Wed - Jul 23, 2008 : 04:59 pm
pensive
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Gen. Conf. - One in the Crowd - Nuen...
PoeticIntensity
This talk was wonderful! It brought many memories of my adolescence to mind, along with quite a few ponderous questions which I had never before contemplated.
I'm not sure if it's my current mood, or the Spirit or what, but this talk was wonderful.
It brought back memories of my own childhood, when I made decisions which would bring on ma...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Jul 23, 2008 : 10:41 am
happy
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Miss Universe
sarahkimjones
Okay, I was watching the latest Miss Universe the other day and it was kind of like watching a train wreck. You don't want to look, but you can't bring yourself to turn away. The interesting part about it was the question and answer portion which is supposed to be the most important part of the competition (yeah right!). They had ...
Tue - Jul 22, 2008 : 04:57 pm
content
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Gen. Conf. - Light and Truth - Steuer
PoeticIntensity
Hmm.... I enjoyed this talk, but I'm not entirely sure what to write about it.
The three aspects of gaining a burning testimony of light and truth given are completely true:
Learn True Doctrine
Gain Pure Testimony
Live Gospel Courageously
I remember something my mission president said about the first one. He said som...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Jul 16, 2008 : 03:29 pm
grateful
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Gen. Conf. - Will Not Yield - Zwick
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... I really liked this talk. There were points in it where I found his words coming through my mind's eye of the past.
While growing up, I was probably on the extreme of what Elder Zwick was trying to convey. Instead of being tempted to go along with the crowd, I thought the crowd was stupid, and I didn't need them. ...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Jul 14, 2008 : 02:12 pm
pensive
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Gen. Conf. - Ask In Faith - Bednar
PoeticIntensity
I just got done reading, listening to, and watching the general conference talk "Ask In Faith", by Elder David A. Bednar.
I must say, having missed the original broadcasting of this conference, I heard all the hype about this talk in the ensuing weeks and months. It seemed that this talk was all the rage about learning how to &quo...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Jul 13, 2008 : 06:07 pm
grateful
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Thoughts of Family...
PoeticIntensity
This morning I woke up and just was in a good mood... Feeling very grateful for lots of things... So, I decided to make a video of it all, and I think it turned out okay.
Just a jumble of thoughts and emotions from yours truly.
Enjoy.
...
Personal
Sun - Jul 13, 2008 : 11:07 am
peaceful
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Mosiah : 3
PoeticIntensity
This time through Mosiah 3, I had a few interruptions, so I wasn't able to concentrate as much as I would have liked, but family really does come first, so, ya gotta do what ya gotta do...
Anyway.. Mosiah 3, to me, this time rang loudly of what the Atonement of Jesus Christ is all about. It speaks of who needs the Atonement, who is c...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Jul 12, 2008 : 01:30 pm
content
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OpenFire gentoo problems
PoeticIntensity
I just spent the last three hours trying to figure out why my OpenFire 3.5.2 instance was installing just fine, saying that it was running just fine, but in reality was not running at all.
Neither port 9090, nor 9091 was open, both ports 9090, and 9091 were closed. ps -A | grep openfire returned nothing - at all.
Yet, /etc/init.d/openfire sta...
Computers / Gentoo / Linux
Tue - Jul 08, 2008 : 11:00 pm
happy
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Mosiah : 2
PoeticIntensity
It's been a long time since I have read the Book of Mormon. Well, I decided to repent tonight and read where I left off at Mosiah.
One scripture which always stands out to me in this chapter is the latter portion of verse 9. King Benjamin is telling people how they should prepare themselves to hear his message, and thus he says:
...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Jul 08, 2008 : 03:57 pm
impressed
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KNRS 570 AM and Linux
PoeticIntensity
When I'm not listening to music, I love listening to a few AM talk radio programs. Well, about six months ago, one of my favorite radio stations, KNRS 570 AM radio, changed their streaming program that let people use the Internet to hear their content.
This change effectively shut-out all Linux users. I chatted with 4 other Linux use...
Gentoo / Linux / Miscellaneous
Tue - Mar 01, 2011 : 10:32 am
happy
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3 Nephi : 29
PoeticIntensity
Seems like chapter 29 is all about "spurning", and to be honest, I really don't know what that means. The word is used 4 times in 3 verses, and is used no where else in scripture. It's definitely something we shouldn't do, and may be related to "hissing" or "making game". Very interesting.
I believe...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Fri - Jul 15, 2011 : 09:21 am
okay
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Ether : 7
PoeticIntensity
So... Sometimes I feel like I write things here that could get me into trouble, but I figure, if this is what I really think, and I'm sincere about it, then right or wrong, the truth will eventually come out. Many times, I've thought one thing, and then upon further studying and prayer, have found out I was wrong ... and I'm okay ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Tue - Aug 17, 2010 : 12:13 am
excited
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New Studio Acoustics!
AudioGuru
Okay... So, since I began this journey of becoming a better recording engineer, I knew there was a lot to learn. I have a degree in Digital Media with an emphasis on audio recording, and thanks to a great teacher, Mike Wizland, I quickly began to get a good grasp on the basics.
The early success of the studio has enabled me to get a few great m...
Audio / Audio Hardware
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
peaceful
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Children Of God
PoeticIntensity
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
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...
Mon - Mar 24, 2008 : 11:34 pm
spiritual
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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 - Feb 10, 2008 : 10:00 pm
pensive
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2nd Nephi : 2 - Part 2
PoeticIntensity
Something in verse 13 struck me as interesting, even though it probably could be considered common knowledge among the LDS population.
I never remember seeing anything quite as obvious relating to happiness as Alma 41:10, which states "Wickedness never was happiness". Well... It's easy to inverse-ify it and say "If wic...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Feb 27, 2008 : 11:06 pm
spiritual
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2nd Nephi : 12 - Isaiah Begins
PoeticIntensity
Man... Isaiah sure is here....
I didn't understand much of anything I read tonight. I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to write about, but my resolution is to write something about each and every chapter of the Book of Mormon, so I'm gonna write something. These next few days might be tough.
The first three verses are the one...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Jan 12, 2009 : 05:49 pm
grateful
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Memory Retention and Service
PoeticIntensity
An interesting concept was brought up during an interesting class I had on Sunday.
Last year, I went to the normal gospel doctrine class almost all year and enjoyed almost every class. We had a fabulous teacher who really brought the class alive with discussion about interesting concepts. Never once was a spirit of contention fall up...
Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Jul 26, 2010 : 04:32 pm
content
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3 Nephi : 8
PoeticIntensity
The most striking point of this chapter, this time, was the description of the darkness which covered the land after the storm. I've never thought about the darkness as an analogy of Christ's absence. The more I think about it, the clearer it becomes.
We know death as being a type of prison due to the body and the soul being separated...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures / Spiritual
Thu - Apr 01, 2010 : 10:26 am
amazed
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Best Recording So Far
AudioGuru
We've done it. We've hit the mother load. The golden goose has landed.
I had the opportunity yesterday to work with one of the most talented musicians I've ever met. It's somebody I've highly respected the past few years, and have wanted to work with ever since I heard him play. He's largely unknown, and has requested me om...
Music
Tue - Aug 26, 2008 : 02:09 pm
happy
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ILMJ Pages
PoeticIntensity
(how-to)
With the new design of ILMJ, I thought it fitting for people to be able to add their own static links on their blogs... Doing so is very easy.
A "page" in your blog is simply an entry which stays in the left-hand column on both your main blog site, and each individual entry, as is illustrated below:
So, as you can see,...
I Love My Journal
Mon - Apr 09, 2007 : 07:38 pm
no mood
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I'm a MySQL veteran, but...
PoeticIntensity
The majority of my coding life has been spent with two tools.
PHP
MySQL
I don't claim to be a guru programmer, but the various professional problems which have been presented to me have always found their solution using these two tools. They're great tools. *sigh*
Recently I've found out that Oracle owns both sleepy cat's db en...
Computers / Programming
Wed - Feb 27, 2008 : 11:06 pm
spiritual
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2nd Nephi : 12 - Isaiah Begins
PoeticIntensity
Man... Isaiah sure is here....
I didn't understand much of anything I read tonight. I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to write about, but my resolution is to write something about each and every chapter of the Book of Mormon, so I'm gonna write something. These next few days might be tough.
The first three verses are the one...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Apr 15, 2007 : 01:46 pm
no mood
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To become a son of perdition
PoeticIntensity
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...
Tue - Oct 04, 2011 : 12:43 pm
grateful
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Moroni : 6
PoeticIntensity
This was a good chapter. Starts out stating that worthiness is necessary in order for baptism into the Lord's church:
bringing forth fruit of worthiness (not entirely sure what this means, specifically)
having a broken heart and contrite spirit, showing a witness of true repentance
taking upon yourself the name of Chris...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Aug 25, 2010 : 12:31 pm
grateful
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3 Nephi : 12
PoeticIntensity
Lately, I've been struggling with readaing my scriptures. I'm not entirely sure why, but lately, instead of just hunkering down and doing it because I know it needs to be done (and then reaping the Spirit due to my obedience), I've just had the hardest time sitting down and actually doing it.
Well.. Today I did. I opened to 3rd Nephi ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Apr 13, 2011 : 10:47 am
content
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Mormon : 1
PoeticIntensity
Not sure why this caught my attention this time, but doesn't it seem a bit weird that Mormon was carried by his father when he was 11 years old? It seems like he was carried on somewhat of a journey, too - to a different land. Maybe his father was quite big and could accomplish such a task, because an 11-year-old isn't small enough to ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Jun 08, 2009 : 05:18 pm
okay
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Much Needed Update...
PoeticIntensity
Sorry for the long haitus I've taken from blogging, guys. I guess it doesn't really matter since nobody reads my blog, anyway..
Man... This new job is really taking me for a loop. Right now, the only way I can survive without seriously considering other alternatives is to take it a day at a time. This in no way should sugg...
Conexm / Personal