Sun - Jan 06, 2008 : 09:31 pm
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Song - Livin' Right
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(audio entry)
Okay. I've been working on a song since a while back, actually... I wrote the lyrics on the same night I wrote this entry.
Anyway... It's just about done. All I'm waiting for now is some seriously kicking piano tracks from my good friend Scott. As soon as I receive those, I'm all but sure they'll kick bootie, and I'll incoropor...
Audio / Music / Personal
Sat - Jan 05, 2008 : 06:51 pm
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1st Nephi : 2
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Things that impressed me for this chapter were different than any time I've read it before (that I can remember), and that, being as simple as it is, is a testament to me as to why we should continue reading the Book of Mormon throughout our entire lives.
Interesting how Laman and Lemuel consider the spiritual visions of Lehi to be "foolishn...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Fri - Jan 04, 2008 : 11:52 am
irritated
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HD? Don't Use Vista!
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I just got done reading an account of a guy who, for reasons having to do with his own personal HD video editing of his own personal HD videos taken by his own HD camcorder which I suppose he didn't steal, decided to purchase an HD monitor.
Due to his desire to experience true HD, for unknown reasons, Microsoft decided to not let him.
Although ...
Drm / Microsoft
Thu - Jan 03, 2008 : 10:11 pm
tired
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1st Nephi : 1
PoeticIntensity
Three things stood out at me during tonight's study session:
1. I wonder where the translation of the plates of Lehi are right now? I've never read the history of the Chuch, so I don't know if it's documented there, but Joseph Smith had them, and had them returned to him after he lost them. Did he destroy them? Are they somewhe...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Jan 02, 2008 : 10:10 pm
grateful
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Book of Mormon Intro.
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This entry begins the documenting of my studies of the Book of Mormon in my "journal". One of my new year's resolutions for 2008 is to read, study, and write about every chapter in the Book of Mormon. I figured today was as good a time as any to begin.
And so I begin with the Introduction of the Book of Mormon.
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I nev...
Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Jan 01, 2008 : 02:54 am
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2007 For Me...
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Today I had time to reflect on everything which happened this year. I'll try my best to articulate my thoughts, though I'm not exactly sure what will turn up.
2007 was a year of goal making, goal breaking, and goal taking.
I really hate to say this, in fact, I hesitate to even make mention of it, due to its total cliche, but it's really t...
Personal
Thu - Dec 27, 2007 : 11:22 am
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Uncomfortable Spirituality
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I was brought up in a good, wholesome LDS home where abuse wasn't even thought about. I didn't even know abuse was a word until I learned about it from others. I went to church, had a good time, and generally enjoyed a wonderful family life.
During my teenage years, I started thinking about spirituality for no apparent reason. I star...
Music / Personal / Spiritual
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
Fri - Dec 21, 2007 : 03:08 pm
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Ardour, Jack, Digital Mix Reset
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Since I began using Ardour to record music, (and more music), I've always managed to have the same problem crop up, year after year. The symptoms of this problem are annoying to say the least.
I'm running all my audio through an M-Audio 1010 digital interface and I use envy24control to monitor and adjust the channels via. software. I ...
Audio
Sun - Dec 16, 2007 : 05:31 pm
anxious
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Gotta Start Another Project....
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I'm going crazy in my life again. I'm kinda weird that way.
Things are going well and then I finish a project, or get sick of it, or something else. Heck, the whole "project" mentality I have is what started this whole "ilovemyjournal" thing (as well as ldscompanion.org). I also wrote and produced 17 very ama...
Personal
Sun - Mar 22, 2009 : 12:52 pm
spiritual
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Alma : 16
PoeticIntensity
The main thing that stuck out in this chapter was obviously the destruction of Ammonihah. As I've stated in a previous post, I find it so interesting that one of the judges of Ammonihah was the one who mentioned that "even if thou shalt declare this city shall be destroyed in one day, we shall not believe it." It was as if the...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Spiritual
Thu - Jan 10, 2008 : 11:16 am
blah
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Way to go, Sony.
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I just got done reading an excerpt on Sony's new "open", "non-DRM" solution to downloading their music legally.
As I understand it, you have to go to a store, buy some sort of card for $12.99 which has a magic code on it, get the code, go to a website, enter the code, and then you are able to download one of their whole 37 alb...
Drm
Mon - Jul 01, 2002 : 01:22 am
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Cave Experience in California. Exclusive with Sarah.
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Wow... Ok... On Saturday, I played hooky yet AGAIN from work. I know I shouldn't have, but I was going to miss an excursion up to a cave in Auburn, CA with 20 other awesome people. I gave it some thought, and I figured that this would probably be my only opportunity to get to go in this situation, so... I went. I had a WONDERFUL time..
I saw...
Tue - Feb 10, 2009 : 10:46 pm
tired
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Green Bay Day 2
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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 - Jan 19, 2010 : 06:11 pm
okay
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Gentoo XFCE4 / XDM / TWM Problems
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Okay... So with the latest update to xorg-server (I think it was 6.5), xdm stopped loading XFCE4 and I couldn't get it to load anything but TWM.
Here was the problem:
Somehow, an important file got removed. The file is this one:
/etc/env.d/90xsession
The contents of the file is simply:
XSESSION="Xfce4"
With that...
Gentoo / Linux
Fri - Jan 23, 2009 : 03:45 pm
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Alma : 13
PoeticIntensity
Okay. I've used various verses from this chapter to prove that we had agency in the pre-earth life, but now I'm questioning myself. Here's the basis:
Verse 3 says this:
And this is the manner after which they were ordained—being acalled and bprepared from the cfoundation of the world according to the dforeknowledge of God, on ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sun - Sep 02, 2007 : 04:24 pm
peaceful
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Grace vs. Works
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I just got back from a Presbyterian church meeting with Henry, Kim, Julia, Sarah, myself and our two kids. It was quite interesting.
We walked in there about 5-10 minutes late, and went forward until we were sitting like 5 rows back from the front.
A full band of 7 people was playing on a stage and was sounding quite wonderful, actually.&...
Lds / Personal
Mon - Aug 01, 2011 : 01:52 pm
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Ether : 10
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So... Interesting that one of the reasons cited for Heth's righteousness is his remembering what the Lord had done for his people, specirfically, bringing Jared and his kin over the ocean. There has got to be something behind the whole "remember what the Lord has done for you" thing, and living a righteous life. Heck.. E...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Wed - Mar 19, 2008 : 10:46 pm
spiritual
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2nd Nephi : 27
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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
Thu - Feb 19, 2009 : 01:35 pm
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Proof I Went to a Jazz Game
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Some people won't believe this, but last Tuesday evening, I went to a Jazz game. My good friend Scott called me up, told me he had some kick-butt tickets, got the "okay" from my wife, and we were off!
The game was fun, but making fun of the game was even funner. I'll have to admit, though, it was pretty cool. The video ...
Fun / Games / Life
Mon - Dec 28, 2009 : 01:00 am
grateful
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Song In Progress
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Not sure why I'm writing about this now, because I usually just finish the thing and then announce it at the same time as I share it.
I guess this song is a complete deviation from anything I've done in the past. Heh... Just now I'm realizing that I don't even have a name for this song yet. I could call it "My Friend",...
Music / Personal
Thu - Jul 28, 2011 : 11:49 am
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Ether : 9
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Not much to write about on this chapter... Lots of backbiting, hatred, slaying of kin, destruction of entire civilizations due to war, living in righteousness and prospering because of it. Poisonous serpents, famine, more death, repentance, and just the general way the people live within the pride cycle.
Not a bad chapter, but n...
Book Of Mormon / Lds
Thu - Jun 26, 2008 : 05:50 pm
somber
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Gen. Conf. - Look Back, Move Forward - Monson
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I just got done watching, listening, and reading the last talk of the morning conference session of Sunday this year, and President Monson is indeed our prophet.
Nothing in particular spoke anything specific to me.... Well... That's not true. The following paragraph hit home a bit,
"Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove o...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Jun 18, 2008 : 11:22 am
peaceful
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Gen. Conf. - Soul Delighteth - Tanner
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I just finished reading the talk "My Soul Delighteth in the Things of the Lord", and it was a good talk.
It made me think of my own upbringing, and the upbringing of my children. I loved the following statement:
"I delight that I am a daughter of Heavenly Father, who loves me. I learned of my divine identity in my earliest ...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Sep 25, 2008 : 02:05 pm
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Mosiah : 15
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... After reading this through, with the previous chapters I've read in mind, I think I'm understanding a bit more about what Abinadi is talking about.
The wicked priests quote him the scripture in Isaiah which says that prophets are supposed to proclaim peace in order to basically tell Abinadi off, because he was definitely not proc...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Feb 14, 2006 : 10:48 pm
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Heaven Has Come....
PoeticIntensity
And in a sense, that's true!
Yes, folks... Another addition to the illustrious Jones family has arrived here on earth just in time to watch his dad go a little more insane. If we were talking about anything other than the bunch of lunatics running around this house, that might just seem a little alarming, but we're not.
So it isn't. :)
Act...
Sun - Apr 15, 2007 : 01:46 pm
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To become a son of perdition
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Lately, I've been studying the D&C, and I came upon section 76, which isn't anything new to me, personally. I studied that section quite a bit during my mission. However, this time the coincidence of my reading this days after one of my co-workers came over and asked me"Are there any sins that Christ's atonement don't cover?" Worded that way...
Mon - Sep 22, 2008 : 08:40 am
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Mosiah : 12
PoeticIntensity
I wonder if Abinadi's disguise was due to him not being welcome in the city anymore, as in, he couldn't get in at all without it. Dunno... Just a thought.
Also, I find it quite prophetic for Abiniadi to be using the analogy of a piece of cloth in a hot furnace, as far as the worth of King Noah's life. He could have just as easily used...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Jun 22, 2011 : 10:08 am
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Ether 1
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Not too much to write about on this one. I guess I could try to memorize all the relationships mentioned. hehe.
Genealogy must have been pretty important back then (pretty important now-a-days, too), because they mentioned that it would be possible for us to have the history of the entire world up to that time. Interesting...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures
Thu - Jan 07, 2010 : 03:59 pm
okay
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Alma : 48
PoeticIntensity
I was just looking at the timestamp on these chapters, and realized that Amalickiah went from being a Nephite citizen, to the king over the entire Lamanite nation in approximately 1.5 years. How freaking crazy is that?
Also, one thing I failed to mention about chapter 47 is the last verse. A very interesting verse, that is. Once...
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