Tue - Mar 25, 2008 : 09:51 pm
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2nd Nephi : 32
PoeticIntensity
This chapter, to me, is all about following the Spirit.
Verses 3 and 5 are among the most potent in all of scripture.
"Feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do."
"...the Holy Ghost ... will show unto you all things what ye should do."
Doesn't get any clear...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Mar 24, 2008 : 11:34 pm
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2nd Nephi : 31 - Language
PoeticIntensity
All the other times I've read this chapter, it's been mostly about the whole baptism thing. Now, I don't discredit the sermon given about Christ being baptised, and the necessity for our being baptized to make it to heaven...
...But this time, something else struck me.
Ya know... I love having chats with people about the Gospel.&nbs...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 23, 2008 : 11:41 pm
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2nd Nephi : 30
PoeticIntensity
The beginning verses of this scripture were the ones of focus today.
For the past 2 chapters (or more), the Lord has been chastising the Gentiles, should they fall into the pride cycle and not repent.
The beginning 2 verses of this chapter basically says, "even though the Gentiles were bad, don't get on your high-horse, thinking you're any...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 23, 2008 : 11:25 pm
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How Grateful I Am
PoeticIntensity
I know a lot of the posts this year have been on the spiritual topic, but, I write about the events of my life, and so I guess this is what ya get.
Today was awesome.
If you've read my previous posts, you'll know that today I sang in the choir, gave a talk in sacrament meeting, and taught the 15-16 year old doctrine class.
It was wonderful.
...
Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Mar 22, 2008 : 09:21 pm
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2nd Nephi : 29
PoeticIntensity
Wow... What a testimony of the Book of Mormon, and of the prophets who wrote it.
This whole chapter is a rebuke against people who don't accept the Book of Mormon. Reading chapters like this strengthens my testimony concerning the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. I mean, what are the chances, if the Book of Mormon were false,...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Fri - Mar 21, 2008 : 10:56 pm
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2nd Nephi : 28
PoeticIntensity
Well.... From the first eight verses of this chapter, I could write pages. The first verse itself is a great testament to the veracity of Jacob 4:13, which states that the Holy Ghost "speaketh the truth and lieth not".
Because we all can be under the influence of the Holy Ghost (and worthy members have the opportunity to ha...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Mar 20, 2008 : 12:17 pm
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Talk For This Sunday
PoeticIntensity
Imagine for a moment you had no idea about the atonement of Christ.
Now imagine you sitting there and listening to what I have to say.
And the first thing you hear are the words, "God demands perfection for salvation."
Not sure about you, but for me, that creates a sort of sinking feeling inside... I put "perfection an...
Lds / Spiritual
Wed - Mar 19, 2008 : 10:52 pm
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When it rains...
PoeticIntensity
About a week ago, I began thinking I needed another project. I really was getting to thinking about how I spend my time, and how I can better use the time I have.
Nothing popped out at me, until yesterday.
Yesterday, I got a call from one of the people in my ward, and he asked me if I would teach the 15-16 year olds in their gospel doctri...
Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Mar 19, 2008 : 10:46 pm
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2nd Nephi : 27
PoeticIntensity
In the beginning of this chapter, I didn't realize that the book to which the verses were referring was the Book of Mormon.
I guess this chapter answers the question, "What is in the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon?". The answer is quite simply found in verse 10: "...for behold, they reveal all things from the foun...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Mar 19, 2008 : 12:16 am
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2nd Nephi : 26 - Part 2
PoeticIntensity
Ya know, I sure am glad that Nephi wrote verse 22 of this chapter. In all of scripture, this is the only chapter which uses the word "flaxen" to describe the way Satan tempts us.
Flax is a fiber from a plant which is used to make linen. Linen isn't known for its strength.
Satan indeed does "lead us" with very ent...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Dec 13, 2010 : 02:08 pm
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We're on the radio!
PoeticIntensity
Okay.. Not really the "radio", but a cool little Internet radio station picked up Herod the Fink (a band I'm in), and decided to feature us. They decided to play our song, "Desperate Husband's Chorus", and I think it's way cool.
The radio station is called "LDS Music Today" and can be found at http://www.ldsmu...
Herod The Fink / Personal
Sun - Jul 04, 2010 : 11:20 am
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"Tell Me Why" - Finished!
AudioGuru
Happy 4th of July to everyone!
We finally finished mixing and mastering Ear Candy's debut single, Tell Me Why, and quite frankly, we've loved working on it here in the studio. The finished copy can be heard in our samples section, and Ear Candy has made it freely available to anyone and everyone who would like a copy.
Just let them know h...
Music
Mon - Nov 10, 2008 : 08:47 am
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Welcome to Conference - Monson
PoeticIntensity
This morning I decided I'd start the traditional blogging of each general conference talk from the last general conference in October.
As President Monson began this talk, a familiar spirit filtered in to my office at work and inevitably, my heart was opened to the inspired words of our wonderful prophet.
I'm so grateful for our church. I...
General Conference / Lds / Religion / Spiritual
Wed - Aug 15, 2007 : 12:31 pm
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Another Mormon Myth?
PoeticIntensity
Wow... Three entries in a matter of a couple of hours. I guess I've got a lot to write.
A couple months back, I wrote about a pet-peeve of mine. Has to do with a phenomenon whereby people claim something doctrinal which really has very little, if any, doctrinal basis at all.
Well... I believe I remembered something else which just might...
Lds
Fri - Jun 18, 2010 : 11:54 am
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3 Nephi : 2
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... I think these chapters are meant to teach us how frail the hearts of men are. Okay... Here's a good question.. How long did it take the Nephites to go from "seeing the sign of the birth of Jesus Christ" (this is *Christ* we're talking about here. *The Messiah*. How long did it take them from seeing that ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Dec 05, 2007 : 09:51 pm
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Why is Pixar so Awesome?
PoeticIntensity
I just finished watching the Pixar movie, "Cars" for the 45th time. Or maybe it was the 4500th time. I don't know... I lost count.
Anyway... During the movie, despite my having seen the movie more times than I've kissed my kids, and even though those kids were crawling all over me and generally trying their best to be a nui...
Current Events / Miscellaneous
Sun - Dec 06, 2009 : 01:16 pm
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What's With Snow and Me?
PoeticIntensity
Today, I woke up to about 6-10 inches of fresh powdery snow all over the place. It's actually beginning to feel like Christmas time, now!
Now, most normal people would say within themselves, "Man, I hate snow on the roads.", but not me.
I'm not entirely sure why I'm this way, but it's been this way ever since I can remem...
Life / Personal
Sun - Jul 29, 2007 : 01:13 pm
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Transcoding subtitles
PoeticIntensity
Today I needed to encode a movie I bought on Friday (Fearless), and I wanted to encode it in its native language, but have english subtitles. The command I ended up using was this:
transcode -a 0 -i Fearless.dump -M 2 -w 2200,250,100 -A -N 0x2000 -y xvid -o Fearless.avi -Z 854x480 -J extsub=2:0:0:0:0:100:255:2:3
The "a" takes care...
Thu - Jan 10, 2008 : 09:49 pm
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1st Nephi : 6
PoeticIntensity
I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I lost the post I just wrote about chapter 6.
I didn't realize how short it was, so I wrote about the importance of scriptures spoken of in verse 5. If we didn't have scriptures, our kids would eventually lose the commandments of God (unless, of course, it was revealed again).
Also, it's good to not...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Jan 06, 2011 : 12:19 am
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Taylor Miller Session
AudioGuru
Man... I'm kicking myself right now for not taking a photo of this amazing musician, but I was way too interested in the music I was hearing to worry about silly cameras.
Taylor Miller came in for a visit, and recorded 3 original songs tonight. They have yet some proper embellishment to receive, but the tracks we got tonight were primo.&nbs...
Music
Mon - Sep 07, 2009 : 01:24 pm
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Grand Opening
AudioGuru
(announcement)
The site is finished and life is good! Welcome everyone who has a demo just waiting to be realized. Advanced Budget Studios is here just waiting to make your life that much better. Come on down and get your demo made just the way you want it to - cheap, quick, and sounding great! Click here to go to the brand-new site!...
Audio / Music
Fri - Sep 30, 2011 : 10:50 pm
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Moroni : 3
PoeticIntensity
Moroni 3. This one isn't speaking much to me, but I did find it interesting that only after they prayed, the disciples excercised their priesthood to ordain offices in the priesthood. ...and that it was done through endurance through faith on the name of Christ. Enduring to the end has always been pretty much the last key to...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures
Tue - Jun 21, 2011 : 04:43 pm
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Mormon : 9 - Love?
PoeticIntensity
Growing up, I used to have a mis-conception that those who erred against God in their ways were best suited for rebuke the way God gives it in the scriptures. I was ignorantly judgemental, and for a long time, couldn't understand why people tended to shy away from my tactics.
Reading the beginning of this chapter brings back a lot of those ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Jun 25, 2010 : 10:38 am
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Herod The Fink Continues...
AudioGuru
We had the awesome opportunity to work, once again, with Herod The Fink last weekend, and ended our session with some serious improvements to some songs we had already recorded.
We totally re-invented the introduction to Desperate Husband's Chorus, which now is sure to give a healthy round of grins to all that hear it. We also put a pretty ...
Audio / Music
Fri - Dec 14, 2007 : 11:40 pm
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poetry one
kelly miller
Poetry by Kelly Miller
THis is dedicated to my son Shawn VanWagen who left on his mission in 2005 and that next week I started writing poetry. It has been a big part of my life since and has kept me very busy. Also, to President Hinckley and his challenge for the members to read the book of mormon. and to Bernice Hutchenson w...
Poetry
Sun - Sep 23, 2007 : 11:18 pm
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History of ILoveMyJournal
PoeticIntensity
Why, oh why, did I create this site? For those of you wondering what this site is all about, read on. For those of you who couldn't care less, read on. For those of you who enjoy reading my blog, or otherwise, read on. Okay... That was stupid. Ohwell...
I Love My Journal (ILMJ) was originally created for one reason ...
I Love My Journal / Personal
Tue - Jul 05, 2011 : 10:44 am
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Ether : 4
PoeticIntensity
So, on last chapter's post, someone left a wonderful comment. Thank you, whoever you are. That is precisely why I do this.
Now... Ether 4. This chapter starts out with an interesting verse. I guess Mosiah would have had several channels whereby he could have known he should not let the book of Ether out of the bag u...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Jan 22, 2008 : 10:06 pm
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1st Nephi : 14
PoeticIntensity
When I sit and think about what I just read, the 14th chapter of 1st Nephi is pretty crazy.
Just a few points...
The majority of the chapter is all about the "mother of abominations" and the "whore of all the earth".
I believe it's written here to clarify the impact this (these) church(es) has (have) had upon the plain and...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Sep 25, 2007 : 10:01 am
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Unbelievable Microsoft Excel Bug
PoeticIntensity
Okay.
How long has Microsoft been in business? How long have they been the "best seller" of productivity suites? Oh yeah... and one last question: How many people have bought their Office software?
Yeah.... That's what I thought. LOADS, GRUNDLES, MILLIONS.
So.... I was reading my RSS feeds this morni...
Microsoft
Sun - Aug 30, 2009 : 09:36 pm
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Sugar Stone Project
AudioGuru
SugarStone made a surprise appearance last Saturday, and even though the fanfare was short, they ended up leaving with a new freshly baked demo.
It's called Ready Set Go, and is currently awaiting your ears on their facebook page....
Audio