Wed - Apr 09, 2008 : 12:13 am
grateful
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Jacob : 5
PoeticIntensity
The first thing I thought of when I read this chapter, besides, "Holy moly, it's like almost midnight and I'm gonna dive into Jacob 5??", was the following:
In Jacob 4:1, he states how hard it was for them to keep plates, due to the difficulty in engraving. Well.... With that in mind, I asked myself, "How important is J...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Apr 06, 2008 : 07:29 pm
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Day 3 - Colorado Trip
PoeticIntensity
Today was pretty laid back. We watched one session of conference (Annie and Craig were gracious enough to let us watch it on their TV), played a lot of Brandon's new Wii, and went to a park which was pretty cool.
Other than that, today was .... average.
Here are some pics of the park.
Collin found some guy who was quite nice, flying ...
Personal
Sat - Apr 05, 2008 : 10:30 pm
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Day 2 - Colorado Trip
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Wow... It really is amazing what a good night's sleep can do to one's attitude. I don't know if everyone is affected this way, but man... Yesterday, it was all I could do to keep myself from just walking away from everyone and going to sleep. I was irritable, quick to frustration, and a general jerk to pretty much everyone.
...
Personal
Fri - Apr 04, 2008 : 10:05 pm
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Day 1 - Colorado Trip
PoeticIntensity
I'm beyond exhausted right now, so I'll do my best to blog. Not sure how it'll turn out, but...
I woke up this morning around 4:45am to travel in a minivan full of family members to Denver Colorado to visit Owen, the newest member of the Craig and Annie Young family. Our family, along with Chloe, Brandon, and Jovie made the trip.
Th...
Personal
Wed - Apr 02, 2008 : 05:31 pm
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Firefox Foils Phishing
PoeticIntensity
If you have had an email account for more than a month, chances are you get more spam than you get legitimate email.
Well, I have an email account which averages about 500 spams per day. I don't really care about this account, but that's beside the point.
Even though I usually never give spam mails a second thought, today I decided to c...
Computers / Current Events
Wed - Apr 02, 2008 : 02:33 pm
amazed
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Linux Software RAID On Trial
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Here at work, the time is fast coming where I will be required to put live, the server I've been working on for the past year.
And we all know that when the rubber meets the road, things get a little bit more serious.
I came to the conclusion that since I'm the only Linux person in this company, should the Linux servers ever decide to go *kap...
Computer Hardware / Computers / Linux / Programming
Wed - Apr 02, 2008 : 11:58 am
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Voicemail From Luci
PoeticIntensity
I was sifting through some old voicemails today, when I found this treasure. I almost deleted it when it was originally left, but I'm glad I didn't.
This will be fun to show Luci when she's older.
The voicemail itself is attached as audio in this entry....
Personal
Tue - Apr 01, 2008 : 11:39 pm
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Jacob : 4
PoeticIntensity
This chapter is full of doctrinal nuggets.
Some things I noticed this time around which I haven't noticed before are the following:
Verses 6-8 are primarily about the importance of revelation. We are told this importance is denounced by our time's people in 2nd Nephi 28:5-6. I had never made that connection before.
Interes...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 30, 2008 : 12:31 pm
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Jacob 3
PoeticIntensity
I've often wondered why this chapter isn't included in chapter 2. They both seem to go on about the evils of Jacob's audience. This chapter even goes further to say that the Lamanites at this time were more righteous than the Nephites because they have only one wife, and the husbands love their wives and children. They also are wi...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Mar 30, 2008 : 12:09 pm
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Jacob 2
PoeticIntensity
I honestly hope I'm never in the position to deliver a speech as the one Jacob records in this chapter. Holy moly.
He condemns pride, people seeking after riches, and chastity breakers to a degree not many other speeches can.
I wonder if the words he wrote were the same words he used in the speech, because a lot of the metaphors he uses a...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Jan 22, 2006 : 09:59 pm
no mood
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Sunday, Sunday....
PoeticIntensity
Hmm.... Today was pretty good. Stake Conference was surprisingly good, although I don't remember much of what was said. The Spirit was strong, and I guess that's all that really matters, if ya don't remember anything, that is. :) Anyway...
I wonder how next week is gonna be with my new job. I'm really going to have to figure out how to set up...
Wed - Oct 24, 2007 : 04:58 pm
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Temptation and Personal Battles
PoeticIntensity
Something which I've never even tried to verabalize, let alone write down is the subject for today's blog.
I've always thought there must be something wrong with me, since I've always been almost at the point of being tormented spiritually. That may seem a bit harsh, and surprising to those who know me, but it's true. Never actually ...
Spiritual
Wed - May 21, 2008 : 01:12 pm
happy
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User-Based RSS Feeds!
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(announcement)
Quite a few people have been wondering how they can get RSS feeds which are specific to the individual users of ILoveMyJournal.com. Until now, they couldn't.
ILoveMyJournal.com now has feeds which will contain public posts from only the user you're interested in!
To get it, you simply click on the RSS feed logo found within the user's blo...
I Love My Journal
Thu - Sep 20, 2007 : 06:13 pm
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"Posting Forms to Sessions" - Trick
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(how-to)
Any web developer who has been in the craft for more than a couple of days realizes how often forms are used in web development. Well... Where forms are used, form methods are used, and one of the crazily irritating problems with forms using a "POST" method is the fact that when the "back" button is pressed after lea...
Programming
Mon - Apr 23, 2007 : 11:12 pm
no mood
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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
Mon - May 09, 2011 : 10:17 am
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Mormon : 6
PoeticIntensity
So... Here's a thought for ya. Mormon had seen the end of his people. He knew the Nephites were going to be destroyed, and not only that, he knew how and when they were going to be destroyed. Verse 6 confirms this by relating, "...and knowing it to be the last struggle of my people". He knew his people...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Fri - Feb 15, 2008 : 12:19 am
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2nd Nephi : 5
PoeticIntensity
First thing which caught my attention this time around is verse 6.
I relate that verse to the way the Lord works. Basically, God lets everyone know about his plan, and those who believe Him will follow him.
This makes me wonder if Nephi, through some sort of parable, told Laman and Lemuel what he was planning to do as well, but they didn'...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Feb 05, 2009 : 09:54 am
excited
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New Song - "No Way Out"
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(audio entry)
At the beginning of this year, one of the things I wanted to accomplish by next year was to write enough songs to create an album. So far I have 3 songs I reallly like, and one which I think should be destroyed by fire. Not too shabby, considering it's only the beginning of February.
When I was 26, 1 day after I had broken up with my...
Music
Thu - Dec 27, 2007 : 11:16 am
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Writing...
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I've been finding it hard to write / blog lately, simply because I have no desire to write. I've been thinking about this for a bit, so I decided to write about ... writing.
In order to write / blog, I have to have something to write about - obviously. What isn't so obvious is, I always have something to write about.
I came to...
Miscellaneous
Mon - Apr 27, 2009 : 09:47 am
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Alma : 26 - Rejoicing
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Man... I can only imagine what Ammon's joy truly felt like. After reading D&C 18:15-16, I begin to see why Ammon fainted due to overwhelming joy so many times throughout his mission. Dedicating a full chapter to nothing but the rejoicing of Ammon seems perfectly reasonable.
I always thought his brothers were kind of rude to ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Oct 07, 2011 : 12:31 pm
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Moroni : 7 - Part 1
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I am SO glad that Moroni kept writing. Can you imagine the Book of mormon without the last 4 chapters of Moroni? The depth of explanation of faith, hope, and charity? The blessing of Babies? The promise and invitation to read the Book of Mormon, used by all missionaries? Yeah... There are some gems here in ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sun - Apr 26, 2009 : 10:15 pm
okay
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Points of Interest
PoeticIntensity
Oh wow. Man, life just keeps getting more and more interesting... along with frustrating, slightly scary, and faith-promoting. I won't get into the details here, though, because I want to talk about something else.
One thing which came at me as quite intriguing today during church was the concept of "Doctrine of Gratitude&...
Life / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Jun 11, 2009 : 09:52 am
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Alma 29
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Chapter 29 of Alma is such a good chapter - on so many levels, too.
How would it feel like to want the good of mankind so badly, that it caused you to take time to carve your feelings out in brass plates? Putting all the doctrine of this wonderful chapter aside, the beginning verses give me a tiny glimpse into the type of desires living a p...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Jul 25, 2008 : 04:16 pm
bored
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Gen. Conf. - Today - Wickman
PoeticIntensity
I enjoyed this talk, but to tell you the truth, I have no idea what to write about it. I think it has to do more with my current mood than anything else.
The talk made a great point that we need to live in the now. We need to utilize the atonement of Christ in order to secure a great tomorrow.
And as far as yesterday goes, I believe...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Dec 13, 2010 : 02:08 pm
excited
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We're on the radio!
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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
Mon - Nov 30, 2009 : 12:08 am
tired
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First Youtube Upload
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Man... This past month has been a friggin' whirlwind. I refuse to believe November is nearly gone.
Anyway... Jesse and I are almost done with our debut Christmas album, "Herod the Fink", and while recording the last drum session, I thought it might be cool to see what I look like when I play. Well, as fate would have i...
Drums / Music / Personal
Sun - Feb 24, 2008 : 09:30 pm
spiritual
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Fast Offerings
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About a month ago, our bishop told us that the fast offering fund for the poor people in our ward is running low, and that we should consider giving a generous offering.
I thought we should definitely consider doing so, but in the end, I forgot all about it.
Today, however, our Bishop dedicated the entire sacrament meeting to the topic of sacri...
Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Jun 09, 2008 : 09:15 pm
content
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2008 - Roth Memorial - Thursday
PoeticIntensity
I decided to document Friday's happenings of the 2008 Ed Roth (Rat Fink) Memorial Reunion because they were a bit funner than Thursday's. So....
Here's your boring report of Thursday. hehe... It was fun playing, but to me, it was more like a practice session for what was to come Friday and Saturday.
The video pretty much sums it...
Audio / Cars / Personal
Tue - May 27, 2008 : 04:39 pm
pensive
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Gen. Conf. - Who You Are - Burgess
PoeticIntensity
Pondering on the words of Elder Burgess, I am led down a thought process a bit different than where his talk went.
I've been noticing that we as humans define ourselves quite differently, and most do it subconsciously, than we think we do.
The whole concept of "defining oneself" baffled me some years ago.
My parents and my church ta...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual