Jerusalem Temple

[mikbone]

This is our compromise.  There are still books crammed all over the place in closets, steel lockers that I purchased for the cause, and about another ton or so boxed in the garage that she insists we cannot part with.

Good luck with your remodel.

Edited June 13, 2024 by mikbone

[Carborendum]

11 minutes ago, mikbone said:

This is our compromise.  There are still books crammed all over the place in closets, steel lockers that I purchased for the cause, and about another ton or so boxed in the garage that she insists we cannot part with.

Good luck with your remodel.

Nice house.  Makes me jealous.  But we do have more books than you appear to have.

I'm hoping it will all be back to normal some time this weekend.

[Vort]

33 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

Nice house.  Makes me jealous.  But we do have more books than you appear to have.

I'm sure that's just his selection for nighttime reading.

[mikbone]

58 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

But we do have more books than you appear to have.

For your sake I hope not.

These are the 4 lockers…

Plus the hidden ones in closets, shelfs, and the tonnage of boxed books in the garage that will likely never see the light of day. 

Edited June 13, 2024 by mikbone

[mikbone]

I am a proponent of book burning btw.

And I am not allowed to touch or put any of my stuff on those shelves.

Edited June 13, 2024 by mikbone

[Carborendum]

52 minutes ago, mikbone said:

I am a proponent of book burning btw

How did we get from the Jerusalem Temple to book burning?

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

2 hours ago, mikbone said:

This is our compromise.  There are still books crammed all over the place in closets, steel lockers that I purchased for the cause, and about another ton or so boxed in the garage that she insists we cannot part with.

Good luck with your remodel.

Jeez, that room is almost the size of my entire house. 

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

18 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

How did we get from the Jerusalem Temple to book burning?

it is a natural transistion... 

[NeuroTypical]

My older kid has developed a book lust all on her own.  The other day I handed over my inherited 1966 edition of Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, by Catherine Drinker Bowen.  Her eyes glowed.

My "library" such as it is, consists of two parts:

- 3 bookcases, of roughly the same size as Mik pictured above.  

- 42 gig of data, consisting of ~13k files, including (among other things) the complete works of FARMS.  iCloud, plus a local backup, plus an occasional offsite backup.

 

 

[mikbone]

23 minutes ago, Carborendum said:

How did we get from the Jerusalem Temple to book burning?

This thread was resurrected from 2014.  I’m hijacking it.

[mrmarklin]

Got rid of all the books and magazines years ago.   Everything I have is on my iPad.  A great invention, BTW.  

Still have some legacy "coffee table" books.  Also has anyone seen a coffee table recently????

[mikbone]

1 hour ago, mrmarklin said:

Still have some legacy "coffee table" books.  Also has anyone seen a coffee table recently????

You mean a hot chocolate table? 😉 😜 

[Traveler]

On 6/13/2024 at 12:44 PM, mikbone said:

This is our compromise.  There are still books crammed all over the place in closets, steel lockers that I purchased for the cause, and about another ton or so boxed in the garage that she insists we cannot part with.

Good luck with your remodel.

I am at a strange stage of life.  I am likely closer to requiring assisted living that I am to when I had to register for SS (though the SS stuff seems like yesterday).  I have a collection of old books (obviously out of print) – no idea how valuable they are.   I have a set of student reference books (similar to an encyclopedia, published in the late 1800’s) that I have kept just because it says that Mormons can be visually spotted because of their horns – complete with pictures (more like illustrations).

I figure I might as well get rid of most books because none of my kids are interested in them.  Just departed from my “Journal of Discourses” set – a nephew wanted them.

One question about your house – What is a bed doing in an open sitting room with no window coverings? 

When finished with the remodel I will provide pictures of our remodeled house.

 

The Traveler

[mikbone]

7 minutes ago, Traveler said:

One question about your house – What is a bed doing in an open sitting room with no window coverings? 

I did mention the size of my family in the past no?

And I get to make structural / mechanical decisions.  Colors / furniture etc. is out of my control.

[NeuroTypical]

18 hours ago, mikbone said:

19 hours ago, mrmarklin said:

Still have some legacy "coffee table" books.  Also has anyone seen a coffee table recently????

You mean a hot chocolate table?

I'm sure he means a "kick your feet up on this" table.

In our house, we just have large square cushion things that are roughly the size and height of a coffee table.  The dog uses them as launchpads as she's coming to say hi to whoever is in a chair.

[Vort]

53 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

large square cushion things that are roughly the size and height of a coffee table

Aka an ottoman, named for a guy named Otto, presumably because he was eight feet tall.

[mordorbund]

On 6/13/2024 at 5:10 PM, NeuroTypical said:

iCloud, plus a local backup, plus an occasional offsite backup.

In my youth when people accused me of illegally copying my siblings' cd's I informed them that I was providing them with offsite backups and I would periodically play them to ensure data integrity.

I didn't realize we had so much in common.

[askandanswer]

On 6/12/2024 at 1:12 AM, Lindsay Powell said:

These are significant quotes by Elder McConkie but the source really needs to be included to do any of us much good. Please attach a source!

Bruce R. McConkie, Millennial Messiah, p. 279-280 )

As quoted on page 5 (or p.439) of https://www.ldsgospeldoctrine.net/bwc/bwc-ot-35.pdf

[askandanswer]

On 6/14/2024 at 6:40 AM, NeuroTypical said:

My older kid has developed a book lust all on her own.  The other day I handed over my inherited 1966 edition of Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, by Catherine Drinker Bowen.  Her eyes glowed.

My "library" such as it is, consists of two parts:

- 3 bookcases, of roughly the same size as Mik pictured above.  

- 42 gig of data, consisting of ~13k files, including (among other things) the complete works of FARMS.  iCloud, plus a local backup, plus an occasional offsite backup.

 

 

When it comes to digital gospel libraries I recommend https://www.gospelink.com/. Its become quite old now and I don't think its being regularly added to but it still contains a great deal of accessible material.

I would be interested in hearing what other sources people have found to be helpful and reliable.

 

Edited June 16, 2024 by askandanswer

[NeuroTypical]

8 hours ago, askandanswer said:

I recommend https://www.gospelink.com/.

Glad to see this made it online, sad to see it's fifty bucks a year for access.  I am sorely tempted.

In my 20's when I had become active again (and believing for the first time), I was called to teach Gospel Principles.   I knew pretty much nothing about the gospel, so I was truly just one lesson ahead of my class.  My $4.99 gospelink CD was utterly invaluable to figuring out what I believed and why. 

Plus, it set the gold standard for useful search engines that remained the gold standard until just recently when AI happened.

[mikbone]

11 hours ago, askandanswer said:

When it comes to digital gospel libraries I recommend https://www.gospelink.com/. Its become quite old now and I don't think its being regularly added to but it still contains a great deal of accessible material.

I purchased the CD a few times.  And enjoyed the search function.

I haven't felt the need for the for the library in over a decade though.

Alot of the material was from a secondary source or of a personal opinion nature.

I’m pretty well read in LDS ancillary teachings.  And I have come to the conclusion that the Scriptures and conference talks from modern day prophets are always a better source.  Although I do have a particular love for Joseph Smith’s insights as found in the Joseph Smith Papers.

[Carborendum]

On 6/14/2024 at 2:13 PM, mikbone said:

You mean a hot chocolate table? 😉 😜 

Well, yes.  They tend to be chocolate colored.  But I don't see why they would be hot.  

[Carborendum]

On 6/15/2024 at 9:13 AM, Vort said:

Aka an ottoman, named for a guy named Otto, presumably because he was eight feet tall.

Or did he have eight appendages?

[NeuroTypical]

1.  The Octogonal Ottoman is the height of fashion, only when using these colors:

 

2. This guy:

[Highlander]

On 6/14/2024 at 4:44 AM, mikbone said:

This is our compromise.  There are still books crammed all over the place in closets, steel lockers that I purchased for the cause, and about another ton or so boxed in the garage that she insists we cannot part with.

Good luck with your remodel.

I too married a book dragon. I have to fight to prevent her buying bookshelves because I know she will try to fill them