Moksha

Good point, history books usually cover events and emphasize things like people, dates and geography and sometimes human points like struggles and hardship. They usually leave out things like raw sentiment and crying. Glenn Beck helps fill in these blanks and lets us know who we should truly resent in the present day.

With counsel you jump this far --------> Counsel would include white shirts, only two earrings, buying Deseret books, etc... With commandments you jump this far -----------------------------------------------------> Commandments would include loving one another, no killing, no bearing false witness, etc.... :)

So is Bytor saying it would be good if old Mr. Potter were to take total control of Bedford Falls? If only there was some way Potter could get rid of George Bailey. He could then change the name to Potterville.

I think the moral to this story, is that if in the performance of a Church duty or calling, if someone asks to stop you should let them whether your task is finished or not.

Wingnut, hope this quote from the news article helps answer your question.

Life would be so much simpler if the United States and Britain would have agreed to build the Israeli home-state in Nova Scotia. The neighbors on nearby Prince Edward Island would have only replied, "I suppose you guys will be raising sheep, eh?". The Israelis themselves might kvetch that they have to posts signs in Hebrew, French and English. Bagels, lox and maple syrup!

Don't have the exact link, but a site called LDS.org has all four listed.

The thing about accreditation is that if one group won't take you, another group will.

It would make sense if Golden Retrievers were in the highest dog house.

Or Shiz rising up on his hands after Coriantumr cut his head off.

They only call it a plutocracy, those who run it will all be Goofy.

Then those who take over can put the kibosh on any of those religious groups beginning with the letter M who want to build their religious edifices in our cities and neighborhoods.

The idea of "One dollar one vote" as been around for a long time, but as you may guess, it was started by a millionaire (back when a millionaire was like a gazillionaire of today). Let both the money talk and the money walk and you would have a plutocracy.

If one had to compile a list of the 100 greatest inventions, I think many of us would reserve a spot for the snooze bar. As for myself, I suspect my diurnal rhythms are out of sync with this planet and were intended for an inhabitant of another planet with a 30 hour day. The person who received mine must be a real sleepy head there.

Don't forget the Mets winning the World Series in both 1969 and 1986.

What to relive the early 60s? Visit BYU and just ignore the texting and computer notebooks.

A place to get baptized, confirmed, married and have a funeral service all for free. Good to see Elphaba back.

One plus for BYU that I think employers are probably aware of is that BYU is not a party school and so is likely to have more serious students than some other schools and that the BYU students are of good moral character. To many employers, that is more important than whether they can hang out well at the water cooler or are fun on business trips.

Moksha, this is pretty good but I suggest you save it for when you are asked to give a talk on foreordination versus eternal ennui.

Good new for the MWC, Boise State is ranked #2 in the nation. TCU #5 and Utah rounds it out in the top 25.

BYU has till September 1st to decide what to do. To beef up the WAC and further entice BYU, I could see the WAC looking into Cal-State Barstow and perhaps Montana.

The proposed Temple would blend better with a Phoenix neighborhood than this:

Playing Hiding-go-Seek with God You think you are well hidden in the crevice of a tree, when from out of nowhere comes a booming voice, "I've seen you".

Johnny, it is also a way to open yourself up to any and all internet crazies who may disagree with something you said.

The idea of justifiable murder, lying and other assorted acts is indeed a conundrum. We know we are not supposed to do those things and yet there they are in print. Killing a sleeping man with a sword, in cold blood, would get us the death penalty in Texas and Utah. In literature, there are always rogues who commit crimes that serve as a means to achieve some overall goal in the story line. Sometimes they are admirable like Robin Hood and sometimes they are loathsome like Gollum. In these stories there are lessons to be learned. They contain moral lessons and gems of wisdom that we can use in our existence. The important point is distinguishing the brigandry of the rogue characters from the moral to be learned. This can be hard if we take a literal stance on the story, rather than leaning back and looking at what it meant. Killing someone with a sword may strike the fancy of young lads dreaming of romanticized deeds of daring do by pirates or samurai on far away islands, but the action of murder still remains morally wrong.