Jedi_Nephite
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On 4/19/2016 at 1:41 PM, MormonGator said:On 4/19/2016 at 1:50 PM, An Investigator said:
I agree! I went to fancy dress at work dressed as a pregnant Gene Simmons.. Half the office didn't know who I was and I felt old lol
Rick Allen is not the thunder god. There is only one God of Thunder, and that is Gene Simmons.
For some reason, I kept reading this as "Richard Simmons."
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I told my wife that when I die to just stuff me in a Hefty bag and leave me outside by the curb.
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On 3/3/2016 at 11:36 PM, mrmarklin said:
TODAY He would maybe serve no alcohol, but certainly he drank those beverages during His lifetime. This is a matter of record.
I could be wrong, but what would he have had to drink other than wine?
I would imagine that clean drinking water would not have always been available.
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18 hours ago, MormonGator said:
I've walked out of Adam Sandler movies. Not because they've been offensive to my morals (But he is rude, disgusting and vile), but because they've been offensive to good comedy. I swear Carb, I'm the only thirty something year old man who thinks Adam Sandler is vulgar, crass, gross, but worse-flat out not funny. Someone needs to tell him that his "funny voices" are annoying, not amusing.
When I was a teenager, I remember when the movie Waterboy came out, almost everyone I knew thought it was the funniest thing they had ever seen.
I didn't get his humor then, and I don't get it now.
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About a week before Christmas, a someone in my ward died from an overdose of heroin. This happened about a week or so before he was scheduled to enter rehab.
He was a very nice guy, volunteered a lot, and my understanding is that he still had a testimony of the gospel and shared it with others. Unfortunately, though, his addiction to drugs eventually took his own life.
I'm in agreement with theSQUIDSTER and Vort; I would talk to someone close to him about his problem, such as his parents.
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That isn't all meaningful to the facts however. God has standards that He will go by regardless of our expectations. He has plainly declared on a myriad of occasions things like mercy cannot rob justice, he will not save people in their sins, and that repentance is required. If we really want to apply the gospel to Vader, then how, exactly, did he repent? By saving his son? What about all the other sins? Did he go through the steps of repentance for them? All the murdered children, Jedis, etc?
I dunno. It's pretty weak sauce. He felt bad for his son, declared that Luke was right about him, and then died. That was enough? Now he would qualify for exaltation?
Saving his son was probably the beginning, as Luke knew his heart could be turned to back to the light. In the books, however, or at least, in The Truce at Bakura, Vader/Anakin does seem to be going through some sort of repentance process for all of the atrocities he committed. It takes place shortly after the events in Return of the Jedi, and he appears to Leia as a Force Ghost, asking for her forgiveness. However, she basically tells him to take a hike, and he disappears.
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Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.
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The word "epic" is overused in my epic opinion.
Also, usage of the words "ginormous" and "guesstimate" needs to stop. There is enough suffering in the world as it is.
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So my question to those that support any of the programs to help the poor over the last half century - how bad do these programs have to fail the poor and devastate the middle class before you will admit that the economic experiment is a failure? The so called liberals are only making matters worse - and their only excuse (which is valid BTW) is that the conservatives really do not care that much about the poor. It is true that for the most part conservatives do not care at all for the poor - but the programs of the progressive liberals are such a failure that the poor are just as well off or perhaps even better off with conservatives that do not give a crap about them - and it appears that the middle class is too stupid to realize that their standard of living is rapidly disappearing into a liberal economic experimental abyss. As bad as all the programs are - no one has the intelligence to say - it is time to end all (let alone even one) of the programs that do not work and are a complete failure!
Care to substantiate the part in bold? My experience has been that conservatives care very much about the poor.
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Several years ago, my cell phone started to ring while I was in church. At the time, I normally made it a habit to leave my phone in the car while I was in church, but happened to forget to on that particular Sunday. Unfortunately, that was when my phone rang, with the theme to Indiana Jones blaring from the depths of my pocket during the benediction in sacrament meeting.
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How do you figure? ALL of us who vote have limited choices in who we want to run the country - sometimes the party we elect is the 'lesser of two evils'. A party can have great economic policies but support the legalization of late-term abortion on demand, or any number of combinations that may be conflicting with one's fundamental religious views.
Even worse would be to vote for a bumbling fool as leader of the country, just because he goes to church on Sundays and appears to have 'wholesome values'.
Right. If you have limited choices for who/what to vote, you have to make the best with what you have. Nevertheless, one should still use gospel principles to help make that decision.
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Anymore, I don't think there's much difference between the evil in liberal thinking and conservative thinking.
I would say there is a huge difference between liberal thinking and conservative thinking. However, the difference between Democrats and Republicans is something that seems to becoming less and less clear.
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I decided to go back to school a few years ago, and happened to see this protest on my university's campus as I walked to class yesterday. Fortunately, there did not appear to be that many students participating in this little whine fest, and anyone nearby seemed to be ignoring them.
Although, I think everyone should have at least tried to listen to their message, just to know what stupid looks like.
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Very sad.
However, I agree. Not only do gun free zones not work, in actuality they create an area that is more dangerous to the public. Due to gun free zones, any psychopath or criminal that wishes to inflict harm has an established area full of people that they know will be unarmed and unable to defend themselves.
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Back to television. Just started watching Falling Skies. Me likey.
I started watching that a few weeks ago. My wife and I had to laugh at the Mormon reference in season 4 when Tom Mason asks a couple of strangers on the road how they were able to acquire such an abundant amount of food. Their response was that they raided a "Mormon farmhouse." He follows up that question with, "Mormons drink alcohol?" to which they reply, "Jack Mormons do."
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Do the General Authorities have regular home teaching assignments?
I thought I once heard that bishops are the only ones who are excused from home teaching, that even the President of the Church is assigned families to home teach.
Of course, it was a long time ago that I heard this, so take it with a grain of salt.
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My wife and I have noticed this and have discussed it a great deal lately.
I am seeing a shift of members standards as well. I know a lot of the YW in our ward are sympathetic our supportive of same sex marriage. Some members are the same way.
If they only knew how dangerous that type of thinking is. Our family is becoming more and more isolated from the world and some of the members. It is sad, but at the same time it makes the close friends we have even closer.When the recent Supreme Court decision was made we were both dumbfounded as to how many members in our ward celebrated on Facebook. Have they not read The Family A Proclamation to the World?
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The Family: A Proclamation to the World is a perfect example of truth not canonized -- yet -- some who favor a particular movement do ride the bandwagon "if not canonized it doesn't count" with some aspects of this proclamation.
The Family: A Proclamation to the World is not considered to be canonized truth?
Celebrating our questionable musical tastes
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My wife and I saw his "Mandatory Fun" concert last year.
His songs are usually better than the ones he parodies.