Mon - Apr 21, 2008 : 03:33 pm
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Gen. Conf. - Exaltation - Nelson
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In this day of rampant immorality and addictive pornography, parents have a sacred responsibility to teach their children the importance of God in their lives. Those evils, so highly destructive of divine potential, are to be strictly shunned by children of God.
When a child needs correction, you might ask yourself, “What can I say or do t...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Apr 20, 2008 : 09:48 pm
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Words Of Mormon
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Today during gospel doctrine, our teacher brought up a point I'm not entirely sure I knew or not.
When Nephi states that he is keeping the record for a "wise purpose" in God, yet Nephi openly states he doesn't know what that purpose is, I've always assumed that purpose is the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.
And I was right...&nb...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Apr 20, 2008 : 09:10 pm
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Omni
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I thought I had to substitute teach the 15-16 year old class today, so I prepared it this morning, only to find out I didn't.
That's okay, because the gospel doctrine teacher we have is amazing, and I got to sit in his class!
Omni....
One of the best lines of this chapter is in verse 2. "I myself am a wicked man". I'm...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Fri - Apr 18, 2008 : 06:00 pm
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Gen. Conf. - Sustaining - Uchtdorf
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I didn't really anticipate writing anything about the sustaining of the church officers after seeing it, but for some reason, when President Uchtdorf asked all the elders and high priests to stand and sustain Thomas S. Monson as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, something I didn't expect ...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Apr 17, 2008 : 04:29 pm
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Nature's Way Site is Live!
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I've been working on this entry for days, and I think I'm finally ready to get it out there.
But first, let me say that this is quite possibly the most rewarding programming job I've done to date.
I was hired on at Nature's Way last year in June. I was hired on with the understanding that I was to completely re-develop the public Nature...
Computers / Nature's Way / Programming
Tue - Apr 15, 2008 : 11:57 pm
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Jarom
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Jarom, for some reason, didn't seem all that inspired to me, this time around.
The only thing which caused me to question was verse 2.
To me, it seems that Jarom didn't want to write "much" for two reasons: 1. Because the plates are small, and 2. They are being written for the benefit of the Lamanites.
I guess I can u...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Apr 15, 2008 : 01:11 am
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My Birthday 2008
PoeticIntensity
Well... I put this in the "Current Events" category primarily because it's really late, and I'm kinda caffeinated. Other than that, life is pretty normal.
Let's see here... My birthday. I don't usually write about my birthday, but I don't know why I don't. I really should. Maybe it's because my birthdays r...
Current Events / Personal
Sun - Apr 13, 2008 : 12:03 pm
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Enos
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Someone of spiritual authority once told me that anyone who read the book of Enos, and marked his scriptures based on importance, would have the entire book of Enos highlighted.
After reading it this morning, I can see why.
The first thing that hit me was the phrase, and my father "taught me in his language". If we read the fi...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Apr 10, 2008 : 09:23 pm
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Jacob : 7 - Sherem
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I believe that Sherem is the first "villain" of the Book of Mormon after Laman and Lemuel, who could be considered an "anti-christ". Not 100% sure, but I don't remember anything standing out in 1st or 2nd Nephi. This guy reminds me of Nehor, Korihor, and Amalickiah.
Some points of interest this time around are:
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Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Apr 09, 2008 : 10:08 pm
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Jacob : 6
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The first thing which caught my eye in this chapter is in verse 5 where it says "Cleave unto God as he cleaveth unto you."
When I read that, the first thing which came to mind was D&C 88:63, which states, "Draw near unto me and I will draw near unto you."
I also think this is one of the first times, if not the first time...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Feb 24, 2008 : 09:09 pm
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2nd Nephi : 9 - Part 2
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The first verse which caught me in the reading of the last half of 2nd Nephi 9 was verse 39.
The question came to mind: "Why would God need to have us "remember" the awfulness of sin?" ... Well... The answer is quite simple, really. Because Satan laces all sorts of lies within the temptation of sin.&nbs...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Nov 03, 2015 : 12:10 am
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Thanks4giving 2
PoeticIntensity
So, today's entry is going to be a bit less, but I still was able to see God's hand in my life quite a bit.
I had a late studio session to tend to, but I had felt horrible all day long... I prayed that I would be able to have a great session, and it went really well. Everything that needed to happen, happened, and nothing too t...
Thanks4giving
Mon - Apr 23, 2007 : 11:12 pm
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Judgmental Paradox
PoeticIntensity
I'm not even sure if that's spelled right. Ohwell..
Two things:
I love the smell of new leather. I went into my car to get my laptop to blog, and the smell of new Mustang GT leather came to greet me. I love it.
I don't appreciate enough the fact that my wife is so emotionally stable. She really is. Serious. Whenever I see someone who...
Sun - Sep 30, 2007 : 12:46 pm
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Children Of God
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Once, after inquiring the reasons why he believed Mormonism was wrong, a good Baptist friend of mine began telling me about Satan and his desire to take the throne of God before the world was.
Everything he told me was true and accurate, as far as my knowledge goes. Satan did try to take the throne of God and was thusly cast out of heaven ...
Lds / Spiritual
Wed - Apr 20, 2011 : 04:10 pm
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Mormon : 3
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If there is one thing throughout all eternity that I do *NOT* want to happen to me, is what happened to the Nephites in verse 15 of this chapter. Having the Lord, God of this earth, proclaim, "Vengeance is mine, and I will repay", kind of makes the hair on my neck stand up. The Lord makes good on all of his promises, and...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Thu - Oct 13, 2011 : 09:35 am
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Moroni : 9
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What a horrible, yet extremely personal and hopeful chapter. The nature of it reminds me of the psalm of Nephi (2 nephi 4:15-end). What horrible, horrible things were going on at the end, but it just amazes me, the strength of Mormon, and his constant prayers for Moroni - and his pleading to God for his soul to be brought b...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures
Tue - Mar 22, 2011 : 11:53 am
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Linux: Extracting audio from video
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So, I used to use the -dumpaudio switch in mplayer to get audio extracted from random videos, but now that seems to do not much of anything. I found this site which had a great explanation of how to get it done a different way, but was a bit out of date. The newer version is found below:
mplayer -vo null -ao pcm:file=audio_file_...
Audio / Linux
Tue - Feb 10, 2009 : 10:46 pm
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Green Bay Day 2
PoeticIntensity
Well.. Today wasn't as bad as I thought. The only thing that really got to me was this lack of sleep. I woked up at 6:30 this morning, and by 2:00pm, this afternoon, I was dead.
I won't bore you with details, but today was filled with food, and loads of technical information. I've really got to get to sleep now, so I'm go...
Life / Nature's Way
Tue - Jun 07, 2011 : 12:51 pm
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iPhone cloud vs Android
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Okay... So, this isn't gonna be the rant that you thought it was by the title. With the little time I have, I couldn't come up with a better one...
So, the story is - I had just eaten a delicious burger at Coney's, when on my way home, I happened to turn on Rush Limbaugh. He was talking about this new "cloud" technolog...
Babblings / Linux / Miscellaneous
Mon - Aug 27, 2007 : 01:39 pm
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ILMJ gets Images!
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(how-to)
Yup... You heard it right. You can now add images to your journal entries at I Love My Journal. Here's how:
Simply click on the "write" button when you first come to the site.
Then you log in, if you haven't already, by providing your username and password.
After a successful login, you'll be presented with the following ...
I Love My Journal
Sun - Oct 14, 2007 : 01:12 pm
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How Much Is Required?
PoeticIntensity
Man, something must be up with the ward I attend, because even though I've been going to the same ward for the last 3 years, the past 6 weeks have been..... very spiritually nourishing.
I'm not saying that until then, it wasn't wonderful, but I've never loved going to church as much as I have during the past 6 weeks. It's weird. I'm ...
Lds / Spiritual
Fri - Jun 27, 2008 : 11:14 pm
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Sam Payne 2008!
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Ya know, I'm not a very good critic in so many areas, simply becuase I'm not very picky. I like lots of kinds of food, I like lots of kinds of music, I get along with lots of types of people, etc... But, I simply must write about this.
Sitting here trying to figure out how to start this review is quite daunting considering the ma...
Current Events / Music
Mon - Apr 20, 2009 : 08:31 am
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Alma : 25
PoeticIntensity
After having killed one thousand and five of their own people, and having realized they didn't really want to be killing their own people, I imagine the anger of the Lamanites went to pretty extreme levels.
I can't imagine the scene which must have taken place at the city of Ammonihah. That has got to be one of my favorite "God's justi...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sat - May 05, 2007 : 12:25 am
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2-month SSH battle -- finally won.
PoeticIntensity
Okay. I've gotta write this down for two reasons:
So I don't forget what I just figured out.
I hope to high heaven someone doesn't have to go through what I just did to figure something THIS SIMPLE.
On with the story.
Well, about 2 months ago my server started acting strangely. The most notable symptom of this strangeness was manifested by a...
Tue - Jan 26, 2010 : 06:45 pm
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Alma : 54 - Moroni's Anger
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Wow... Moroni doesn't mix words, does he... Reading this through as much of an objective filter as possible, I'd say there's some serious judgements going on. Moroni blatantly calls Ammoron a "child of hell", and tells him that his brother went to hell. heh... Pretty gutsy, if ya ask me. Going off of wh...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures
Tue - Oct 30, 2007 : 04:56 pm
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No Extensions In Firefox?
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I'm getting like crazy frustrated here...
You know all those wonderful firefox extensions which allow web developers like me to work even faster and more efficiently? Well... They must all hate me.
I've heard incredible things about Firebug and Y-Slow as far as web development tools go, but can I use them?
Apparently no...
Gentoo / Programming
Sun - Feb 14, 2010 : 07:30 am
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Life, Music and Possibilities
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It's been a while since I just sat down to write about whatever comes out of my fingers. I now have about an hour of free time, so I think I'm gonna do just that.
It's been kind of interesting that in various points in my life, I've wanted to get rid of the thoughts of doing something musical professionally, but it always seems to come back...
Life / Music / Personal
Thu - May 05, 2011 : 09:53 am
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Mormon : 5 - Arms of Jesus
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So, the past few days have been days of trial, and these days come and go largely, I believe, to help me remember the covenants I've made to God, and to help me remember how sweet it is to feel the Spirit.
When I read the end of verse 11, I wondered what those who had never felt "clasped in the arms of Jesus" might think of those ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Sep 19, 2007 : 03:14 pm
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Viruses and Linux
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Yesterday, my wife spent some time setting up her "my space page", which I absolutely refuse to do for myself, and when she got it done, she was pretty happy with herself. I helped her with some images and that was that.
Later on in the evening, she mentioned that she had received an email from Annie (my sister-in-law who I love)...
Computers / Linux
Tue - Oct 20, 2009 : 07:37 am
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Alma : 41
PoeticIntensity
My first question comes from the first verse. "Why would anyone be 'worried' about the law of restoration?" Well... Let's take it from the potential perspective of someone in Corianton's situation. I guess if I had sinned with a harlot while I was on my mission, I might be a bit worried that the whole "what ye...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual