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SPOILER - anyone who wants to do the puzzle without additional help, STOP READING!! So, I had already figured out that the first three clues identified each of the two people on each of the three sides of the table. I had also figured out that Kara was in seat B. What I had not yet attempted was looking for which of the six people she did / did not match. The clue smacked me upside the head and said to check her against each of the six people, and it turned out there was only one possible match... As to bright - I do 2 or 3 logic puzzles every day. My brain is well trained to think in "logic puzzle". Most of the puzzles I do are far too easy, but I find they clear my head and after completing them, I can move on to some other task. This one was unusual, and I like that aspect of it. It also included something I'm not that good at - a geometric element. My imagination can make up scenes of fictional events (e.g. when reading or writing fiction), but I struggle with puzzles that require spacial relationships or turning a 2D drawing into a 3D shape. (My brother is exceptional at this, designing 3D objects in his head and porting them in a CAD program, but my brain just does not want to do this kind of thing.) Your posts make it clear that you are "bright" in ways that surpass me - e.g. physics - I'm clueless there and struggle with what little I'm exposed to. In other words - we all have our talents and one of my useless ones is completing logic grid puzzles.

Anybody else interested in learning the Deseret Alphabet? The reddit sub for it is basically dead, and I think it would be helpful (and motivating) to be able to discuss it with another person. While in a way it looks simple enough, after a little review, I don't think it will be easy. I downloaded this PDF from DeseretAlphabet.org, as it seems like the most comprehensive tool for learning said alphabet. I don't think one needs to study all of it (unless desired) - the author even says so and tells you which parts you can skip over. Anywho, if you're interested, let me know and we can make a plan. And if anyone has a better document for learning to write this alphabet, please let me know. I looked for practice sheets - you know, the things they give little children with dashed lines and arrows of how to draw letters - but couldn't find any.

I should not be allowed to start puzzles near the end of my day! I caved and looked at the clue, which promptly made me feel like an idiot. From there the puzzle solved itself like cascading dominoes. It was still good fun and most unique. Thanks, @Vort!

And thus, a new symbol and a new conspiracy are born: (People in the know call them the "25-letterers")

A) Putting myself in the place you describe for yourself: I would rather be called anything and everything than live in a world where speech was compelled or banned. B) I would get a new job before submitting to compelled speech. C) If you think you can't get a new job, work harder, better, more honestly, with more integrity. You'll have no problem finding new work. The word "having", by definition, includes a willingness to use force, which means, by definition, taking away rights.

If it didn't, you wouldn't have used the word "having".

Must keep mouth closed. The Lord cannot come soon enough.

OK, good to know. I didn't have time to start it today, but I'll try it tomorrow.

Ooo, that looks like fun. Thanks! Am I right that the text under the grid is the answer? I avoided reading it and covered it with a box in Acrobat before printing.

The leaning snowman of Dalmation.

Oh yes, that does sound fun.

Clearly they should have made a snowdog.

Whether they get along otherwise or not, two alphas in charge of the same organization never made sense to me. I am kinda sad to see Ramaswamy gone, though - he has a lot of good ideas. Hopefully they don't need him to run with them.

This is mathematically impossible if you start where Brother Rush does, with Herbert Hoover. The feather that would be Trump and a second feather both get "eaten" by one of the heads at the same time (while they "thought also in themselves to reign" - suggesting they were hoping to, but never got there), and the heads rule. The last two feathers rule briefly after the three heads. So sure, three feathers after Trump, but nothing like a sequential, elected president. The only way to both keep Brother Rush's assertions and be consistent with the text of Esdras II, chapters 11 & 12 is if you claim the Trump is not really the one in power, that he and a second person (Vance? Harris?) have been gobbled up by the three heads and the heads are ruling without us knowing about it / recognizing it; or you claim that Trump himself is one of the three heads and that Trump already ate two others (feathers) who looked to rule. In which case, this is Trump's reign: So, ya know, if Trump succeeds in acquiring Greenland, and Canada. and the Panama canal, and the Gulf of America, and then the rest of the world, we'll know that two little feathers got eaten without our notice. Otherwise....

Welcome to ThirdHour, @DurangoUT01!

Hopefully any European reading this won't be offended, but really, once you've seen one European city, you've seen them all, in a way. The same could be said of US cities. Sure, each city has its own uniqueness, but I've found that cities are cities. If you're going to travel, better to go to widely divergent places than a bunch of similar cities, I think. Please don't get yourself killed! While I know I've been through many states, I really can't say I remember much about many of them. The ones I've spend enough time in to remember things: New York Nevada California Utah Wyoming Montana Arizona Oklahoma Texas Colorado Washington, D.C. area Technically, some Church sites in Illinois and Missouri, but it was long enough ago that I don't remember much Technically, I remember hours of driving past corn through half of Kansas, and past lots of nothing across New Mexico, but I'm not sure that should count. Travel does make for good education, though, even if only subconsciously. I've driven through part of Idaho. Hopefully @Gecko45 returns to share some of his adventures...

Yes, one can do that without leaving Europe. During the three years I worked in Moscow, and on two business trips years later, I only managed 19, I think. Excuse me while I get a map and list them. A "(t)" after the name means I only transited through the country and didn't see more than a train station / airport / port / whatever was out the window. US (born here) Canada (pre and post Moscow; Montreal in January is colder than Moscow ever dreamed of being!) Russia (newly minted, missed the USSR by 3 months) UK (just London) Estonia (t) Finland (fabulous place - Helsinki has such an incredible variety of food from more ethnicities than you can count) Czech Republic (or Czechoslovakia - I'm not sure which... googled - both, actually - I went there twice; Prague is the best European city I've been to) Hungary Austria (2x) Germany (2 times) Belgium Spain Italy Sweden Turkey (Holy yums, Batman - the food is amazing here. The ruins are good, too. The Mediterranean was gorgeous.) Cyprus (t) Yemen (t; the airport security were most upset with my mini pocket knife, but apparently a diplomatic passport trumps upset airport security folk) Kenya (don't know if it's safe anymore, but I highly recommend a photo safari!; I believe we crossed the equator 4 times on this trip ) Tanzania (t; our driver informed us after we'd made a technically illegal shortcut through Tanzania to get from one part of Kenya to another, and asked us to please not tell anyone ) I think that's everywhere.

Maybe Noah is the remnant. Of Enoch's seed, only Noah (and his descendants) survived/remained; none of the others. Did you notice the footnote on "remnant" that takes us to Moses 8:2? Link to Moses 7:52, for convenience.

You're welcome! Get out! And get away from these people. Maybe you can be a positive influence on them at some point in the future, but right now, they're the ones doing the influencing. You cannot help others until you yourself are on a firm footing. You know what to do, so be brave and humble, and do it! You're welcome. We all struggle with something. You've been watching too much of the wrong media / videos / podcasts / whatevers without viewing the other side. A huge percentage of the content of the internet isn't news or information - it's extremist propaganda - on all sides. If someone out there is reporting objectively on anything, I haven't found them. Candace Owens may not be the most objective person to believe on this matter. Go watch some Douglas Murray to get another view. (Or just quit watching this stuff and hanging out with people who eat it up.) I'm inviting you to read the chapter headings for Alma 1-3, and then to read all of Alma 4. The culture and church are becoming corrupted. Note what Alma does in response to the corruption around him. Ponder and pray about that for a while. Seriously, Brother Gecko, take yourself out of this environment and strengthen your Spirit for a while.

Dude's frontal lobe isn't even done developing. Maybe he's being ridiculous, maybe he's not. We don't know enough yet. You people are as brutal and unforgiving as the LGBTQ+ mob attacking the Southern Baptists. In the absence of sufficient information you've decided he's a rabid anti-Semite. In the absence of sufficient information I'm willing to believe maybe he's just a confused kid. Do you people really think that attacking this kid is going to convince him of anything (other than maybe that this is a hateful place)? Do you think he'll give you a chance to reason with him and help him understand that he is indeed doing the ridiculous thing that LDSGator demonstrated? And does all that seem Christlike to you? What if OP really is a rabid anti-Semite? You're certainly not helping him to back off that position. How many scriptures and General Conference talks do I need to quote before you catch on that no matter how awful anti-Semitism is, responding to this kid with unfounded attacks, assuming the worst of him, is not the way to help him or anyone else?

Gecko also said: So, he has questions. He's learned things about the behaviors of specific Jews, and other things from history (at least some of which seem dubious). These questions and the answers he's found (presumably outside the Church) are "ruining" his life. That is not the same as saying, "Jews are ruining my life."

I have no idea how you came to the conclusion, so apparently it's not that obvious. You're reading more than is there. I decline to jump to conclusions when we don't even have a single reply from the OP.

Show me where in this thread you and @Carborendum are bending over backwards to be polite?

What am I missing? Where in the OP does he say he's addicted to porn or confess to other sins related to the law of Chastity? I see nothing there to suggest the OP is struggling with some sin, per se. Rather, I see him struggling with questions. I have no trouble believing that a 20-something in this culture went looking for answers and fell into the rabbit hole of anti-Semitism. You can't walk around in that age group without tripping all over it. Since when do we start accusing people of specific sins without an ounce of evidence?