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
Tue - Nov 30, 2010 : 04:55 pm
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3 Nephi : 19
PoeticIntensity
It might be that I'm a techno-geek, but the first thing I thought of when I read this was "social media". People went from house to house and "labored exceedingly" all through the night to let it be known where Jesus was going to come the following day.
Also interesting are the activities of the people when the arrived t...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / 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
Thu - Dec 08, 2011 : 03:50 pm
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Year's End...
AudioGuru
So I haven't written in a while, and that's both a great thing, and a not-so-great thing. It's great because since September, the studio has been busier than I thought possible. Honestly... It's been a whirlwind, and I'm not quite sure what caused it - but I'm so grateful for it. It's a not-so-great thing because I can't kee...
Audio / Babblings / Music
Sun - Aug 28, 2005 : 08:29 pm
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LDS Fest 2005 - Simply Sublime
PoeticIntensity
People connect on different levels in this life, and I just had an
experience of supreme connection on the musical level. I felt like I
was experiencing something somewhat supreme... But I'll talk about that
later.
Yesterday was the LDS Music Fest 2005, and EnZign was lucky enough to
be part of it again. It was such a s...
Audio / Miscellaneous / Personal
Wed - Jul 15, 2009 : 11:40 pm
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Resonating Dance on Addiction
PoeticIntensity
I've been watching "So You Think You Can Dance" now for about 3 years. For me, I think it's better than American Idol. These young people are .... amazing.
Well, a couple of weeks ago, there was a dance done which had the theme of "addiction". It was done by Mia Michaels and the two dancers who danced were fa...
Life / Video
Sat - Apr 16, 2011 : 04:01 pm
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Ibanez S570B - Newest Addition!
AudioGuru
So I wasn't really interested in getting yet another member of my little growing studio family, but I couldn't help but get this one after playing it at the local music store. Found it on a killer sale at samash, so I pulled the trigger.
Available to all studio clients for recording.
Isn't she gorgeous? She sounds awesome, too....
Audio Hardware
Sun - Jan 03, 2010 : 10:29 pm
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Happy New Years!
PoeticIntensity
Wow... When I wrote this in March of 2009,
"During this year, I both think and feel (logically and spiritually) I will be stretched more than I've been stretched in years. This one's gonna be a toughy. As for now, I feel anxiously optimistic. Yup.. That about hits it on the head."
I had n...
Life / Personal
Wed - Mar 24, 2010 : 11:24 am
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Blue Aces Demo (almost)
AudioGuru
This entire week, so far, has been spent mixing, mastering, and nit-picking The Blue Aces' 4-song demo debut. I'm not at liberty to give many details (yet), but let me just say that this group has some of the most rocking tunes I've ever heard come out of a group like this.
More to come later! The demo should be finished by this weeke...
Audio / Music
Tue - Mar 22, 2011 : 11:53 am
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Linux: Extracting audio from video
PoeticIntensity
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
Thu - Mar 19, 2009 : 11:34 pm
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Obama on Jay Leno
PoeticIntensity
While my wife and I were watching The Office tonight, we got wind of President Obama being on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, so we decided to stay up to watch it.
Well, I just got done watching it, and before I forget, I have to write down some initial thoughts.
To begin, I am by absolutely no means whatsoever any source of any credible politi...
Personal / Politics
Wed - Aug 22, 2007 : 11:28 pm
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Viruses, Parasites, Yuck.
PoeticIntensity
Wow.... Ya know those news stories about that sickness being spread by people in swimming pools this summer? Well... I've got one thing to say about em':
BELIEVE THEM. THEY'RE TRUE.
I'm just getting over a sickness that pretty much was a worst case scenario of what they explain as a parasite called "cryptosporidium", w...
Personal
Fri - Jan 22, 2010 : 04:04 pm
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Alma : 53
PoeticIntensity
I'm always pleased and grateful that the Spirit comes so quickly when I read the Book of Mormon. Sometimes I forget how much I love how the Spirit of God makes me feel and think and act.
Anyway... Great chapter this was....
Of all of the stories in the Book of Mormon, I think I like the one of the 2000 Stripling Warriors the best.&n...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Wed - Jun 22, 2011 : 10:08 am
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Ether 1
PoeticIntensity
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
Mon - Dec 28, 2009 : 01:00 am
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Song In Progress
PoeticIntensity
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
Wed - Jan 27, 2010 : 03:50 pm
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Alma : 55
PoeticIntensity
I love Moroni's strategy. With God on his side, he seems almost unstoppable.
So Ammoron decides to be a jerk about the letter-sending, and what-not, so Moroni's like, "Dude... You did NOT just say that! A'ight, then, we'll see who gets to keep prisoners around here!!"
Let's see what could have gone wrong with this st...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Mon - Sep 26, 2011 : 01:57 pm
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Ether : 15
PoeticIntensity
What a horrible end to this story. Poor Coriantumr. Saw his situation with vivid clarity after it was too late, and rather than give up his life, he watched (which what must have been a horror show) everything Ether had told him come to life: The complete destruction of his people, leaving him alone. I can't imagine th...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Thu - Jul 29, 2010 : 08:20 pm
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Good Friends and Nature
PoeticIntensity
So Jeff Petersen is a guy with whom I've been friends for years. I hadn't seen him in probably as long. We went to BYU together, were roommates, and had summer jobs in California together. We got along very well...
But then we each got married, he moved to Missouri, and that was that... ...until two days ago.
...
Personal
Wed - Mar 05, 2008 : 10:44 pm
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2nd Nephi : 18
PoeticIntensity
One part of this chapter possibly made sense to me, although I could be totally wrong.
Okay, two parts did.
The first is verses 8 - 13. It seems to me that these verses are talking about the kingdom of Judah. Though they may assemble themselves and try, they will ultimately fail unless they begin to fear God. (again, could b...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Mar 04, 2008 : 10:44 pm
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2nd Nephi : 16 & 17
PoeticIntensity
Reading these two chapters didn't leave me with much spiritual insight, as I didn't understand much of it.
That said, I did, however, really feel the Spirit while reading them. I yearned to know what the words meant. I wanted to study them more.... Oddly enough, I find myself wanting to study them more, yet kind of scared ...
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...
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