JimmiGerman

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    JimmiGerman reacted to Jane_Doe in Exaltation Implications   
    You might find this interesting Claire (from the LDS official Bible Dictionary, https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bd/spirit.p2?lang=eng&letter=s).
     
     
    "Spirit
    The word spirit is used in several ways in the scriptures. Probably the basic use has to do with the conscious intelligent individual entity that had an existence previous to mortality. That is, all forms of living things—man, beast, and vegetation—existed as individual spirits, before any form of life existed upon the earth. The spirit is in the likeness of the physical body, as demonstrated in Gen. 2:5; 1 Ne. 11:11; Ether 3:15–16; D&C 77:2; 129; Moses 3:4–7. Furthermore, all spirit is matter but is more refined and pure than mortal element (D&C 131:7).
    Every person is literally a son or a daughter of God, having been born as a spirit to Heavenly Parents previous to being born to mortal parents on the earth (Heb. 12:9). Thus each one of us is a dual being: an immortal spirit body, clothed with a body of flesh and bone. As defined in scripture, the spirit and the body constitute the mortal soul (D&C 88:15; see also Gen. 2:7; Moses 3:7–9; Abr. 5:7). A spirit can live independent of a body, but the body cannot live without the spirit (James 2:26). In the Resurrection, the immortal spirit is reunited with the same body of flesh and bone it possessed as a mortal, with two major differences: The union will be permanent, and the body will be immortal and perfected. See also Angels; Holy Ghost; Resurrection."
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    To paraphrase in my own understanding.
     
    Before this life – we are spirits.  Able to think, to choose, and desire, but lack tangible body like our Father had/has.
     
    This life – spirit and body are united to make a soul.  The spirit still has the ability to choose, desire, and is now also learning and growing in wisdom.  The body comes into being, and is amazing for all the wonderful things it can do.  Together body and spirit are united to make the soul: the pinnacle of God’s creation on this Earth.  The ability to think, feel, choose, learn, create- it’s all amazing.  But this body/spirit/soul all have flaws still and much room for improvement.
     
    Death and waiting for resurrection – Body is temporarily separated from the spirit.  Kind of sucks for a little bit, but it’s only temporary.
     
     
    Resurrection --- Wohoo!  I’m a fully perfect in Christ!  My body is made whole:  my back doesn’t hurt anymore, I can run for forever, I don’t have grey hair, and so many more wondrous than I can imagine.  My spirit likewise made perfect: I have no more desire to do evil, but to do good continually.  My love has no bounds, my wisdom is learned directly from God.  Together my soul is made whole (the Greek equivalent of “perfect”), and the happiness I feel is incomprehensible. 
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from carlimac in This or That   
    Cockpit. 
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Vort in What is color?   
    But thanks to God we only have one brain.   
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    JimmiGerman reacted to Vort in What is color?   
    What is color?
     
    Most people would say it's a property of substances. Butter is yellow, the sky is blue (or gray, if you live in Seattle), bears are brown, clouds are white (or gray, if you live in Seattle). This is the "pigment" model of color: If you want green paint, mix blue and yellow.
     
    This is actually a pretty robust model. The problem is that it fails to explain color perception in the organism. If we want to understand what it means when we see a color, it's not sufficient just to say, "Well, that's the color of that thing."
     
    As we dig deeper to figure out what "color" is, we find another, more powerful, model for color, the one physicists use: Color is a measure of the wavelength of visible light. Thus, "red" light is light of a wavelength within a certain range, as is "blue" light and "violet" light and "yellow" light and  "green" light and so forth. In fact, once you learn the "rules" for combining light wavelengths to make other colors (similar but not identical to those for pigments), this model becomes even more powerful than the pigment model.
     
    Except there's a huge, gaping hole in this whole theory. If light "color" corresponds one-to-one with light "wavelength", why should combining "red" light with "green" light give you "yellow" light? What you have is red and green, with red and green wavelengths. Those two types of photons do not magically combine into brand new, yellow-colored photons.
     
    This observation points the way to a real consideration of what color actually is, which is surprisingly simple: Color is a perception by your brain based on signals from your retina.
     
    The reason you see color is because your eyes' retinas have a special type of color-sensitive cell, called a "cone". These cones come in three flavors, each tuned to a certain range of wavelengths: magenta (red), cyan (blue), and green. In reality, each type of cone is sensitive to a large range of wavelengths, so there is lots of overlap between all the cones; but each type of cone is most sensitive to its corresponding "color".
     
    So if we see some "pure yellow" light, in the physics sense -- that is, for example, light with a wavelength of 580 nanometers -- the color-sensing cones in our retinas (R for magenta or red cones, G for green cones, B for cyan or blue cones) output something that looks like this:
     
    R: ++++++++
    G: ++++++++
    B: ++++
     
    So here's the key to color! If we can produce the above sensation in an eye, BY ANY MEANS, that eye will see yellow! So what if we show red (magenta) light and green light together? (Remember, the blue-sensing cones will react to some extent, even though they are not "tuned" to those wavelengths.) In such a case, we might well get a profile that looks like this:
     R: ++++++++
    G: ++++++++
    B: ++++
     
    Well, well. Whaddya know? Looks like the above profile! (Because I copied-and-pasted it...) So now we know why, on a computer monitor, the "yellow" is actually just red and green. It's all a matter of getting our retinal cells to respond according to a profile. There is no actual "yellow" light there, but that doesn't matter.
     
    This is the big challenge currently being fought with LED light bulbs: How do you "tune" the light bulb so that it looks like it's giving off "white" light? True "white" light is a more or less even blend of all visible wavelengths, continuously distributed throughout the spectrum. But LEDs don't show a spectrum; they show only ONE wavelength of light (actually, a very narrow band of wavelengths). So the trick becomes, how can you combine  various colors of LED, which output various discrete wavelengths of light, to mimic the effect of white light in the human eye?
     
    There are at least two major problems with this:
    Light that reflects off of various colored surfaces can be changed depending on the wavelength, with some wavelengths being reflected better than others and some absorbed more than others. Thus, even if the light coming off the LED bulb looks "white" to our eyes, objects illuminated by that light might look really weird-colored, not normal at all, because they are not really being illuminated by a continuous spectrum.
      Different people's retinas have slightly different tunings for the color cones. In fact, the odds are that your two eyes have slightly different tunings from each other, so that you don't see colors quite the same in your left eye as you do in your right eye. So it becomes impossible to select just a few diode wavelengths to produce a white-looking light that looks good to all people. So what has this to do with this list? Nothing, really. I just thought it was interesting. I have a degree in physics and a fairly deep background in biology, yet it took me many years of pondering this to figure this out. (I'm not the brightest LED in the chandelier.) I'm sure this has been understood for a hundred years, but I only realized it maybe ten years ago, maybe less.
     
    I do think this has great philosophical value, though. In fact, I think the principle involved is directly applicable to much of what we see in society, in philosophy, in religion, and in our own lives.
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    JimmiGerman reacted to Blackmarch in Native American Music   
    You should look up CUSCO (its a german group, but their work is influenced a lot by native american music forms)< I would also suggest Sukay.
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Maureen in New revelation?   
    Sorry I must disappoint you. I've never heard about the name Vortex in my family tree. My mother's parents came from Westpreußen (my grandmother) and from Schlesien (my grandfather). My father came from Sachsen (Saxonia). He was a mariner (as a young man he served for the Kriegsmarine) and met my mother here in Hamburg in the 50s, where they married.
     
    I think it was in 1944, however, when all family documents of my mother's parents were lost as a result of an English bombing, that destroyed their house here in Hamburg (I still live quite close to there, and the house was rebuild again, and you can still see where new bricks were used and where the destroyment once was). My grandmother was buried alive with other persons in the cellar, under the remains of the house, but she survived.
     
    Under Hitler each family had to lead an Aryan's proof, in form of a complete family tree, which went back many generations (there were clearly defined rules when someone was an Aryan or not). These family documents don't exist any more, for the reason I mentioned, and it's impossible to find any information about my mother's forefathers today, as Westpreußen and Schlesien were lost to Poland.
     
    Well, Vortex, I'll send you a PM with my name, and the name of my grandmother's / grandfather's (my mother's parents)  family, but I'm afraid it won't bring us forward concerning the question if we're related, except in a sense of the awareness or understanding that there is a great probability  we are not. 
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    JimmiGerman reacted to Vort in Top of the Morning to ye.   
    When I was at BYU, the guy next door was a Swiss RM. He said in Schweizerdeutsch, the conversation would go as follows:
     
    Wie geht's?
    Jaaaa, jaaaa, daaaanke.
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from askandanswer in Single for eternity?   
    Hmm... the person they want to meet should be like them, and they should be like the person they want to meet, who, as the same person they want to meet,  expects to meet a person that should be like herself or wants one of them to be like herself, because she is the same person like one of them, who wants to meet herself by being herself? Sounds like being on a LSD trip, hihihi. 
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Vort in New revelation?   
    An interesting standpoint. I will have to think about it. Maybe it's the same with me and English... a few days ago I dreamed in English, only a small scenario, but I've remembered it and I think it's because of this forum. I've never been in English-speaking countries or have I ever travelled much. Why should I've done this? Hamburg ist the best place. And, to be honest, I'm not a sailor, and I'm certainly a landlubber. 
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Vort in Top of the Morning to ye.   
    Hmmm... I've heard the new Pope speaks even more languages...  but it seems to be all right. 
     
    By the way, if your son is going to go to Germany on his mission, I would recommend better him to learn German instead of you.  Or will you accompany him as a translator? 
     
    ring-ring... 
     
    "Ja, bitte?"
     
    Son: "Hallo, wir ha'm... ein frohn Botschaft... for Ihnen!"
     
    Father: "Entschuldigung, dass ich dazwischenrede, ich bin der Vater:  wir haben eine frohe Botschaft für Sie!"
                
                  ("Excuse me, that I interrupt, I am the father: we have a glad message for you!")
                
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Blackmarch in The Spirit of Hamburg   
    The famous Hans Albers... unforgettable.
     

     
     
     
    And my favourite film (from 1943): Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (Part 3/5 English subtitles)
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSQFZ8Dd-s
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Blackmarch in Native American Music   
    First I came to native American music when a girl friend of mine once loaded down several songs from You Tube. Later I found this, and I think it's great: Ananau.
     
     

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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Blackmarch in Russian ruble falls to historic lows   
    You mean this could describe the situation pre WWIII ...? Forget it. The Rubel might fall, Russia never. Believe me, it's German approved. 
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Vort in New revelation?   
    The 1978 revelation to Spencer W. Kimball was about granting Priesthood blessings to coloured people, official declaration / announcement 2,  Wilford Woodruff's revelation was about polygamy, official declaration / announcement 1, Oct. 1890. Brigham Young's revelation (Section 136) at Winter Quarters, Omaha-Nation,  1847, was about how to organize the Mormon exodus to the Salt Lake valley, and Joseph F. Smith's revelation, 1918 (Section 138), was about the Redeemer's appearance and the teachings of the Gospel in the Ghost World and how the teachings are organized there, where people resurrect the first time before the Judgement.
     
    I would agree with your assumption that the day-to-day operations, including directing of missionary work, are determined by divine revelation.
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    JimmiGerman reacted to Magen_Avot in Is Vort Clark Kent?   
    LOL!
     
    Yeah, you may look like a girl but but behind those beautiful brown eyes lurks your real alter ego, should things reach that point: 
     
     

     
    ((( )))
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from yoyoteacher in Single for eternity?   
    The problem might be: he lives down under in Sidney, Australia, and she is a Missourian girl...  it's a long distance for a rendezvous, not just around the corner... he would need a fast boat and good horsen. Missouri, Missouri... hmm... and maybe she's a midwest farmer's daughter, and that wouldn't make things easier for him, if he doesn't much understand about farming.
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Windseeker in Native American Music   
    And I like the Lakota (inspired by the film "Dances With Wolves").
     

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    JimmiGerman reacted to PolarVortex in Earth "wrapt together as a scroll"   
    Isn't everyone assuming that all this earth-wrapping will occur in three dimensions?  Physicists nowadays are talking about the ten dimensions of the universe.  Take away the spatial dimensions (#1-#3) and time (#4) and you have six whole dimensions with plenty of room for folding and wrapping.
     

     
    The existence of extra dimensions is explained using the Calabi-Yau manifold, in which
    all the intrinsic properties of elementary particles are hidden. Credit: A Hanson.
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Blackmarch in Shaken Faith Syndrome - What brings it on   
    Blackmarch wrote:
     
    It's important to realize or to be aware of those activities, but I'm afraid it's not easy and quite often it might be too late.
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from askandanswer in more than one type of light?   
    A difficult question. But the idea of the light is possibly meant allegorically in the scriptures.
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from Dravin in Christmas dishes   
    Rouladen and Rotkohl. :)  Great.
     

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    JimmiGerman reacted to Palerider in Waiting with anticipation!   
    My son in law is a deputy in and he recently told me a story.....he was in a 7-11 out of uniform and a man was inside the store and started kicking this machine. Not sure what it's called but it's the where you inset quarter and these trays move back and forth and you win however much change drops down. Anyway this man was playing and kicking the machine. The clerk asked this man to stop it and he did not comply. As my son in law was leaving he turned to the man and said...you need to quit kicking that machine like you were asked....the man said to my son in law....who do you think you are ?? He pulled his shirt up to his belt and showed him his badge...the guy said oh ok. Then he walked out and left.
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    JimmiGerman got a reaction from lagarthaaz in I'm back too!   
    Okay. Nice to meet you. 
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    JimmiGerman reacted to Vort in Posting a new topic to introduce myself- hello from NC   
    Snow White: I said, How do you do?
    Grumpy: How do you do what?
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    JimmiGerman reacted to Vort in I'm back too!   
    Christmas is a time we celebrate the birth of the Savior into the world. It is also a time that we give gifts to one another and enjoy the company of our loved ones.
     
    A baptism is a time we celebrate the birth of a new soul into the kingdom of God. It is also a chance to ponder the gifts that God has given us, first and foremost the gift of the Holy Ghost, from which all other spiritual gifts spring. We also enjoy the company of our fellow Saints, and most importantly we enjoy the company and guidance of the Holy Ghost.
     
    The beauty of our mortal lives lies not in DVDs or fine houses. The beauty of our lives lies entirely in the relationships we build with one another. Everything, even food and shelter, serve only to enable us to build those things. If we lose sight of that fact, we will always be miserable no matter if we live in a palace with a hundred servants at our beck and call. If we remember that fact and always act toward it, we will be the happiest of people, whatever our financial or other condition. Christmas is a time we can remember these central truths of life, and the Church is the perfect place for us to practice them.
     
    Good luck with your talk. I'm sure you will do fine.