thinking of the TV Show 'Lost'

I wonder where all our utensils are going?  

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I'm not exactly laughing, 'cause my state's in the same category, but...okay...yeah...I'm laughing!!! 
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613568/Welcome-nerd-heaven-Utah-nerdiest-place-US-study-finds.html
 
 

I wonder why English muffins are so delicious.

I wonder why English muffins are so delicious.

You know, whenever I hear someone going on about "organic" food, I always want to ask if there's any inorganic food.

This was a very powerful Latter-Day Saint video to me.  I want to share it with all who would watch it.
 
The name of the video is:  The Savior Wants to Forgive
 
http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=3446112587001

You may enjoy this:  Wikipedia - Jewish Ethnic Divisions
 
 
Huh?  We have the mummy of Rameses II--who was possibly the Pharoah of the Exodus and certainly lived within two or three hundred years of the event.
 
He was blonde.

Alma 32 can help you learn how to build your base:
 
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/32?lang=eng

I tend to agree.  Monsanto is a vile organization and is better shut down for their business practices, but the GMO's themselves are a boon.  I liked this article on it.  If you're anti-GMO, you're objectively pro-starvation of the poor.

Is it too cheesey to say "Yeah"?  I do it everytime I read the BOM and the Bible: I ask God to speak to me in my heart.  No, I don't expect a booming voice from the Heaven's.  Rather, I feel this gentle assurance, like a hand gently nudging my heart.  How do you feel the Bible is true? 
 
 
*Ok, going to play devil's advocate here* So, there was a man named Jesus was killed by the Romans.  How does that make him the Son of God anymore than the Eygptain pharoh's?  Archeology also says they existed and claimed to by gods. How do you know this Jesus fellow walked on water?  Healed the sick?  Rose from the dead?  Took your sins on himself? 
 
Like I said, I've never found God in archaeology.
 
(Also, archaeology frequently completely disagrees with the OT, but I still read it and find it valuable). 

Yeah, but it's really a relative thing, isn't it. All Jesus would have had to appear is white relative to the ancient Lamanites for the tradition of the great white god to have been started. And we do not know how fair-skinned Jesus was or was not.
 
Moreover, and this is important too, I think, the Book of Mormon described him as clothed in a white robe. It might also be a reasonable guess that He may have glowed (though just as reasonable that He may not have) with glory. There are a variety of reasonable ways to see how the tradition of a great white god could have been started.

I'm with Folk on this one. There are arguments that can be made against making a connection between Jesus Christ and Quetzalcoatl but:
 
1) They never would have seen Jesus because they existed after the Lamanites and Nephites, and thus would  have been unable to have been influenced by accounts of his visit.
2) Jesus may not have gone that far south, and thus would have been unable to be influenced by accounts of his visit.
3) The Aztecs practice religious concepts not in-line with Jesus' teachings, and thus would have been unable to be influenced by accounts of his visit.
 
Seem specious to me, accounts can persist in time, and can cross spatial barriers, and influences from the past need not necessarily reflect the current practice. Folk's reference to Santa Claus and St. Nicholas are relevant counter examples to the idea that influence can't cross spatial or temporal distances. To that I'd add that the absorption of Yule into Christian Christmas is a counter example to the idea that influence must somehow be complete (that if accounts of Jesus were appropriated in Aztec culture his teachings would have been too).
 
Now does this mean that there is a Jesus-Quetzalcoatl connection? Not at all. It just means one needs to make the argument that it didn't happen rather than breezily declare that it couldn't happen.

I agree with MOE's approach generally, and sympathize with you (even though I don't agree 100%) here as well--up to your last sentence.  To say that no one can define the baptismal covenants or covenantal obligations like obedience, or chastity, or consecration; is to come awfully close to a) hamstringing the Church's ability to teach any kind of absolute morality--about anything; and b ) undermine the authority of those whose stewardship it is to evaluate our covenant-keeping (bishops and stake presidents, for example).
 
I can visualize suggesting that under the OP's circumstances it may be a necessary evil (though part of me is thinking, really?  Exactly what credible medical organization has indicated masturbation as a medically necessary treatment for anything?); but in my book suggesting it's not even evil (or only subjectively so) goes way too far and (pardon the pun) sows the seed for a lot of unhappiness and heartache for those who take such advice.

Of course you realize that we'll next find out that this has nothing to do with libido and the OP is trying to decide whether or not to take the doctors' suggestion to drink tea.