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I posted about it like five or six posts above yours! It's just that you have w deeply ingrained habit of ignoring the incredible goodness of the LDS faith and her people and go straight to the negative. -
God is dead.Comment
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FIFYOriginally posted by ByronMarchant View Post"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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The Atlantic explains that Utah is the first to create a white-collar crime registry because "The state’s large Mormon community is particularly vulnerable to various financial schemes":
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...-crime/475896/Comment
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Long after you're dead the idea of God will endure.Originally posted by ByronMarchant View PostPLesa excuse the tpyos.Comment
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But he got better three days later.Originally posted by ByronMarchant View Postτὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσινComment
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Originally posted by All-American View Post
"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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Especially once he realizes he's dead and he's still there. He'll be allOriginally posted by creekster View Post
"I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"Comment
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Interesting article about Ammon Bundy's bodyguard, including a trip to Temple Square seeking an audience with the First Presidency:
http://www.vice.com/read/the-prophet...ource=homepageWes hadn't expected to end up at the center of something like this, his image appearing at the top of wire stories sent around the world, on the evening news, and even as the butt of jokes on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He was 31, from Manti, Utah, and when he heard about the standoff, he quit a gig on an oil rig in Colorado, where he'd been making nearly six figures, to drive his brand-new Jeep Wrangler through the night to Oregon. He had quickly been anointed Bundy's bodyguard, and in all of the pictures he stood with his sidearm like a lifelong acolyte next to a man who said his Mormon faith was what had led him and his followers to this point.
Everyone in the inner circle of the occupation was united by faith of some kind—to Bundy, it was a shared sense of a spiritual cause, and not Bundy's intense personal charisma, that explained his followers' loyalty and willingness to risk death or prison by his side. But Wes didn't think he still believed in God, and his relationship with the church was strained—he'd been engaged once, he said, only to have the Manti church hierarchy refuse to marry the couple in the local temple, because he and his fiancée had fooled around. So when Bundy and the rest of his inner circle bowed their heads to pray before every meeting, Wes stepped away. Yet he was there by his side at every press conference, guarding the door to the little office that had become the occupation's headquarters, and standing watch at night—waiting up, imagining federal officers battering down the door, and trying to think of what he would do when they came. "I will not point a gun at a federal officer," he had said, repeatedly, to anyone who would listen. But he was terrified about what violence would be unleashed if Bundy were killed. "They said, 'Will you catch a bullet for Ammon?' And I said, 'Sure, I can be a bullet-catcher.'""I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
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Here's a positive story of Mormons in the news. Two cousins in Fairfax, VA are being scouted by MLB teams. Both have committed to BYU and want to go on missions. Questions about why they didn't sign with College World Series winner UVA and if they'll actually forego MLB cash. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...mepage%2Fstory
I don't get why two different Mormons call a mission a "mission trip" in the article but I have my suspicions that it might have something to do with how the author of the article transcribed the quotes.Comment
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Nice quote by Bryce Harper about his "heavenly father upstairs.", in that article.Originally posted by I.J. Reilly View PostComment
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Am I missing it? Where are you guys discussing the death throes of the byu's honor code?
http://www.sltrib.com/news/3799848-1...rotesting-byus"More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)Comment
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