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  1. And then where would Gator live?
  2. Bigger and better vibes sent faster, with a lovely ribbon and bow. I'm very sorry to hear about this. All I can suggest is that you get lots and lots of advice from trusted and experienced friends, then take a long time to look deeply into yourself, and to think and feel long and hard about what you want, now, in 5 years, in 10 years, in 20 years, and longer.
  3. Female traffic light signals to go up at pedestrian crossing as Committee for Melbourne tackles 'unconscious bias' http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/female-traffic-light-signals-melbourne-pedestrian-crossing/8330560 Chief executive Martine Letts said having only green or red silhouettes of men discriminated against women. "The idea is to install traffic lights with female representation, as well as male representation, to help reduce unconscious bias," she said. Ms Letts said the group wanted to see female and male representation on all pedestrian crossings. "The aim is to move towards one-to-one male and female representation across the state of Victoria." It costs an average of $8,400 to change six traffic lights.
  4. What entered the world, after Adam's wife partook of the forbidden fruit? Eve, ill
  5. Its not the language of the scriptures that bothers me, but sometimes its the font. I've started reading Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and the font in which it has been used is just tiny, and the footnotes are even smaller. I gave up reading the footnotes after a while, they are just too small.
  6. Surely there were other members who could have provided evidence of who sat where? Woops. silly me, I've just read through some more articles from the sight and realised its intended for humorous purposes. But we do have one or two people in our ward who I can imagine getting somewhat upset if someone tried to take over where they normally sit.
  7. The Book of Mormon was written and compiled by prophets who saw our day and it has been written for our day. This being the case, I would hope, or think, that it has something to say about the great problems of our day. What I’ve done here is to compile my list of what I think are the ten greatest problems of our day, and then searched for scriptures from the Book of Mormon that might relate to these problems, either as a description of the problem or a possible solution to it. I hope you might feel inclined to add your own list of modern day problems, coupled with scriptural references from the Book of Mormon that either describe or address those problems, or alternatively, add to/correct/amend this list Nuclear catastrophe - Mormon 6 and Ether 15 Global warming and climate change – Helaman 11, 3 Nephi 8, Ether 9:30 - 35 Failing governments and loss of faith in government – Alma 51, 60, 3 Nephi 7, Helaman 1, 4, 6 , Ether 8 - 11 Communism - Nothing War – Mostly in Alma 43 - 62 Religious extremism – Alma 1, 14, 35 Declining faith in God – Alma 5, Moroni 7, 4th Nephi Greed, pride and selfishness – Jacob 2, Mosiah 2, 4, 3rd Nephi 12 – 14, Moroni 10 Growing inequality Alma 32, Jacob 2, Alma 1 Globalisation, corporatisation, and the commoditisation of everything - Nothing Of course, this is all based on the assumption that, having seen our day, and its problems, the compilers and authors of the books of Mormon would say something specifically to address these problems. Its equally reasonable to assume that the authors and compilers worked on a different assumption, eg, that building faith in Christ was the best way to deal with any and every kind of problem that we in the latter days would face. This is something that the Book of Mormon does extremely well.
  8. Let me assure you that you and Jesus will understand each other perfectly when that day comes, more perfectly than you have ever understood any conversation you have ever had. I expect that your conversation will be hear to heart and could even by unspoken. He will just know, as will you.
  9. No need to worry about the British, Irish, American, Ebonics, Southern, Old or conversational English. Aussie English is good enough. But even given the superiority of Aussie English it still wouldn't sound right to greet Christ with "gooday mate."
  10. I enjoy watching Pam (and others) on the mormonhub show, playing continuously on a screen near you.
  11. Evidence that God answers prayers!
  12. I think the clip below is thought provoking. It could be viewed as an example of how we love the sinner but hate the sin, or it could be viewed as an example of the normalisation of homosexuality (and I’m not in any way suggesting that the person featured in this clip is a sinner, she seems to be a very morally upright person). This comes from the Mormon channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd8LkJt9iPI My guess about why some people are homosexual is that the answer probably has something to do with the idea of the “customised curriculum” that Elder Maxwell sometimes spoke about, ie, it is a situation that we made a fully informed decision in the pre-existence to accept, in the knowledge that righteously resolving that situation was the one thing that would aid us the most in our quest for exhaltation. I suspect that same thing applies to addictions of whatever kind. “ I believe with all my heart that because God loves us there are some particularized challenges that he will deliver to each of us. He will customize the curriculum for each of us in order to teach us the things we most need to know. He will set before us in life what we need, not always what we like. And this will require us to accept with all our hearts—particularly your generation—the truth that there is divine design in each of our lives and that you have rendezvous to keep, individually and collectively.” https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neal-a-maxwell_small-moment/ See also https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1990/04/endure-it-well?lang=eng
  13. I think that last night here in Australia, we may have had an example of the normalisation of homosexuality that has been discussed on this thread. Last night, in Sydney, in the biggest gay and lesbian Mardi Gras in the Southern Hemisphere, Scouts Australia had their own float, with 45 scout marchers. I'm not saying it was right or wrong, I was just surprised to hear of it. Does this happen in the US? I was going to link to the article, but it comes from an LGBTIG online newspaper, and the accompanying ads were not pleasant.
  14. I'm truly amazed at what I'm looking at here, although I must confess I don't fully understand it. Is this a fair and representative example of the complexity of US tax return forms? If so, it's truly absurd!
  15. Well done Gator, keep up the good work. (Just 11 more posts until Pam makes it to 50,000!)
  16. SIgh, I silently slink away, defeated and overcome by the awesome power of the mods
  17. I haven't had a close look at the question of whether Wolfgang Mozart composed the Magic Flute, but I would suspect there's a fair bit of evidence around to support the idea that he was in fact the composer. Who knows, there might even be somewhere the document that commissioned Mozart to write it. As to how it sounded, I'm guessing it was...... magical. I don't know for sure but I think its reasonably likely that the Academy of Ancient Music has probably performed the Magic Flute, using either original instruments of Mozart's time or replicas, and if the Academy followed its usual practice, they would have done a lot of research to ensure that the score they played was either an original of a very close copy . http://www.aam.co.uk/
  18. hmm, I wonder how I can take advantage of this fact (evil laugh)
  19. I disagree Jane. I don't think you post way too often here and it would be disappointing if you started to post less.
  20. I've had the same problem as traveler so here's my test so thanks to @Traveler and @mordorbund Looks like it works
  21. I thought that the topic of evolution has been almost done to death on this forum. Do we need to discuss it some more?
  22. Despite more than two centuries of philosophic inquiry, I don't believe the questions raised by David Hume about causality, the nature of evidence, and the reliability of conclusions that are drawn from observation, have been adequately answered. I think that until these questions have been adequately answered, we cannot rely 100% on evidence based conclusions - maybe 99% if one is extremely optimistic and somewhat irrational, but certainly not 100%. Anybody who does place a high reliance on physical evidence is demonstrating a high degree of faith in an imperfect and inadequately explained system of empiricism and scientific method. When once places a complete trust, rather than a limited trust in science, I am reminded of 2 Kings 18:21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt (science) on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: From wikipedia under the entry on David Hume In what is sometimes referred to as Hume's problem of induction, he argued that inductive reasoning, and belief in causality, cannot, ultimately, be justified rationally; our trust in causality and induction instead results from custom and mental habit, and are attributable to only the experience of "constant conjunction" rather than logic: for we can never, in experience, perceive that one event causes another, but only that the two are always conjoined, and to draw any inductive causal inferences from past experience first requires the presupposition that the future will be like the past, a presupposition which cannot be grounded in prior experience without already being presupposed.[5] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume