Moksha

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  1. I think it's just the fact that the history books leave out a whole lot of things, and he tells "The rest of the story" behind the founding fathers and other historical happenings. So it's not exactly a restoration so much as a filling in of the blanks.

    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.

  2. 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....

    :)

  3. Um, no one forced him to keep going, did they?

    "When he asked to be relieved, an officiator at the LDS temple in Raleigh, N.C., where the baptisms were performed, told Dastrup to continue, the civil suit states. Another man who asked the officiator twice to take over for Dastrup was also told no.

    Dastrup claims the church breached its duty by “not warning the plaintiffs that the repetitive motion required for performing baptisms for the dead could cause serious damage to a person’s back and by not allowing Mr. Dastrup to stop and be relieved when he and his replacement requested on multiple occasions that they be switched out.”

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.