The Folk Prophet

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  1. No reasonable person needs Trump to convince them of the obvious fact.
  2. Yeah. I had a beard for a few years there. I took a shift as an ordinance worker at the temple though, so...
  3. Here's my latest family pic: Please note........WRONG!!! But dang, look at how cute those stinking kids are!!!
  4. You have to explain that to me. How does the beard ban sift anyone? You mean there are legitimately, otherwise well qualified, righteous, faithful, honorable men who, because they'd have to shave, didn't attend BYU? And that's good.......why?
  5. Doesn't make sense to me. Mission rules are mission rules despite what can and cannot be worn at BYU. They don't require white shirts and ties at BYU, and yet....
  6. Because, as we all well know, Jesus was "slovenly". The strange thing to me is that the no beard thing is 100% cultural. There's no reality to it other than perception. And it is my perception that the entire beard=rebel thing is pretty darned outdated. Obviously wording such as they used with mustaches would make sense. But a well groomed beard still being against the honor code is just weird. It feels very out of touch. Shrug. What do I care?
  7. I'm legitimately surprised they're still asking for no beards to be worn.
  8. Every time new tech comes along people make this sort of claim. I don't buy it at all.
  9. This implies serious problems in home and family. Which is really the primary root of most of society's problems.
  10. I searched just for fun and found: [əˈlekSHən] and /iˈlek.ʃən/ I think both are fine.
  11. Maybe fleeing the country is in order then? I mean if you truly want to keep your distance...right?
  12. I agree. And I also hope and pray for better. But it's without any real hope. Unfortunately, I'm afraid, the best case is we get 4 more years of Biden and progressivism, eventually losing the Supreme Court to the left, eventually losing religious and parental rights, etc., etc. That's probably the best case. The worst case is probably Trump getting thrown in jail, his faithfuls legitimately revolting (Here, Jan 6th...hold my beer...) and we're into full-on civil war, concentration camps for Catholics, etc., etc. Sigh. It's gonna be a rough ride until the Savior returns.
  13. So I really don't get the struggle though. I mean I understand not liking Trump from a moral standpoint. But it's like saying you're struggling with the choice put before you...punched in the face....or shot in the face. Which do you choose? Is there really a struggle in that choice? Edit: I realize I might be discussing what's being struggled over in wildly different terms that you might be meaning. So to be clear, it struck me that the "struggle" is who one would vote for, Trump or Biden. I mean if one really thinks (as some seem to) that Biden is better for the country, then sure... But if one knows full well that Trump is better for the country, but also presumes he's immoral... I dunno. I don't understand that struggle I suppose.
  14. Which, of course, is pointless because none of them have a shot. Which is unfortunate. (I'm currently favoring Ramaswamy, myself...had I the choice.)
  15. I'm not sure it's "skill" that's the issue. I'm sure the "journalist" who wrote the article is perfectly capable of writing something that isn't entirely ignorant and ridiculously biased.
  16. I'd like to point out that the idea (upon which the humor of the comic is predicated) that upon eating the fruit that Adam and Eve immediately developed a perfect comprehensive understanding of good and evil is false. Rather, the idea of "knowledge" of good and evil for having eating the fruit stems from (no pun intended) a path that is chosen that would lead to knowledge of good and evil. We, being fallen as Adam and Eve became upon eating the fruit, are STILL dependent on obedience to God. We do not understand what is good and evil without God.
  17. “Merely voting a straight ticket or voting based on ‘tradition’ without careful study of candidates and their positions on important issues is a threat to democracy and inconsistent with revealed standards,” After careful study of candidates and their positions on important issues...I end up voting pretty much a straight ticket. I don't like the Republican party at all. So when and if I find a Democrat who supports positions of good and right....well....they wouldn't be a Democrat any more now, would they? As far as voting independent or other parties....sure... it could happen.
  18. It's the same logic musicians use to call themselves "employed".
  19. Hmm. I never got the sense that she came back to "marry" Higgins. I don't disagree that the ending could have been something better...but not this. This was terrible -- empty -- sad -- unsatisfying. I think ideally there needed to be a true equilibrium established between them somehow that kept them in each other's lives for the better. Not sure what that would be. But her just walking off forever does not feel satisfactory.
  20. Why would you want to copyright art that you didn't create? Edit: Let me expand on that... If you submitted a novel to a publisher and they picked it up and then had it illustrated by a professional artist.... you wouldn't own the copyright to those illustrations either.
  21. I think the cynical response is the suggestion that I'm saying the lackadaisical turning off of the TV on Sunday equates to a fast. It feels like this debate has, perhaps, run it's course and continuing doesn't have a ton of value. So I'll back out now. Thanks for the back and forth on it.
  22. I thought we'd established that I wasn't saying one can fulfill the law of the fast without fasting. (Though I do understand that you are narrowing fasting to mean food and drink and nothing else.) Clearly we are interpreting things differently. It's been taught many times and places (I didn't share a lot of them because they aren't "authoritative" quotes from the prophet or the like) that we should adjust our fast according to what we can do and be wise in the matter, and that we can obtain the blessings of fasting in doing so. The fact that the fasting from food and drink for 24 hours is "no iron-clad law" unto us and that we need "to exercise wisdom and discretion" sounds pretty much like exactly what I've trying to say. Either you are reading it differently, thinking I mean something different than I do, or just don't agree. C'est la etc. I will grant that his quote doesn't explicitly specify that one can fast from something other than food and drink...though that feels like a perfectly appropriate understanding of "no iron-clad law" and "wisdom and discretion" to me. Ah, man, you don't expect me to read ALL the posts do you?
  23. More from President Joseph F. Smith: “There is such a thing as overdoing. A man may fast and pray till he kills himself; and there isn’t any necessity for it; nor wisdom in it. … The Lord can hear a simple prayer, offered in faith, in half a dozen words, and he will recognize fasting that may not continue more than twenty-four hours, just as readily and as effectually as He will answer a prayer of a thousand words and fasting for a month. … The Lord will accept that which is enough, with a good deal more pleasure and satisfaction than that which is too much and unnecessary” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1912, 133–34).
  24. “… The Lord has instituted the fast on a reasonable and intelligent basis, and none of his works are vain or unwise. His law is perfect in this as in other things. Hence, those who can, are required to comply thereto; it is a duty from which they cannot escape; but let it be remembered that the observance of the Fast Day by abstaining twenty-four hours from food and drink is not an absolute rule, it is no iron-clad law to us, but it is left with the people as a matter of conscience, to exercise wisdom and discretion.” (Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1939], pp. 243, 244.) Edit: also from the same: “Many are subject to weakness, others are delicate in health, and others have nursing babies; of such it should not be required to fast. Neither should parents compel their little children to fast”