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Did you even try to ask the AI to create this image as if drawn with a fountain pen (by someone who can barely manage a stick figure)?

Huh. I have no idea when the rule was established, but even without the movie, it's clearly a good rule. Note that the rule is there for male and female missionaries: Part is safety, but part is also to avoid misperception, false accusation, etc. (How can Firefox's dictionary be so clueless that it doesn't recognize "misperception"? )

No it's not. As soon as the Lord comes, it will go.

He's not the only one. A fair number of former Democrats have decided that their party has abandoned the things they believe in.

I've watched a fair number of interviews with this guy. His legal career seems to be related to the field. He talks a lot about the pharmaceutical companies owning the NIH and other government regulatory bodies (something which seems obvious at this point). He talks details about America's health issues that are far above the rates for the same age groups in other countries (and the same age groups 50 years ago in the US), and the differences in the laws in the US vs those other countries related to what can go into food and about pharmaceutical use in children (e.g. doctors told to prescribe (type 2) diabetes medicines for children as young as 9 years old and not talk at all about diet and activity at all). To hear him describe his positions sounds a lot more credible than when "reporters" call him an "anti-vaxxer" and leave out all the rest. If all he did were clean up corruption in the various government agencies dealing with pharma, and get laws changed so that ingredients illegal in the EU are illegal in the US, I'd say he was a good pick.

...For those who can read German, anyway. Here's a Deseret News article which sums things up and links to the source material (recently obtained by the B. H. Roberts Foundation).

I listened to an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy and I gotta say, he had some great and simple ideas for how to cut down the size of government quickly. I think it was this one:

Maybe it won't work in the US (because so many in power want people to be addicted), but boy does this discussion sound reasonable:

Invite everyone. Tell them the conversation is restricted to their favorite fountain pens, inks, papers, and accessories. If they don't have these, send the conservatives to Goulet Pens and the liberal to Vanness Pens.

I would quite happily accept a few pounds of butter even without that life-saving "contains milk" warning. I mean, if the article hadn't informed us that butter is nothing more than churned milk, I might never have known! PS: Based on the reported comments, it's not the world that's stupid - it's the FDA (and lawsuits based on this sort of thing).

This is actually pretty common.

But whatever dialect / accent he grew up hearing most impacted his "ear" to not hear the difference between the two sounds - or, to hear both words pronounced the same and so his brain convinced him he couldn't hear any difference even when there was. That was my point - it's the same phenomenon as native English speakers trying to pronounce the Russian character ы (that's one letter).

This is a common issue for people learning foreign languages - the foreign language may include a sound the learner has never heard before. Often, they think they hear the closest sound with which they are familiar. It can be hard work to teach them how to pronounce the new sound (which often is the way to teach them to hear the new sound).

The solution to drug abuse / addiction is the same as the solution to every other such problem: the traditional family and the gospel of Jesus Christ1. The two together allow people to avoid the avoidable problems and better cope with the unavoidable (because they have a perspective and a support group to help them cope). As the family shrinks and extended family disconnect, those available to help become fewer and the burden on any given individual greater. Yes, I'm well aware that the world will not accept this solution and there are all too many for whom it's too late to have a traditional family (their parents are gone / were never married / siblings alienated / etc.). That doesn't change the fact that this is the proper solution. Everything else is a hack. A "band-aid" to manage the terminal disease that cannot be fixed in whole, but only, when we're lucky, for specific individuals who are fortunate enough to find / be found by a support group and learn / be taught better coping mechanisms. To that end, your method, @Carborendum, seems as good as any, but it has to include not just rehab, but general education, job training, and potentially relocation away from areas where the underlying problem is inescapable. 1Obviously, this assumes the family is loving and functional and that folks are living the gospel.

Certainly not true of all Utahns. I've never even heard that pronunciation. But there are some unusual pronunciations in the areas north of Salt Lake - particularly Cache Valley, and I've heard people from the Springville (south of Provo) area say "chimley" (instead of "chimney").

Short and to the point...

Note that my point was not to discuss what the prophecy meant or might mean, but Brother Rush's interpretation thereof. The minute you remove his interpretation, you open up all sorts of possibilities.

Welcome to ThirdHour, @Canada Goose!

Ah, but now I'm imagining a city built of rolls... Yummm! Edible buildings.... I recommend not buying above the first floor, lest your rooms collapse when the cinnamon roll you were built on gets eaten...

I should know better than to be disappointed. I saw a Candace Owens interview yesterday with a former CIA analyst. I'm sure most people will dismiss it all as absurd, but I have no trouble believing his claims. Fortunately, one day the world will end. And when it does, we'll learn the truth. (I also like to think about how shocked Richard Dawkins will be to find himself in the spirit world. )

Welcome to ThirdHour, @Grayman!

The way the prophecy reads, these two "feathers" never have power. To me, them being in charge, but ineffective doesn't really fit. These sorts of things fit: They're killed and something external rules over the whole world (thing WHO or WEF or something) They're actually part of that external something (or become part of it or are controlled by it) The rule of the three heads doesn't seem shadowy in the prophecy - it seems like we all know it and are oppressed by it (very WEF-y, frankly). Not three eagles. Three heads of the same eagle. Otherwise, yeah, something external to the normal US government. The two-headed was common. The three-headed was original, brief, and supposedly changed because of this prophecy. (Though the third head's crown remains.) Yes, lots of speculation about this, particularly involving the CIA and FBI. Having re-read it just prior to answering @person0, it didn't seem that way - it seemed like an external entity, but that could be all me. I mostly think that because whoever it is, they're described as ruling over the whole world, not just a kingdom (everyone else gets a kingdom...). Yeah, once the three heads wake up, things seem to devolve quickly. Hooray!

My OP has a link to Esdras II chapter 11 - that's for the google play book version (it's a free book that you can read in a browser or google's play books app). I like that version the best as I find some of the other translations seem inconsistent with how we interpret OT language. The prophecy continues into chapter 12. The verses alone won't tell you any of this. You have to go by the interpretation that Micheal B. Rush proposed (with corrections - see my OP). In that variation, after Biden's shortened presidency (11:27) (which is easily conceded - dude's all but disappeared), there are two who seek power, but before they can obtain it, the eagle's three heads wake up and "eat" them (11:28-31). Within the context of Micheal B. Rush's interpretation, the only valid alternatives are that Trump and Vance (I guess, since Vance would be president if Trump were killed before entering office) are killed, or that they are otherwise "eaten" by the three heads - however one wishes to interpret "eaten". To me, the way the following verses read, these three heads then rule the whole world "with much oppression". So it seems like it would be pretty obvious that it's not the US President in charge of the US, but something else. Then there's in-fighting between the three heads until only the one on the right remains. This one is confronted by a lion (the lion of Judah? see 12:31-34 - reads like Christ to me, or at least someone sent by Him) and (this third head) disappears. Then the final two feathers set up a small kingdom "full of uproar". Then they disappear and the body of the eagle is burned "so that the earth was in great fear". And that's the end of the dream. Chapter 12, starting in verse 10, then gives an interpretation of the vision. Of interest are verses 23-24 which describe the three heads of the eagle as three kingdoms

Well, lest @Vort suffer from excess happiness: I'll just note here that the three heads have about 2.5 months to wake up...

I hear lotion helps with that.