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
orson
(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...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Feb 02, 2008 : 02:17 pm
sick
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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.
...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
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...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
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...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Jan 27, 2008 : 09:34 pm
somber
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President Hinckley Died Today
PoeticIntensity
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
Tue - Mar 03, 2009 : 11:09 am
okay
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DSpam and Postfix
PoeticIntensity
For the last few days, I've been fiddling with my new postfix installation (which has been working quite well), trying to figure out how to even out my current 200 to 1 spam ratio.
I'm now trying out dspam, and I have all the routing working, and the web interface is working (finally), but the only problem I'm having is, well... All the tr...
Computers / Linux
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.
...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Jul 27, 2009 : 12:14 am
happy
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Great Sunday!
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... Today was a good Sunday. In church, we learned about trials, and the nature of them - why God gives them to us, and why we need them. D&C 58 1-4 is a great reference if you're looking for some good stuff on trials. We talked a lot about Zion's Camp, and the general tendency the early saints had toward generati...
Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Jul 21, 2007 : 11:19 pm
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I Love My Husband
sarahkimjones
Hi. I'm trying out this new journaling website.
It really rocks because my husband built it and he's like ... super smart.... and super cool... and super AWESOME.
I'm really tired right now so.... I'm gonna end this now....
Tue - Apr 22, 2008 : 12:11 pm
spiritual
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Gen. Conf. - Spcl Exprncs - Rasband
PoeticIntensity
I feel very connected with this talk. He speaks of the importance of remembering those special experiences we have with the Spirit which enrich our testimonies. Some of the quotes I love from this talk are as follows:
Our personal journey through life provides us with many special experiences that become building blocks of faith and t...
General Conference / Personal / Programming / Spiritual
Thu - Jun 23, 2011 : 10:53 am
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Ether : 2
PoeticIntensity
It's quite obvious that this chapter is speaking to anyone and everyone (throughout all time) who lives on this land. Verses 9,10, and 12 are especially insightful.
"What will ye that I should do that ye may have light in your vessels?"
I love that question. I never noticed outright that right after the Lord poses th...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Nov 25, 2008 : 01:21 pm
grateful
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Being Daddy
PoeticIntensity
I recently wrote a piece about how much I miss the things that used to come so easily before I had children.
Although everything I wrote is true, writing that article caused me to reflect on how lucky I am to be a parent at all.
The things which I now miss due to parenthood are luxuries related to selfishness. The things I enjoy because...
Children / Family / Life
Mon - Nov 03, 2008 : 03:36 pm
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Halloween 2008
sarahkimjones
Our Halloween was pretty low key this year. I just wanted to stay close to home since I just had Samuel instead of going to Jason's brother's house as we have done the past two years. Jason and his brother have made it a tradition to scare as many people as possible on Halloween, but they will have to start that up again next year.
An...
Children / Fun / Halloween / Life
Sun - Apr 04, 2010 : 10:24 am
okay
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Conference Notes 3
PoeticIntensity
I love the feeling of Elder Uchtdorf's talk. We really have no basis upon which to judge each other. We need to accept and love each other. "Do unto others that which we would hope they would do unto us"
Seems like we need to actually do the work we need to do. Christ "did" the work, he didn't delegate ...
General Conference / Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Oct 05, 2008 : 11:20 am
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Samuel is Almost Here!
PoeticIntensity
I thought that today I'd be enjoying conference, but instead I'm playing Mr. Mom, as Sarah is trying to control her contractions.
I woke up around 7:30 this morning to the tune of my wife exclaiming that she was sure today was the day. Due to her body's signals, I believed it.
So, we've been patiently waiting for her body to get a bit mor...
Children / Family / Life / Personal
Thu - Aug 16, 2007 : 11:27 pm
spiritual
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Could Something Be Happening?
PoeticIntensity
Lately, I've been feeling quite the spiritual outpouring from heaven upon me. It happened about .... Let's say last Friday (the 10th). I'm not entirely sure what this means, but I've been happier, more settled emotionally, more productive at work, and .... Just really anxious to be about a good cause.
I think now would be a...
Personal / Spiritual
Sun - Jun 15, 2008 : 12:25 am
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Art City Park (Springville)
PoeticIntensity
The video above is of a band called "Florez", who really did quite well. But the real reason for the video above is for the LDSMusicians group to see Art City Park, where the LDSFest will be held this year.
I just did a quick panoramic for people to analyze and with which to become informed.
That's really all. We got bored a...
Miscellaneous / Personal
Mon - Jun 23, 2008 : 12:09 am
tired
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Toilets and Servers
PoeticIntensity
This past Thursday, we finally decided to rip it up. I mean, literally - rip it up.
Then, we decided to take it out the backyard to see what the heck was clogging it all up.
It was just as we suspected. Collin had flushed a freaking toy cell-phone down our toilet!
and yes, we took the toilet out in the backyard, twisted it, turned it...
Personal
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
Sat - Feb 02, 2008 : 02:17 pm
sick
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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.
...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Fri - Jul 30, 2010 : 01:33 pm
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3 Nephi : 9 & 10
PoeticIntensity
All I've gotta say is - don't get on the wrong side of God. The wrath of God shown in chapter 9 really is quite astounding.
Then, in chapter 10, it's almost as if God's words were pleading to the people... Almost as if God were remorseful of the things He had to do... Claiming, "If ye only had kept my commandments, these th...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Scriptures
Sun - Jun 22, 2008 : 11:57 pm
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LAN PARTY!
PoeticIntensity
Well... I figured I'd better write about this because I didn't have the sense to take any video of the actual party.
I recorded myself going TO the party, but nothing more. Crud.
It was a good LAN party, too. We played last Friday and Saturday. We had the usuals there, Me, Shane and Shaun, but there were two people who never had...
Current Events / Personal
Fri - Jun 20, 2008 : 09:17 am
spiritual
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Gen. Conf. - The Twelve - Packer
PoeticIntensity
The spirit of this talk came to me about 1/3 of the way through reading it.
It spoke to me of an immense gratitude which I feel for being a member of this church. Not only is it this church, but it is His church. I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the same church which Jesus Christ himself set up when he was ...
General Conference / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Jul 22, 2008 : 04:57 pm
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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
Sun - Jan 27, 2008 : 09:34 pm
somber
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President Hinckley Died Today
PoeticIntensity
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