Stargazer

I won't try to argue with you about this. But I will just point out that if you believe in Christ's resurrection, as well as him raising at least three people from the dead in the New Testament (Lazarus, Jairus's daughter, and the young man of Nain), the lesser miracle of him granting temporary immortality to four of his servants would seem to be of the same order of magnitude, and well within His capability. And then of course there are Moses and Elijah.

Well, there's at least one official occurrence. This was on a date that was unfortunately not written down at the time (but would have been between May 15 and August 1830), when Peter, James, and John appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and conferred upon them the keys to the Melchizedek priesthood. Except in that instance, the personages in question never identify themselves, and it seems reasonable that John is one of them. For whatever reason, the Three Nephites are more at the forefront of the thoughts of Latter-day Saints than John is. But since they are all on the same errand, it doesn't make a practical difference which ones of them are doing the work at any particular time or place. In writing about them hundreds of years after they were set apart, Mormon wrote parenthetically: "Behold, I was about to write the names of those who were never to taste of death, but the Lord forbade; therefore I write them not, for they are hid from the world. But behold, I have seen them, and they have ministered unto me." If you read the entire 28th chapter of 3 Nephi you can get a good overview. From a Q&A article in the church's New Era magazine for November 2017: Are John the Beloved and the Three Nephites actually still on the earth? If so, what are they doing? "Yes, the Savior granted to John the Beloved and the Three Nephites their desire to tarry on the earth. What they’re doing is bringing souls unto the Lord until He comes again (see D&C 7:2; 3 Nephi 28:9). "The Savior told John that he would “prophesy before nations, kindreds, tongues and people” and become “as flaming fire and a ministering angel [and] minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation who dwell on the earth” (D&C 7:3, 6; see also John 21:20–23). Mormon said that the Three Nephites would be among the Gentiles and Jews, who would “know them not” (3 Nephi 28:27–28). "We don’t know anything more specific about the activities of these men. We know only that they have been transfigured so that they will not taste of death and that, whatever they are doing, it is for the purpose of bringing people to the Savior."

When I was on my last tour in the Army from 1980-83 we were in Germany, my mission country. We lived in a US military housing area just down the street from the University of Ulm. The World Wide Web was then just a twinkle in Sir Tim Berners-Lee's eye. Years later we were living in Olympia, Washington and had purchased our first PC and a modem, whereupon I used a browser (Netscape Navigator) to do what was later called "surfing the web." I think it was around 1995. For some reason, one of the first websites I navigated to was the website of the University of Ulm. I called to my wife to come look and we both stood in awe and amazement that we could see data that had just downloaded from a place 4,000+ miles away that we had known many years before. It was quite a feeling of wonder! Since then, of course, all this has become quite prosaic. If I can't watch a film in high definition coming from anywhere on the planet I feel indignant. When we've talked about selling the house here in Sussex, England and moving to, say, Devon, my first requirement is a minimum bandwidth of 100 Mbps. In 1985 I got a job with the Washington State Patrol as a data communications tech, and our double Sperry-Univac minicomputer had two huge five foot tall disc drive cabinets, and their capacity was enormous: 100 KB each! And now? Sitting on my desk is an array of hard drives with a total capacity of nearly 30 TB! They take up a space about 4 inches x 5 inches x 9 inches. My smartphone makes those Sperry-Univacs seem like abacuses. Oh, yes, and when SpaceX launches a brace of Starlink satellites, and lands the booster back on a tiny platform in the middle of the ocean, it's like >Yawn<, so what else is new?

Very well said! I've recently become a British citizen, and now I have two countries for which I can be patriotic! The funny thing about nations being ethnostates has in the West gotten much more dilute as of late. The United Kingdom could at one time have been considered more of an ethnostate (or rather four ethnostates: England; Wales, Scotland; and Northern Ireland) than currently. We have a largish admixture of people from Pakistan, India, Nigeria, and other places that used to be British colonies. But still, the vast majority are ethnic British -- and saying this annoys the Welsh, Scots, and Northern Irish because they like to claim their separateness. On the other hand, if you want to see a true melting pot, come visit London. Brits seem to be in the minority there.

This is actually an American myth, or urban legend, about the jelly donut. The following video covers the topic thoroughly (and she is a delightful lady you should subscribe to her channel). But here's the TL;DR for those who don't want to watch the entire video: The person who told Kennedy to use the "ein" was a native German speaker who said that the ein should be included since Kennedy was not literally from Berlin but was sympathetic to those who were living there, or in other words, was claiming solidarity with them. Kennedy's Berlin audience could not understand that he was claiming to be a jelly donut, because what in some parts of Germany is called a "Berliner" is in Berlin called a "Pfannkuchen". Different parts of Germany have different names for the same pastry. The urban legend grew out of a cold-war thriller novel in which the author had one of his characters claim the "jelly donut" thing. This was later picked up by book reviewers and made its way into virality.

Und ich bin Düsseldorfer! Aber das klingt nicht so lustig.

SecState Marco Rubio said in a press interview that the Fordow facility had only refined to 60% U-235 (something which Iran has admitted). Further refinement would be necessary to increase the yield to weapons-grade, which is 90% U-235. But there is no other reason to refine to anything past 5% except to eventually make a bomb. Civil reactors only need 3 to 5% to produce electrical power. And just because they say they've only gotten to 60% doesn't mean they haven't gone further, as you've suggested.

I would like to point out that neither Israel nor any other US ally have aircraft that can carry the weapon that was used on Fordow (the GBU-57). The only currently operating aircraft that can carry the GBU-57 is the B-2. The B-1 and the B-52 could be modified to carry the bomb, but none of them have been modified (except one test B-52).

I've gotten into this particular argument before on this board. To the great disgust of certain other posters. The reason for the disgust is that I have stated my belief concerning exaltation, which is that more women than men will be worthy of exaltation. If that is the case, then some women who were otherwise worthy of exaltation would be unable to be raised up to it due to all the exaltation worthy men being already sealed to an eternal wife. In this situation a man who refused to accept an additional sealing would be denying a worthy woman the opportunity for exaltation. If he is going to be so selfish as to deny a worthy woman the opportunity of eternal marriage, it seems that that would make him unworthy of it himself. This belief of mine really winds some people up because the very idea of plural marriage being a divine law is anathema to them. That's just my understanding of the matter. I haven't bothered to read the 1886 revelation (so far), and since it is not part of canon I confess to a certain amount of disinterest in it. LOL. Speaking in too much plainness is what gets people assassinated. Not that anyone is going to assassinate God, but they're sometimes pretty eager to assassinate His messengers. I wonder if what John Taylor got was much more "to the point," and he larded it up with more equivocation for just the reason why we are all having a cow about it now.

The max file size for a profile pic is 0.1 MB. Or 100 KB. Allowable file types are gif, jpeg, jpe, png, or webp. Jpeg is usually the best choice since you can pack more image detail into a file, due to jpeg being a compressed type. Is the image on the web so that you could share a link? If I can get the image I can cut it down to size for you. Alternatively, here's an online tool that will help you resize an image: https://www.the-image-editor.com/en - I've never used it (I have a couple of image editors on my laptop that I can use) but it may do the trick.

I try to love everyone. Mr. Dan made being so towards him very, very, very difficult. He probably doesn't remember me at all. But then, I didn't behave towards him in the way that he behaved towards me. Yes, I hold a grudge. Almost my only grudge. Wann war das? Ich habe in Düsseldorf zwischen 1972 und 1974 missioniert.

In Mr. Dan's case, it was a highly personal attack on me on Facebook in 2016 that was completely unjustified and extremely offensive. We had been FB friends prior to this.

I remember Cleon Skousen talking about Messiah ben Joseph.

But we all do it, don't we?

I have been a member of other boards where new registrations had to be vetted by a mod before they could start posting. This usually involved the registrant having to answer some questions that required knowing what the board was for. Back in the day when I myself ran a fan board for a particular science fiction series that has since ended, we got attacked by spam bots and I almost gave up in despair trying to beat them off. Once I set up a vetting procedure that included requiring the registrant to correctly answer a couple of questions, the spamming stopped.

I hereby nominate Calm as Associate Mod! Do I hear a second?

I thought of that, too. And I think it's most likely you're right about it being bots.

Don't we all...

As I mentioned to Ben, I have had extremely unpleasant personal interactions with him that lead me to believe that he is a snake in the grass. And that is my feeling about what he does -- which makes him what he is. And his interactions with me were very public (at least as far as social media is concerned), so I'm quite happy to be public about my feelings regarding him. But I will say nothing more about him.

My opinion about him has little to nothing to do with any litmus test on theological matters. I probably shouldn't even comment on him. I have a strong degree of personal animus due to some very intense personal and non-theological acrimonious interactions with him. In short, he personally attacked me over a matter that utterly surprised me at the time. So take my "take" of him with a grain of salt, if you like. After our little contretemps I wondered about him, and upon further investigation I came to the conclusion that regardless of his personal theological beliefs, I think that he is in love with himself and his intellectual brilliance. And I don't much trust his intellect.

In my personal opinion Dan is a MINO.

The current policy states: "Young men join the deacons quorum beginning in January of the year they turn 12. At this time they are also eligible to be ordained deacons if they are prepared and worthy." So a boy born on December 31 can join the deacons quorum and be ordained to that office a day after he turns 11.

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