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telnetd

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  1. If I were in Utah I would check out this establishment, but would skip the challenge. Too much sugar and potential for a brain freeze incident. I once drank a chocolate milkshake fast, experienced a longer than normal brain freeze and was ready to call for an ambulance if it kept on going.
  2. Is there any credible linguistic or archaeological evidence that Egyptian or "reformed Egyptian" was present in Native American Indian languages?
  3. In 1 Nephi 5:11–13, Nephi explains that the brass plates of Laban contained the five books of Moses, a record of the Jews, and the prophecies of the prophets from the beginning, down to the commencement of Zedekiah's reign. Were they written in reformed-Egyptian script so they could preserve their language when they left Jerusalem (1 Nephi 3:19)?
  4. What amount of converts baptized is from those already having a faith in Christ but from another church?
  5. That was a fantastic movie. It's shot as a drama/thriller.
  6. Trend Micro provides a free scanner. It downloads a 5 MB exe file to your computer. Double click on it to run it. For your computer, it may take 45 minutes to an hour. Any virus on your computer may prevent it from running. On my faster computer, it ran for 15 minutes. Nothing is installed so there's no cleanup afterwards. https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/forHome/products/housecall.html
  7. LibreOffice is free and comparable to MS Office. MS has more fonts and its Excel version has more enhanced capabilities I think. I haven't figured out how to insert page #'s in Libre's Writer yet so I switch to an old version of MS Word that I still have.
  8. I would suggest a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad from Amazon or your local computer store. Minimum ram 16 GB, 256 GB SSD drive. It is more than enough for all your needs. It will most likely come with Windows 11. I suggest repartitioning the drive and do dual boot with Linux Mint. You can then install LibreOffice (free) for your document needs. If you decide to stick with Windows 11, debloat it to make things faster. One good tool is from Chris Titus. I haven't bought new in years.
  9. Can you provide some examples of continuing revelation from General Conference after 1978?
  10. Paul's explanation is theological: people turn away from God, their thinking becomes disordered, and as a result they follow various desires, including same-sex relations. So his cause is spiritual rebellion leading to moral and behavioral consequences.
  11. I'm not trying to catch you. Just seeking clarification. Back around March 21, I asked you "Based on whether you accept that or you can provide your own definition, would you give some examples of "revelation" in General Conference talks after 1978?" And you mentioned homosexuality as one example. So what about homosexuality did you learn in General Conference after 1978?
  12. The Bible contains several passages often interpreted as condemning same-sex sexual acts, primarily in Leviticus (18:22, 20:13) and Pauline epistles (Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10), labeling them as "abominations" or "unnatural". More is explained in this article. Is there something new you have learned about homosexuality that is outside of current scripture?
  13. I consider "revelation" to constitute a divine disclosure of sacred truth, purpose, or knowledge from God, designed to guide faith, doctrine, and behavior. This could involve new teaching to correct previously held false beliefs. Based on whether you accept that or you can provide your own definition, would you give some examples of "revelation" in General Conference talks after 1978?
  14. Maybe one of them being of the two witnesses of Revelation 11:3.
  15. If you could provide several significant things you have heard in General Conference in the last 10 years you would consider "revelation" for the church.
  16. I think he even wrote himself into a Genesis portion.
  17. Are General Conference talks in the past and present by church presidents a source of truth?
  18. @MustardSeed Dissension can lead to personal apostasy. "There are some of our members who practice selective obedience. A prophet is not one who displays a smorgasbord of truth from which we are free to pick and choose. However, some members become critical and suggest the prophet should change the menu. A prophet doesn't take a poll to see which way the wind of public opinion is blowing. He reveals the will of the Lord to us" (Follow The Prophet, Ensign, May 1989). "Any Latter-day Saint who denounces or opposes, whether actively or otherwise, any plan or doctrine advocated by the "prophets, seers, and revelators" of the Church is cultivating the spirit of apostasy". "It should be remembered that Lucifer has a very cunning way of convincing unsuspecting souls that the General Authorities of the Church are as likely to be wrong as they are to be right. This sort of game is Satan's favorite pastime, and he has practiced it on believing souls since Adam. He wins a great victory when he can get members of the Church to speak against their leaders and to "do their own thinking." He specializes in suggesting that our leaders are in error while he plays the blinding rays of apostasy in the eyes of those whom he thus beguiles. What cunning! And to think that some of our members are deceived by this trickery". "When our leaders speak, the thinking has been done. When they propose a plan—it is God's plan. When they point the way, there is no other which is safe. When they give direction, it should mark the end of controversy" (Improvement Era, June 1945).
  19. Peter's rejection of what the Messiah would do or be like is not the same as the JST reporting him, and the others, lacking faith in Jesus being the Messiah. The others, at the original confession of Peter, are not recorded as rejecting what Jesus was about to to.
  20. This doubting of His Messiah-ship is not in the Greek manuscripts. Why would Joseph Smith feel the need to introduce it so late in Christ's ministry when the disciples had already viewed him as the Messiah (Matthew 16:16, Mark 8:29, Luke 9:20, John 1:41)?
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