Wed - Feb 06, 2008 : 09:51 pm
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2nd Nephi : 1
PoeticIntensity
Sitting here pondering what to write.
I could write about a synopsis of 1st Nephi, which I finished last night, or I could just dive into 2nd Nephi. I think I'll do the latter.
Verse 6 could be quite the controversial verse, for people who didn't like the Spanish conquest, or Christopher Colombus. Yet, the verse still is what the ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Feb 06, 2008 : 03:16 pm
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LDS Online Scriptures
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(how-to)
Recently I was reading from scriptures.lds.org and decided it could be improved to make it easier to read. Here is what it looks like normally.
A couple things bugged me. Narrow text is generally easier to read. So, I made it more narrow. Also, the superscript letters that signify a footnote throw off the line spacing. I figured out a cool l...
Tue - Feb 05, 2008 : 09:45 pm
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1st Nephi : 22
PoeticIntensity
I'm kind of distracted now due to external crud, but one of the verses jumped out at me. Verses 7 and 8...
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the Spanish conquest, as it came to the Americas. I have combating feelings toward the whole history of what happened.
The "Indians" found here in America were the posterity...
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Sat - Feb 02, 2008 : 02:17 pm
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1st Nephi : 21 - Isaiah
PoeticIntensity
I think that most of this chapter is talking about the gathering of the tribes of Israel, although I could be completely and totally offbase. This is one of the chapters which I probably wouldn't write about had I not made a resolution to write about each and every chapter from the Book of Mormon.
Pretty difficult to understand right now.
...
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Fri - Feb 01, 2008 : 01:29 am
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1st Nephi : 20
PoeticIntensity
I've often wondered why Nephi included the portions of scripture containing the writings of Isaiah.
I remember one time during my mission when I was reading the stuff in 2nd Nephi and it actually made sense, but I didn't write any of it down, so.... it still makes no sense to me.
Only one verse out of this chapter gave me any inspiration at all...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Jan 31, 2008 : 05:29 pm
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Let it Snow!
PoeticIntensity
A few minutes ago, I visited my favorite weather-forecasting website and I saw something I thought I should document, just because it doesn't happen very often. I saw a 7-day forcast that looked like this:
I think it may snow tonight! :)
Anyway... My mustang isn't liking life very much right now. It's so freakin' dirty. ...
Miscellaneous / Personal
Wed - Jan 30, 2008 : 10:03 pm
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1st Nephi : 19
PoeticIntensity
Ya know, I love verse 6, and verses like it (2nd Nephi 4, for example). The reason is quite simple.
Sometimes it's hard to remember that prophets are people, too. They're just subject to Satan's temptations and mistakes and errors and such as we are. Verses like this remind me that they aren't perfect, and it brings them down to...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Wed - Jan 30, 2008 : 12:05 am
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1st Nephi : 18 - Nephi's Faith
PoeticIntensity
I don't think that ever you will find any words of righteousness associated with Laman and Lemuel, not once, but twice, within 4 verses more than in this chapter alone.
Not sure why that stood out at me this time, but once in verse 1 and again in verse 4, Nephi said that Laman and Lemuel were on good behavior. I thought I'd take time to suc...
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Mon - Jan 28, 2008 : 09:25 pm
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1st Nephi : 17
PoeticIntensity
I find it so interesting that Nephi, in all cases I can think of, when stating how hard things can get, always follows it up with how blessed they are. I believe Nephi was how I would like to, and am trying to be like. He recognizes things are bad, yet always finishes on an optimistic note. Personally, I beleve grounded optimism c...
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Sun - Jan 27, 2008 : 09:34 pm
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President Hinckley Died Today
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I just got up from a nap I was taking due to my going to bed at 4:00am this morning and the first words my wife told me after coming up stairs was "President Hinckley died a few hours ago."
I'm not one to get upset at death. For some reason, I've never had a problem with people dying. The one thought which makes this even ea...
Lds / Personal
Wed - Sep 21, 2011 : 11:14 am
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Ether : 13
PoeticIntensity
So, this chapter, I hate to say it, wasn't very inspiring to me. I'm not sure if it's the state I'm in, or the chapter itself, or both, but there wasn't too much inspiration going on.
I did, however, 3 years ago, begin the journey of reading and writing about each and every chapter in the Book of Mormon, so I've gotta write something, if I ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Fri - Jun 13, 2008 : 12:00 pm
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Gen. Conf. - Born Again - Christofferson
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This is the first time I think I've ever watched / listened to / read a talk given by Elder D. Todd Christofferson.
My first impressions of him are very, very high. He has a very poignant, straightforward, yet very soft tone to his voice. He does not waver in his speech, and seems completely convicted of the things he says.
I enjoye...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Sep 25, 2011 : 09:53 pm
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Ether : 14
PoeticIntensity
So, this chapter was a bit like the last, only worse. Blood, carnage, war, and death throughout pretty much every verse.
One of the beginning verses, though, caught my attention. The one that says that people couldn't go to sleep at night, without losing their treasures, even to the point where they had to sleep with weapons to ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures
Sun - Mar 27, 2011 : 11:27 pm
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Updated Audiofire12 + Gentoo
PoeticIntensity
So, I wrote a few days ago how I was able to get my new echo audiofire12 working under gentoo Linux with the old firewire stack. Well, I couldn't leave well-enough alone, so I tried my hand at updating my kernel and using the new stack. Turned out there were a few caveats that, without some external help from a great person in the...
Audio Hardware / Gentoo / Linux
Fri - Jul 15, 2011 : 09:21 am
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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 ...
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Mon - Nov 30, 2009 : 12:08 am
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First Youtube Upload
PoeticIntensity
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
Tue - Jul 20, 2010 : 01:43 pm
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3 Nephi : 6
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... I think this little line from this chapter (verse 5) which, I believe could apply to anyone, anywhere, and would be a great little line to post on your wall, and look at every day.
"And now there was nothing in all the land to hinder the people from prospering continually, except they should fall into transgression"
...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Jun 09, 2014 : 11:47 am
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Tribute to Matt Harker
AudioGuru
A week ago, an acquaintance of mine from my highschool days, Matt Harker, was hit and killed while biking to work. A day later, a friend contacted me and wondered if he could use the studio to produce a song in Matt's memory. Although I didn't know Matt very well, I knew him well enough to know he was the type of person who did his best...
Music / Studio
Fri - Aug 31, 2007 : 09:27 am
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New Haircut
PoeticIntensity
I just thought I'd let ya'll know that I got a new haircut a couple of days ago. I think its swell.
I guess this just goes to show that I'm not entirely sane... pretty much... ever.
The mohawk has quite a story which I might as well divulge right about now.
It all happened about 7 years ago, when my brothers all got together for some event...
Personal
Tue - Jul 31, 2007 : 01:39 am
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Drum Corps. 2007
PoeticIntensity
I just got back from a wonderful evening spent with my wife, Shaun, Tiffy, Shane, and Becca. We went to Weber State to see the annual drum core competition.
Let me just say.... Amazing. Yup... Amazing.... That's what it was.
It also got me to thinking about a lot of things. For some reason lots of normal things...
Sun - Aug 05, 2007 : 11:13 pm
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A Good Sabbath
PoeticIntensity
I just got home from Jovi's baby blessing (Brandon and Chloe's first baby) and it was a pretty cool experience.
Today was a good day because I thought that it was gonna be .... not good.
Yesterday night, I stayed out a bit too late, and thus didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night. In fact, on my way home, my good friend Steve bought me ...
Fri - Mar 26, 2010 : 12:44 pm
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Helaman : 5
PoeticIntensity
When I began reading this chapter, I was pretty anxious, internally - for unrelated reasons. Now, having finished this chapter, I feel very calm and peaceful. What a great story this chapter tells.
While reading, I saw some curious verses, but all of those questions feel relatively meaningless right now. The thing that matters t...
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Sun - Jul 04, 2010 : 11:20 am
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"Tell Me Why" - Finished!
AudioGuru
Happy 4th of July to everyone!
We finally finished mixing and mastering Ear Candy's debut single, Tell Me Why, and quite frankly, we've loved working on it here in the studio. The finished copy can be heard in our samples section, and Ear Candy has made it freely available to anyone and everyone who would like a copy.
Just let them know h...
Music
Sun - Sep 09, 2007 : 08:30 pm
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The END of Vacations! (LOTOJA)
PoeticIntensity
I'm so glad that the vacations for the Jones family for 2007 are OVER!
Holy cow, I'm quite done with driving in a car with two kids who love screaming. Anyway...
Yesterday, we woke up, got some quick breakfast, and then got in the car to head out to see 3 people take on the LOTOJA bike race (I assume LOTOJA means "LOgan TO JAckson&...
Personal
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
Mon - Aug 27, 2007 : 02:30 pm
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FCKeditor - Thank You!
PoeticIntensity
I've just gotta say.... Man alive, I love open source. I've also gotta pay my dues.
ILMJ uses a wonderful open source editor called fckeditor. It is simply amazing. I haven't done much with it, but without it - this website wouldn't even be close to being usable yet.
I just got done configuring the image-upload process, an...
I Love My Journal / Personal
Sun - Sep 25, 2011 : 09:53 pm
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Ether : 14
PoeticIntensity
So, this chapter was a bit like the last, only worse. Blood, carnage, war, and death throughout pretty much every verse.
One of the beginning verses, though, caught my attention. The one that says that people couldn't go to sleep at night, without losing their treasures, even to the point where they had to sleep with weapons to ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures
Tue - Jul 20, 2010 : 01:43 pm
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3 Nephi : 6
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... I think this little line from this chapter (verse 5) which, I believe could apply to anyone, anywhere, and would be a great little line to post on your wall, and look at every day.
"And now there was nothing in all the land to hinder the people from prospering continually, except they should fall into transgression"
...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Thu - Jan 07, 2010 : 03:59 pm
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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...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Jan 15, 2008 : 10:00 pm
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1st Nephi : 9 - Blind Faith
PoeticIntensity
Two things for tonight's study:
I believe the purpose of this chapter is the same as chapter 6: To give purpose behind the Book of Mormon. The things Nephi is writing are things of God - things pertaining to the ministry of the people in those days.
I love verse 5. It reminds me of when Adam was commanded to build an alter and...
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